Consumers apparently don’t care if they buy a tablet from a cheaper, no-name brand, as a whopping 45 percent of tablets sold within the “other” category.
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Intelligent security is key to fight sophisticated threats
Intelligent security is increasingly becoming vital as GCC CISOs continue to battle against increasingly sophisticated threats, according to experts. 0 1980
Microsoft discloses weak Surface revenue
Microsoft’s Surface tablet has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks of the device.
Even as smartphone market explodes, it remains an Android-iOS world
Taking a look at IDC’s smartphone numbers, one thing is clear – success currently comes to those making iPhones and Android devices.
Man of the world
They say nothing broadens the mind like travel — if this is true, then the mind of Dr. Hazem Turki El Khatib should be fairly well-stretched.
Building the data centre of the future
Sufian Dweik, Regional Director, MEMA, Brocade Communications, offers a flexible, on-demand strategy for Middle East enterprises.
PC shipments drop 11.4% in Q2 as Lenovo surpasses HP
Weakness in the global economy, component shortages, sluggish demand for Windows 8 and the popularity of tablets all contributed to another double-digit percentage decline for the global PC market in the second quarter.
5 security-bolstering strategies that won't break the bank
Security experts offer five tips for enhancing security that don’t cost a lot of cash – and sometimes no money at all – so companies can spend their security dollars on the hard stuff.
Gartner offers more data on PC decline and tablet surge
Gartner today projected that the overall decline in shipments of desktop and laptop PC’s will be 10.6 percent in 2013, while tablet shipments will grow by 67.9 percent.
Windows Phone ‘weak’, Huawei sneers
Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes.
Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says
Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world’s enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said.