Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their …
Social media offers opportunities that traditional platforms don’t: British Business Group
Social media provides a direct ROI that is simple to measure, despite businessmen claiming the contrary, says Alan Devereux, Communications …
Four ways to manage your online reputation
This Saturday, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day. DPD, as it’s known, is a day to “increase awareness of privacy and …
Healthcare should take up digital trends: mHealth conference
Mobile health is here and will change the way people in the Middle East receive health care and interact with …
Twitter acquires anti-malware company Dasient
Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday. Dasient, which describes …
Big data has been around for years: IBM
Jeff Barber, director of worldwide storage product sales, systems and technology group at IBM, says he pities companies that are …
New piracy law proposed as Internet blackout stalls SOPA and PIPA
A SOPA opponent offered an alternative law for fighting piracy on the same day the Internet blackout urged U.S. Congress …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Social media has changed advertising, says Google
Enterprises must adapt to how social media is changing business and the new interactive forms of advertising it has created, …
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. …
Infor introduces ION
Infor, a vendor of business application software unveiled Infor10, which features a consumer type user experience, industry specific software applications …
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 …
Google, Microsoft each seek search “game changer”: analysts
While Google and Microsoft waged “trench warfare” in the search business this year, both are hoping to come up with …
Google to pay Mozilla $300 mn yearly in new search deal: report
Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according …
Twitter gets Saudi cash injection
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his investment company, Kingdom Holding, have announced a $300 million (£194m) investment in micro-blogging …
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, …
Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software
Salesforce.com announced recently it would acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software …
Twitter launches TweetDeck as web app
An application near and dear to the heart of Twitter fanatics everywhere, TweetDeck, is now available as a Web application. …
Google releases list of top searches in UAE
Google today released its annual Zeitgeist report. According to Google, the report takes into account searches on the Web globally …
Google acquires Clever Sense to boost offerings
Google has acquired Clever Sense, the developer of Alfred, a personalised restaurant and bars recommendations app, for an undisclosed price, …