The Meraka Institute's news boss was named after a recruitment process that considered both external and internal candidates.
Motorola wins Apple patent fight, Amazon to update Kindle Fire, HP offers webOS as open source, and Apple store close to overload.
The new technology marries hard drive capacities with flash memory speeds.
Google's voice search for Android and Apple iOS now includes Hebrew and Arabic.
The US government shares an open source code to encourage transparency between governments.
The company introduces smarter computing technologies to integrate storage, optimise systems and virtualise data centres.
Wikipedia probes content manipulation case, Samsung's iPhone ban bid flops, Tweet saves death row inmate, and Microsoft, HP pen cloud deal.
The Emirates Energy Star programme aims to save up between 10 and 35% energy in UAE buildings.
Desktop as a service will benefit the African market, as reports suggest there are only three computers for every 1 000 people.
Lack of near-real time infrastructure affects users who have matured on how, when and where to access data, says Sybase.
In today's technology roundup: Lottery spammers to pay Yahoo $610m, Zuckerberg's Facebook pictures hacked, Oracle suffers Java patent setback, and Bill Gates in nuclear talks with China.
Mobile marketing and smart posters are expected to account for 70% of NFC tag shipments in 2016.
Cloud computing and virtualisation improve the availability of data recovery solutions, says ABI Research.