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Leading monitor brand AOC (Art of Colors), expanded its geographical spread further in Middle East region by appointing CCT SARL as its authorized distributor for Lebanon. CCT is one of the most respected names in the US$ 321 million valued lebanese IT marketplace and it claims to work hard towards providing the value to its partners by introducing products with highest quality, reliability and innovation. Joseph Mhanna, CEO, CCT SARL, said, “”We are excited about our partnership with AOC and the opportunity to deliver to our customers displays from the world’s largest manufacturer. Signing in AOC is yet another way we are providing our customers with a distinct competitive advantage in the marketplace.”Read More…

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HP expanded its consumer notebook PC range with the introduction of all new sleek stylish redesigned HP Mini, HP Envy and HP Pavilion. These updated models fuse a rich mix of materials to create textured finishes with sensory appeal and easy-to-use features which comes in vibrant colours and HP Beats Audio, developed by HP and Beats by Dr. Dre. Hear music the way the artist intended it – just as it sounds in the studio. HP SimplePass with OTP practically eliminates phishing fraud by providing unique “one-time” passwords that are linked to each individual user’s fingerprint. Read More…

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Data Robotics the makers of the award-winning data storage products for small businesses and professionals, announced that the company has officially approved a name change from Data Robotics, Inc. to Drobo, Inc. “Our customers and resellers have come to recognize us by the Drobo brand and product name so we decided to make it official. We’re just doing what they told us to do.” explained Tom Buiocchi, CEO at Drobo.
In Middle East, Drobo works with its dubai based authorised distributor Intuit Technology to market its wide range of storage products.Read More…

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Seagate began distribution of the Pulsar XT.2 solid state drive (SSD) that combines outstanding and consistent performance with the data integrity and drive endurance needed for the most demanding enterprise environments, and is on track to commence channel shipments of the Pulsar.2 SSD, the first Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash-enabled SSD from an enterprise hard drive maker. The Pulsar XT.2 SSD combines Single-Level Cell (SLC) flash with a native 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface to make it the fastest drive in the Seagate portfolio. The 2.5-inch SSD with up to 400GB of capacity is optimized for complex, mixed workloads typical of enterprise environments such as online transaction processing (OLTP), database or web indexing, and email.Read More…

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Toshiba begun providing two new services linking cloud computing with mobile handsets globally in order to provide simple solutions for computerized databases, electronic data output and shared electronic data. First new service is the Cloud Printing service with TOSHIBA MFP, “e-STUDIO” that makes smooth and easy collaboration of data possible with cloud computing function for Google Docs, Evernote, and Dropbox. By using cloud computing, data can be saved directly from multi function peripherals (MFP) without having to use computers or servers, and can be output via the cloud.
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Adobe recently brought the leading Web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation provider EchoSign, whose pioneering electronic signature solution will be a key component of Adobe’s document exchange services platform for reliably exchanging documents for universal access, review and approval. EchoSign’s solution, which currently supports more than three million users worldwide, will be offered as part of Adobe’s online document exchange services platform. Read More…

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Honeywell extended its presence in Egypt and North Africa with appointment of Giza Systems as its authorised systems integrator. This will enable Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) to establish a stronger local presence beyond its traditional installed base in the region. Together, HPS and Giza Systems will address all industrial sectors and fulfill customer needs by providing highly efficient and reliable services based on local support and expertise from Giza Systems, with global back-up from HPS.Read More…

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Zain Bahrain has announced that it will sponsor Bahrain Business Women Society in the popular women’s portal womengateway.com which serves as an information search engine that supports the women development in business, society and health; and is a successful national product of Bahrain that won international and regional awards for its contribution to the empowerment of women; under the patronage of HRH Princess Sabeeka bint Ebrahim Al Khalifa, wife of HM King Hamad and Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Women. This is the third consecutive year that Zain Bahrain is sponsoring the portal which presents a positive picture of Bahraini women and their achievements to the world.Read More…

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Leading South African distributor, Drive Control Corporation’s (DCC) unveiled its new strategy to increase customer awareness and retail presence by reaching an agreement with Makro for the mass market retailer to stock a range of Hewlett Packard (HP) and Western Digital (WD) products. This agreement builds on DCC’s existing relationship with Makro, supplying additional products to the consumer market while leveraging Makro’s extensive customer base and nationwide footprint. Read More…

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Sophos announced that its market-leading Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac and the Home Edition will fully support Apple’s Mac OS X Lion (10.7). Current users of Sophos Anti-Virus products for Mac will continue to be fully protected as soon as they upgrade to Mac OS X Lion, now available. New users will also have immediate compatibility after downloading the security product. As Apple’s operating system has increased in popularity in recent years, so have security threats for users. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac provides automatic detection against existing and new threats for Mac OS X Operating Systems, including Lion.Read More…

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Nology South Africa unveiled its latest innovation Billion BiPAC 2075 Compact HomePlug AV 500 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. This compact, clever device plugs straight into your wall sockets, enabling the use of existing power cabling to create a stable, fast network that allows you to connect multiple devices across a home or office environment without the traditional drawbacks of wireless technology. “Using wireless networking has often been the answer for people who do not wish to lay Ethernet cables, but speed and quality of the connection can impact bandwidth intensive applications. Read More…

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RSA, the Security Division of EMC enabled VMware to embed RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology and policies into the VMware vShield 5 product family. As part of the new VMware cloud infrastructure suite announced today, VMware vShield App with Data Security will include RSA’s DLP content analysis engine and expert policies to enable customers to accurately discover and classify sensitive data such as PCI, PII and PHI residing within virtual environments. The RSA Data Loss Prevention Suite is engineered to both help to uncover business risk associated with the loss of sensitive data and dynamically lower that risk through policy-based remediation and enforcement of controls, whether the data is at rest in a datacenter, in motion over the network or in use at endpoints.Read More…