NetApp this week announced to customers that beginning Feb. 6, it will be raising the price of hard disk drives …
Oki research reveals energy saving in UAE
New research from Oki has revealed that UAE businesses are spending millions of Dhirams per year on avoidable energy costs. …
HDD washout in Thailand
October?s flooding of Thailand has knocked out close to half of the global hard disk manufacturing base. Normalcy will take …
Google acquires more IBM patents
Google has acquired more IBM patents, adding more than 200 to approximately 2,000 patents it had previously bought from IBM. …
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 …
SSD shipments leap 66% in Q3, revenue doubles
Shipments of solid-state drives (SSDs) jumped more than 66% in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the same period …
Sophos launches MDM tool to simplify IT consumerisation
IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced Sophos Mobile Control 2.0, the latest version of its award-winning mobile …
Dell pulls back from netbook market
Dell has confirmed that it has ceased production of its Inspiron Mini netbook computer, in effect ending its pursuit of …
Lenovo appoints new GM for explosive growth in KSA
Lenovo, today announced that it has appointed Ahmed Khalil as GM to spear head its operations in the Kingdom of …
The future awaits
As organisations in the region prep their strategies for another tough year, Pallavi Sharma speaks to regional vendors to discuss …
Microsoft and HP team up for the cloud
HP and Microsoft have announced a new four-year partnership to deliver public, private and hybrid cloud solutions built around Microsoft …
AMD’s 16-core Opteron chips arrive after wait
After a brief delay and more than a year of chatter, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the availability of …
Brightpoint to distribute Microsoft Windows Phone
Microsoft Middle East and Africa announced its partnership with global wireless distributor Brightpoint Middle East to bring Windows Phone devices …
Spinning off PC group would have cost billions: HP
Spinning off its PC unit would have been too costly for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and that was one of the reasons …
Oracle ‘catching on to cloud importance’ with £940m RightNow acquisition
Oracle is catching on to the importance of cloud computing with its $1.5 billion (£941 million) acquisition of RightNow Technologies, …
EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage
EMC held its user forum last week and used the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualisation and the …
30% of corporate BlackBerry users want new device: survey
The BlackBerry device and its maker, Research in Motion (RIM), were in serious trouble even before last week’s global service …
Samsung beats Apple in smartphone shipments – report
Samsung saw 20 million shipments of its smartphones in the last quarter, ahead of Apple’s 17.1 million units shipped in …
Acer posts another loss as Q3 revenues fall 30%
Acer reported loss for the second quarter in a row, as the Taiwanese company struggles with sagging PC sales and …
Intel CEO faults recent evolution of PCs
Intel CEO Paul Otellini came to the defence of PCs at an industry conference, while outlining his belief that the …