Post global recession, the banking and finance sector in the region is investing in technology solutions to manage data flows, …
HSBC streamlining IT in $3.5b cost saving drive
HSBC has laid out aggressive plans to streamline IT and realign business processes, as part of a bid to save …
RIM announces two new BlackBerry Bold phones
Research in Motion announced two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones on Monday that run on a new BlackBerry 7 operating system …
HSBC Insurance signs up for IBM’s new BI system
HSBC Insurance in the UK has signed a deal with IBM for analytics software aimed at preparing for the upcoming …
Public cloud to surge: Forrester
On the heels of the controversial Amazon EC2 cloud outage last week, research firm Forrester published a timely report on …
Intel smartphone ambitions stunted by Nokia withdrawal
Nokia’s move to the Windows Phone OS took the “wind” out of possible volume sales of Intel smartphone chips this …
Cisco to shutter Flip camera business
Cisco reportedly plans to shutter its Flip videocam business in a restructuring of its consumer operations following a disappointing string …
Haves vs. have-nots
A handful of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies have exited the great recession, regained their footing and posted respectable …
Oracle stops developing software for Intel’s Itanium chips
Oracle recently became the latest software maker to say it will stop developing applications for Intel Itanium microprocessors, following a …
KSA’s Alfanar Electric completes CRM implementation
Saudi-based Alfanar Electric today announced the successful implementation of SAP’s CRM solution, a robust technology that fully meets customer service …
SAS pushes BI to Apple’s iPad, iPhones
SAS Institute is teaming up with mobile BI (business intelligence) vendor Mellmo to bring analytic applications to Apple’s iPhone and …
Salesforce.com deepens tie-in to Facebook
Salesforce.com is deepening the integration between its CRM (customer relationship management) and customer service software with the explosively popular social-networking …
Regional CIO study reveals need for IT innovation focus
Organisations across EMEA agree on the need to refocus IT budgets toward IT innovation in order to improve business performance, …
IT graduates not “well-trained”
There is a disconnect between students getting high-tech degrees and what employers are looking for in those graduates. Employers agree …
Zebra Technologies unveils ISV programme
As an element of Zebra’s channel development strategy, the ISV programme highlights the importance Zebra places on the ISV’s role …
On a security conference
The 20th RSA security conference concluded last Friday at San Francisco Moscone Centre. Especially for someone like me, that had …
SABIC deploys OpenText for 37,000 users
OpenText has entered into a global agreement with SABIC, one of the world’s top six petrochemical companies, in which SABIC …
EMC’s Greenplum offers ‘data’ at no charge
EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining …
Juniper blows past revenue estimates
Juniper posted fourth-quarter revenue well beyond Wall Street expectations. Revenue for the period ended Dec. 31 was $1.19 billion, up …
May you live in interesting times
Thus goes an ancient Chinese curse. Though I don’t know if it really is a curse, it sure is the …