UAE telco Etisalat has launched a new cloud-based business unified communication and collaboration service, ‘CloudTalk’, for small and medium businesses and enterprise customers.
UAE’s Etisalat launches first-ever Open vRAN in MENA
Etisalat has announced the successful launch of open virtual Radio Access Network (Open vRAN), becoming the first operator in MENA to achieve this technological feat.
Crowdsourcing campaign for UAE’s digital portal draws huge participation
The UAE TRA has announced that the number of participants in the crowdsourcing campaign aimed at developing the official portal of the United Arab Emirates Government (u.ae) has exceeded 34,000 contributors over the past two years.
Saudi Arabia’s Mobily teams up with Ericsson to accelerate digital services
Saudi Arabia’s Mobily has signed an agreement with Ericsson to leverage the latter’s products and solutions to support its drive to empower the kingdom’s government and private sectors towards digital transformation.
Uber closes $3.1 billion acquisition of Dubai’s Careem
Uber has confirmed the official close of the previously announced acquisition of Careem for $3.1 billion. Careem Networks FZ-LLC has now become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber, preserving its brand.
Huawei servers pass SAP HANA certificiation
Huawei FusionServer Pro 2488H V5 rack servers and Huawei KunLun 9008 V5 mission critical servers have passed the SAP HANA certification for BWoH/BW4H/DM and S4H scale-out appliance solutions.
SMB and enteprise IT security budgets decline: Kaspersky
Despite cybersecurity spending is growing year-on-year with almost nine percent growth in 2019, security budgets for SMBs and enterprise have fallen below the average spend.
Middle East’s first association for security industry launches in the UAE
The Security Professionals Association (SPA) for the Security Industry Regulatory Agency (SIRA), a security professional association aimed at connecting people within the security industry has launched in the Middle East.
Dubai RTA eyes Big Data to enhance public transport
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority has recently held a series of brainstorming sessions focused on the use of Big Data to improve the public transport network.
Huawei named leader in GlobalData’s 5G RAN competitiveness analysis
GlobalData, a world-renowned data analytics and consulting company for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, has published its latest …
What an octopus can teach us about technology
October 8 was World Octopus Day. If you look at the biological source code, cephalopods, the family of octopus and …
Emirates NBD boosts AED 1 billion digital transformation
Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the region, has completed the third phase of its international core banking system …
How technology will help us improve our lives
Technology has become an indispensable part of our lives. Most of us own smartphones or digital assistants, nearly two each …
Fawaz Alhokair moves to AWS to accelerate digital transformation
Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair & Co., one of the largest franchise retailers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, MENA, Central Asia …