On the big screen at its user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard (HP) executives tried to make the practice of …

Firms failing in social media: Economist report
Companies are failing to fully grasp the opportunities to get closer to their customers through social media, according to research …

Setting standards
Qatar First Investment Bank chooses the cloud to host its disaster recovery apps and data, and finds that it could …

Jobs unveils free iCloud sync, storage service
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today took the stage at his company’s annual developers conference to tout the new iOS 5, …

Global Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015:Cisco
Cisco predicts that the number of network-connected devices will be more than 15 billion, twice the world’s population, by 2015. …

Citrix founder’s new startup targets data sprawl
Citrix founder Edward Iacobucci is launching a startup calledVirtualWorks Group that plans to organize the mountains of data overwhelming modern …

HTC to release Sense SDK
HTC plans to release an SDK for Sense, the user interface it features on Android phones. With the software development …

Cisco to invest $10m in Egypt
Cisco announced today that it will invest $10 million to seed a sustainable model of job creation and economic development …

Habib Bank deploys Misys BankFusion Equation
Misys, the application software and services company, today announced that Habib Bank has licensed Misys BankFusion Equation to reinforce its …

HP unveils performance suite
HP today unveiled a new suite of software to operationalise, measure and improve IT performance across the industry’s broadest set …

CommVault enters into an OEM agreement with NetApp
CommVault today announced that it has entered into a global OEM agreement with NetApp under which NetApp will integrate elements …

When the cloud evaporates
Over the past year, four cloud storage service providers have said they’re shutting down and Amazon’s cloud services have been …

Business analytics is all the buzz at SUGMENA conference
The buzz was all about the increasing importance, functionality and relevance of business analytics (BA) in organisations around the world …

Oracle introduces JavaFX 2.0 beta
JavaFX 2.0, an upgrade to the Java-based rich client platform that originated at Sun Microsystems, was made available in a …

Cisco announces $10 million investment in Jordan
Cisco has announced that it will invest $10 million to seed a sustainable model of job-creation and economic development in …

HP expands client virtualisation portfolio
HP today announced additions to its desktop-to-data centre client virtualisation portfolio that offer users improved flexibility, security and productivity. Announced …

Cisco to invest $10m in Jordan
Cisco today announced that it will invest $10 million to seed a sustainable model of job-creation and economic development in …

NVIDIA to acquire baseband vendor Icera
Icera is a leading producer of baseband processors for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets NVIDIA announced today that …

How many photos?
Bureaucracy is the curse of government. This is a worldwide truism but many of us hoped that the widespread adoption …

Who Controls Your Brand?
The old order is being turned on its head; companies used to being in control of their customers and their …


