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Zain Bahrain has announced that it will sponsor Bahrain Business Women Society in the popular women’s portal womengateway.com which serves as an information search engine that supports the women development in business, society and health; and is a successful national product of Bahrain that won international and regional awards for its contribution to the empowerment of women; under the patronage of HRH Princess Sabeeka bint Ebrahim Al Khalifa, wife of HM King Hamad and Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Women. This is the third consecutive year that Zain Bahrain is sponsoring the portal which presents a positive picture of Bahraini women and their achievements to the world.Read More…

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Western Digital, today announced the availability of WD Scorpio Blue Slim mobile hard drive for notebooks with 1 TB capacity in the region. The new 1 TB hard drive utilizes 500 GB-per-platter areal density and is available in the highest capacity for 2.5-inch hard drives in the industry-standard 9.5 mm, two-platter (2-disk) form factor. WD Scorpio Blue mobile hard drives are designed with ruggedness, reliability and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data. Read More…

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Leading South African distributor, Drive Control Corporation’s (DCC) unveiled its new strategy to increase customer awareness and retail presence by reaching an agreement with Makro for the mass market retailer to stock a range of Hewlett Packard (HP) and Western Digital (WD) products. This agreement builds on DCC’s existing relationship with Makro, supplying additional products to the consumer market while leveraging Makro’s extensive customer base and nationwide footprint. Read More…

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Sophos announced that its market-leading Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac and the Home Edition will fully support Apple’s Mac OS X Lion (10.7). Current users of Sophos Anti-Virus products for Mac will continue to be fully protected as soon as they upgrade to Mac OS X Lion, now available. New users will also have immediate compatibility after downloading the security product. As Apple’s operating system has increased in popularity in recent years, so have security threats for users. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac provides automatic detection against existing and new threats for Mac OS X Operating Systems, including Lion.Read More…

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Nology South Africa unveiled its latest innovation Billion BiPAC 2075 Compact HomePlug AV 500 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. This compact, clever device plugs straight into your wall sockets, enabling the use of existing power cabling to create a stable, fast network that allows you to connect multiple devices across a home or office environment without the traditional drawbacks of wireless technology. “Using wireless networking has often been the answer for people who do not wish to lay Ethernet cables, but speed and quality of the connection can impact bandwidth intensive applications. Read More…

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RSA, the Security Division of EMC enabled VMware to embed RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology and policies into the VMware vShield 5 product family. As part of the new VMware cloud infrastructure suite announced today, VMware vShield App with Data Security will include RSA’s DLP content analysis engine and expert policies to enable customers to accurately discover and classify sensitive data such as PCI, PII and PHI residing within virtual environments. The RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite is engineered to both help to uncover business risk associated with the loss of sensitive data and dynamically lower that risk through policy-based remediation and enforcement of controls, whether the data is at rest in a datacenter, in motion over the network or in use at endpoints.Read More…

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Epson recently announced the expansion of its team in South Africa to grow the highly potential Southern Africa market. Epson appointed a new channel sales manager, Hennie Crous, and he will be responsible for Epson’s Tier 1 distributors, and will be working hard with them at developing expansive business development strategies that reflect Epson’s growth aspirations in both South and southern Africa. Crous joins Epson from Fujitsu Technology Systems, where he brings with him a wealth of channel management experience. He has held senior positions within both vendors and distributors and was with HP for many years.Read More…

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Optimus Academy, the channel enablement division of Optimus Technology and Telecommunications, held its first Avaya Aura Unified Communications implementation training for its channel partners in Dubai. This training program, an initiative of Optimus Academy along with Global Knowledge – the worldwide leader in IT and business skills training, is in line with the Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist (ACIS) certification and will enable partners to deploy and configure IP telephony solutions across the different Avaya Enterprise IP Telephony platforms.Read More…

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NETGEAR, a networking and storage specialist plans to penetrate and create a stronger market presence in Qatar’s ICT segment and has ultimately set a QAR 10 million revenue goal in 2013. The move complements the latest Qatar IT Industry report released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) stating that the country’s rapidly developing ICT segment is posed to reach a value of QAR 13.47 billion over the next two years. The report shows that the country’s telecommunications, government, oil & gas, and finance vertical markets have been identified as market segments with high IT spending which reflect Qatar’s move to diversify and increase the private sector’s role and participation in the move towards development.
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Brother Gulf expects to corner the big part of US$ 7.6 billion region’s fast growing printer market segment by achieving a growth rate of 22% by 2012 in the Middle East region. According to Brother, the release of their latest lines of digital copier printers (DCPs) and multifunction centres (MFCs) will act as key drivers in achieving the set growth target and are being packaged as perfect accompaniments for small office / home offices (SOHOs), small & medium businesses (SMBs) and small workgroups of up to 25 users.Read More…

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help AG, leading information security consulting firm added Mi-Token to its product portfolio and now help AG will offers its customers a new, more efficient way of managing hard tokens or “soft tokens” like one-time passwords via BlackBerry, Nokia, iPhone or SMS. As security evolves, enterprise clients expect both hardware and software “proof of identity” options. Mi-Token supplies simple, secure authentication for SSL VPN services, Outlook Web Access, Windows Logon and custom applications. Currently in use by more than 1 million users world-wide, Mi-token is now available in the Middle East through help AG. Mi-Token differs from other providers in that there is up to 60% cost savings compared to other token providers.
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Kaspersky today announced the appointment of Muscat based Overseas Business Machines (OBM), as an enterprise partner in Sultanate of Oman. Kaspesky expects OBM to play a key role in providing on-ground pre-sales, technical and maintenance support to the corporate customers with networks larger than 500 nodes based in Oman. Commenting on this new partnership, Tarek Kuzbari, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab Middle East and Turkey said, “Being closer to our clients is key for our business growth and success. Read More…