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 …

OS X Mountain Lion downloads exceed 3 million
More than 3 million copies of OS X Mountain Lion have been downloaded since its debut last week, Apple said …
Steady direction
Logicom Dubai has experienced exponential growth since its inception.

New tools can crack PPTP encryption in under a day
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any …

Oracle aims to poach SQL Server users with migration tool
Oracle is going after users of Microsoft’s SQL Server with a new tool for migrating data from SQL Server to …

One million Apple iPads sold to schools in third quarter
In its the third quarter earnings call Apple yesterday revealed that twice as many iPads as Macs were sold for …

Windows 8 for the enterprise
Even though Windows 8 won’t be officially released until October 26, its Metro user interface and Microsoft’s decision to remove …

Three-quarters of data centre managers admit to failing on performance
Three-quarters of European data centre managers do not feel they are achieving required performance levels, in a situation worsened by …

Apple opens up lead on Android in enterprise mobile app dev
Apple’s iOS mobile platform has amassed a substantial lead over Google’s Android when it comes to which platform developers prefer …

NTP announces patent settlements with 13 tech firms
Patent holding firm NTP, which won a US$612.5 million patent settlement from Research In Motion in 2006, has reached a …

Google's enterprise push a 'future growth engine'
Google is looking at its cloud-based apps for the enterprise not as a small side business, but as a major …

Amazon opens up about its cloud security practices, joins CSA registry
Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance’s Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light …

Adding value
CNME looks at third party trainers and how they can contribute to the development of both university students and internal …

Windows 8 release date set for 26 October
Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will launch on 26 October. President of Windows at Microsoft, Steven Sinofsky, made the announcement at …

Dell's cloud plans slip behind schedule
Dell announced an aggressive schedule last year to roll out cloud-based application services, but it now looks like the schedule …


