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كاسبرسكي لاب تشجع على توفير أمان متين للنظم المؤسساتية في عصر الحوسبة السحابية والبيئات الافتراضية والتجوال

دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة، 20 فبراير 2012- تعرض شركة كاسبرسكي لاب، المطور الرائد للحلول الأمنية لإدارة المحتوى، اليوم أهمية توفير الحماية المتينة لنقاط النهاية في المؤسسات في عصر الحوسبة السحابية والبيئات الافتراضية والتجوال وذلك في إطار فعاليات قمة IDC لمدراء تقنية المعلومات 2012 التي تقام في Le Meridien Fujeirah في الإمارات العربية المتحدة. ويتمحور هذا الحدث ذائع الصيت حول شؤون تقنية المعلومات والاتصالات وهو ملتقى مدراء تقنية المعلومات والمدراء الفنيين والتنفيذين ليطلعوا على أحدث الاستراتيجيات المعلوماتية والتقنيات وأفضل الخبرات تتعلق بمشاريعهم.

2012 MWC - G&D to Focus on NFC Trusted Service Management and Subscription Management at the Mobile World Congress 2012

Munich, February 21, 2012 – At the Mobile World Congress to be held in Barcelona, Spain, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) will be presenting its comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end solutions for ensuring the security of mobile digital applications.

Spectrami partners with TITUS to Deliver Secure Information Management

Spectrami, the leading value added distributor in the region, has partnered with leading secure information management software vendor, TITUS.

Zscaler ThreatLabZ Releases Free Service to Analyze Web Risk

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, February 22nd, 2012 – Zscaler, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the release of a free web portal, Zulu, that the public can access at http://zulu.zscaler.com to quickly analyze URLs and assess risk posed by suspicious web content.

Telecom

Omantel Announces Major Reduction on International Calls Tariff Up To 80%

Customers Now Can Call For As Low As 65 Bzs Per Minute
Al Kharusi : 13 Hours of Off-peak Calling Starting from 6 PM

Batelco Chooses Jinny to Help Modernise Infrastructure and Extend New Services

Leading Bahrain Mobile Operator strengthens its partnership with Jinny to update its messaging centre and launch USSD services

“Get up to 300 local or 100 international FREE minutes or 300 SMS with every Wasel recharge”, announces Etisalat

Etisalat today announced its new Wasel recharge promotion that rewards customers FREE minutes or SMS on every Wasel recharge.

Etisalat’s Board proposes dividend at 60 Fils par value

11.6 billion dirhams profit before Federal Royalty

Media

Telco du launches Music Store download service

Dubai-based telco du said on Monday that it has launched a subscription-based music download service for customers.

For some in need, Facebook is route to new kidney

SEATTLE: Here's another reason for holdouts to join the massive social media site Facebook: It's a great place to find a kidney.

#twtrlunchR the first Twitter lunch

JEDDAH: Saudi youths are finding new creative ways to utilize social networking website Twitter and to plan their next lunch and social gatherings anonymously.

Mainstream media: dumbing it down

Between corporate sponsorship and pretty big paychecks, are news anchors and their networks really offering up a fair take on what's at stake?

Gadgets

LG TO DOMINATE COMERCIAL DISPLAY MARKET WITH VERSATILE LED DISPLAY SOLUTIONS

LG Aggressively Targets Commercial Display Market by Introducing
Highly Capable, Eco-Friendly LED Displays with Low Total Cost of Ownership

Indian school in Bahrain to get 600 Aakash tablets

DUBAI: Students of an Indian school in Bahrain will soon get the world's cheapest tablet computer 'Aakash', developed by India's Human Resources Development Ministry.

NETGEAR offers maximum wireless coverage for home networks in Middle East

UAE: NETGEAR, a worldwide provider of technologically advanced branded networking and storage products, has announced the Middle East release of the Universal Dual-Band WiFi Range Extender (WN2500RP). The new product has been designed specifically to extend the wireless range and optimize performance of any existing home network.

SanDisk Announces High-Performance X100 Solid State Drive

Achieves up to 500/420 MB/s Sequential Read/Write Speeds;
Available In A Variety of Capacities and Form Factors

Insight

Ovum reports a strong finish to 2011 for fixed broadband access market

London, 22 February 2012. The market for fixed broadband access equipment saw exceptional growth for the second consecutive year, according to Ovum. Preliminary results for 2011 show PON equipment shipments doubled from 2010, annual DSL port shipments surpassed 100 million and CMTS port shipments crossed the 1 million mark for the first time ever.

Margin, not machines matter for M2M success

M2M expected to be 5% of service provider revenues by 2015, but profits will be erratic

Operators need clear strategy to combat free web-based apps such as WhatsApp IP-based messaging services emerge as serious threat to operator voice and text revenues

London, UK – 21 February, 2012 – Operators must provide internet-style communication services to remain relevant to customers and to challenge the OTT services which are beginning to erode voice and text revenues, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media.

Opportunity for Audio and RF devices to further drive MEMS in Mobile Phones

Hampshire, UK - 22nd February 2012: A new report from Juniper Research finds that annual revenues generated by MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices built into mobile phones including sensors, audio, displays and RF will exceed $6 billion by 2016, as the mobile device market accelerates, including smartphones, tablets, eReaders and Ultrabooks.

People

Anonymous promises attacks every Friday

“You should have expected us.”

2012 MWC: GSMA Statement on Planned Barcelona Public Transport Strike

17 February 2012, London - The metro and bus workers from TMB, the main public transport operator in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, have announced plans to strike during Mobile World Congress which will be held 27th February through 1st March 2012.

KACST, Thomson Reuters hold workshop on information bases

RIYADH: A workshop on "Thomson Reuters Information Bases" started at the conference hall of the headquarters of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) here on Tuesday.

Saleh Al Abdooli Appointed CEO for Etisalat UAE

Etisalat Group announced today that Emirates Telecommunications Corporation - Etisalat Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Saleh Al Abdooli as Chief Executive Officer for Etisalat UAE, the largest company of Etisalat Group that generates more than 70% of the total of revenue of the Group, effective 8th April 2012.

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