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SAP Pakistan introduces Business Intelligence solutions especially aimed for Small and Medium Enterprises. SME’s make the biggest part of the economy and in fact, most Southeast Asian countries have more SMEs as registered businesses than large enterprises. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) puts the number of SMEs at 96% of all enterprises and employing up to 85% of overall workforce. SMEs also account for up to 30% of exports and contribute around 50% of GDP.Read More…

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Trend Micro announced the availability of Smart Surfing for Mac OS 10.7 or Lion. With Trend Micro Smart Surfing rated as the #1 best-selling product for Mac at retail in the U.S. and with Apple’s estimated global sales of more than 14 million machines, with the new version is expected to gain tremendously in market share. As Mac popularity and sales have grown, so has interest among cybercriminals in targeting those users. Recent outbreaks include Trojans and Fake AV like Mac Defender and MacGuard.
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Golden Systems Middle East, today announced to have won the ‘Best Distributor’ award for the Middle East region from ZOTAC International. Golden Systems was chosen for this accolade for their outstanding sales performance in 2010, effective regional distribution strategy, customer service, strong marketing support and for increasing ZOTAC’s market share and brand visibility in the region. “We are happy and proud to win a second award from ZOTAC this year. Being awarded the ‘Best Distributor’ award is another milestone for Golden Systems which has motivated our team to work even harder towards achieving further growth for this brand in the region.
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SAS Middle East, the provider of business analytics software and services in the Middle East region, has formed a strategic partnership with Maven Partners, a leading firm specializing in the application of quantitative methods to growth and optimization issues of enterprises that aims to further penetrate the customer intelligence domain of various industry verticals across the region. According to SAS, the partnership will play a significant role in the company’s continuing efforts in channel partner expansion. The SAS Channel Program is the company’s strategic initiative that aims to help partners drive in more business value for its clients. Read More…

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Kingston today announced the launch of the Kingston USB 3.0 Media Reader. The reader takes advantage of performance benefits offered by USB 3.0 technology, allowing for faster data transfer times. The new Media Reader supports multiple card formats including the newer high-capacity SDXC. With its quick and easy plug-and-play design, it delivers up to 5.0Gb/s data transfer speed for high-resolution images, large data files and more making it ideal for serious enthusiasts who need a fast and reliable data transfer device. It is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0.Read More…

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Leading interactive whiteboards and collaboration solution provider, SMART Technologies appointed Nada Haddad as the Marketing Manager for the Middle East and Africa. Nada will be responsible for the planning and execution of marketing activities across the Middle East and Africa region. As countries look towards the adoption of ICT in the classrooms to enhance student learning through making the curriculum more engaging, interactive and appealing, SMART is at the forefront of this movement with an extensive portfolio of solutions and services.Read More…

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Avnet Technology Solutions, the leading Value Added Distributor in the region recently held a special training workshop Improving Datacenter Efficiency with Oracle for its Preferred Partners in Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. “Datacenter Efficiency” workshops were supported by Linux Plus Information LLC in Egypt, OMNIX Qatar Co in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which had two different workshops found their support from National DataServe & Turnkey Solutions and Baud Telecom Company respectively.Read More…

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Riverbed Technology, announced that it has acquired Zeus Technology, a privately-owned company that delivers high-performance software-based load balancing and traffic management solutions for virtual and cloud environments. Zeus pioneered the development of software-based highly scalable application delivery controllers (ADCs). The Zeus virtual ADC (vADC) delivers the highest performance, and supports the broadest range of hypervisors, including VMware, Xen, HyperV and KVM.Read More…

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Xerox Corporation’s digital technology brought speed and exceptional image quality to books produced on demand by the patented Espresso Book Machine. This cutting-edge book solution, sold by On Demand Books, LLC, produces millions of copyrighted, public domain, out-of-print, or rare texts for consumers in a matter of minutes. Xerox and On Demand Books will jointly market and sell, on a worldwide basis, the Xerox 4112 Copier/Printer together with the Espresso Book Machine – a fully integrated solution that prints, binds and trims books with full color covers on demand in retail locations and libraries. Read More…

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Sophos published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report which revealed that fake anti-virus and search engine poisoning have become more commonplace and, since the beginning of 2011, Sophos has identified an average of 150,000 malware samples every day. This equates to a unique malware file being created every half-second, a 60 percent increase since 2010. In addition, around 19,000 malicious website addresses (URLs) are now identified daily, with 80 percent of those URLs being pages on legitimate websites that have been hacked or compromised. Read More…

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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…