Apple will launch a new, smaller, cheaper iPad in the third quarter of 2012, according to new reports from China. …
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UAE CIOs rank cloud as a top investment priority
With 85 percent of UAE CIOs ranking cloud as their top investment priority to 2020, managing multiple clouds will be the foundation for business success, industry experts revealed recently.0 3608
Intel grabs record share of growing chip market
As global semiconductor revenue hit $306.8 billion in 2011, Intel grabbed its biggest bite of the chip market to date. …
Intel profit dips as PC and server chip sales decline
Intel yesterday reported its first-quarter earning results for fiscal 2012, with profit dropping on a slowdown in PC and server …
Yahoo earnings rise, but revenue treads water
Yahoo reported yesterday that its first-quarter profit came to US$286 million, up 28 percent from the same quarter last year, …
Appcelerator’s development tool Titanium now comes with cloud services
Appcelerator has announced version 2.0 of its cross-platform mobile development platform Titanium, which includes integrated cloud services that will make …
Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards by 2020, experts say
More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, …
Toshiba to buy IBM’s retail point-of-sale business for US$850 million
Toshiba said yesterday it will purchase IBM’s retail point-of-sale (POS) business for US$850 million, with the Japanese company taking over …
Microsoft pares Windows 8 to three editions for Intel
Microsoft on Monday said it will sell just three Windows 8 editions for Intel PCs, half as many as the …
Google CEO ‘worried’ about the future of the internet
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed his concern that the freedom of the internet is under constant threat by governments, …
HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake
Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun’s Sparc servers had been in …