Editorial The last quarter of 2011 is going to be fierce. The retail community at Distree 2011 voted Microsoft as …
Is the BlackBerry PlayBook for you?
In early May, I was one of the fortunate few in the UAE to have had a BlackBerry PlayBook in …
Speaking in code
Most of the time, what we coin as new technologies are just standard improvements on older versions in the steady …
Searching for the game changer
As organisations develop their operations to meet customer demands, managing the growth of physical assets is commonplace. Today, however, the …
The new generation of apps
The world today is at the confluence of several trends, each sufficiently disruptive in its own right to affect profoundly …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
If it’s Tuesday, it must be Prague
Friends and colleagues of journalists believe we live charmed lives, forever travelling round the world in business class, hosted at …
Protect yourself from Facejacking
It’s sometimes difficult to believe but our social networking accounts have become, in many cases, a part of our lives …
People-asset or risk?
When speaking about information security, the first thing everybody thinks of is IT itself, the PC, network or server used. …
Each to their own
Has cloud computing reached its absolute peak in terms of hype? The topic makes for animated discussions at technology seminars these days and the hype seems to have reached a crescendo, making it really difficult to separate fact from fiction.
How not to do Twitter
I came a little late to the Twitter party. Once I embraced the basic concept, I set out to build …
When the cloud evaporates
Over the past year, four cloud storage service providers have said they’re shutting down and Amazon’s cloud services have been …
DLP-what they don’t tell you
DLP (Data leakage prevention or as I sometimes call it, “disastrously ludicrous project”) is fantastic in theory. However, without the …
How many photos?
Bureaucracy is the curse of government. This is a worldwide truism but many of us hoped that the widespread adoption …