Shankar heads the largest IT distribution business in the region. At close to Dollar Two billion, Redington Gulf has the …
Outlook 2012, Reading the cards
Microsoft will begin to dominate new networking and technology areas by increasing its share of unified communication and voice over …
Expect fewer phone models in 2012, executives say
Are there too many mobile phones to choose from? Phone makers are starting to worry that people are getting overwhelmed …
Intel enters smartphone market
Intel on Tuesday announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones after years of uphill struggle …
Nokia unveils new smartphone
Nokia unveiled their new smartphone yesterday, the Lumia 900, which is its first 4g LTE phone. The Windows Phone 7.5 …
Volume and value jostle
Josef Miskulnig worked in IBM from 1977 to 1996. In 1997 he decided to set up Fast Lane as both …
Acer to offer free cloud service
Acer kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday by previewing a free cloud service for storing images and other …
Intel bets big on ultrabooks
Intel will get a strong indication at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show whether its decision to bet heavily on ultrabooks …
Data appliance for SMEs
SAS and EMC Greenplum come together in the region to launch a power packed data management solution for SMEs In …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …
PayPal president to become Yahoo CEO
Yahoo’s board has chosen as the company’s CEO Scott Thompson, president of eBay’s PayPal, ending a four-month search after Carol …
Brick-by-brick
Every once in a while, there comes an organisation that challenges the way other organisations have been dealing with strapped …
Google, Facebook are dominant websites of 2011
Online giants Google and Facebook came out as the most-visited Web sites of 2011, according to a Nielsen report. Meanwhile, …
Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers
Microsoft’s Windows XP shed a large amount of usage share again last month as users continued to desert the decade-old …
Chrome nears 20%, IE resumes slide
After a one-month pause, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) resumed its usage share slide in December, dropping to a new low …
Google to pay Mozilla $300 mn yearly in new search deal: report
Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according …
Quad Enterprise Social Software
Cisco’s thin client application allows a user to work across business and social media feeds through one interface Global enterprise …
Nokia ditches Symbian name for Nokia Belle
The next version of Nokia’s Symbian OS will be called Nokia Belle, the company said ina blog post yesterday. Since …
SAP and Google plan to tie cloud based business apps
SAP and Google executives yesterday provided a preview of the companies’ plans to tie their respective cloud-based business applications together, …