Salesforce.com is deepening the integration between its CRM (customer relationship management) and customer service software with the explosively popular social-networking …
Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking
Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company’s product line toward …
A rewarding job
When Ben Fried left his post as IT managing director at Morgan Stanley and took over as Google’s CIO in …
Australian College of Kuwait selects SunGard
The Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) has selected SunGard Higher Education to help realise its vision for a new generation …
Obama seeks big boost in cybersecurity spending
The White House is proposing a big increase in cybersecurity research and development in next year’s budget to improve, in …
Doing a Ratner
It may be known only in the UK, but people in business anywhere in the world can recognise ‘that Ratner …
Qatar Exchange chooses Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux
Red Hat today announced that the Qatar Exchange, the principal stock market of Qatar and one of the leading stock …
HP takes first run at tablet market
Hewlett-Packard rolled out its debut entrant into the red-hot tablet market, the HP TouchPad, as well as two new smartphones …
Android sales leap to second place: Gartner
Android in 2010 became the second best selling smartphone operating system after Symbian from Nokia, Gartner reported yesterday. Android sales …
Riverbed upgrades WAN optimisation platform
Riverbed has added a level service dashboard designed to give business executives a high-level view of how well applications are …
Avnet hosts ISS Academy in KSA
Vidyasagar Patro, Senior Technical Consultant, Avnet Technology Solutions MEA, says HP ISS is vital to maintain high I/O performance which …
Google bets $20K that Chrome can’t be hacked
Google will pay $20,000 to the first researcher who successfully exploits its Chrome browser at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest. …
SABIC deploys OpenText for 37,000 users
OpenText has entered into a global agreement with SABIC, one of the world’s top six petrochemical companies, in which SABIC …
EMC has new KSA GM
Based in Riyadh, Talaat will be responsible for driving the overall strategic development of EMC business in the KSA and …
EMC appoints GM for KSA
EMC has appointed Mohamed Talaat as GM of the company’s Saudi operations. Based in Riyadh, Talaat will be responsible for …
Mobile app store revenue will surpass $15b in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, a 117% increase from an estimated …
HP to launch enterprise cloud service
Rounding out its portfolio of cloud-related offerings, Hewlett-Packard will launch a cloud compute service next month aimed at enterprises. The …
FDC to grow its software portfolio
The move to expand its software portfolio comes as the company is planning to increase its reach in the consumer …
Android tablets gain traction with developers
Although Apple’s iPad remains number one in the hearts of tablet application developers, Google Android tablets are increasingly piquing programmers’ …
HP lays Neoview to rest
Hewlett-Packard has officially consigned its Neoview to history, less than four years after introducing it to the market as the …