The concept of value-added reselling or distribution has reached its zenith in the Middle East. Since the economic crash of …
Comguard, HP hold training workshop in Riyadh
Comguard recently teamed with HP to conduct a special training workshop for channel partners in Saudi Arabia. The workshop was …
Researchers warn of increased Zeus malware activity this year
The amount of cyber-criminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few …
IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics
Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in …
Rapid-growing mobile payments market is driving a financial fraud marketplace
The global mobile payments market is predicted to exceed US$1.3 trillion in the coming years, presenting opportunities for cyber-crime gangs …
Target located
In 1971, John Draper used a whistle, found in a cereal box, to reproduce a 2,600 Hz tone able to …
IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot
Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to …
Al Rostamani Communications and McAfee host security seminar
McAfee and Al Rostamani Communications last week hosted a seminar on data loss prevention (DLP), security incident and event management …
Chinese hackers resume attacks on U.S. targets
For the last three months or so, the U.S. government and some of its defence contractors have engaged in a …
Nokia Siemens unveils tools to boost mobile video performance
Mobile network builder Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled tools to optimise video performance on mobile devices on Monday, just in time …
CNME delivers the region’s first ever dedicated big data event in Dubai
Attendees flooded the Habtoor Grand in Dubai today as CNME played host to the region’s first ever dedicated big …
Computerlinks becomes Middle East distributor for Trend Micro
Computerlinks today announced that it has become a distributor for Trend Micro in the Middle East to address increasing customer …
Cisco cites data centre, wireless for quarterly revenue increase
Data centre and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending …
How retailers are benefiting from HANA
Several retailers, including two start-ups, took to the stage at Sapphire Now to present case studies demonstrating the impact of …
Linux code is the ‘benchmark of quality’, study concludes
Fans of free and open-source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open-source code typically has fewer defects per …
Four more years
Even the best storage products must eventually be retired – a fact that many belt-tightening CIOs are at pains to …
Social ROI: Our Industry’s Screaming Goat
Mike Stiles, Senior Content Manager, Oracle, on how to measure social return on investment. You know the screaming goat meme, right? It’s …
Western Digital and SanDisk deliver their first hybrid drive
Western Digital has released new information about its first hybrid drive, revealing that it is using NAND flash technology from …
PC makers see lower prices, less touch in Windows’ future
Change is in the air for Microsoft in response to ho-hum sales of Windows 8, and it sounds like PC makers …
Facebook-Led Open Compute Project tackles network switches
A little more than two years ago, Facebook had a revolutionary idea: Inspired by the model of open-source software, it would bring …