By James Galbraith When Apple revealed the new MacBook Air at WWDC, the highlighted feature was its drastically improved battery life. While Macworld Lab didn’t …
Today’s workers demand flexibility, mobility – and Facebook
Technology has changed everything we know about the office. Now it is threatening to get rid of the office as we know it.
Running through a minefield – Google’s Play store is still unsafe
The things that cyber-criminals are able to do with your phone are terrifying.
Regional expertise
The Middle East is a strong growth market with a knack to leap-frogging technology and delivering impressive implementations. CIOs have been deploying solutions and applications which are keeping the region relevant, and though most global brands have a presence here, the landscape owes much to locality.
IBM re-moulds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that …
R&M upgrades fibre optic cables for data centres
R&M on Sunday announced that it had upgraded its entire range of fibre optic cables for data centres to bend-insensitive multimode fibre (BIMMF) standards.
Facebook, Microsoft disclose little on national security requests
Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities …
Microsoft launches new Embedded OS to harness the data of devices
“It’s now essential for businesses to tap into the vast potential of data if they want to compete,” says Kevin …
Redington Gulf to distribute Nexans products in East Africa
Nexans this week announced that it had signed a distribution agreement with Redington Gulf that will see the value-added distributor offering Nexans’ full range of structured cabling solutions through its channel network in East Africa.
WWDC: Siri gets smarter in iOS 7, ditches Google for search
As part of Apple’s iOS 7 preview, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue showed off some …
Big companies show how they’ve won with Big Data
A host of big companies have explained how they have benefitted from Big Data in a research report published this week. The …
By definition
There may have been a few people who spat out their coffee the morning they read that EMC had unveiled …
How to protect your PC from PRISM surveillance
Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and …
The essentiality of optimising networks
Global demand for advanced broadband technology remains strong. In the last two decades, the Internet has become a necessity in …
Apple’s Cook: iOS 7 is the ‘biggest change to iOS’ since iPhone’s arrival
Apple on Monday took the wraps off iOS 7, revealing a dramatic new design that sheds six-year-old interface elements, and …
WWDC: The wait is nearly over – Apple unveils new Mac Pro
“Can’t innovate any more, my a**.” Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller’s in-your-face statement essentially sums up what Apple thinks …
WWDC: New MacBook Airs offer all-day battery life, better graphics performance
If Apple has anything to say about it, the future of the notebook will be long and healthy. And it …
Prism leaker steps forward, cites ‘massive surveillance machine’
The person responsible for disclosing details on the growth of U.S. government surveillance programmes that exploded into public view last …
Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012
The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after “a few historic banner years” of spending …
Businesses told to give up data when NSA calls
Businesses that receive a court order for data similar to the one reportedly handed to Verizon by an intelligence agency have no …