IBM Global Services slims down to grow again
News As has been widely rumoured in the business press for months, IBM EMEA will no longer have a Paris headquarters. Instead, the company will operate two regions within EMEA - the north-east region will be based in Zurich and the south-west region...
[July 4, 2005, 13:00]
Nortel moves beyond convergence
News The networking giant announced on Monday that its entire business strategy will now focus on addressing the needs and opportunities thrown up by the concept of hyperconnectivity, which refers to a situation where the "number of nodes connecting to...
[May 21, 2007, 12:34]
Dell gets new European boss
News He is now heading up the EMEA business "because of his strong leadership skills and balance of experience in consumer and commercial customer sales and marketing", the company said in a statement. His recent experience managing EMEA home and small...
[February 28, 2007, 16:17]
Novell evangelises Linux in Europe
News Open-source software is picking up steam in European businesses, and Novell is following suit -- perhaps to the extent of releasing some of its own products under open-source licences, according to Novell EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
[February 13, 2004, 9:20]
Dose of Mercury leaves HP's vision blurry
News And a very big proportion of that business now comes from Europe, with the EMEA business now accounting for 45 percent of HP software's sales, more even than the US at 40 percent. After the Mercury books have been transferred to HP, which happens...
[December 12, 2006, 15:40]
Compaq is UK number one
News If we are starting to see desktop and server investments slowly picking up, we do not expect any significant rebound in business demand and/or Windows 2000 rollouts before the first half of 2001," said Karine Paoli, manager of IDC's EMEA Personal...
[October 24, 2000, 12:31]
Deloitte: People are still weakest security link
News In the EMEA region, 71 percent of financial services institutions have experienced repeated external breaches over the past 12 months, compared to 65 percent of financial services institutions worldwide.
[September 18, 2007, 15:52]
Beware of keeping your head in the clouds
Blog John Colley, CISSP, is the EMEA Managing Director for (ISC)2, a non-profit professional organization that represents over 66,000 information security professionals worldwide, over 10,000 of which reside in the EMEA region and over 3,300 in the UK.
[December 10, 2009, 12:55]
IDC: Netbooks could find a business home
News In the whole of 2008, almost seven million netbooks shipped in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), IDC said, as the arrival of the first affordale models generated strong interest from buyers. They have settled down to 20 or 30 percent [of...
[February 19, 2009, 14:15]
Speech recognition begins to makes itself heard
News North America is the biggest speech recognition market, generating 61 percent of 2003 revenues, but this will decline as markets such as EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) develop, Gartner predicted.
[October 16, 2003, 12:55]
HP, Compaq set dates for merger vote
News It would account for about 21 percent of the PC market for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), with quarterly shipments of about 1.8 million units, according to recent figures from Gartner Dataquest.
[February 6, 2002, 10:17]
HP-Compaq would be European titan
News It would account for about 21 percent of the PC market for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), with quarterly shipments of about 1.8 million units, according to the latest figures from Gartner Dataquest.
[September 4, 2001, 14:53]
Novell Case Study: Hewlett-Packard
White Papers Hewlett-Packard (HP) wanted to deliver better account management, more business opportunities, and higher profitability to HP's most-valued channel partners in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, leverage the Internet to supply more immediate...
[August 14, 2009, 5:09]
VoIP Quality: Can you make the right call?
White Papers Independent Compuware commissioned research of 300 EMEA IT Directors - October 2006 • The latest Ovum paper: Meeting the demands of business-critical applications with next-generation networks 73% of organisations that have either deployed VoIP...
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
Thousands under scrutiny as piracy ring shut down
News Beth Scott, vice president of EMEA at the Business Software Alliance, said: "This case proves the very real threat from increasingly sophisticated piracy gangs which use the Internet to market themselves.
[June 16, 2003, 14:45]
Hackers attack HP, Compaq and others
News Compaq Asia-Pacific spokesman Choy Boon Yew confirmed that the defaced site belonged to its EMEA business unit. The server has been removed from our network, and we are working to restore the service in the next few hours," she said, claiming that...
[February 16, 2001, 9:07]
Palm unveils Treo 500v
News Available throughout EMEA from 1 October, the 3G smartphone sports a consumer look but comes with the usual business productivity tools. Despite looking like a consumer product, the Palm Treo 500v boasts the usual business productivity tools
[September 14, 2007, 18:20]
Symbian: Mobile Linux 'fragmentation city'
News Nigel Heaney, the EMEA telecoms director for mobile applications company Dexterra, agreed that there are currently no suitable devices that run Linux, but hinted that such devices are "starting to" appear.
[July 2, 2007, 16:46]
Dell aims 'Vostro' at small businesses
News Small businesses throughout Europe face the challenge of choosing the right IT solutions to meet their specific needs," said Aongus Hegarty, vice president and general manager, home and small business, Dell EMEA.
[July 10, 2007, 17:45]
Microsoft seals deal for Navision
News Co-chief executive Preben Damgaard will be director of EMEA operations for Microsoft Business Solutions. Navision develops what is known as back-end software, which helps companies manage business affairs such as human resources, accounting and...
[May 7, 2002, 16:29]



