Simran Chabbra, Gulf distribution manager at Microsoft

Wearable technology to generate $6bn
Wearable, wireless devices capable of offering real-time data such as personal health information is expected to grow from 14 million …

Windows 8: The supporting cast
Announcements and speculation about upcoming Windows 8 tablets are coming in fast. Lenovo recently announced the Windows 8-based ThinkPad Tablet 2, following …

Icon designer Kare to testify in Apple v Samsung trial
Susan Kare, the designer of a number of Apple’s trademark images, is to be called as a witness in …

Gov surveillance malware monitors Middle East accounts
A sophisticated cyber surveillance tool that monitors financial transactions with Middle Eastern banks was ‘probably’ built by or …

EMC unveils enhanced backup and recovery software
EMC today announced the release of its new Networker Unified Backup and Recovery Software, Networker 8.0. The developments include a …

Probox is latest 'Dropbox for the enterprise'
Storage integrator Proact has launched Probox, a new file-sharing and storage service claiming to be a “Dropbox for the …

ThinkPad Tablet 2 kicks off new generation for Lenovo
Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, which kicks off a new generation of the company’s PCs and devices …

Google unveils stronger Flash sandbox in Chrome
Google has announced it has completed work on a stronger Flash sandbox in the Windows version of Chrome, and …

Inside the IT challenges of sports and entertainment
At the same time sports and entertainment organisations are being inundated with data, they’re trying to figure out how to …

Infosys unveils self-service cloud hub
Indian outsourcer Infosys yesterday unveiled a package of services and technologies that aim to help companies deploying hybrid clouds. Fragmentation …

Google invests in digital signature company DocuSign
Google has staked some cash on the market for digital signatures on electronic documents with a venture capital investment in …

Qualcomm taps former Intel exec for mobile expansion
Qualcomm has appointed a former Intel executive to run marketing as the company expands in the mobile device space. As …

The jewel in the crown
With Windows 8 on the horizon and the PC-veteran announcing its intention to enter the lucrative tablet market with the …
Women of the channel- The leader
Sherifa Hady, channel sales manager, Imaging and Printing Group at HP Africa

Oracle targets SAP with new migration tools
Oracle is planning to unveil new migration tools that help customers port applications written for SAP’s Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise …

Taming text in 9 simple steps: Pages
Far more than Apple’s “version of Word,” Pages is full of powerful, time-saving features that help you make great word …

Yammer software gauges emotions in employee posts
Yammer is adding functionality to its cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software that lets organisations gauge the types of emotions expressed …

Outlook.com gets a million sign-ups in first six hours
Microsoft has announced that over a million people had registered with the new Outlook.com email service six hours after it …

Windows PC sales hit low as tablet sales soar in Q2
Shipments of Windows laptops and desktops have hit new lows as tablet shipments continued to rise during the second quarter …