Middle East
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UAE has Gulf's highest female Internet user base
News United Arab Emirates houses most female online users in Gulf region, making Arab state potentially lucrative market for online companies, study shows.
Tags: Female, Web sites, Internet advertising, online company, Bahrain, broadband quality of service, Web sites, Female, QoS, Broadband
Effects of damaged cables continue
News Issues from damaged SMW4 cable system that took out Internet and phone communications last week still persist, with Singapore now apparently affected.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Contingency planning, SingTel, Asia, India, Singapore, Europe, Cable, Traceroute, Contingency planning
Asian firms don't configure network right
News update For every networking device installed in the region, an average of 30 configuration issues are identified, notes new Dimension Data report.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Business security, Security, Security, Manufacturing, network device, network configuration, network integration, Asia-Pacific
Forrester: 2.2B people online globally by 2013
News In four years' time, 43 percent of Internet population will reside in Asia, according to new projections from the research group.
Tags: Web sites, Forrester Research Inc., Asia, Western Europe, Turkey, Russia, Emerging Market, Middle East, Internet, U.S.
Unisys made Aussie MD redundant
News Company releases its Australian and New Zealand managing director only months after hiring him.
Tags: Outsourcing, Web services, Nortel Networks Corp., SAP AG, Spokesperson, Australia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Unisys Corp.
IBM delivers strong Q2, ups 2009 earnings outlook
News Big Blue reports year-on-year net income increase and is set to hit its earnings per share target of US$11 next year, according to CEO Sam Palmisano.
Tags: Software, Services, Hardware, IBM Corp., CFO, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Sales, Software, Middle East
Dell cuts 1,900 Irish jobs in production switch
News The company has announced restructuring that will see the loss of 1,900 jobs at the company's manufacturing facility in Limerick.
Tags: Desktops, Global strategic management, EMEA, Manufacturing, Procurement, Middle East, job, supply chain, Africa, Dell Computer Corp.
Google.org exec leaves to tackle urgent threats
News Dr. Larry Brilliant is leaving the search giant's nonprofit arm for the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund to tackle nuclear proliferation, water shortages, and other issues.
Tags: Human resources, Inconvenient Truth, Google Inc., Officer, University of Michigan, Global Warming, Al Gore, Middle East, exec, advisor
Malaysia keeps lofty spot for global services
News Country keeps third position in AT Kearney 2009 Index of Top 50 outsourcing locations, but must remain wary of upcoming rivals in region, says government official.
Tags: Offshoring, Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Services, Outsourcing, Single Sign-on, India, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia
Microsoft planning big layoffs for January?
News The latest rumor puts the possible job cuts at 15,000, or nearly 17 percent of Microsoft's worldwide operations, with MSN getting hit hard.
Tags: Human resources, Budgeting/cost control, Business structures, Microsoft Corp., Sales, console sale, layoff, Fudzilla, Blodget, Middle East
IBM floats vision of cloud's future
Insight newsmaker The head of IBM's cloud-computing strategy talks about why the company wanted to develop the technology, and where he plans to take it.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, R&D, IBM Corp., Customer Center, oil & gas, grid computing, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Reports examine causes, victims of data breaches
News A four-year study from Verizon assesses the causes of corporate breaches, while the Identity Theft Resource Center releases its annual look at human victims of identity fraud.
Tags: Security, Verizon Communications Inc., Data Breach, Insider Threat, Attack, Russia, Middle East, identity fraud, China, blog
Fujitsu to buy out Siemens' stake in joint PC business
News After almost a decade in existence, the Fujitsu Siemens PC-manufacturing partnership is set to end in 2009.
Tags: Acquisitions, Siemens AG, PC Company, CFO, Europe, Fujitsu Siemens, Fujitsu Ltd., Middle East, R&D, Africa
Philippine software firm eyes China, Middle East
News Local software company, Guarango Software, is seeking to expand its global presence by acquiring local partners in developing markets.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Investments, Market, Philippines, software company, Stock, intellectual property, software, software product, Middle East
M'sian tech firms make good in Middle East
News But Malaysian ICT companies still face challenges getting good local partners and adapting to the working culture in the Middle East, where Western firms are preferred.
Tags: International governments, Investments, Business plans, Security, IT Security, Information And Communication Technology, Malaysia, Middle East, job, marketing
