Microsoft’s Surface tablet has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks of the device.
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Noon brings top US products to the Middle East with eBay tie-up
noon, the Middle East’s homegrown digital marketplace, is bringing the global marketplace of eBay closer to customers in the region with a new partnership.0 3436
DDoS attack sizes rise above 2Gbps for first time
Average DDoS attack sizes have climbed above the 2Gbps mark for the first time, mitigation firm Arbor Networks has reported after crunching figures from its Atlas system for the first half of 2013.
Symantec posts 2% revenue bump
Symantec today reported the results of its first quarter of fiscal year 2014, ended June 28, 2013. GAAP revenue for the fiscal first quarter was $1.71 billion, up 2 percent year-over-year and up 3 percent after adjusting for currency.
Opponents of NSA surveillance aren't giving up after House vote
Privacy and digital rights groups have dug in for a longer fight against massive surveillance programmes at the US National Security Agency.
KPMG: China and the US to drive tech breakthroughs in next 4 years
China and the US are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs and likely to have a global impact in the next four years, said KPMG that released results of a survey recently.
Tight NSA spy vote gives hope to programme critics
Civil rights advocates view Wednesday’s narrow defeat of a bill to curtail funds for the National Security Agency’s domestic spy programme as a sign of the growing opposition within Congress.
Newer versions of LTE to make rapid advances, ABI says
Emerging technologies for 4G LTE networks are expected to make rapid advances over the next few years, helping mobile networks keep up with data growth and bringing more users worldwide into the LTE fold.
US court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the US government for a controversial programme to collect telephone metadata in bulk.
Wall Street batters defences in make-believe cyber-crisis
Wall Street played its own version of war games on Thursday, testing its defences against simulated cyber-attacks bent on taking down US stock exchanges.
Possibility in the privacy pitfalls?
Last month, a former CIA technician leaked information on the National Security Agency’s data gathering surveillance programme dubbed PRISM. Joe Lipscombe investigates what relevance this holds for the Middle East.