Even though Windows 8 won’t be officially released until October 26, its Metro user interface and Microsoft’s decision to remove …
Broadcom plans fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi for phones early next year
Broadcom plans to bring IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi to smartphones starting early next year, using a chipset announced yesterday that the …
Qualcomm sees smartphones pushing demand toward year end
Qualcomm has lowered its forecast of global cellular device shipments for 2012 due to a gloomy economic outlook, though it …
Secure strategy
InfoWatch, a DLP and social media monitoring vendor, is focusing on emerging markets across the EMEA region, following its success in Russia and CIS countries.
Amazon prepping a smartphone and four tablets
Amazon is keeping busy as the e-retailing company is reportedly prepping to release four new tablets and a smartphone. Amazon …
Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook
A year ago, we saw the first Samsung Chromebook and we were left feeling pretty underwhelmed with it. Not only …
The rise of machines
Major upgrades to networks across the Middle East last year laid a foundation of faster and more reliable connectivity with …
By the numbers: Microsoft's Surface vs. Apple's iPad
While there is much more to both Microsoft’s new Surface tablet computer and Apple’s iPad than pure specifications, the physical …
Mobile connections boom across Middle East: Ericsson
Anders Lindblad, Head of MENA, Ericsson Mobile subscriptions in the Middle East grew at a rate of 69,230 new connections …
Microsoft opens Azure to IaaS, Linux
Microsoft unveiled new capabilities for Azure that move the cloud offering from a platform as a service into the competitive landscape …
Cisco upgrades mobile carrier switches with an eye on escalating traffic
Cisco Systems wants to make it easier for mobile operators to scale up the wired networks that their wireless systems …
Toshiba touts industry's densest SSDs, doubles performance
Toshiba Storage Products today announced a new line-up of solid-state drives (SSDs) using the industry’s smallest lithography process to date – 19 …
RIM CEO vows to wow with BlackBerry 10
In brief remarks to reporters Wednesday, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins revealed little of RIM’s specific plans for the future but …
SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA
SAP’s technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of …
Samsung beats Nokia in handset market in Q1, say research firms
Samsung beat Nokia to the top position in the global handset market in the first quarter of 2012, research firms …
New iPad plagued by connectivity issues
Apple’s new iPad model which went on sale last month, providing at least a couple weeks of sales before the …
From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation
That’s hardly a new observation. It was most notably made in 2003, in a now-famous Harvard Business Review article by …
Acer ships desktops with quad-core Ivy Bridge chips
Acer yesterday started shipping desktops that are among the first PCs available with Intel’s third-generaton Core processors, code-named Ivy Bridge. …
Intel launches Xeon processor E5-2600 to UAE
Intel today unveiled to UAE users the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, which it said meets the demands of …
LSI launches Nytro application acceleration cards
LSI yesterday announced a portfolio of NAND flash-based PCIe cards aimed at accelerating application performance in servers and storage area networks connected to the …