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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia acknowledged the potential of ICT industry with the Shura Council eyeing to raise the industry’s contribution to the level of 20 per cent of national GDP by 2020. Reaffirming the government’s robust ICT outlook, recent studies have projected Saudi Arabia’s software market to reach a value of USD 675 million during the current year, up from USD 611 million in 2010 and poised to maintain a healthy growth rate in the succeeding years, while the IT services market is expected to reach USD 1.1 billion this year and sustain a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9 per cent during the 2011 – 2015 period.Read More…

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LG Electronics accounted for 18 percent market share of LED LCD globally with the sales of its LED LCD monitors touching 2.92 million mark out of 16.68 million LED LCD monitors sold around the world making LG the number 1 brand in LED LCD monitors. From just 1 percent in 2009, LED monitors’ share of the monitor market leaped to 10 percent last year. Having prepared in advance for the shift from LCD to LED LCD monitors, LG was well placed to capitalize as the market took off last year.

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Mindware, the leading distributor of quality IT products in the MENA region, has signed today a distribution agreement with HIS, the award winning internationally acclaimed graphics cards company with to distribute AMD Radeon products to the Middle East and Africa regions. The deal which takes effect immediately will see to enhance the distribution network of all AMD Radeon products in the region, making use of Mindware’s extensive portfolio of over 2,500 resellers throughout the MEA region.Read More…

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Epson has announced the Middle East launch of the AcuLaser M2400D, A4 mono laser printer series. This low-maintenance series of printers offer increased functionality alongside flexibility to suit any office environment while also delivering high-quality documents with a professional print resolution of 1200dpi. Built for small-to-medium workgroups, the AcuLaser M2400D series gets the job done fast with a print speed of 35 pages per minute.Read More…

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Kingston, announced the launch of Data Traveler 4000 – Managed (DT4000-M) USB Flash drive, a fully managed version of the company’s DataTraveler 4000 product. Specifically developed and priced for enterprise deployments, the FIPS 140-2 validated DT4000-M leverages SafeConsole for Kingston server software from BlockMaster to deliver best-in-class USB protection, flexibility and centralised management control at an affordable cost for organizations in the Middle East.Read More…

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Interactive Intelligence, a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions signed up an reseller agreement with EMW Middle East, a provider of converged information and communications technology solutions.
Now, EMW will be able to offer solutions for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and business process automation from Interactive Intelligence across the Middle East the. EMW will provide consulting, implementation, support, and custom development for the Interactive Intelligence solutions.Read More…

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Small Medium Enterprises (SME) in the UAE are expected to drive in an increase in spending, particularly in key Enterprise Application Software (EAS) solutions, according to Sage Software, the leading global supplier of ERP, CRM and HRM solutions to medium and large organizations. The UAE has been identified as one of the region’s fastest growing ERP and CRM markets as witnessed by its growing number of companies making key transitions from manual environments to fully automated back-office systems.

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Asus introduced its new K series laptop, the K53SJ, that comes with an innovative new IceCool Technology to keep palm rests cool, placing heat-producing components away from users. Designed with high quality aluminum textures, the machine also features IF Award-winning ergonomic dust-repellent chicklet keyboard. The K53SJ ships with 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors, as optimized for notebook use with awesome computing power – in particular as these new mobile CPUs enhance multitasking, so one can get more done at the same time, more smoothly.Read More…

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LiveRoute recently signed the partnership agreement with Atlantic Global, to launch BusinessBook , a revolutionary product which offers multiple solutions by automating the business processes at a low cost for the SME’s in the region. BusinessBook is designed for businesses which require automation, but can’t afford the cost or complexity that comes with such solutions from traditional suppliers. In addition, LiveRoute will be offering this solution based on latest trend of Cloud based or SaaS based delivery model, which makes BusinessBook as easy as FaceBook and available from any place only through internet access, hence saving tremendous cost while offering ease of use and 100% availability.Read More…

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Al Hosani Computer, Kaspersky Lab’s consumer republishing and distribution partner in the GCC and West Asia, announces the activation of their green initiative – Kaspersky Lab Green Horses – associated to green delivery vans. The Green Horses themed fleet of vans will be expediting delivery of Kaspersky Lab’s products to customers across the UAE. The main aim behind this programme is to reinforce the brand awareness of this famous antivirus software, and endorse Kaspersky Lab’s “Green Zone” malware free concept.

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Seagate today announced that it has agreed to buy Samsung’s computer hard-disk drive business for $1.38 billion in cash and stock options. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will provide NAND flash memory to Seagate for use in solid-state drives (SSDs) and hybrid drives while Seagate will provide disk drives to Samsung for use in personal computers, notebooks and consumer electronics. Both the two companies have agreed to extend and enhance an existing patent cross-license agreement.
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