Technology & IT | Wednesday 19 July, 2017 8:19 am

Saudi research institute successfully converts manned aircraft into drone

 King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has announced the success of its specialists in converting a manned aircraft into a drone. Prince Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammed, the KACST president, announced the successful field test of the drone named “Al-Nawras,”...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 18 July, 2017 10:10 am

HUAWEI Nova 2 Plus smartphone is available for Pre-order

With the launch of the new HUAWEI Nova 2 Plus smartphone around the corner in the Saudi market, Huawei Tech Investment Saudi Arabia announced that the new smartphone will be currently available for pre-order from selected outlets around the Kingdom starting from 20th till 27th of...

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Technology & IT | Tuesday 18 July, 2017 4:30 am

eHosting DataFort Pre-empts Increasing Data Centre Needs; Invests AED 20 Million in Upgrades

eHosting DataFort (eHDF), the region’s leading Managed Hosting and Cloud infrastructure services provider, today announced that it invested over AED 20 million in its T3 Data Centre upgrades over the last 12 months. Such investments were strategically implemented to tackle the future demand...

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Technology & IT | Monday 17 July, 2017 2:59 pm

Capacity of Ericsson HDS 8000 boosted with new technology from Intel®

The Intel® Rack Scale Design with the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor is being introduced in the Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000. This will significantly expand the capacity and capabilities of datacenters, and further improve the performance of Ericsson’s...

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Technology & IT | Monday 17 July, 2017 4:38 am

Saudi ICT Students Head to China for a Training Trip

In collaboration with the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), National Committee for Information Society (NCIS), and Huawei Tech Investment Saudi Arabia began the third cycle of its global CSR program, ‘Seeds for the Future’, in the Kingdom. The departure...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 16 July, 2017 2:04 pm

Canon announces partnership with leading travel influencer Haifa Beseisso

Canon Middle East, a leader in imaging solutions, has announced a partnership with Arab YouTube star and leading travel influencer, Haifa Beseisso to launch the company’s new brand proposition for the consumer and professional imaging business. Canon’s new brand proposition aims to...

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Technology & IT | Sunday 16 July, 2017 12:04 pm

Sony unveils latest wireless headphones for quality home entertainment in Saudi Arabia

Sony Middle East and Africa (MEA) launched the Sony MDR-RF895RK Wireless Home Headphones in Saudi Arabia. Powered by Noise Reduction Technology, the MDR-RF895RK offers superb sound quality and wireless connection to your home entertainment.   Immersed in the world of sound without...

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Technology & IT | Thursday 13 July, 2017 5:50 am

Samsung Electronics Launches Global Rollout of The Frame TV

Samsung Electronics announced its first exclusive launch of The Frame TV and will begin the global roll out, starting in Switzerland and Norway, then expanding to other global markets, including Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, the United States and Korea. The launch event will be hosted at a...

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Technology & IT | Thursday 13 July, 2017 4:59 am

Gemalto research reveals Middle East businesses overly confident about keeping hackers at bay, but less so about keeping data safe

Despite nearly 1.4 billion data records globally and 45.2 million data records in the Middle East being lost or stolen in 2016 (source: Breach Level Index), the vast majority of IT professionals still believe perimeter security is effective at keeping unauthorised users out of their networks....

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Technology & IT | Thursday 13 July, 2017 4:46 am

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Among Those Participating in MPEG LA’s CRISPR-Cas9 Joint Licensing Facilitation

World licensing leader MPEG LA, LLC is pleased to announce that key CRISPR patent holders have submitted patents in response to MPEG LA’s call to participate in the creation of a global CRISPR-Cas9 Joint Licensing Platform and that patent submissions continue to be...

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