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It remains to be seen if Etisalat’s duopoly competitor du will follow its lead
May 22, 2012 - 16:59 GMT
Etisalat, the UAE’s largest Internet provider is cutting the price of its high-speed broadband Internet packages by up to 50 percent.

May 24, 2012

Marco Gerazounis, Senior VP Middle East North Africa & Turkey, Software AG
10:30 GMT
(press release)

Software AG has recently announced the launch of Data Masking for Adabas.

Qtel signed an agreement to extend the Huawei contract
10:02 GMT
(press release)

Qtel signed an agreement to extend its contract with Huawei that sees the two companies continue to work together on the Fibre to the Home programme, delivering advanced Broadband services to Qatar.

LG Electronics
09:55 GMT
(press release)

LG Electronics is launching four new home theater systems in the UAE equipped with LG’s latest 3D sound technology and following their successful debut at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

Epicor
09:00 GMT
(press release)

Epicor Software Corporation announced that Epicor has been named a Stevie Finalist in the 2012 American Business Awards in three categories.

IBM
08:37 GMT
(press release)

IBM has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Varicent Software Incorporated, a leading provider of analytics software for compensation and sales performance management.

Trend Micro
08:02 GMT
(press release)

Trend Micro Incorporated continues to deliver on its vision that anti-threat protection alone across endpoint and network infrastructure is no longer sufficient for an effective security posture.

Jabra-Westcon Partnership handshake
07:28 GMT
(press release)

Jabra has appointed Westcon Middle East as a distributor for the Middle East, Pakistan and North Africa regions.

May 23, 2012

EMC
10:17 GMT
(press release)

At EMC World 2012, EMC Corporation today introduced its largest-ever wave of new transformative products and technologies 42 in total.

Huawei
10:00 GMT
(press release)

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has released its latest annual Corporate Sustainability Report.

Brocade NetIron XMR Internet Backbone Router
09:54 GMT
(press release)

Brocade outlined its strategy for software-defined networking, a technology gaining broad support across network operators and enterprises on a global basis.

Alaa Al Shimy, ESSN Director, HP Middle East
09:05 GMT
(press release)

HP introduced technology that allows enterprises to deliver policy-based orchestration across applications, networks and users, eliminating manual configuration and enabling application deployment in minutes.

Polycom
08:54 GMT
(press release)

Video collaboration solutions from Polycom are enabling professors and students at The American University of Kuwait to share knowledge and culture with overseas universities and increase collaboration between classrooms within the AUK campus.

3M mobile projector
08:41 GMT
(press release)

3M Gulf, has announced the launch of the MP410 mobile projector in the United Arab Emirates as part of the ongoing development of its award winning mobile projection technology.

Kaspersky Lab
08:36 GMT
(press release)

Kaspersky Lab announces the release of a new version of the company’s anti-spam product – Kaspersky Anti-Spam 5.0 Software Development Kit (KAS SDK).

The social networking giant will be opening an office in Dubai Internet City
08:12 GMT

Facebook is opening an office in Dubai next week, just days after launching one of the biggest and most turbulent share listings in Wall Street history.

Maha Al-Balushi, Nawras BlackBerry Specialist
05:55 GMT

Nawras, Oman’s customer friendly communications provider, is delighted to announce extra value for Nawras Ajel BlackBerry customers when roaming abroad.

May 22, 2012

The Twitter and facebook accounts were shut down for containing abusive or threatening material
13:24 GMT

Fifteen facebook and Twitter accounts have been shut down by cops in Dubai this year for containing abusive and threatening posts.

Anders Lindblad, Head of Region Middle East and North-East Africa, Ericsson
12:22 GMT
(press release)

As top telecom and ICT companies gather in Amman, Jordan for the Arab Advisors Group 9th Convergence Summit, the development of systems to manage cloud jurisdiction was high on Ericsson’s agenda.

Inmarsat
09:28 GMT
(press release)

Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announced the launch of FleetBroadband Multi-voice.

Shaheen Haque, territory manager, Middle East and Turkey at Interactive Intelligence
08:28 GMT
(press release)

Interactive Intelligence is set to demonstrate its leading range of contact center solutions such as the all-in-one Customer Interaction Center version 4.0 solution at the ME Call Center ’12 conference.

May 21, 2012

Multi v Software
09:31 GMT
(press release)

The LG Air Conditioning and Energy Solution Academy has welcomed a new air conditioning training program.

TayfunTopkoc, Regional Director HP Software
09:18 GMT
(press release)

HP Middle East is hosting this week its First Annual Finance Sector Conference in Dubai, where industry experts from both finance and IT sectors will discuss the merits of running IT departments as a business.

Jayadevan K, Senior Vice President, Value Business at Comguard
08:25 GMT

Comguard announced the availability of the industry’s first and only data loss prevention (DLP) solution with real-time, distributed artificial intelligence from BeyondTrust.

Kaspersky Lab
08:21 GMT
(press release)

Kaspersky Lab announces the launch of a special online project devoted to debunking notions and shattering myths about the security of virtual environments.

Huawei
05:46 GMT
(press release)

Intel Corporation and Huawei have announced a collaboration aimed at advancing the development of interoperability testing and deployment of LTE TDD solutions worldwide.

May 20, 2012

Facebook’s share price began to fizzle, and dropped to below $39 just 20 minutes after trading began
13:30 GMT

The first hours of the social networking company’s IPO got off to a shaky start on Friday with the share price wavering around the $40 mark.

ASUS
10:48 GMT

the self-designed ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP brings NVIDIA 28nm Kepler GPU technology to a wider audience while maintaining extreme gaming performance.

Simon Gregory, Business Development Director, CommVault
08:46 GMT
(press release)

Much has been said about the 'big data' phenomenon with very little talk of how to effectively deal with this trend.

Ray Mauritsson, President & CEO, Axis Communications
08:28 GMT
(press release)

Axis Communications strengthens its market leader position in network video and takes the number one position in the category of surveillance cameras. This is confirmed in the latest IMS Research report.

EMC
08:00 GMT
(press release)

EMC Corporation will host more than 13,000 customers, partners, technologists, press, bloggers and analysts at its 12th annual EMC World conference.