Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, consulting and business solutions firm has signed a five year contract with du. …
Android sales leap to second place: Gartner
Android in 2010 became the second best selling smartphone operating system after Symbian from Nokia, Gartner reported yesterday. Android sales …
China builds cloud computing city
China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data centre, one of the …
ICANN assigns its last IPv4 addresses
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has handed out its last IPv4 addresses, leaving the remaining blocks to regional registries …
Building a knowledge economy
Bahrain is building a knowledge economy. Under the patronage of HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince …
UAE University rolls out a new network
Designed and built to support UAEU’s current and upcoming needs for High Definition (HD) Internet Protocol television (IPTV), voice, video …
SABIC deploys OpenText for 37,000 users
OpenText has entered into a global agreement with SABIC, one of the world’s top six petrochemical companies, in which SABIC …
du selects Ericsson to augment IT environment
du has extended its long standing business relationship with Ericsson into the IT space. As part of the new five …
Amazon to offer Oracle DB in the cloud
Oracle’s database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services’ Relational Database Service, the companies …
The cost of security compliance – $3.5m: survey
The cost of achieving regulatory security compliance is on average $3.5 million each year, according to a survey of 160 …
Computers need radical redesign: research
To use multicore processors effectively the IT industry needs to radically rethink the basic computer architecture it has used over …
EU to lay down cloud guidelines
The European Union is set to introduce a set of guidelines for cloud computing covering such areas as data protection, …
UAE University chooses Brocade for network foundation
Brocade today announced that United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), the UAE’s first and leading national university based in Al Ain, …
Google previews tablet-optimised Android 3.0
Google yesterday released a preview of the software development kit for Android 3.0, which has been designed specifically for mobile …