Samsung Electronics has hit back at Apple with lawsuits in three countries alleging infringement of patents on smartphone technologies. Last …
Greenpeace slams Apple’s ‘dirty’ data centre
Apple has come in for stern criticism in environmental group Greenpeace’s ‘How Dirty is your Data’ report, issued this week. …
Apple sues Samsung for patent infringement
Apple has sued Samsung for allegedly copying the iPad, iPod and iPhone with its Galaxy Tab and Galaxy handsets. “Samsung …
Intel and Micron shrink NAND flash
Intel and Micron Technology said they had shrunk NAND flash memory in size, which could help add more storage and …
Track launches EXtra Oracle partner programme
Track Distribution, part of Aptec Holdings, an IT distribution group covering the Middle East, Pakistan, Turkey, Akhut and Africa, has …
CIOs should experiment with media tablets: Gartner
Media tablets are presenting a variety of new opportunities for businesses, but they are also requiring a new set of …
Intel expects Oak Trail tablets to be available in May
Intel expects tablets running its power-efficient chip code-named Oak Trail to become available next month, the company said recently. Intel …
Tablet sales to soar through 2015: Gartner
Gartner Wednesday revised its worldwide IT spending forecast upward, mostly in response to strong 2010 sales of media tablet computers …
Firefox 4 for Android
A week after it launched Firefox 4 for the desktop, Mozilla today shipped the final version of Firefox 4 for …
Google Android 3.0 needs more work
Google will not release the source code for Honeycomb, the version of its Android mobile OS optimised for tablets, until …
Stepping out of the shadow into the cloud
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker took a step out of Mark Hurd’s shadow yesterday, unveiling a new cloud computing platform that …
The choice illusion
Recently I went shopping for a laptop. As a family, we have owned and still call ours a couple of …
HBMeU moves towards a new education experience with e-content store
In a step toward a paperless university, Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University (HBMeU) has announced that it has booked an entire …
SAP bets on in-memory, mobility in new BI release
SAP is hoping to gain ground in the increasingly heated market for BI (business intelligence) software, announcing a suite on …
Doing a Ratner
It may be known only in the UK, but people in business anywhere in the world can recognise ‘that Ratner …
HP takes first run at tablet market
Hewlett-Packard rolled out its debut entrant into the red-hot tablet market, the HP TouchPad, as well as two new smartphones …
HP aims to bridge gap between desktops and tablets
Hewlett-Packard is trying to bridge the gap between mobile devices such as tablets and desktops with its new desktop PCs, …
Microsoft Windows revenues plunge 30%
Revenues from Windows plummeted 30% last quarter compared to the same period the year before, Microsoft said yesterday. But in …
Android tablets gain traction with developers
Although Apple’s iPad remains number one in the hearts of tablet application developers, Google Android tablets are increasingly piquing programmers’ …
Networking to become cheaper in 2011: IDC
IDC analyst Jamie Jin said virtualisation will be a major trend across the sector, with the cost of networking for …