Over the past month, stock market indices have looked like a lot like a Six Flags roller coaster, with 500 …
Google buys Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion
Google has entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, …
Samsung aims to drive up tablet storage with new SSDs
Tablet users may need more storage capacity in the future, and Samsung Semiconductor announced it is now making its fastest …
Interactive Intelligence positioned in leaders quadrant of contact Center Infrastructure
Interactive Intelligence Group, a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, has been positioned by Gartner in the leaders …
Android market share nears 50% worldwide: Canalys
It’s a new month, which means that another research firm has released data showing us that Android and the iPhone …
Mobile devices fuel flash memory growth in MEA
SanDisk, has reported double- and triple-digit market growth in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) so far this year, driven …
Tablets making an impact on OS and PC designs: IDC
The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted, when questioned about the …
VMware unveils VMware vSphere5 and comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite
VMware CEO Paul Maritz unveiled VMware vSphere 5 and a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies built to help customers …
Asia Pacific traders prefer open source: Red Hat
Some of the busiest stock exchanges in the region have shown a preference for open source software as indicated by …
VMware leading virtualisation market: V-Index survey
VMware is the primary hypervisor for 58% of organisations that use x86 virtualisation software, with Citrix and Microsoft’s Hyper-V splitting …
Avaya introduces contact centre tools to enhance customer service
Avaya, a provider of business communications and collaboration solutions and services, today announced new contact centre products that address the …
Companies ‘wasting millions’ with bad file management
Enterprises are estimated to be paying an average of $2.1 million (£1.3 million) a year as a result of inefficient …
Searching for the game changer
As organisations develop their operations to meet customer demands, managing the growth of physical assets is commonplace. Today, however, the …
Microsoft Office 365 goes live
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the much-awaited Office 365 yesterday, after a beta program of about nine months, as the …
Microsoft’s cloud BPOS suffers outage again
Microsoft’s BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage yesterday, the latest in a string of technical problems in …
CFOs lack faith in CIOs, survey shows
Increasingly, it’s the chief financial officer (CFO) who has direct oversight of the IT department and IT-related spending, but it …
Look and listen
Steady growth in the cloud services sector reflects the rapid pace at which companies are moving all or portions of …
Storm that cometh
Virtualisation and cloud technologies are storming their way into enterprise infrastructure deployments. But, what happens to networks and their management, …
Huawei unveils latest tablet running Android 3.2
Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei unveiled a 7-inch tablet, called the MediaPad, running version 3.2 of Google’s Android mobile OS …
Starbucks using smartphone barcode system for payment
Starbucks said this week it has seen plenty of customers interested in using smartphones to pay for their coffee. The …