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Adobe today unvelied the new Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 product line, enabling designers and developers to target popular and emerging smartphone and tablet platforms, as the revolution in mobile communications fundamentally changes the way content is distributed and consumed. Today’s launch marks a significant change to Adobe’s product release strategy for Creative Suite, the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow across print, video, mobile and online media.
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Revolutionizing the way companies license and utilize 3D modeling solutions for construction, Tekla BIMsight is offered as a free downloadable application that is built on Tekla’s advanced modeling technology. Everyone from small to large construction companies can download the application for free and begin to utilize their design files for 3D project collaboration purposes, for example, to detect clashes. Most importantly, with the software its users will be able to easily share these coordinated models necessary to collaborate with team members effectively.
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SAS Middle East, the provider of Business Analytics (BA) software and services in the region, recently formed strategic partnership with ArtiSol, a leading customer service, customer experience and marketing IT based solutions provider. The new partnership between SAS and ArtiSol will look towards addressing the growing demands and requirements of the Middle East market and aiming to deliver the best in class customer intelligence software to a rapidly growing customer base – particularly in the banking and finance, retail and telecommunications segments.

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3i Infotech, a global provider of IT solutions and services recently announced that Kirnaf Investment and Installment Company (Kirnaf), a well-known Islamic financial institution based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has implemented our Kastle suite of solutions along with a comprehensive bouquet of business applications integrating its entire IT operations. Kastle Islamic financing solution provided by 3i Infotech to Kirnaf, is a bilingual, certified Shariah compliant, web-based financing software solution that covers all core business functions and support functions of a financing business. Read More…

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In an exclusive interview recently to KUNA-Kuwait News Agency, Regional Director of Microsoft-Kuwait, Ihab Mustafa stated that the Software piracy in Kuwait is over 60 percent, the highest in the Gulf area. Mustafa said, “This would immensely and negatively impact the creation of a well-seated information technology industry in the country. Reasons behind such phenomenon are attributed to non-existence of intellectual property rights’ law, in addition to inconsistency in implementing current monitoring laws. Mustafa also felt that the, lengthy tendering procedures and the “complicated” governmental purchasing system also have a negative impact. Such obstacles tend to make investors in the technology industry to shy away from doing business in Kuwait, a thing that would also affect the creation of new jobs and diversifying the country’s national income.Read More…

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HP today updated its information management portfolio to enable organizations to reduce risk, increase efficiency and simplify the way they manage their business information. Instant-On Enterprises embed intelligence into everything they do for a transparent, real-time view of information across the organization to service customers, employees, partners and citizens with what they need instantly. HP brings a holistic approach to information management to help executives harness the power of information to make better decisions, manage for cost and compliance, and deliver the right information to the right users at the right time.
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SAP today announced the availability of its newest release of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software, providing a single, unified environment for the most comprehensive support for management, monitoring and analysis of enterprise risk and compliance activities. Nearly three years in the making, the new release integrates GRC capabilities into everyday business processes, helping make risk management, regulatory compliance and safe, productive operations a standard and a consistent practice.

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Research commissioned by HP about the attitudes and behaviours associated with counterfeits. And, the results in KSA revealed that the majority of managers with purchasing responsibility for their offices have never bought counterfeit products. Majority of business owners surveyed in Saudi Arabia said that they wouldn’t purchase counterfeit goods. However, a small percentage stated that they had inadvertently purchased counterfeit products under the false impression they were genuine brand name original. Read More…

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FDC International and SOFTEC Distribution have partnered in Kaspersky to distribute the vendor consumer range of products. FDC International’s appointment will support the expansion of Kaspersky Lab, in North Africa, through increasing its product awareness and enlarging its customer database, while SOFTEC Distribution will focus on developing the retail market for software sales within the Levant region and help Kaspersky Lab establish proactively strategic initiatives to counter piracy in the region.

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Omnix International, is optimistic about its diverse range of Building Information Modeling (BIM) software products and services offerings. It is the exclusive distributor of Autodesk’s architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) software, is looking to highlight the importance of its BIM portfolio at this year’s edition of ‘Build Smart 2011’, to be held in Abu Dhabi. During the summit, Omnix in association with Autodesk will showcase the key BIM software, like Autodesk Revit and Navisworks – leading project review software.Read More…

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eGain the leading provider of cloud and on-site customer interaction hub software, today announced the addition of Africa’s Seven Seas Technologies as a new channel partner. The partnership will address the rising demand for unified multichannel customer service solutions in East Africa by combining eGain’s award-winning customer service software with Seven Seas’ implementation expertise across Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda.

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Google is announcing the launch of Umbono, its new technology incubator, which will be based in Cape Town, South Africa. Bringing together seed capital, Google mentorship, angel investors, local tech stars, entrepreneurs and business leaders, the Umbono programme will help selected start-up teams transform their ideas into companies. Google hopes that Umbono will further encourage the growth of the developer community and support the country’s already flourishing tech sector.
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