Year after year, breathless pundits announce that the open source OS is on the verge of a tipping point, a …
Spammers find new ways to flood corporate networks
Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a …
FBI e-mail clobbered after virus
The FBI confirmed that it had been forced to shut down its Internet-facing unclassified network, but disputed a report that …
Shuttle packs Via's Nano into small desktop PCs
Small-PC specialist Shuttle will show off a pair of desktop PCs based on Via Technologies’ Nano processor at the Computex …
HP upgrades mobile and desktop thin clients
HP announced a new mobile thin client, and software enhancements to improve the security and manageability of its desktop-based thin …
Apple quietly bumps white MacBook specs
Apple Inc.'s $999 MacBook may not feature the same swank aluminum togs as its older siblings, but that doesn't mean …
SMBs expected to increase ERP spending
The region’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) expenditure is set to rise as more small and medium businesses (SMBs) invest in …
Dell challenges HP, IBM
In keeping up with stiff competition in the data centre and server space, technology powerhouse Dell has launched new server, …
Beefed-up netbooks now a threat to notebooks
Microsoft and Intel’s attempts to confine netbooks to the low end of the market to protect mainstream notebook PC sales …
HP snubs Moblin, rolls out Mi Linux-Atom netbook
In a pre-emptive strike against the expected onslaught of ARM-based netbooks running Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Hewlett-Packard Co. on …
Facebook gets $200M cash infusion
Facebook, whose dizzying growth in recent years has been rumored to put a growing strain on its finances, has sold …
Lenovo launches first Nvidia Ion-powered netbook
Targeting TV and movie lovers, Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced the first netbook that can be equipped with Nvidia Inc.'s …
Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now …
SSD performance — is a slowdown inevitable?
The recent revelation that Intel Corp.’s consumer-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives suffer from fragmentation that can cause a significant performance …
Sun rises at Oracle
Oracle’s recent US$7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems could turn Sun’s ailing hardware business into a boon for data-center managers. …
Polycom enhances video recording, streaming and content managment
“Use of live video broadcasts and on-demand video content is growing rapidly in the enterprise, government agencies, healthcare organisations, and …
Conficker still infecting 50,000 PCs per day
The Conficker worm is still infecting systems at a brisk rate and continues to snag computers in Fortune 1000 companies, …
New Windows netbooks may harbor malware
After discovering attack code on a brand new Windows XP netbook, antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs warned users yesterday that they …
Priority for security
Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) is the first and biggest Islamic Bank in Qatar. The bank’s data center is a state-of-the-art …
IBM appliance speeds up software installation
In an effort to set itself apart from other server vendors, IBM said it was stepping up efforts to make …