Weekends normally mean a reprieve from a strenuous work environment but a recent trip to the movies turned out to …
Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company, the latest dramatic change at the top of the embattled Internet company. …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …
Learning innovation
Although young to the UAE, the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi is making the right investments to offer a competitive …
Existing industry models will be challenged through 2015: Gartner
Enterprises have difficult and challenging times ahead, and need to adapt to new technologies to remain competitive in the upcoming …
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 …
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 …
Open regulation
As the regulatory body and registry operator for the .ae domain name, the .ae Domain Authority (.aeDA) naturally takes its …
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 …
Intel bets big on ultrabooks
Intel will get a strong indication at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show whether its decision to bet heavily on ultrabooks …
Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centres
Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical …
Symantec confirms source cod leak in enterprise security products
Symantec confirmed, just before the start of the Middle East weekend, that source code used in two of its older …
China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns
After winning the approval of regulators in Europe, Australia, and Japan, Western Digital may have hit a snag in its …
PayPal president to become Yahoo CEO
Yahoo’s board has chosen as the company’s CEO Scott Thompson, president of eBay’s PayPal, ending a four-month search after Carol …
Al Hilal Bank deploys digital pen technology
Al Hilal Bank, a progressive Islamic bank, is using state-of-the-art digital pens developed in the UK to revolutionise its document-based …
Brick-by-brick
Every once in a while, there comes an organisation that challenges the way other organisations have been dealing with strapped …
Hackers to combat censorship with own satellites
Hackers reportedly plan to fight back against Internet censorship by putting their own communications satellites into orbit and developing a …
Telecom Namibia deploying first DWDM network
Six months after withdrawing from Angola and South African markets to concentrate on the local market, Telecom Namibia is deploying …
Big data, security and cloud identified as IT “super themes” in 2012
“Big data” analytics, security and cloud computing will be three of the most significant drivers of technological change in 2012, …