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AlcaLu reveals ‘Shift Plan’ to revive company

Alcatel-Lucent’s new CEO Michel Combes (pictured) has announced his strategy for turning around the ailing telecoms manufacturer, and it involves a focus on high-speed wireless services and IP networking as well as cost-cutting, asset sales and debt-reduction measures.

Price comparison site launches in UAE

Dubai: Bkam.com, a price comparison site, has officially launched its UAE platform on Tuesday.

Launched in Egypt in 2012, the site provides consumers information on a product, including price, reviews, and retail locations. It offers a range of products, such as consumer electronics, cosmetics, clothes and accessories sourced from both online fashion brands and e-commerce sites. These include Souq.com, Namshi.com, JadoPado.com, Carrefour, as well as H&M and Zara.

Basic Systems opens LG's 1st digital signage showroom in Riyadh

BASIC Systems, a Saudi company specialized in the field of digital signage networks, and technical solutions and systems development, inaugurated LG's Digital Signage & Security Products showroom in Riyadh.

Abu Dhabi Ports Company introduces 'e-Pass'

Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) has introduced a new electronic system for processing daily and visitor passes for land and seaborne traffic into and through Abu Dhabi ports - the 'e-Pass'.
With over 1,500 daily passes and an average of 150 visitor passes handled every day, the new 'e-Pass' system is expected to significantly reduce processing and waiting time for customers.

Telecom

Huawei denies Nokia bid plan

Huawei has denied it has plans to acquire ailing handset vendor Nokia after a report linked the companies.
The Financial Times report came on the back of comments made by Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, at the launch of the company’s flagship Ascend P6 smartphone yesterday..

Carphone Warehouse chief gives major backing to Huawe

LIVE FROM HUAWEI ASCEND P6 LAUNCH, LONDON: Sir Charles Dunstone, the chairman of Carphone Warehouse (pictured), announced that Huawei’s new flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, will be the first device from the Chinese company to be offered by the European retail giant.
“Although [Huawei is] a relatively new player within this marketplace, the product is absolutely competing at really the top level,” he told the audience at the Ascend P6 launch in London.

HP: Business needs key to big data choices

LIVE FROM COMMUNICASIA 2013: Operators looking to exploit the data at their disposal to drive new business opportunites need to start by defining their target use cases, rather than getting caught up with the enabling technologies at their disposal, HP’s Miquel Carrero advised here at CommunicAsia yesterday.

Competition driving telco/broadcast partnerships

LIVE FROM COMMUNICASIA 2013: Telecom operators and broadcasters are both facing challenges which make partnerships more attractive, according to Jimmy Kim, CEO of Ustream Korea and SVP, head of the Global Media Business Unit at Korea Telecom.
The executive (pictured) noted that on one hand, telcos are seeing their revenue and business models challenged by the emergence of online service providers, leading them to explore new ways to expand their businesses.

Media

United Arab Emirates profile

The UAE is a regional and international centre for TV and media, alongside Egypt and Lebanon. Dubai Media City and twofour54, Abu Dhabi's media zone, were set up to attract key players.

Spiky sales patterns impact UAE retail channel

The UAE retail channel for ICT and consumer electronics (CE) products is witnessing increasingly spiky sales patterns, experiencing major peaks and troughs from one month to the next, as the impact of specific sales events exacerbates market volatility. The UAE retail channel has already experienced Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) and Abu Dhabi Electronics Shopper in 2013, and the inaugural Gitex Shopper Spring – dubbed mini-Gitex by some vendors – is currently taking place in Dubai.

Jacky’s Electronics sees Gitex Shopper Spring Edition fuelling sales across all IT categories

Jacky’s Electronics, the UAE’s leading multi-brand consumer electronics retailer, is expecting a surge of product sales, from the usual off-peak period during the month of April, brought in by the four-day event of the first Gitex Shopper Spring Edition.

7 Production and Events Provide State-of-the-Art Production Facilities and Services for Filming of MBC's Al Jalsat

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 27

Gadgets

ZOTAC Supercharges the TITAN

Dubai, UAE, May 2, 2013 – ZOTAC International, a global innovator and manufacturer of graphics cards, mainboards, mini-PCs and accessories, today supercharges the TITAN with the ZOTAC GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition, the world’s fastest single GPU graphics card.

Sennheiser Announces Global Launch of Neumann KH 310 A Audio Monitor at CABSAT Event in UAE

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 13

Robocops to patrol LA by 2025

In 1987, the film RoboCop debuted and featured a half-man half-robot cop patrolling the streets of Detroit, but now some car companies are planning on replacing cop cars in Los Angeles with drone cars by 2025.

Saudi prince buys $485 million ‘flying palace’

Dubai: Saudi billionaire Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal will soon take delivery of the world’s first customised A380 superjumbo, dubbed “the flying palace” for its luxury.

Insight

"SOCIAL MEDIA – THE CASE FOR THE CONTACT CENTRE"

“Many organizations in the region are excited about the self-promotion potential of Social Media and in particular how the medium can help to engage an audience and expand their customer base. The corporate Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and so on are in effect extensions of the main web site and as such are used to post news, run competitions and other promotions, and update customers on new products and key services.

BYOD: Keep Your ‘Eyes on the Enterprise’

Article Author: Paul Wright, manager of professional services and investigation team, Middle East, India and Africa

Comguard unveils world’s most rugged and powerful firewall in Middle East

Comguard, a Dubai based leading value added distributor for IT products and part of the Spectrum group announced the launch of world’s most rugged and powerful firewall, the Clavister X8 which can withstand harsh, industrial environments to deliver outstanding performance, offering unified security management between office environment and industry environment.

IT INSIGHT-me (ITINme) at MWC 2013.....

IT has been an enabler all along and now it is playing the same role in the mobile domain. Hence expect other verticles to be represented at the MWC 2013... in addition to the usual vendors, operators watch out for new buzz words such as big data, mobile cloud, mWallets, NFC, small cells and smart cities, as well as the role of mobile in other industries like advertising, automotive (YES cars), finance and retail.

People

Tom Stewart joins Booz & Company as Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer

Global management consulting firm Booz & Company today announced that Thomas A. Stewart has been appointed Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer (CMKO).

Asia Broadcast Satellite Hires Chief Network Officer

Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) announced today the appointment of Henry Au-Yeung as Chief Network Officer (CNO), a new role for the company. In this new capacity, Henry will be responsible for network and teleport operations, sale and field engineering as well as value added service operations and R&D.

Brocade Appoints Cherif Sleiman as Saudi Country Manager to Drive Business Growth in the Kingdom

RIYADH, KSA – 23rd May, 2013 --

Wataniya names new CEO

DOHA: Ooredoo subsidiary Wataniya Telecom's current Deputy CEO Abdulaziz Fakhroo has been appointed as CEO for Wataniya Telecom, replacing Dr Bassam Hannoun who has resigned for personal reasons. Ooredoo Group Chairman Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Thani said:

"We thank Dr Hannoun for his contribution during his tenure. We look forward to having Abdulaziz lead Wataniya Kuwait as it enters an exciting new phase in its development including the launch of 4G services this year." Source:http://www.zawya.com

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