After a brief delay and more than a year of chatter, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the availability of …
Focus Softnet acquires stake in Insta Health Solutions
With this new investment, Insta HMS will become an integral part of Focus Softnet’s product line, thus allowing the company …
Value spin off
Almasa has chosen to spin off its value division leveraging on industry stalwart Roger El Tawil to deliver on the …
MENA yet to embrace the cloud: SAP
As part of the agenda at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW Madrid, Spain yesterday, I had an opportunity to meet with Sam …
SAP clears the clouds in Spain
German IT giant, SAP AG today announced significant new advances in the core areas of its cloud strategy and cloud …
Small businesses stuck in IT ‘dark age’: Intel
A shortage of money, combined with a lack of technical expertise, is keeping half of small businesses in a technology …
Toyota expects to offer health care robots in 2013
Toyota Motor Corporation is bringing high tech to health care, as it works on a family of robots geared to …
Back to school
The application of IT is not only transforming the way students learn, but also the way they are being taught. …
Critical connections
KSA’s Jarir Bookstore battled the challenges associated with connecting disparate centres of business by deploying SonicWALL’s NSA Series and building …
IBM introduces new systems to accelerate smarter computing
In the largest update to its systems portfolio this year, IBM today announced 55 new and updated server and storage …
SAS launches D1 appliance at CNME’s CIO Council roundtable
At a crowded CIO Council roundtable today, the Middle East arm of SAS, an international leader in business analytics, announced …
HP Envy 110 MFP
If a good-looking product is paramount to you, then the elegant Envy 110 MFP may be just what you seek–but …
Viva vibe
Kuwait’s Viva Telecom implements a data warehouse and business intelligence (DWBI) solution to benefit business operations, Pallavi Sharma reports. As …
Menya Zavoot GITEX
One of the best parts of GITEX for me is the number of people from outside the UAE that you …
Governments, businesses and companies not taking web threats seriously: Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cloud security provider, is concerned that regional governments, businesses and individuals are not taking web threats …
McNealy: I would have run HP if they’d asked me
Scott McNealy, the former chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, would have accepted the job of running Hewlett-Packard if he …
Public cloud services market in APAC to hit US $12bn: Ovum
The Asia-Pacific (AP) public cloud services market will increase five fold over the next five years with revenues of US$12billion …
Intel’s McAfee unit agrees to buy NitroSecurity
Intel’s McAfee unit is acquiring NitroSecurity in an effort to speed up risk and threat assessment capabilities via its security …
Apple: It’s the iPhone 4S, not the iPhone 5
Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook and other company executives introduced the new iPhone 4S, an upgrade to the existing iPhone …
Google CIO: don’t fight consumerisation of IT
In a interview, Google CIO Ben Fried talked about letting go. That may sound a bit “Zen Buddhist,” but it’s …