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Savvytek today announced that it has been awarded the contract to deploy the state-of-the-art Oracle e-Business Suite R12 for Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) to meet the current and future business needs, via paperless, better streamlined internal processes and operational environment. After the completion of this project, ASEZA will be able to develop a single source of truth and a rich database of financials, inventory, Human Resources and payroll data across all departments.
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Epson has announced the Middle East launch of its latest interactive projectors: the EB-455Wi and EB-465i. The projectors also come with a digital pen and wall-mount, enabling schools to easily and affordably tap into interactive learning. Further, with no need for a separate screen or interactive whiteboard, this adaptable solution can make any flat surface interactive – even a tabletop. While interactive boards have size limitations, with bigger screens costing more, Epson’s unique mirror-imaging design means these projectors deliver a large projected image from a short distance.
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Canon Middle East today announced the launch of its updated imageFORMULA DR-3010C scanner, operating more than 30% faster than its previous scanning speed. It also comes with additional software enhancements, providing customers with more value and performance without any corresponding increase in cost. The compact, robust DR-3010C is now capable of scanning at rapid scanning speeds of 40ppm in black and white, compared to 30ppm on the previous version. The same speed and performance level is maintained even when scanning at 300dpi resolution, often a requirement for accurate OCR scanning.

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Africa e-Waste has developed a process that addresses these issues. More importantly for Van Wyk, however, is the role Africa e-Waste is playing in the preservation of South Africa’s environment. Consumer awareness and education is a large part of Africa e-Waste’s strategy. Despite the media attention e-waste has received, consumers don’t understand the far-reaching impact of irresponsible disposal.

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EMEA research shows that enterprises are putting the cloud at the heart of their IT strategy, with 48 percent seeing it as key to empowering agility and business performance. As organisations strive to compete in today’s economy, with workers demanding instant access to information wherever they are, the cloud is becoming a critical part of modern business strategy. Supporting this trend are the results from a new research project from Brocade indicating that 48 percent of EMEA businesses are already actively deploying cloud architectures, with more than half of respondents citing business agility as the key driver.
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Dell announced the launch of PowerVault MD3500 and PowerVault MD3600i storage solutions to meet the rigorous customer demands, as part of its ongoing focus on providing enterprise-class technologies to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The PowerVault MD3500 featuring the Dell Scalable File System, provides affordable scale-up NAS functionality for smaller scale, high availability deployments. The system works with PowerVault MD32x0i and MD36x0i storage arrays to help provide affordable unified storage with iSCSI, CIFS and NFS access to block and file data. With no architectural limits to file-system size, it is designed to give customers more flexibility than traditional unified storage.
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Intel Corporation and Micron Technology today introduced a new, finer 20-nanometer (nm) process technology for manufacturing NAND flash memory. The new 20nm process produces an 8-gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash device, providing a high-capacity, small form factor storage option for saving music, video, books and other data on smartphones, tablets and computing solutions such as solid-state drives (SSDs). Read More…

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Dell recently annouced that it will invest US$1 billion in data centres to deliver leading solutions, services and cloud-based delivery options to help customers capture the benefits from new compute and information delivery advancements. Over the next 24 months, Dell will build multiple highly efficient data centers around the world to provide its customers access to public and private cloud technologies and its world-class IT outsourcing capabilities.

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Blue Turtle Technologies recently signed up an sole distribution agreement with Nolio to distribute its products and services across southern Africa. Apart from sales, Blue Turtle will also offer sales support, training and implementation of Nolio Application Service Automation Platform (Nolio ASAP) in Southern Africa region. Nolio ASAP automates release deployment processes of multi tier, distributed applications and their configuration settings across the application life cycle in different environments.
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Nokia appointed Tom Farrell, as the General Manager for Nokia Lower Gulf, a region comprising UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. Mr Farrell has been with Nokia for seven years in various roles, most recently leading the Services Sales and Delivery team globally to bring Nokia’s Ovi services to millions of consumers in collaboration with mobile operators and retailers. Prior to that, he worked within the Nokia marketing organization and in strategy and business development. Read More…

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Geekay Distribution signed the distribution agreement with AFA Interactive that would give it exclusive rights to distribute the complete portfolio of Ben 10 gaming accessories including video game, digital entertainment device and electronic segments in the Middle East region. The Ben 10 gaming accessory line includes wired and wireless game controllers, remotes, nunchuks and protective shells as well as portable gaming cases and accessory packs for Nintendo, Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles.Read More…

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Xerox launches two new high speed black-and-white printers – the Xerox Phaser 4600 and Phaser 4620 in the region. Designed for large workgroups, these new printers offer advanced features and print speeds of up to 52 and 62 pages per minute. Xerox Phaser 4600/4620 offers wide range of media printing capabilities from transparencies and cardstock to envelopes and labels. And, it comes with Secure Print and Image Overwrite that electronically “shreds” information stored on the printer’s optional hard drive. Read More…