Technology

  Richard Agnew / special to Emirates Business Hybrid cloud is set to be one of the biggest, most valuable technology opportunities for enterprises in UAE in 2017 and looking ahead over the next few years. To take advantage of this opportunity enterprises must apply the same principles they utilise in maintaining multiple data centres to data storage in the ...

  Bloomberg Chinese smartphone brands Oppo and Huawei are tightening their grip on the world’s largest market, grabbing local share and squeezing out Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. After including Vivo, Chinese vendors held the top three slots and accounted for 48 percent of shipments in the country during 2016, research firm IDC said. With a line-up of flexible- ...

  Bloomberg Nintendo Co. found out with its first smartphone game it’s tough to get people to pay $10 even if the draw is Super Mario. With its second mobile title, the Japanese powerhouse is taking a different approach that is potentially more lucrative — and much more controversial. Fire Emblem, available for Apple Inc. and Android devices in 39 ...

  GENEVA / AP When Lindsey Vonn competes in the opening event at next week’s world skiing championships, television viewers will get their first look at some new on-screen technology. Graphics will include dynamic speed checks throughout a skier’s run, they will show acceleration out of the toughest corners, and they will count air time, plus launch and landing speeds, ...

  Bloomberg Infoblox Inc., the network control company that provides Actionable Network Intelligence, announced the global availability of Infoblox ActiveTrust Cloud. Delivered as a service, ActiveTrust Cloud addresses the needs of global enterprises with a mobile workforce and growing branch offices which often don’t have dedicated IT staff or adequate security measures in place. The new solution provides protection for ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business The use of mobile technology in and out of the workplace is making a positive impact on the productivity and job satisfaction of healthcare employees, according to research conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and sponsored by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. The findings suggest that nearly six in ten (59%) of workers ...

  Bloomberg Every year at its annual I/O conference, Google gives away stuff. Last May, the trinkets included a tiny pamphlet with a code that let attendees follow the company on Snapchat. At one point earlier that year, a much bigger alliance was in the works. The companies discussed a feature that would have let a Snapchat user point the ...

  Bloomberg The timeline of the Apple universe can be measured as BC and AC: That is, before its popular MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops had only USB-C ports, and after, when it became your only choice. The decision to ditch the traditional USB port was announced October 27, and the Apple congregation quickly split into two camps. Some fantasized ...

  TOKYO / AP Nintendo Co. President Tatsumi Kimishima said the company is committed to delivering more content for smartphones, noting that the success of “Pokemon Go,” a smartphone augmented-reality game, boosted sales of other Pokemon games and of 3DS machines. That helped Kyoto-based Nintendo, which creates Super Mario games, report a better-than-expected October-December profit of 64.7 billion yen ($569 ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. is designing a new chip for future Mac laptops that would take on more of the functionality currently handled by Intel Corp. processors, according to people familiar with the matter. The chip, which went into development last year, is similar to one already used in the latest MacBook Pro to power the keyboard’s Touch Bar feature, ...