Brocade this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical …
Virtual heights
Over 200 students, enrolled on the recently coined Computer Information Sciences programme at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi …
Carrying Ethernet forward
The increasing dominance of IP and Ethernet is enabling a convergence of networks, and allowing for a wide range of …
Proper planning
As any CeBit visitor knows, it’s impossible to navigate the vast trade show without coming up with a decent plan. …
Stepping up to the China plate
Ericsson’s telecoms dominance just about withstood the rising force of China-based Huawei at Mobile World Congress, but the Koreans took …
4Gone conclusion
The UAE and KSA may have been behind 10 European operators when they became the first Middle East countries to …
Mozilla announces global expansion for Firefox OS, Etisalat and Qtel sign up
Mozilla has used Mobile World Congress, which kicked off today in Barcelona, as the platform to preview the first commercial …
Pantum enters MEA market, signs deal with Despec
Chinese printer manufacturer Pantum has launched in the Middle East and Africa, having signed a distribution deal with Despec, which …
Preventing a BYO Disaster
The use of smartphones has become almost ubiquitous, with tablets not far behind. It is estimated there are two billion …
LG unveils Optimus G Pro, challenges Samsung
LG Electronics has taken the fight to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2, having revealed its new Optimus G Pro on Monday, …
Tizen 2.0 seeded to developers
Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung, on Monday released the software development kit and source code for …
Samsung tops 2012 smartphone sales list
Global smartphone sales went up by 38 percent in the fourth quarter year over year, Gartner reported on Wednesday, with …
Microsoft unveils big Africa plans
Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband …
Africa is the newest telecoms battleground
The news that Web services giant Baidu will bring its mobile browser to Africa, in a deal struck with France …
Beyond ICT: Digital citizenship in 2013
Shi Yaohong, Middle East President, Huawei, previews the innovations that are set to usher in a new age of digital …
Smartphone buyers will benefit from changing chipset market
The mobile chipset market is in a state of flux with a number of key vendors struggling, but analysts say …
HSPA+ vs. LTE
4G often means LTE for many carriers, but HSPA+ is continuing to evolve in parallel providing comparable experience to LTE. …
HP in the dark over partner product sales in Syria
Hewlett-Packard said in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had determined that its products were …
Virtually misguided
Vendors and industry leaders appear to have led the formation of an almost ubiquitous assumption that desktop virtualisation is something …
iPad Mini
It’s been two and a half years since Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s idea of what a tablet should be — the …