Leaders from Qtel, ictQATAR and Saudi Telecom are amongst eight newly appointed Commissioners to the UN Broadband Commission for Digital …
IT investments deliver profits: research
Investing in IT departments can have a bigger impact on a firm’s profits than similar spending on R&D and some …
4 critical trends in IT business continuity
In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organisations have made it a high priority to develop and implement …
Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology
Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualisation offerings, …
Windows 8 update: Back up Windows Server 8 to the cloud
Microsoft is offering free tests of online backup for Windows Server 8 via its Azure cloud storage service, which could be a convenient way …
BYOD Troubleshoot: Security and Cost-Savings
A few months ago, a Hungarian man got a hold of a business executive’s personal mobile device containing corporate customer …
Do insecure open source components threaten your apps?
Since Apache Maven, the brainchild of Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl, emerged as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in …
Oracle buys ClearTrial
Oraclet has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, a provider of cloud-based Clinical Trial Operations (CTO) applications that make …
Qualcomm’s quad-core chips to counter Intel’s ultrabooks
Qualcomm is preparing a quad-core version of its Snapdragon S4 chip for thin and light Windows 8 laptops, which the …
Tripp Lite showcases solutions at Datacenter Dynamics meet in Riyadh, KSA.
Tripp Lite, a manufacturer of power protection and connectivity products, announced its successful participation at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia …
Kingston launches wireless portable storage device for smartphones, tablets
Kingston Digital Europe yesterday launched in the UAE a wireless portable storage device that allows user to carry and share …
Filling the gaps
The noticeable gap between the IT skills needed and those that are currently available in the market got Pallavi Sharma …
New iPad shortchanges users on battery life, says expert
Apple is shortchanging new iPad owners on battery power, an analyst said today. “If you stop charging the iPad when …
Palit releases GeForce GTX 680
Palit Microsystems, a graphics card manufacturer, yesterday announced the release of the new Palit GeForce GTX 680. The company said …
Brand-Rex to supply cabling system for Hamad Medical City in Qatar
Brand-Rex will supply an extensive and substantial structured cabling system for Hamad Medical City (HMC), the main provider of healthcare …
UAE SMEs starting to realise value of ICT investments: du
UAE-based SMEs are beginning to realise the value of ICT investments such as lower operating costs, improved human resource efficiency …
Amazon may provide Indian cloud services over Tata infrastructure
Amazon could be preparing to launch cloud services in India, after it emerged that the company has been buying up …
Facebook warns employers not to ask job applicants for log-in credentials
Facebook on Friday warned employers about trying to gain inappropriate access to Facebook accounts to check out private information about …
Aptec strengthens its presence through series of roadshows in Kuwait and Qatar
Aptec Distribution and Track Distribution, part of Aptec Holdings, a large Value-Add distributor in Middle East, has successfully hosted two …
Geared for cyber war
The crux of the discussions at the Kaspersky Lab cyber conference in Mexico last month focused on the eventuality of …