In the five months since its release, Microsoft’s Windows 7 has captured twice the usage share than did Vista in …
NEC supports cloud computing services for telcos
Global provider of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions NEC has announced support of cloud computing services for telecommunications …
HCL Technologies opens regional HQ in Dubai
HCL already services more than 25 large organisations in the Middle East and this headquarter will become the hub for …
Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs
Mozilla patched five vulnerabilities, three of them critical, in older editions of Firefox and in the process extended the support …
Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Most Windows 7 PCs max out their memory, resulting in performance bottlenecks, a researcher said. Citing data from Devil Mountain …
Opera 10.5 grabs browser speed crown
Opera Software’s beta of Opera 10.5 leapfrogged every rival to become the world’s fastest browser, benchmark tests show. Already released …
Microsoft announces Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft provided the most extensive look yet into the next version of the Mac version of its popular Office suite …
Leo Apotheker is out as SAP CEO
The board appointed two co-CEOs: Bill McDermott, head of the field organisation and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development. …
Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2010 release candidate
Microsoft has taken another step toward releasing its Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform, …
Planning for virtualization? Beware of server overload
As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual …
Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management
Oracle fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. …
Report: Google to make Gmail more social
Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an …
Almasa IT Distribution signs Ericom Software
This agreement authorises Almasa IT Distribution to distribute, market, service and maintain designated Ericom Software in the Middle East and …
Microsoft, NSF form cloud computing collaboration
Researchers selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation will have free access to Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform under …