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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.

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.

SonicWALL Adds Kaspersky Support to Its Firewall Enforced Anti-Virus Client

SonicWALL Enforced Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Powered by Kaspersky Gives Customers More Choice to Protect from Online and Email-Borne Threats

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

royalthomian.info

“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

Iraq Deploys A MENOS Virtual TV Network

Iraq rebuilds media infrastructure with a Virtual Broadcast Network using award-winning MENOS-ASBU exchange service

Plans For Media City Proposed

Bahrain is paving way to launch its first Media City, according to reports in  gulf news The new media project is expected to pave way to new job opportunities and also to provide opportunity for the private sector to invest in the media.

المجمع الإعلامي العضو في تيكوم للاستثمارات يشهد نمواً متواصلاً ويستقطب 284 شركة جديدة خلال العام 2011

 
·        قطاعات الاستشارات ووسائل الإعلام الجديد والإنتاج الإعلامي والتسويق وفئة العاملين المستقلين تدعم توجهات النمو

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

More than quarter of marketing budgets in Middle East to be spent on digital in 2012

More than a quarter of company marketing budgets in the Middle East are expected to be spent on digital channels in 2012, according to the second State of Digital Marketing in MENA survey by Econsultancy.

Solidere banks on fiber optics network upgrade

Lebanon: Solidere is pinning hopes on an ultrafast 100 megabyte-per-second fiber optics network to help transform Beirut’s central district into a technology hub, the firm said Thursday.

Telecoms revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase from USD40 billion in 2010 to USD69 billion in 2016

Analysys Mason report: Mobile voice services will account for most of the revenue growth – retail revenue for such services is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9%

Mobile broadband will act as a strategic disruptor in 2012

 
 London, 15 February, 2012. Emerging market operators will continue to experience strong connections growth in 2012. Mobile broadband will be the main driver of this growth, but it will also act as a strategic disruptor, finds Ovum.

People

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.

Facebook, Twitter and email harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol

 
A study of more than 200 adults finds that although desires for sleep and sex were the strongest, the lure of media and work proved the hardest to resist