Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost, Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572. MT6572 …
Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers
The Dutch government on Thursday presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into …
CommVault partners with Qatar Datamation Systems
IT solutions provider Qatar Datamation Systems (QDS) this week announced a partnership agreement with CommVault to promote the data management …
Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won’t go
Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share …
Study: High growth companies are better at analysing data
The Economist Intelligence Unit has found a strong relationship between the growth of corporate earnings and companies’ use of data …
Saudi Health Ministry implements IBM cloud solution to fight disease
IBM and the Saudi Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that they had implemented IBM’s Public Health Solution for Disease …
Amazon Web Services launches new certification programme
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Programme, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and developers …
Ageing networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks
Ageing networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal
In an effort to return cash to investors, Apple is reaching out to the debt market and offering US$17 billion …
Blackberry CEO: Tablets are doomed
Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins has made a bold prediction: He says that tablets don’t have much of a future. “In …