It’s sometimes difficult to believe but our social networking accounts have become, in many cases, a part of our lives which we en...

According to industry commentator James Taylor, “Analytics simplify data to amplify its value”. The problem is that data...

When speaking about information security, the first thing everybody thinks of is IT itself, the PC, network or server used. The peop...

I came a little late to the Twitter party. Once I embraced the basic concept, I set out to build a massive Twitter following–i...

Dubai Courts recently completed the MENA region’s first implementation of an e-notary system. At a conference conducted yesterday ...

DLP (Data leakage prevention or as I sometimes call it, “disastrously ludicrous project”) is fantastic in theory. Howeve...

Bureaucracy is the curse of government. This is a worldwide truism but many of us hoped that the widespread adoption of IT would at ...

I was shocked to hear recently that an established telecoms company had lost revenue because its billing system wasn’t backed up a...

You may have noticed over the past several years, when you go to a store to buy something, a large percentage of the products come f...

When I first started writing about enterprise IT, some 25 years ago, there were three key areas of interest for organisations. First...

Online advertisements are a part of our daily browsing experience as it has also become an essential part of companies’ online mar...

IBM plans to release the next version of its flagship Java application server, Websphere 8, on June 17, according to representatives...

Facebook is sharing some of the secrets that help make its data centre one of the world’s most efficient. The company has rele...

Oracle 11g Express Edition (XE), the free-of-charge version of Oracle’s flagship database, is now in beta. “XE provides ...

As Egypt’s embattled President Hosni Mubarak gave up his presidency Friday, analysts and some of the Egyptian protestors said ...