The use of smartphones has become almost ubiquitous, with tablets not far behind. It is estimated there are two billion …
Microsoft to drop support for Windows 7 RTM
Microsoft last week reminded customers that the first edition of Windows 7, which was launched more than three years ago, …
Intel scales back Itanium plans
Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server …
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 …
Critics bear down on Obama cyber security order
United States President Barack Obama‘s executive cyber security order, announced during his State of the Union address, may have garnered …
Grappling with information management
A holistic approach to information management means big benefits in cost reduction and risk management, says Allen Mitchell, Senior Technical …
Blazing a new trail
Karl Driesen, VP EMEA, Palo Alto Networks
Malnets make the jump to mobile
Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more …
Enterprise networking and smart investments
Sufian Dweik, Regional Manager, MEMA, Brocade, details four opportunity areas that networking managers should focus on. Many enterprises in the …
Driving business growth with big data
Sam Tayan, Regional Director, VMware MENA, discusses driving business growth in the Middle East with big data. Throughout 2012, big …
MENA cloud spending to reach $462.3m in 2013
Gartner on Sunday predicted that the MENA public cloud services market will generate $462.3 million in revenue during 2013, marking …
HP slams Dell over buyout deal
HP has come out fighting. Following the announcement that Dell had finalised its buyout deal, the technology giant criticised its …
Windows 8 adoption worse than Vista’s – report
Net Application’s January desktop usage data was released last week, showing that Windows 8 adoption has been worse than Vista’s …
Innovation to celebration
It’s been a year of sheer brilliance from the IT sector. In response to the strongly recovering economy, CIOs all …
New IBM security tool can catch insider threats
IBM has rolled out a tool it says can cull massive terabytes of data, including email — to help customers …
BlackBerry delivers on promises, but challenges loom, analysts say.
The newly rechristened BlackBerry has delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic product line for …
Will BlackBerry 10 save RIM?
The new BlackBerry marketing theme could well be, “Not dead yet”, as the world prepares to hear about two new …
Will Dell thrive in private hands?
How Dell will fare in private hands – if a buyout is indeed imminent – depends entirely on how the …
Facebook unveils ‘Graph Search’ engine
Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and …
The next frontier
Some interesting figures first. According to IDC, the disk storage capacity shipped by vendors worldwide has surpassed 7 exabytes for …