The ‘Services 1’ centre, located at Emirates Towers, Dubai, represents a one-stop for the public to acquire services from 14 government entities.
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Oman’s Ooredoo connects 77,000 homes with ‘super fast’ fibre broadband
Oman-based telecom provider Ooredoo has provided 77,000 homes across the Muscat region with super fast fibre home broadband from the existing fast home broadband. 0 5677
Apple tipped to release top-tier iPhone X after iOS 11 leak
Strings of software code inside of the leaked operating system, first detailed by Apple news website 9to5Mac, show the expected three new phones will be called the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X.
Huawei to invest $500m in enhancing cloud transformation strategy
The investment will enhance the development of cloud-based professional services, and will provide customers with “end-to-end cloud transformation service solutions,” enabling them to build, use and manage their cloud platforms effectively.
Dubai to accept bitcoin payments on $325m real estate project
Bitcoin payments platform BitPay will process the bitcoin transactions. The company already provides bitcoin payment tools to companies such as Microsoft and Virgin Galactic.
Huawei debuts Enterprise Intelligence cloud platform
The specific scenarios where Huawei touted EI as working well were in real-time video processing, ‘dumb’ device identification, and natural language and voice recognition.
MEA personal computer shipments plummet 7.3% in Q2
These trends translated into year-on-year declines of -21.9% for desktops and -15.7% for slate tablets in Q2 2017.
Tesla’s self-driving pilot feature launches in UAE
The feature gives each vehicle full autonomous capabilities at a safety level that is “substantially greater” than that of a human driver, according to the company.
Abu Dhabi-based AI firm secures funding from UAE, US and Europe
A company that uses artificial intelligence to convert data into usable documents has completed a seed funding round led by …
Google’s ARCore set to bring augmented reality to 100m Android devices
ARCore will be made available to at least 100 million Android users, but Google have not yet set a date for its general release.
Scientists launch VR navigation game to tackle dementia
A non-virtual reality version of the mobile app, which was developed by Deutsche Telekom and Glitchers, was released last November, and has already generated data from 3 million people.