It has been a big year for some tech luminaries, with several of them getting a nod from editors picking Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Calling him the "architect of the New America," President Barack Obama Wednesday was named Time's ...
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Google has restricted access in Saudi Arabia to a controversial movie trailer on YouTube that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, the company said Wednesday, taking the total number of countries where it has blocked the video to six. The move by ...
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Recently,the Egyptian steelmakers have increase the ex-factory prices for steel products. It's learned that Ezz steel,the largest steel producer in Egypt announced to increase its ex-factory prices of steel products by EGP130/ton. ...
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Jordan has signed an initial agreement with the British company Shell for exploration of oil and gas fields in the Sarkhan basin in the northeast of the Kingdom. The country's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry said that under the ...
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Middle East countries experience the least Internet freedom, according to a new study. Residents of Estonia have the most freedom, with the U.S. ranking second among 47 countries examined by a group that pushes for democratic freedoms ...
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LinkedIn today announced the opening of its first office in the Middle East and North Africa, where a new team will support a growing membership and client base. Located in Dubai’s Internet City, the office will serve as regional ...
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Red Hat announced today that it will host a seven-city tour of two-day partner conferences alongside IBM and Symantec, kicking off on September 17 in Stockholm, Sweden. The tour will be arriving in the Middle East on October 2nd and 3rd ...
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Russia, China and some other countries have withdrawn a draft proposal at the World Conference on International Telecommunications, that according to some accounts aimed to bring the Internet under the control of the International ...
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To boost its presence in the GCC region, particularly in Gulf and the Middle East, The House of Smalto, a high-end fashion brand from Paris, has entered into a partnership deal with regional luxury retail operator Chalhoub Group. ...
In a somewhat ironic turn of events, a telecom company based in China, a country famous for Internet censorship, has become the primary means of Internet access for people looking to get information out of war-torn Syria. An analysis of ...
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Golden Systems Middle East, a leading distributor of IT products in the Middle East, announced that it has won the 'Best Brand promotion initiative' award from Reseller Middle East at the inaugural Reseller Hot 50 Awards held at the H ...
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Japan, China, South Africa, South Korea and Saudi Arabia have imposed a ban on Brazil beef imports, over concerns of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. This move comes after Brazil's recent report, which revealed ...
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Google has blocked access in India to a YouTube film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, claiming it was meeting a valid legal process, the company said on Friday. Earlier a source at the Internet Service Providers Association of ...
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The findings of a first-of-its-kind survey by the Dubai School of Government (DSG) revealed today that the majority of enterprises in the Middle East see social media as a way of increasing collaboration, connecting with customers, ...
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Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national energy company, said on Sunday it had repaired 30,000 workstations infected with a malicious virus earlier this month. The eighth largest refiner in the world said its main internal networks were ...
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