The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market posted its third successive quarter of year-on-year growth in Q4 2014, continuing its recovery from the seven consecutive quarterly declines it experienced leading up to Q2 2014.
IBM due $4 billion disruptive tech drive
IBM will dedicate $4 billion in spending this year to the cloud, analytics and mobile technologies, as it struggles with seismic shifts that are changing the computing landscape it once dominated.
Apple catches Samsung as smartphone leader
The iPhone 6 has sold so well that Apple tied with Samsung for the top position in the smartphone market in the fourth quarter, closing the gap with its South Korean competitor.
Standing tall
Harish Kanjani, General Manager, Computer Care, discusses the challenges of doing business in an evolving channel environment.
IBM reports grim Q4 earnings
IBM will favour buyouts that strengthen its cloud services, the company’s CFO has said, as it looks for ways to expand its business after 11 straight quarters of declining revenue.
Samsung Galaxy A7 packs bigger screen, more power
Samsung has released a new phablet incorporating a metal frame, and comes at a “competitive price point”, according to the Korean electronics maker.
Samsung brings curved screen from TV to PC
Samsung is trying to smash the status quo in PCs with a new all-in-one desktop computer that has a curved screen.
Reseller Middle East celebrates elite Hot 50 winners
Reseller Middle East (RME) held its third edition of Hot 50 awards last evening at a glamourous ceremony at the open air venue of Rivington Bar and Grill, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai.
How can Samsung reverse its flagging fortunes?
Samsung is facing a string of problems, not least the fact it has sold 40 percent fewer Galaxy S5 smartphones than expected. But will a change of management spell a change of fortune for the flagging firm?
HP: The Enterprise expects
Following HP’s decision to split its PC and printer businesses away from the Enterprise Group, James Dartnell looks at the new companies’ prospects and the thinking behind the move.
IBM offloads semiconductor unit to GlobalFoundries
IBM will sell the semiconductor technologies unit that makes its Power processors to Abu Dhabi-owned GlobalFoundries, paying the chip manufacturer about US$1.3 billion to take two factories off its hands in a move to erase losses.
IBM to sell Elastic Storage in power-based box
IBM will extend its Elastic Storage technology with two new products as the company moves to offer software-defined storage in several forms.
HP set to split off PC, printer business
Reversing the corporate strategy CEO Meg Whitman set three years ago, Hewlett-Packard is set to announce that it will split off its PC and printer business into a separate, publicly traded company, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Intel targets data centre with Xeon server chips
Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernise “legacy data centres” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features.
Google plans $30B of international acquisitions
Google plans to spend $20-30 billion of its of its accumulated international profits to fund potential acquisitions of non-U.S. companies and technology rights.
Apple and Google agree to drop all patent suits
Apple and Google have agreed to drop all current patent infringement lawsuits between them, they said Friday.
Gartner: Worldwide PC shipments declined 1.7 percent
Worldwide PC shipments totalled 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, a 1.7 percent decline from the first quarter of 2013, according to preliminary results by Gartner.
GITEX Shopper Spring 2014 in full swing
The second edition of GITEX Shopper Spring, the consumer electronics retail show, is running at Dubai World Trade Centre till 26th April.
Google revenue jumps 19 percent but still disappoints
Google reported a 19 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter, but results from its advertising business were mixed.
IBM profit falls on weak hardware sales and transition costs
Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM’s profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.