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Epicor plans to expand its channel reach further in fast growing economy of Qatar. The Qatar Information Technology Report stated that lucrative business prospects are expected from key growth sectors such as hydrocarbon, banking, real estate, education and telecoms, helping establish Qatar as one of the fastest-growing markets in the region. The report also revealed that Qatar’s total IT market is expected to reach USD 610 million by 2015.
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Canon recently hosted its first ever end-user seminar for IT resellers and system integrators in Doha. The initiative is part of Canon’s ongoing strategy aimed at building relationships with its valued end-user customers.
“This is the first in a series of end-user seminars that we will be conducting in Qatar. Our aim is to get the message across to our first customers that we are committed to engaging with them directly in order to deliver outstanding products and unrivalled service, ensuring that they get the most out of every Canon product they purchase,” said Hendrik Verbrugghe, Marketing Director, Canon Middle East.Read More…

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Drive Control Corporation (DCC) the distributors for HP in South Africa announced the launch of all new refreshed HP ProBook range of laptops. “This is a great deal for the end users, where the key feature is upgraded specs without any increased cost. The standard hard drive specification has been upgraded from 320GB to 640GB, giving users even more space to store their documents, music and multimedia files,” says Deon Botha, HP PSG Business Unit Manager at DCC.Read More…

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Video Games Retail Specialist Geekay Games launched the Middle East region’s first online games store that stocks a wide range of video games software, hardware and branded accessories. Consumers are increasingly demanding the convenience to consume and interact with contentanytime, anywhere. Digital Migration and the changes in consumer behaviour have put extreme pressure on current business models, not only in the region but across the world.Read More…

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Misys announced the appointment of Michel Daenen as the new Sales Director of the company’s Capital Markets business in Middle East and Africa. Michel Daenen joined Misys through the acquisition of Sophis earlier this year, where he was the Regional Business Manager for the region. Prior to joining Sophis in March 2007, Michel spent almost nine years with Thomson Reuters in the Middle East leading professional services and pre-sales teams for their front-to-back trade and risk practices. Prior to that, he was the Vice President, Business Information Manager – Treasury and Capital Market for Dexia in Luxembourg. Michel also has deep knowledge of the risk and capital markets businesses and has been involved with both sell-side and buy-side institutions.Read More…

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3i Infotech won the ‘Best Takaful Technology Company’ award for the fourth consecutive year, at the Takaful Leadership Awards 2011
which also coincide with 5th International Takaful Summit 2011 in London. These annual awards honor companies and practitioners that have contributed the most to the growing Takaful market. Presented by Lord Mohammed Sheikh, Chairman of Camberford Law Plc, and timed to coincide with the 5th International Takaful Summit 2011, the conference included a number of high profile speakers from around the world who discussed some of the most important issues facing the growing Takaful market.Read More…

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BenQ recently hosted a meeting for its UAE Projector Partners in Dubai in collaboration with its authorized distributor Abcom Solutions. Over 170 key partners from the UAE attended the event, which provided BenQ with an opportunity to extend their appreciation to the partners for their outstanding sales performance.
Special awards were given to selected partners for achieving exceptional UAE sales growth for BenQ projectors during the period 2010- 2011. Manish Bakshi, General Manager of BenQ for the Middle East and Africa, said , “We want to recognize our local partners whose efforts in promoting the brand has enabled us to rank as the Number Two Projector brand in the MEA region and Number Three Projector brand in the UAE in Q1 2011Read More…

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Epson launched all new A3+ 8 colour photo printer with higher-capacity ink cartridges of 17ml, the Stylus Photo R2000 in the Middle East region that delivers high-quality photographic prints using Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss2 pigment ink, with the advantage of 50 percent higher capacity cartridges compared to previous models in its class. This allows larger print jobs to be completed with fewer ink changes. R2000 is one of the only printers in its category with wireless connectivity. Read More…

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Seagate today unveiled GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage which will be available in the Middle East from mid-August. GoFlex Satellite is the first battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device. With 500GB and Wi-Fi access over 802.11 b/g/n and a rechargeable battery, this latest member of the GoFlex family provides the ability to carry an entire library of video, music, pictures and documents with you. Devices are wirelessly connected directly to the GoFlex Satellite drive by use of the free GoFlex Media app or a web browser.Read More…

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Southern African construction company WACO Africa has implemented Mimecast Unified Email Management (UEM) to reduce complexity during migration to Microsoft Exchange.

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based e-mail archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange, was implemented by WACO Africa to assist in disaster recovery, business continuity and e-mail backup. WACO Africa was created through a buyout by management and an investment capital firm, resulting in the separation of the local operation’s management and back-office activities from those of its US and UK operations. Read More…

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Iomega, an EMC subsidiary signed Jumbo IT Distribution, the distribution arm of Jumbo Electronics as its in-country B2B distributor for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to insure that its B2B products and solutions are readily for System integrators, Surveillance SMB market, SMB Resellers and VARs in the UAE. Cizar Abughazaleh, regional director for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey at Iomega, said, “We are focusing on the SMB channelRead More…

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Leading electronics retailer Jacky’s Electronics, recently held an ‘Eco-Exchange Recycling’ Roadshow at its Mirdif City Centre Outlet to promote the importance of recycling electronic products through a question and answer competition. During the event, customers could bring in their old mobile phones, notebooks, cameras, MP3 players and gaming consoles and recycle them on the spot to receive special prizes and cash vouchers for future purchases at Jacky’s. “Going green has been a united effort by companies in the world and we would like to take part in creating awareness on the value of recycling electronic products with our customers. Read More…