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LG is organising the region’s first 3D gaming competition starting on Saturday, 6 August at the Living Rooms video game café in Dubai Festival City, participants will vie for the ultimate accolade of being crowned the UAE’s first 3D gaming champion. Over the course of six months, participants will battle it out across four different 3D games on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. The Mega Championship showdown on 6, January 2012 will bring the 3D Gaming Festival to a close with the announcement of the UAE’s first-ever 3D gaming champion. Read More…

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Saudi Telecom Company recently launched the latest Google laptop Chromebook exclusively to its customers. The device can be obtained through STC customer service offices at the Smart and Al Ghudeer towers in Riyadh, the offices located at Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Road and Prince Sultan Road in Jeddah, and at the Muntazah branch at Dahran Road in Al Khobar, for certain amount along with a free 5GB Sawa internet card every month or three months. Chromebook is unique as it doesn’t need a hard disk, programs, or operating systems, since everything that the customer needs is available at the internet.Read More…

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South Africa based VM Consulting, the master distributor of Appian BPM in Africa entered the West African market by securing its first client in Angola. “We are proud to be associated and representing Appian in South Africa and Africa. VM Consulting is excited to be embarking on our first Appian project in Angola. VM Consulting will be delivering the Appian BPM Solution to the largest insurance business in Angola, ENSA Seguros de Angola, SA.” said Vanessa Miller, Managing Director for VM Consulting.Read More…

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APC by Schneider Electric unveiled the next generation of NetBotz Security and Environmental Monitoring products, which integrates rack access control into the existing architecture. APC also claims that NetBotz is the only solution that combines environmental monitoring, video surveillance, and rack access in a single platform, providing complete protection of IT assets from a network closet to the data center environment.Read More…

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Software AG announced that Forrester Research in its Q2 2011 report, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, gives Software AG top scores in overall strategy, product architecture and market presence. In evaluating vendors, Forrester Research, Inc. looked at Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools of the third generation with capabilities across the entire EA management lifecycle and noted a Leader offers “the most-advanced EA tools evolving into the new EAMS market.” Forrester further stated: “An EAMS centralizes the most-strategic information on IT and the business.” In this report, Forrester evaluated Software AG’s ARIS Platform.Read More…

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ESET Middle East recently announced a special exciting offer for organizations looking to secure their networks by providing ESET Mail Server protection free of cost with any purchase of 10 licenses or more of ‘ESET NOD 32 Business Edition’ licenses or ‘ESET Smart Security Business Edition’ in the Middle East region. The special offer is valid till 30th September 2011, and gives regional organizations with a great opportunity to deploy ESET’s comprehensive anti-virus and mail security technology at a cost-effective software license price.Read More…

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HP announced today a new line-up of consumer desktop PCs that deliver the latest technologies in sophisticated designs. With clean lines, soft forms and contrasting materials, the redesigned Pavilion desktops match the style and preferences of today’s consumer. A glossy black front panel layered over a metallic base gives depth and dimension to the new towers, while sliding front panels hide ports and drives for a polished, clean appearance. Select models also offer a valet tray integrated into the top of the PC and equipped with USB 3.0 ports for easy access and charging of smartphones, digital cameras and MP3 players.
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SanDisk witnessed explosive growth in the Middle East and Africa region driven mostly by high mobile phone penetration rates and a growing appetite for flash-based storage devices. “Based on global market research, our most popular product segments are flash memories for smart-phones, tablets and solid-state drives (SSD) for PCs. Our market in the Gulf is very mature and showing excellent growth,” said Tareq Husseini, SanDisk’s Regional Sales Director, Middle East and Africa (MEA).
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D-Link recently announced the launch of a media router ideal for streaming high definition (HD) online content. The D-Link DIR-657 HD Media Router 1000 is capable of transmitting multiple media types, such as high-definition video and music, to several devices simultaneously. The HD Media Router 1000 offers excellent wireless performance with maximum speed and coverage suitable for online gaming at blazing speed with no lag.Read More…

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Microsoft Gulf announced the of Naim Yazbeck as the new Microsoft Country Manager for Qatar and Mohammad Hammoudi as the new Public Sector Director for the Gulf region. Yazbeck will take over as Country Manager in Qatar after a successful three year stint as Public Sector Director for Microsoft Gulf where he achieved double digit growth every year during his tenure. In his new role, he will be responsible for leading the company’s efforts in Qatar to work with customers and partners to support the eco-system that already promotes development of a dynamic ICT market in Qatar. Read More…

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SonicWALL announced availability of the SonicWALL SSL VPN 5.5 firmware for the Secure Remote Access (SRA) Series. The release significantly enhances SonicWALL’s market-leading SSL VPN technology with the introduction of spike licensing, which enables network administrators to quickly and automatically increase the concurrent user capacity of their remote access solution during disaster situations. SonicWALL also offers new features that continue to innovate Web Application Firewall (WAF) technology to help companies meet PCI compliance requirementsand deploy outbound Data Loss Prevention (DLP) withadvanced web application security.Read More…

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Fujitsu has launched its first annual SELECT Awards, designed to publicly recognise the successes of SELECT Partner Programme participants in South Africa. Business-oriented awards celebrate hard financial performance in each of the three SELECT Partner certification levels, from which the Fujitsu Channel Team in South Africa will select a national Partner of the Year. A further six individual national awards will celebrate important ‘softer’ measures of success, such as solution innovation and ambassadorship on behalf of Fujitsu.Read More…