The ICT sector in the region, particularly in the UAE, has demonstrated resilience to weather the current economic storm thanks …
HP introduces new Mini 5101 business netbook
Seeking to cement its lead in the business-oriented netbook space, Hewlett-Packard announced an updated Mini netbook. Starting at $449, the …
IBM, Cray lead Top 500 supercomputer rankings
The world’s two most powerful computers have not been surpassed in 2009, but the latest edition of the Top 500 …
Lenovo slims down new ThinkPad T400s
Showing again that rugged business-oriented laptops can play the thin-and-light game, Lenovo Group revealed a slimmed-down ThinkPad that boasts a …
Jacky?s Electronics experiences 40% growth in Netbook demand
Jacky’s Electronics, the UAE’s leading multi-electronics retailer, has seen a 40 % increase in demand for Netbooks for the first six …
Cupola to mordenize and maintain EMW's contact centre
Cupola Teleservices (CTS), provider of outsourced contact centre services in the Middle East, has signed a contract with EMW, to …
Enabling enterprise with video analytics
Over the past decade video surveillance has migrated from analog closed circuit television systems with point-to-point connections to modern digital …
Emulation or Virtualization?
Emulation is what we do when we try to make one system behave like or imitate a different system. We …
Seagate appoints Mark Whitby as VP of sales and marketing for EMEA
Seagate announced that Mark Whitby has been appointed vice president, Sales and Marketing, for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Based in …
Oracle buys drug-design software maker's IP
Oracle said it has bought the intellectual property of Conformia Software, maker of software for managing the design and development …
What is a router?
Is a router still a router even if forwarding packets is just one of its many jobs? More and more …
IBM allocates $100M for research in mobile communications
IBM is allocating $100 million to research in mobile communications over the next five years. IBM labs promises five innovations …
GITEX 2009 to feature new initiatives
GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK, one of the most important ICT exhibitions in the world, is returning in 2009 to help companies …
Nvidia: Future chips will enhance video on mobile
Nvidia hopes to develop chips that enable applications such as image recognition and video search on mobile devices like smartphones …
Western Digital launches line of embedded SSDs
Western Digital announced that it has begun shipping its first solid-state line of disk drives based on technology it acquired …
Data center derby heats up
Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM …
HD video hits desktops with hardware, software
LifeSize Communications and Radvision are taking two different routes toward high-definition desktop videoconferencing, both aiming to bring more participants into …
APC unveils InRow SC Systems for Network Closet and Server Room Environments
APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced the APC InRow SC …
New Novell tool to link Linux management to Microsoft System Center
Novell next week plans to release yet another tool that is the product of its three-year-old integration agreement with Microsoft, …
New Mexico's supercomputer gamble draws questions
Believing a supercomputer would help create jobs, New Mexico paid for and built a massive supercomputer named Encanto to spur …