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UAE CIOs rank cloud as a top investment priority
With 85 percent of UAE CIOs ranking cloud as their top investment priority to 2020, managing multiple clouds will be the foundation for business success, industry experts revealed recently.0 3970
Microsoft’s YouTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean
Microsoft’s official YouTube channel was hijacked on Saturday and all videos hosted on it were temporarily removed. The hacker replaced …
Oracle buys RightNow for $1.5bn
Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service …
Retail firms discuss data analytics at CNME’s CIO Council roundtable
SAS, a leader in business analytics, and Satvik, a consulting and analytics solutions provider got together to give retail end-users …
Information management software industry to reach revenues of $37 billion: Ovum
The global information management software market will reach revenues of $37.4 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) …
EMAL fuels giant expansion drive with SAP
Emirates Aluminium Company (EMAL) is set up to increase the efficiency and improve the quality of its production with the …
$50mn Smarter Cities Challenge grant program now open: IBM
IBM today announced that it has opened the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant program to new applications for 2012. Smarter …
30% of corporate BlackBerry users want new device: survey
The BlackBerry device and its maker, Research in Motion (RIM), were in serious trouble even before last week’s global service …
Samsung beats Apple in smartphone shipments – report
Samsung saw 20 million shipments of its smartphones in the last quarter, ahead of Apple’s 17.1 million units shipped in …
Microsoft, Compal sign patent deal covering Android, Chrome
Microsoft has signed a patent agreement with Taiwan’s Compal Electronics that provides coverage under its patent portfolio for Compal’s tablets, …