Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to boost economic growth in the United Arab Emirates by 1.6 percentage points and add US$182 billion to the national economy by 2035, according to a recent report by Accenture. The report looked at 15 industries in the UAE and 13 in Saudi Arabia toRead More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes. This is the first time the Doppelgänging techniqueRead More…
Xerox today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed John Visentin as Chief Executive Officer. Visentin was also elected Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Keith Cozza was elected chairman of the Board of Directors.Read More…
Etisalat today announced its exclusive partnership with GSMA for Mobile 360 series-MENA conference in 2018 and 2019, a regional platform that attracts telecom leaders from across the global and regional mobile industry to address key challenges and opportunities in the mobile ecosystem.Read More…
Honor has launched its flagship smartphone, the Honor 10, in the UAE. According to the company, the Honor 10 handset brings to life the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and two major ground-breaking technologies to consumers. The first according to Honor is the advanced AI 2.0 technology, applied chiefly to theRead More…
Sachin Bhardwaj, eHosting DataFort, Director, Marketing & Business Development speaks about the need for strengthening the security posture of an organization and offers some options to be prepared for cyberattacks in an age of increasing data breaches, accelerated by the rise of cloud computing, mobile usage and IoT implementations.Read More…
There is a respectable number of existing and new players in the cybersecurity field forming the current realm of suppliers and vendors. The region is not lacking when it comes to cybersecurity solutions or vendors and they are all here for a reason: the regional cybersecurity market is still inRead More…
Growth tops the list of CEO business priorities in 2018 and 2019, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner. However, the survey found that as simple, implemental growth becomes harder to achieve, CEOs are concentrating on changing and upgrading the structure of their companies, includingRead More…
Accenture has appointed Khaled Al-Dhaher as country managing director for Saudi Arabia, effective immediately. Al-Dhaher will be responsible for managing operations and driving Accenture’s digital consulting strategy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Read More…
During the recent Innovation Summit Dubai, Iman Al Omrani, Vice President of Applied Intelligence at Expo 2020 Dubai, highlighted how data-driven insights applied through intelligent technologies will ensure an exceptional experience for its anticipated millions of visitors. According to industry experts at the summit, EOH International and wasl Asset Management Group are leadingRead More…
Qualcomm has announced that the industry’s newest Wi-Fi security protections will, moving forward, be applied across the company’s portfolio of mobile and networking infrastructure products. Qualcomm Technologies will support the Wi-Fi Alliance’s third generation security suite, Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA3)Read More…
Capitalizing on the new digital marketplace not only requires that organizations collect and process data, but that they also use that data to impact the bottom line. Much of that is achieved simply by serving up data on demand to consumers. But some of the rest is achieved by leveragingRead More…
