Tablet makers have tried to chip away at Apple’s popularity by offering much cheaper products, but Microsoft has taken the …
Canon hosts partner conference
Building on its “closer to customers” strategy, Canon Middle East has hosted its 2012 Partner Conference from 5th to 7th December …
BYO trend fuels consumer app adoption in workplace: study
While the BYO trend is most commonly associated with employee-owned smartphones and tablets entering the workplace, new research by Cloud …
Top 10 tech stories of 2012
Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace …
Dell’s acquisitions not yet paying dividends
Dell’s effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy …
Apple’s iMac on the road to irrelevance
Sales of Apple’s iMac, the computer often credited with saving the company, have peaked and by the end of 2014 …
Huawei invests €70M in R&D for smartphones
Huawei Technologies will invest €70 million (US$90.6 million) over a five-year period to establish a research and development centre in …
Apple and Samsung are the kings of personal devices: IDC
Apple and Samsung have emerged as the global kings of smartphones, tablets and PCs even though the two vendors have …
Spreading wings
Axtrom, which develops of computer components, peripherals and accessories, is looking to cash in on the booming mobility market with …
Ericsson wants US import ban on Samsung products
Just a few days after Ericsson filed several patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung in the U.S., the Swedish mobile phone company …
A mobile future
It has been an eventful year in the solutions world as enterprises witnessed the rise of managed services, mobility and …
Gaining momentum
The IT landscape is ever evolving as the divide between traditional business and personal consumption continues to narrow. At its …
5 ways the iPad beats the Surface RT
This isn’t the first year that tablets are a hot gift item, but it is the first holiday season that …
Security worries hinder cloud adoption in Gulf
Concerns over data security is the top factor delaying the widespread adoption of cloud-based services, according to a new survey …
Dual-identity smartphones to bridge BYOD private, corporate divide
Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an …
Microsoft promises Surface RT support until 2017
Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after …
Windows 8’s early uptake trumps Vista’s, not Win 7
Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake, but it’s easily topping the low …
Gearing up for mobility
With the advent of numerous mobile devices into global business, Middle East is proactively adapting to mobility. It has geared …
Despite mobile hype, PCs and email still dominate: research
While there is a lot of talk about mobile computing, there is a significant difference to the way people are …
Spectrum strategies
The growing demand for mobile data is chewing through the spectrum at disposal of the telecom operators. Fortunately, there are …