Adobe has promised to support the soon-to-be-orphaned Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, but has not said how long it …
Value powerhouse
Aptec Distribution is completing its transformation from a broadline to value added distributor and is expected to be the largest …
Mahindra Satyam partners with iPipeline
Mahindra Satyam announced it has partnered with iPipeline, a vendor for innovative marketing, selling and processing solutions for the …
SAP clears the clouds in Spain
German IT giant, SAP AG today announced significant new advances in the core areas of its cloud strategy and cloud …
HP, Dell overtake Nokia in Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
While some consumer electronics manufacturers have cleaned up their act, making more energy-efficient gadgets with fewer toxic materials, others are …
FVC signs Esnatech to offer cloud-based UC in MENA
FVC, a VAD in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has signed a partnership agreement with Esna Technologies (Esnatech), …
Back to school
The application of IT is not only transforming the way students learn, but also the way they are being taught. …
A solutions company
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell outlines the company’s aggressive plans to grow its portfolio of solutions by acquiring more intellectual …
IBM embraces BYOD
“IBM has embraced — nearly — the growing bring your own device (BYOD) trend of allowing employees to buy and …
ARM leads march to 64-bit tablets, smartphones: analysts
ARM’s new 64-bit ARMv8 architecture could be used in tablets and smartphones in a few years, which could help deliver …
Spinning off PC group would have cost billions: HP
Spinning off its PC unit would have been too costly for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and that was one of the reasons …
RIM delays BlackBerry tablet OS to February 2012
Last week at its BlackBerry DevCon conference, RIM tried to excite developers about the forthcoming PlayBook OS 2.0 mobile operating …
Nokia unveils first Windows phones
Nokia unveiled yesterday four new phones intended for developing markets as well as the company’s first two smartphones running the …
Critical connections
KSA’s Jarir Bookstore battled the challenges associated with connecting disparate centres of business by deploying SonicWALL’s NSA Series and building …
Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs
Quantum this week unveiled a backup appliance for $5,139 that offers smaller businesses 8TB of capacity and data deduplication capabilities …
Salesforce.com to ‘unlock’ SAP’s core software for ‘social enterprises’
Salesforce.com is rolling out a set of consulting and integration services aimed at SAP customers who want to build a …
Riverbed expands cloud storage ecosystem
Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced an expansion of the ecosystem for the Riverbed Whitewater family of cloud …
Nokia reports loss ahead of first Windows Phone launch
Nokia reported a net loss and a fall in revenue for the third quarter, despite selling more phones than analysts …
HP’s new servers provide path to cloud
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced new servers that come pre-configured with Microsoft software to help companies deploy virtualised workloads more quickly. …
Dell shifting focus to work-and-play tablets, smartphones
After achieving “moderate success” selling smartphones and tablets to consumers, Dell will shift its focus to devices that straddle both …