“You should have expected us.”

 
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. 

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.

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.

 
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

Cairo: Before heading to her university yesterday to take a mid-year exam, Hanaa, 20, was keen to switch off her mobile phone and asked her family to do the same.

Egypt: Telecom Egypt announced today that Mohamed Sayad Al Dessouky, the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer will retire on Thursday, in line with the telecom giant’s corporate policies which mandate that executives retire at a certain age.

JEDDAH: On Tuesday, during a live 45 minutes Q&A Web-based press conference, Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State, Jake Sullivan, laid out his country’s foreign policies and expectation for 2012.

Aboualam will replace existing CEO Mohammed Abdel Rehim Hassanein, who will retire on January 18.

A summary of Hans Vestberg's CES keynote from Jan 12 2012.