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Bandwidth hitting Zettabyte

AN Athar — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:11:24 +0000

IP Traffic increasing at a tremendous speed

Dubai: Over the next five years, the Middle East and Africa region will be one of the fastest growing online areas in the world with a 45 per cent compound annual growth rate, says IT networking firm Cisco, in its newly released Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast.

Businesses in [...]

And Get Rid of Windows Said Google

AN Athar — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:09:09 +0000

Security Threat A Big Concern

London: Google is reported to be getting rid of desktop PCs running Microsoft Windows across the corporation to eliminate a security risk.

The Financial Times reports that the company, which has more than 10,000 staff worldwide, is now offering new recruits the choice of using computers running the free Linux operating [...]

TV War Is On!

AN Athar — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:05:15 +0000

AppleTV vs GoogleTV

San Francisco/Los Angeles: Another battle is brewing between Apple and Google, and this time it may come into your living room.

One week after Google announced its bid for the hearts and eyes of America’s TV viewers with internet-based Google TV, its Silicon Valley rival is reportedly poised to overhaul its own [...]

SAP BI Striking Business Performance

yahya shoaib — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:41:28 +0000

BI offers an extensive solution to the all sized businesses while offering their standard package of SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI in order to focus on high business performance. This package is capable enough to handle work even if BI experience is at initial stage.

For that reason, the integration of tools within [...]

Bionic Eye

Adeel Farooqi — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:30:41 +0000

Damage to the retina, the membrane that lines the inside of the eyeball and is connected via the optic nerve to the brain, is among the leading causes of vision loss in the developed world.

Australian researchers have succeeded to develop a system that could give hope to blind people, helping them regain their sight again. [...]

iPAD, a Copy Of Chinese P88

AN Athar — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:48:52 +0000

P88 - Touch Screen Laptop

Shanghai: Apple’s iPad has won rave early reviews but its US launch on Saturday is not welcome news for the Chinese maker of a similar-looking device that has already been on sale for nearly eight months.

Wu Xiaolong, the general manager of Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial Co said the [...]

SAP Strategic Management Leading Towards Factual Ideology

yahya shoaib — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:45:29 +0000

Customer’s satisfaction is not the only source to add value to a company but value is generated by profitable businesses on the basis of customer satisfaction and that is why some strategic principles are managed.

However, a unique value pattern as well as strategic resources are playing a vital role together to create such approach that [...]

Is Google’s Success a Threat

AN Athar — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:05:50 +0000

Eric Schmidt

In 2006, when Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Dubai Leaders Forum, the reception he received was all warm and fuzzy. Everyone wanted to talk to him, and everyone wanted to know what Google was going to do next.

Fast forward to this week’s Abu Dhabi Media Summit. Everyone still wanted to talk [...]

Land Mafia In Virtual World?

AN Athar — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:58:41 +0000

Virtual Island

What is the most you’re willing to pay for a virtual item in a videogame or virtual world? Five, ten dollars? How about $26,500?

That’s the amount David Storey, a 27-year-old graduate student living in Sydney, Australia, paid for a virtual island, the “Most valuable object that is virtual,” according to Guinness World Records.

It’s [...]

Microsoft Taking Clouds Seriously

AN Athar — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:39:33 +0000

Microsoft

Microsoft Corp’s business-software unit expects to get at least $1 billion from web versions of its Office and e-mail programmes in the next three to five years, said Stephen Elop, head of the division.

Over that period, Microsoft predicts about half its customers for e-mail and collaboration software will switch to so-called cloud versions of [...]