Mobile health is here and will change the way people in the Middle East receive health care and interact with …
Google shuts down multiple services
Google will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase, amongst changes to other services, it announced on Friday. Google …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Retail banking technology spending to increase by $1.2bn this year
Retail banking technology spending in the Asia Pacific region is expected to increase by $1.2 billion this year and will …
Learning innovation
Although young to the UAE, the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi is making the right investments to offer a competitive …
WAN optimisation gets cloud-ready
WAN optimisation is going to be critical in guaranteeing application performance in cloud environments. WAN optimisation has been typically deployed …
US government CIO joins Salesforce
The U.S federal government’s first ever CIO Vivek Kundra has joined Salesforce as executive vice president of emerging markets. “Excited …
“We are a supply chain services provider in the emerging markets” Raj Shankar, Managing Director, Redington Gulf
Shankar heads the largest IT distribution business in the region. At close to Dollar Two billion, Redington Gulf has the …
NetBase, SAP offer social media analytics
To help global enterprises capitalise on the use of social media data, SAP AG and NetBase have announced that SAP …
GSMA partners with Qtel, Qualcomm to launch mobile health university challenge
“Pressures on the health services around the world are growing and mobile is seen as a channel to deliver …
GE, Microsoft launch JV aimed at global healthcare system transformation
General Electric Company through its healthcare IT business and Microsoft announced plans to create a joint venture aimed at helping …
HP bets big on information optimisation
HP is betting its future on big data and is hoping its acquisition of software company Autonomy will help drive …
Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration
Dell Wednesday unveied a new disk-based backup appliance that can perform data deduplication and replication tasks. The company today also …
Enterprises to buy more Apple Macs and iPads in 2012
Enterprises buying Apple Macs and iPads will increase by 58% in 2012, an analyst with Forrester Research said yesterday. Corporations …
Intel enters smartphone market
Intel on Tuesday announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones after years of uphill struggle …
Cisco and Etisalat sign strategic MOU
(Left to Right) Etisalat Group CEO, HE Ahmad Abdul Karim Julfar and Cisco’s Senior Vice President for Emerging Markets, Duncan …
Dubai’s dancers break marathon record using Microsoft Kinect Dance Central 2
A duo of dancers broke the standing record of non-stop video game marathon dancing using Microsoft Kinect’s Dance Central 2 …
Trend Micro revamps partner programme
Trend Micro has announced an aggressive new partner programme focused on rewarding proactive partners, driving new business, customer retention, while …
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to …
Google Chrome finally gets malware download protection
Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently …