Dubai Municipality has launched a new aerial survey service using drone technology to provide real estate companies, consultants, and contractors with detailed data of rectified orthophotos and topographic maps.
Uber’s SEA rival Grab receives $2 billion in investments
Grab has announced that it recently raised $2 billion from Didi Chuxing and SoftBank Group in the largest–ever venture fundraising in Southeast Asia, said reports.
Google previews 360-imagery of the International Space Station
Google has recently released Street View’s first gravity-free collection, which lets viewers virtually explore the International Space Station (ISS) in 360-degree imagery from Google Maps and Earth.
Emirates NBD debuts FaceBanking service
Emirates NBD has launched FaceBanking, a new service that will offer the bank’s customers instant video and live chat with advisors on its revamped Online Banking platform as well on the Mobile Banking App.
Cloudscene reveals most influential data centre operators
Cloudscene, a global directory of colocation data centres, cloud service providers and network fabrics, has revealed the top ten data centre operators in North America, EMEA, Oceania and Asia for the second quarter of this year.
Kaspersky Lab launches new app for Android device batteries
According to the company, this free application is designed to save a mobile user from that dreaded unpleasant situation – when their phone battery starts getting low at the most inopportune moment.
HP commits to bringing innovative learning to 100M people by 2025
HP has announced its commitment to enable better learning outcomes for more than 100 million people between 2015-2025 during the 2017 Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
Lack of employee training causes security programme failures
SANS 2017 Security Awareness has revealed the lack of time dedicated to employee training and the lack of communication skills as the key reasons organisations’ cybersecurity awareness programmes fail to meet their objectives.
Dubai Economy launches ‘Instant Licence’ service
For general trade licence procedures through the Smart Lounge or the website, applicants must be personally present to create a new account for Dubai Smart ID and to obtain a username with the original ID for accessing Dubai Economy’s website for accessing the Instant License Service.
What is software-defined networking (SDN)?
By Brandon Butler – SDN promises to make high-capacity networks cheaper to build and especially to re-configure on the fly – as well as potentially faster and more efficient.
RTA Dubai automates fining system for franchise vehicles
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that it started the implementation of the automated calculation and collection of fines in Dubai.
DIFC Courts, Microsoft to drive DX of future court systems
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts has announced its partnership with Microsoft to drive the digital transformation of the commercial courts systems in the region and beyond.
Mimecast streamlines email data recovery with Sync & Recover
Sync & Recover, according to the company, offers unified management of compliance, archiving and data resilience.
Juniper Networks names Google veteran Bikash Koley as CTO
Juniper Networks has recently announced that Bikash Koley will be named chief technology officer, reporting to chief executive officer Rami Rahim.