The time is right for netbooks according to ABI Research, with an expected market explosion of nearly 35 million shipments …
Cupola to mordenize and maintain EMW's contact centre
Cupola Teleservices (CTS), provider of outsourced contact centre services in the Middle East, has signed a contract with EMW, to …
Busting the nine myths of cloud computing
Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is …
Fujitsu to offer Windows 7 upgrades but not for free
Fujitsu will charge for Windows 7 upgrade vouchers when it begins offering them shortly to people that buy a PC …
Open-source routers attracting enterprise IT
Many large IT operations are extensively using open-source technology — in operating systems, applications, development tools and databases. So why …
Emulation or Virtualization?
Emulation is what we do when we try to make one system behave like or imitate a different system. We …
Iran says AMD chips used in its rocket research
An Iranian research institute claims that it used AMD Opteron microprocessors to build a high-performance computing system, one more sign …
Apple delivers prodigious patch batch for iPhone
Apple yesterday patched 46 security vulnerabilities, half of them in the Safari browser and its WebKit rendering engine, for the …
Nvidia's Tegra is the muscle behind Microsoft's Zune HD
Microsoft's upcoming Zune HD media player is powered by Nvidia's Tegra computing platform, a source familiar with the device's specifications …
Weighing the pros/cons of desktop virtualization
Successful server virtualization deployments lead many IT managers to believe desktop virtualization would provide the same benefits. While that is …
MasterCard beefs up security requirements
In a move that is unlikely to sit well with many merchants, MasterCard has quietly changed a key security requirement …
Alcatel-Lucent will team with HP to sell telecom products
Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent and IT vendor Hewlett-Packard plan to jointly market their products to businesses looking for converged IT …
Microsoft to deliver free antimalware this Tuesday
Microsoft said it will release a public beta of its free antimalware software, now called Microsoft Security Essentials, formerly “Morro,” …
Sweex gaming accessories
Al Otaiba Communications, one of the leading telecom and technology product distributors in the Middle East and the exclusive distributor …
Memphis Tours extend communications with Polycom IP Telephony
FVC, leading value added distributor (VAD) of global networking and security products in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), …
Setting sail
It is a tough market out there and perhaps tougher if you are a new entrant. It helps of course …
Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011
Just hours after a noted research analyst criticized Microsoft's plans to limit sales of Windows XP PCs, the company said …
IBM allocates $100M for research in mobile communications
IBM is allocating $100 million to research in mobile communications over the next five years. IBM labs promises five innovations …
Nvidia: Ion will outperform next-gen Intel Pineview Atoms
Intel Corp. may not have officially released the specs of its upcoming Pineview family of Atom CPUs, but that hasn't …
Dell diversifies with fixed server offerings
Dell said it would offer pre-configured systems for enterprise customers looking to get server environments up and running quickly. The …