Worldwide smartphone sales to end users soared to 149 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 47.3% increase …
Price versus brand takes focus in the battle for smartphone supremacy
Established vendors such as HTC, Sony and LG Electronics want to set their smartphones apart from less expensive devices from …
UAE government pro managed IT services
eHosting Data Fort (eHDF) and Emirates eGovernment today organised a special forum titled ‘Managed IT Services for Government’. At the …
Tubulent turnover
CIOs lament twenty – something techies who quit after a year Louis Trebino, CIO and senior VP at the Harry …
Etisalat to stop Indian network after losing mobile licenses
Middle-East mobile operator Emirates Telecommunications, known as Etisalat, is suspending its network and services in India, following a court order …
Mountain Lion move shows Apple thinks personal cloud trumps PC: analysts
Apple’s move to update Mac OS X this summer shows that the company sees its software ecosystem, especially its iCloud …
Top 5 information management and backup trend predictions for 2012: Symantec
“Backup Fights Back in 2012” You can’t call backup boring anymore. Data is exploding year on year. The backup market …
Tablets will outsell PCs: Apple CEO
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that tablets such as the iPad will outsell PCs in the coming years thanks to the explosive …
Extending identity
The focal point of enterprise security has long been on fighting malware and outsider threats, while most of the breaches …
Multiple buyers, multiple messages
Why a role-based sales approach is required for complex IT sales The message coming from technology buyers is clear — …
Lenovo’s fiscal Q3 profit up 54%, increases China share
Lenovo’s profit in its fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31 grew 54 percent year-over-year, as the company saw growth in …
Leaders and CIOs
Channel partners are used to being part of formal vendor programmes. But CIOs today also face informal career and skill …
New mega data centre in India among world’s largest
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data centre in India that it says is the largest in …
EMC launches ‘Project Lightning’ PCIe cards
EMC today launched its long-awaited “Project Lightning,” now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash …
CIO IT spending to increase in MEA: Survey
IT spending in the Middle East and Africa will increase by 14% as the role of technology in business grows, …
Big and growing
Collating big data and gleaning intelligence from it is becoming important among Middle East enterprises, as it is the worldover. …
RIM announces appointment of new CEO
Research In Motion’s co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have quit after a tumultuous period at the company, which saw …
IT leaders continue to juggle multiple priorities in 2012: research
Analytics and business intelligence have moved back to the top of the technology priority list for CIOs, followed by mobile …
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. …
Messaging security market to touch $4.78b by 2015:IDC
The messaging security market will grow to $4.78 billion in 2015, according to research firm IDC, but enterprises will favour …