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.
Retail, Saudi Arabia, Technology, UAE
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 3396
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.
Infor hit with lawsuit over alleged software project failure
Infor has been sued by a customer who claims an ERP project that was supposed to take six months instead allegedly dragged on for well over a year without any useful results.
Unusual file-infecting malware steals FTP credentials, researchers say
A new version of a file-infecting malware program that’s being distributed through drive-by download attacks is also capable of stealing FTP (File Transfer Protocol) credentials.
It's getting warmer in some data centres
With major parts of the US under an intense heat wave, opting for less cooling may seem like a bad idea. But it isn’t.
India to overtake US on number of developers by 2017
The US may be the global centre of the IT universe, but India will exceed the US in the number of software developers by 2017, a new report notes.