Academics in the region need to go beyond debating the pros and cons of online education and instead need to …
Value spin off
Almasa has chosen to spin off its value division leveraging on industry stalwart Roger El Tawil to deliver on the …
Calxeda’s chip boosts ARM’s server fight with Intel
Calxeda recently announced its EnergyCore, an integrated server chip with an ARM processor that could provide the groundwork for ARM …
Oracle buys RightNow for $1.5bn
Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service …
CDA introduces advanced e-services for further development
The Community Development Authority (CDA) in Dubai is presented it’s entire range of e-services particularly the Integrated Case Management System …
Apple Chairman Steve Jobs dead at 56
Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who resigned from the company in the mid-1980s and returned a decade later to make …
Intel boosts laptop battery, graphics with Ivy Bridge
Chip and system-level improvements that Intel is making with the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture will result in laptops out next year …
Servers with new Intel Xeon E5 chips due early 2012: IDF
Servers with new Xeon E5 chips based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture will become available early next year, Intel officials …
Microsoft throws support behind USB 3.0 with Windows 8
Microsoft is incorporating a software stack in its upcoming Windows 8 OS to natively support devices based on the USB …
Processor shipment forecasts take the plunge: IDC
IDC dropped its growth forecast for yearly processor shipments worldwide due to a slowdown in consumer laptop sales in mature …
Inevitable Innovations
As organisations across the world invest in a variety of applications to differentiate themselves from competitors, developers of these applications …
Tablets making an impact on OS and PC designs: IDC
The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted, when questioned about the …
Abu Dhabi school technology competition winners announced
Abu Dhabi Education Council, Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre and Microsoft Gulf have announced winners of “Imagine Us” technology …
30 universities in the UAE adopt Amricon’s SMARTDocument Attestation tool
Amricon, a smart technology solutions provider in the UAE, today announced 30 universities and educational institutions have adopted the SMART …
Golden Systems adds Viewsonic to its portfolio
Golden Systems Middle East, has signed a distribution agreement with Viewsonic, for UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq Golden Systems adds …
Rebates, incentives, loyalty programmes, promotions: What works?
By any theory of channel marketing these are established instruments of “reward power”. However with shorter life cycles and new …
Reseller announces award winners 2011
AMD, Asbis, Kaspersky pick up prestigious awards at Reseller Awards 2011 Component vendor AMD and regional distributor Asbis, picked up …
Microsoft unveils Windows 8
Microsoft showed today the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei, unveiling a completely new …
GlobalFoundries to construct Abu Dhabi plant next year
Chip manufacturing firm GlobalFoundries will begin construction of a new manufacturing plant in Abu Dhabi next year, the majority stakeholder …
Dell works towards faster virtualisation
Dell announced today a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualised environments. “The PowerEdge …