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eXtra topped the fast-growing market for Sony PlayStation in Saudi Arabia and currently enjoys over 10% of the overall gaming market share in the Kingdom, which is estimated at SAR 750 million, where PlayStation account majority stake in the gaming consoles market. Currently, eXtra provides the over 9 million customers it serves annually with more than 12,000 products across its 24 stores – serving almost 90 percent of the population of Saudi Arabia. In addition, eXtra recently introduced its online shopping portal www.extra.com, a first-of-its-kind fully fledged electronics and home appliance website in the Kingdom.Read More…

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Leading mobile value-added-service (VAS) provider, Qanawat took another step to expand its footprint in the region by opening an office in Saudi Arabia. The new office is based in Riyadh and Qanawat expects this new move will further improve customer relations in Saudi Arabia, helping to acquire localised content and broaden Qanawat’s service portfolio through providing dedicated local resources.Read More…

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Trust 300, tauted to be the first global Arab IT company will be launched by a group of partners, spread across the globe with offices in UAE, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, India, UK, US, and the Philippines. The company is being launched under the patronage of HH Sheikha Hind Bint Abdulaziz Al Qassimi, chairperson of UAE Business Women Council and Goodwill Ambassador of the Scientific and Human Development Program; HE Abdul Rahman Saif Al Ghurair, chairman of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and under the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Read More…

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Netgear announced the launch of its two new adapters, Powerline 500 Nano and the N900. Both the new products are designed to give ethernet-enabled gaming and home entertainment devices quick and easy online connectivity to users home network. The Powerline 500 Nano and the N900 Video and Gaming WiFi Adapter offers ultra fast network performance for home theater units and gaming consoles, allowing users a whole new experience in online gaming and entertainmeRead More…

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Cisco will be hosting its Cisco Expo Qatar 2012, themed as ‘Innovate Together’ on Tuesday 24th January 2012, at the Qatar National Convention Center in Doha. The Expo is expected to be attended by 500 key technical and business decision makers to discuss and experience the latest and most innovative global megatrends, and their societal and economic impact. It will also look to highlight innovation and technological architectures as well as share best practices that will transform businesses and increase business productivity in Qatar.Read More…

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HP unvelied its new ultraportable consumer notebook, dm4 Beats Edition that provides the ideal balance of mobility and Audio experience. Sleek and metal, the HP Pavilion dm4 Beats Edition is similar in size and performance to the Pavilion dm4 but reflects the signature Beats black and red design and provides the ultimate listening experience with Beats Audio. The black exterior features a red Beats logo and a striking black keyboard that is backlit in red. The soft-touch surface on the palm rest provides a smooth, silk-like tactile experience.
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HP streamlined its former Preferred Partner networking channel program in the region by bringing all channel partners under PartnerONE program umbrella, thereby enabling networking channel partners to increase market competitiveness and revenue opportunities. HP expects the new arrangement would allow networking partners to substantially increase margin potential through program discounts, growth accelerators and rebates.Read More…

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Spectrami today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Varonis Systems to offer unstructured data governance solutions in the Middle East region. With the explosion of data today the need to manage and protect the unstructured data in felt more then ever. The number of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, media files and other business data sitting on file servers, NAS devices, and semi-structured repositories like SharePoint and Exchange is massive and growing fast. Data protection is necessary to safeguard not just the interests of an organisation but also secure intellectual property and competitive edge.Read More…

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Fujitsu ropped in the leading distributor in the kingdom, ShasTech as its authorised distributor to distribute its wide range of laptops and desktop at all the major retail outlets spread across Saudi Arabia to corner the big market share in the fast growing Consumer IT in the kingdom. “Choosing ShasTech as an authorized dealer came due to their technical capabilities in covering the entire Kingdom, in addition to their field expertise and professionalism in dealing with all outlets and showrooms.Read More…

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Vision Solutions appointed iAXCESS as its new distributor to expand its reach in Middle East and Africa region. iAXCESS will distribute Double-Take range of products that are meant to increase the resiliency and recoverability of data. The tie-up will also allow iAXCESS to offer a suite of business continuity and data replication products across the Microsoft Windows, Linux, AIX and IBM Power Systems platforms.Read More…

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IBM is all set to acquire UK based Green Hat, a leading software quality and testing solutions provider for the cloud and other environments. Green Hat solutions help improve the quality of software applications by enabling developers to leverage cloud computing technologies to conduct testing on a software application prior to its delivery. It also creates a virtual test environment to run simulation testing on a software program, a development team must construct an actual testing lab made up of both hardware and software, and all this can be set up in a matter of minutes versus weeks, and for a fraction of the cost. Read More…

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WD introduced My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system that combines the benefits of shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system with RAID technology. My Book Live Duo offers double-safe backup as it continuously maintains a second copy of all files for real-time data backup in mirrored mode (RAID 1). Half the capacity is used to store users’ data and half is used for a second copy. In the event of drive failure, data is protected because it’s duplicated on the other drive. The new My Book is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, or Lion, as well as DLNA/UPnP enabled devices.Read More…