After achieving “moderate success” selling smartphones and tablets to consumers, Dell will shift its focus to devices that straddle both …
Menya Zavoot GITEX
One of the best parts of GITEX for me is the number of people from outside the UAE that you …
Data centre hardware spending on the rise
Worldwide data centre hardware spending is expect to hit $US98.9 billion in 2011, up 12.7%, according to analyst firm Gartner. …
Citrix survey reveals awareness gap in mobile working opportunities
Citrix Systems, a provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service, today released survey …
Governments, businesses and companies not taking web threats seriously: Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cloud security provider, is concerned that regional governments, businesses and individuals are not taking web threats …
Dell ups the ante on helping customers unlock innovation for the virtual era
On the cusp of Dell World 2011, Dell last week announced continued customer and partner momentum for its enterprise and …
Imation launches line of NAS appliances for nearline, offline storage
Imation, a vendor of removable storage medium that includes hard disk drives and magnetic tape, recently announced its first network-attached …
Apple Chairman Steve Jobs dead at 56
Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who resigned from the company in the mid-1980s and returned a decade later to make …
DIC to showcase technology incubation, innovation and collaboration at GITEX 2011
Dubai Internet City (DIC) today announced it will bring together key technology leaders Microsoft, HP and Qualcomm and share success …
Telecom service providers should boost efforts in APAC: Ovum
Global telecoms service providers are only scratching the surface of the huge business opportunity in Asia-Pacific, and need to redouble …
Apple: It’s the iPhone 4S, not the iPhone 5
Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook and other company executives introduced the new iPhone 4S, an upgrade to the existing iPhone …
HP completes Autonomy acquisition
Hewlett-Packard has secured enough shares of Autonomy to take control of the U.K. software company, HP announced Monday. Shareholders owning …
Google CIO: don’t fight consumerisation of IT
In a interview, Google CIO Ben Fried talked about letting go. That may sound a bit “Zen Buddhist,” but it’s …
eHDF to highlight managed IT services at GITEX 2011
Managed IT services and the business benefits of adopting the pay-as-you-go model in the region is one of the key …
Gemalto to exhibit solutions to enhance and secure digital connections at GITEX
Gemalto, a provider of solutions to make digital interactions secure and easy, announced that it will be exhibiting at Gitex …
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to debut at GITEX
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a division of Alcatel-Lucent, will have an increased presence at Gulfcomms 2011, as part of GITEX 2011, the …
Google launches paid premium version of Analytics
Google has developed a paid version of its Analytics website usage monitoring service that offers better performance, more sophisticated features …
Oracle may launch its own PaaS offering
Oracle may unveil its own platform-as-a-service offering next week, setting it in competition with Microsoft’s Azure, Salesforce’s Heroku and many …
Asian enterprises revise information security strategies
Asian enterprises are revising their information security strategies, according to a newly released broad-based IT security survey by Fortinet. 74% …
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire, its entry into the tablet fray
Amazon unveiled its tablet computer, the US$199 Android-based Kindle Fire, yesterday during a Manhattan launch event. The Wi-Fi-only tablet has …