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The UAE Ministry of Economy’s IT Department has recently won the Open Group Arabia Award for its continuous adoption of the latest technologies in institutional planning. The Ministry had recently launched a cross-section of high quality and efficient online services at the www.madeintheuae.com website, which will help manufacturers to promote their factories, products, and services. It enables UAE manufacturers to reach and connect with a global audience of buyers. Made in the UAE is supported by the Ministry of Economy, Dubai eGovernment and Tejari.Read More…

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OtterBox, the Irish brand of sleek and durable casing after capturing the european marketplace, now it extended its reach into Middle East by opening an office in Dubai, which would be led by Joonas Jantunen who has recently joined OtterBox from Nokia. Appointment of Emitac Mobile Solutions (EMS) as its first regional distributor for the Middle East region is part of the extention of OtterBox presence in the region. EMS will help build the brand to expand its channel network in the region.
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Trend Micro said that the year 2011 witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of infected PCs in the Middle East, because businesses and individuals are still failing to take adequate security precautions. Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Network ™ technology can see how many computers are active on the internet and the number of infected computers across the Middle East is on the rise. In 2010, there were more than 3,050,032 infected machines that Trend Micro saw as active across the region – a 44 percent rise from 2009. This year, already, the region has seen more than 674,938 compromised machines. Whereas, in 2010 GCC witnessed a 46% of rise in compromised machines.

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Ctrltech (Control Technologies) to offer comprehensive datacenter infrastructure solutions including Power, Cooling & Monitoring. To ensure highest uptime of Datacenter operation, Ctrltech infrastructure solutions provides continuous un-interrupted pure power supply to safeguard the datacenter from the erratic or impure powers supply which can potentially damage the computer hardware or in worst case can cause a power distribution system failure. Its power supply design solutions insures that in case of failure of power supply from Grid and local power generator, there is enough power for the datacenter to function seamlessly with the power backup equipment such as Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to serve load.Read More…

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Nvidia announced a new line of Quadro professional graphics solutions for mobile workstations. Designed for engineers, industrial designers, animators, and film & video editors that need to take their work with them, these new Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) leverage the Nvidia Fermi architecture, which combines fast visualization performance withRead More…

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With the opening of 4,500 square foot store in the Marina Mall, Jumbo took another step to expanded its footprint in Abu Dhabi. It now has over 35 stores across UAE and Oman and is now focused on expanding its retail presence in Qatar, Bahrain & Kuwait. Jumbo also announced that clocked a 25 per cent growth in sales during the recent Dubai Shopping Festival.
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Belkin today announced the launch of a range of innovative solutions for the iPad 2 with the introduction of the FlipBlade Adjust and a selection of stylish and practical new Folio Stands. The new accessories allow you more flexibility as to how, where and when you use your tablet for accessing e-mails, browsing the web, enjoying photos, reading e-books and much more.Read More…

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Microsoft is celebrating Women in Technology by hosting a special forum called “Geek Girls” with five female IT professionals at Tech-Ed Middle East this year. At this forum, the selected girls will be available for interaction and also Microsoft executives will share insights into Successful Career Development Strategies for Women in IT and how to maintain a Healthy and Sustainable Work/Life Balance. IT is an industry that is perceived as male dominated. As more and more women join the IT workforce, Microsoft is helping to erode this misconception through influencing business policy and making IT an attractive choice, paving the way for more women to join the industry. The event is will be held at Dubai Rooms, World Trade Centre, Level 1, on March 9th, 2011 between 12:45 to 14:00.
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Spectrum Training today announced that it has been honored as one of the leading Juniper Networks Authorized Education Partners in the EMEA for 2010 for its world classes training facilities, and highly skilled instructors in the region. Spectrum which is a IT Networking and Security training, certification and consultancy services provider in the Middle East & Africa region provides global standard technical training to several of the enterprises based in this region. Read More…

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Avnet added yet another feather in its cap by acquiring the rights to distribute complete suite of Oracle Software (Technology Stack) and Oracle Hardware including the wide range of Oracle Applications, Hardware and Technology products in all the countries of MENA region – KSA, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.Read More…

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Toshiba today announced the launch of its Satellite R800 series, a new range of slim, light and high-spec notebooks targeted at consumers. The series includes the 33.8cm (13.3″) Satellite R830, the 35.6cm (14.0”) Satellite R840 and the 39.6cm (15.6”) Satellite R850. Thanks to a sophisticated heat management system Toshiba has managed to integrate Intel’s latest full-performance CPUs into the slim casings. The Satellite R800 series models are estimated to be available during the second quarter 2011 throughout Middle East and Africa.

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Intel today announced the launch of Intel Solid-State Drive 510 Series, which features fast SATA 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) performance to take full advantage of Intel’s transition to higher speed SATA bus interfaces on the recently introduced 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor-based platforms. Supporting data transfers of up to 500 megabytes per second (MB/s), the Intel SSD 510 doubles the sequential read speeds, and at up to 315MB/s more than triples the sequential write speeds of Intel’s current 3Gbps SSDs, to transfer more data in less time. This makes it ideal for demanding gamers, media creators, performance-intensive workstation users and any technology enthusiast.Read More…