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SAP MENA announced the appointment of Ghassan Abu Asba to the role of country sales manager for Kuwait. Reporting to Gergi Abboud, Country Manager for SAP Kuwait and Qatar, Abu Asba will be responsible for driving the country’s field sales operations and ensuring accelerated momentum across all verticals. Abu Asba is a Middle East IT industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience, including stints as Enterprise System Manager at Kuwait Computer Company and Kuwait Country Manager at HP, where he distinguished himself for overseeing headline-grabbing projects for clients such as Wataniya, Equate, Kuwait Stock Exchange, Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Finance. Read More…

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Samsung announced the availability of its flagship Wave 3 smartphone in the UAE market. The new Samsung Wave 3 features the latest bada 2.0 operating system, 4-inch Super AMOLED display and a 1.4 GHz processor packaged in a sleek 9.9mm bushed metal case. Additionally, the advanced smartphone enables access to tens of thousands of localized applications through Samsung Apps, Samsung’s dedicated application store.Read More…

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Fortinet, a network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions – revealed FortiGuard Labs’ 2012 threat predictions, highlighting eight threats to watch out for next year. Top 8 Security Predictions for 2012: Ransomware to Take Mobile Devices Hostage, “Ransomware,” an infection that holds a device “hostage” until a “ransom” payment is delivered, has been around on PCs for years. Mobile malware that utilize exploits have also been observed, along with social engineering tricks that lead to root access on the infected device. With root access comes more control and elevated privileges, suitable for the likes of ransomware. FortiGuard predicts we’ll see the first instances of ransomware on a mobile device in the coming year. Read More…

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General Enterprises Company (GECO) today announced the launch of the ‘Coby’ range of tablet PC’s in the UAE during this holiday season. Coby KYROS tablet PC is an innovative and powerful device with features such as the Android operating system, high-speed wireless Internet access, video-sharing capability, 4GB internal memory expandable upto 32GB and accessibility to tons of other applications.Read More…

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Lexmark recently signed an agreement to provide composite printing and imaging solutions for across its region-wide network of MAF Retail and the deal covers the nearly 70 Carrefour Hypermarkets and Supermarkets across 8 Middle Eastern countries including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and the company’s corporate headquarters. The deal with provide provision of all necessary printing and imaging solutions needed by the group’s operations, including printers, cartridges, imaging, recycling and maintenance services in all outlets and Lexmark will remove all current products at their end-of-life and replace them with Lexmark devices to meet future requirements of MAF Retail group.Read More…

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LG unvelied its glasses-free 25-inch 3D monitor DX2500, which incorporates glasses-free parallax barrier 3D and head-tracking technologies. With the DX2500, LG becomes the first in the industry to receive TÜV Rheinland certification for a glasses-free 3D monitor. For optimal viewing of 3D images, existing glasses-free 3D products generally require viewers to stay within a tightly restricted angle and distance. Read More…

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Sage Software launched the latest version of its CRM solution with an updated application that will allow users key social media functionality, increased interactivity and tighter integration. These new features will now give users the advantage of incorporating information found in leading social media sites like Twitter and LinkedIn into a larger corporate sales profile, which in turn plays a key role in the selling cycle.Read More…

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Leading value added distributor in the mideast region, ComGuard today launched the latest version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 beta to optimise the web security in the Middle East region. Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 8 can automatically detect URL parameters and manipulate them to detect vulnerabilities. It can automatically interpret rewrite rules without requiring any manual input and it is now possible to define custom HTTP headers to be used during automated scans. Read More…

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Leaders in business service management, BMC Software is increasing its investments in the Middle East region to beef up its operations following strong demand from local partners. BMC recently held an event in Dubai to exchange their views on the current Business Service Management (BSM) industry and deploying innovative cloud solutions for a variety of business sectors, that was attended by more than 150 leading senior executives, analysts, partners and customers. Read More…

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EMC Corporation has been selected to complete a new mission-critical IT infrastructure for the Palestine Telecommunications Company (Paltel Group), the telecommunications leader in Palestine. Paltel Group, which contributes to about 12% to the GDP of Palestine and is the number one employer in the private sector, will benefit from enhanced IT Infrastructure performance and availability by utilizing EMC VMAX and Data Domain deduplication storage systems, all with a multi layer security solution from RSA, The Security Division of EMC.Read More…

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Golden Systems Middle East, a distributor of IT products in the Middle East, announced that they have signed a distribution agreement with PNY Technologies to promote and distribute PNY’s full range of NVIDIA-based Professional QUADRO Graphics solutions through its wide network of channel partners across the region.
“PNY is one of the leading brands in the professional graphics solutions segment. We are happy to distribute PNY’s NVIDIA QUADRO Graphics cards as it complements our existing product portfolio and adds tremendous value to our channel. Read More…

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Dubai Quality Group (DQG) officially launched “The CIO Arabia Subgroup” in an event that was attended by over 50 senior IT professionals in Dubai.

During the event, a presentation entailing the vision, mission and objectives of CIO Arabia was provided to the audience who also utilised the opportunity to discuss current developments in the IT industry and share plans. Saleh Janeeh, Chairman of Dubai Quality Group, said: “We believe that the new subgroup will fill a gap that exists now in the application of information technology which has been growing tremendously and is a vital part of every business, government sector and even every home.
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