It may seem like the worst of times for tech companies trying to secure investments from venture capital firms, but …
Apple patches 18 Mac vulnerabilities
Apple patched 18 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, including half a dozen that could let hackers hijack machines by duping …
Open source alternatives invade Microsoft's competitor list
Microsoft's list of competitors is growing to include more open source software and Web browsers as the company fights to …
Apple-Google dustup: winners and losers
When Apple announced today that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple's board, the blogosphere let out a collective …
Research report says UAE will continue to see robust IT spending
IT spending in the UAE is expected to grow from around US$ 3.1 billion in 2008 to approaching US$ 4.7 …
IBM, HP use big discounts to woo Sun customers
IBM and HP are trying to lure server and storage customers away from Sun Microsystems by exploiting uncertainty caused by …
Sun’s JRuby team jumps ship to Engine Yard
Sun Microsystems' JRuby team is leaving the company to work for application hosting company Engine Yard, citing the uncertainty surrounding …
Informatica brings data integration to cloud via Amazon EC2
Informatica one of the last of the standalone data integration software vendors, is bringing its on-premise enterprise software to Amazon.com's …
HP’s Blue Light Spl: 85% off HP-UX with Solaris trade-in
With Sun Microsystems on the verge of being absorbed by Oracle, one of its biggest longtime rivals, Hewlett-Packard announced plans …
Sun tussles with de-duplication startup
Sun Microsystems is suing startup GreenBytes for allegedly claiming that Sun stole its data de-duplication technology. Sun says GreenBytes, which …
Stable and growing
With nearly two decades in existence, Gulf Business Machines (GBM) has built up a formidable repute as a leading IT …
VMware offering ‘safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users
VMware is trying to exploit uncertainty among customers of Virtual Iron, the virtualization vendor recently acquired by Oracle Corp., with …
Jacky?s Electronics experiences 40% growth in Netbook demand
Jacky’s Electronics, the UAE’s leading multi-electronics retailer, has seen a 40 % increase in demand for Netbooks for the first six …
Platform Computing tackles tech-agnostic cloud management
Grid vendor Platform Computing has unveiled new private cloud software that aggregates servers, storage, networking tools and hypervisors to create …
Sun reportedly cancels 16-core Rock processors
Sun Microsystems is reportedly canceling its long-awaited Rock project, a 16-core server chip that was expected to be delivered this …
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 …
Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps
After promising that people can use Outlook “seamlessly” with the Gmail component of its Apps suite, Google is toning down …
Symantec plans huge push into SaaS market
At its Financial Analyst Day event in San Francisco Thursday, Symantec’s top executives vowed a major push into software-as-a service …
Data center derby heats up
Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM …
Economy forces IT to cope with dumped products
Gregg Davis, CIO at Webcor Builders Inc., became concerned last fall when Oracle Corp. bought Primavera Systems Inc., because Webcor …