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FEWA Dubai selects SAP to standardise divisions
The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) in Dubai signed an agreement with SAP to standardise all divisions of FEWA …
Palestinian technology venture fund launches operations
MEVCF, the Middle East Venture Capital Fund announced today that it has secured $28.7 million from leading international companies, foundations, …
Channel behaving badly
Would you hire a salesman from a competitor and urge him to bring over the accounts in his territory? How …
External storage is back from recession: Gartner
External controller-based disk storage has recovered from the global recession, exceeding the record sales figure from 2008 with revenue in …
Acer aims to grow faster than market
Acer, the global ICT products and solutions firm, intends to grow by 30 to 35% in the Middle East, Turkey …
Gunning for data centre control
F5 is described as an application delivery vendor, but that term is nebulous to some folks and it doesn’t really …
BMW aims for cars to take e-mail dictation
BMW has developed a prototype system that allows drivers to compose full-text e-mails and text messages using voice commands. Unlike …
Intel courts the cloud builders
In an office building near Portland, Oregon, in a room next to a massive bank of cubicles, hums one of …
Network World Middle East Awards
Nominations are now open for annual Network World Middle East Awards 2011, which honour outstanding technology efforts. It is that …
Salesforce.com deepens tie-in to Facebook
Salesforce.com is deepening the integration between its CRM (customer relationship management) and customer service software with the explosively popular social-networking …
UAE’s public works ministry selects NEC’s communication solution
UAE’s Ministry of Public Works (MOPW) has selected NEC Unified Solutions, to deliver communications solutions in the new state-of-the-art hospital …
Outsourcing to focus on cloud computing – survey
Cloud computing is the next big thing in outsourcing, according to the outsourcing professionals themselves. About two-thirds of companies worldwide …
Digital diagnosis
While tele-medicine or remote medicine offers great potential advantages in the region, healthcare institutions are yet to experiment with it …