Computers and technology News

05 September 2008 Dammam - More than 11 million people in Saudi Arabia spend SR25.13 billion ($6.7 billion) on computers each year according to a recently released study by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC).

Dell outsourcing plan may be tough to execute NEW YORK/BOSTON - Dell Inc plans to make fewer computers itself and rely on contract manufacturers to cut costs, but the company could find it hard to get rid of its North American factories at a good price. The world's second-largest PC maker said in April it would outsource more manufacturing, and the Wall Street Journal ...

Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. You?ve heard by now ?- because Apple news seems to travel faster than the broadband lines it?s carried over -? that Steve Jobs & Co. are planning a Sept. 9 media event.

Saudi Arabia- SR25bn spent on computers every year

Courtesy Photo Union Middle School students work on laptops funded by an IMPACT II Model Grant. The students are using the mobile lab, the COW (computers on wheels) for research and projects. The school has received the grant for the second consecutive year.

"Saudi homes spend an average of SR2,208 a year on computer hardware and software and information technology training," said Sultan Malik, director general of international affairs and public relations at the CITC CITC , which conducted the three-year study involving 10,407 individuals and establishments, Asharq Al-Awsat daily reported yesterday.

When you're up to your eyeballs in political news both real and manufactured -- as one tends to be just about now -- it's interesting what breaks through the glaze. Like the article in last week's New York Times about mathematician, computer scientist and Hugo award-winning science-fiction writer Verner Vinge, who thinks that, by 2030 or so, computers will gain superhuman intelligence. I guess ...

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's...

LOWER GWYNEDD - Students at Wissahickon Middle School should keep busy this school year with a new $227,800 technology classroom, new computers and Smart Boards and the introduction of an autistic program at the school.

MANSFIELD, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/04/08 -- IneoQuest Technologies, Inc., the leading global supplier of end-to-end quality, service and revenue assurance solutions for video providers of all types and sizes, announced today that it was named to Inc. Magazine's Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America list securing the #15 Top 100 Computers & Electronics Companies spot.