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Network Associates restructures and the new model sees success measured on sales to customers, and not sales into already overstuffed distribution channel.

Leading banks in Saudi Arabia have formed a consortium to lend STC $667 million for further expansion and development of the fixed line, mobile and Internet infrastructure.

Ogero Telecom, Lebanon’s sole fixed telephone line service provider, is building the Middle East’s first Metropolitan Area Network. The network will take Ethernet outside the office and onto a high speed WAN.

Seven Seas Computers is to join Tejari.com, the Dubai-based business-to-business marketplace, in a bid to expand its market reach and participation in the public sector’s e-procurement initiatives.

Intel’s nemesis, AMD, says it wants a larger slice of the enterprise pie in this traditionally Pentium III-dominated customer space, and intends to use its high-end Athlon processor to get there.

Behbehani Jeep Motors has invested in a new outlet in Al-Rai to heighten customer satisfaction and increase sales

Ericsson and IBM have agreed to jointly develop technology to help financial services companies deliver Mobile Internet offerings that go beyond current B2C services.

Acer teams up with local partners to deliver a comprehensive range of hardware for Saudi Computer 2001

A security patch for SSH1 has inadvertantly opened the door to another, even worse attack.

SGI will unveil its next-generation Intel processor based workstations, at the upcoming Saudi Computer 2001.

Regional distriubtor Aptec, is adding a range of services to its logistics operation this year, in order to increase its value-add for its reseller channel.

DocMan has tied up with Information Management International, aiming to provide the oil and government sectors of the market with end-to-end document management services.

Rohde & Schwarz has opened a new office for its radio communication division in Dubai. The move is set to improve the company’s development of Tetra systems as demand increases for the digital trunked technology in the Middle East.

Nokia is leaving its nearest rivals behind as figures reveal a surge in the company’s share of the worldwide handset market. However, analysts are now warning of a tough ride for manufacturers due to drop in global demand for mobile phones.

Mobile phone operator MobiNil has struck a deal with Nokia meaning Egyptian customers will soon be able to surf the Web through their mobile phones.

Amid sluggish sales, build-to-order PC-maker Dell Computer on Thursday missed earnings estimates by a penny and said it will eliminate 1,700 jobs–4% of its workforce.

Canadian telecommunications giant says that its revised estimates for 2001 show that an expected increase in customer purchases in Q2 will not happen, and that earnings will suffer. 10,000 jobs to be cut.

Nokia put more distance between itself and the rest of the pack last year, seeing a 45 percent increase in sales worldwide.

ACCPAC, a provider of accounting and e-business solutions, is aiming to strengthen its market position in the Middle East by opening an office in Dubai.

Microsoft has announced its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000, comprising a firewall and caching server

In a bid to take the Middle East’s technology industry to the global market, Interactive Technologies and Tag-Online have joined hands in a new partnership

Sun Microsystems has beaten IBM and HP to post record server sales revenue for 2000, according to the latest figures from research company Dataquest.

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled two new server-based software suites designed to provide interoperability between the two new unruly worlds of Java and XML.

A study by satellite telephone provider Inmarsat has revealed that its call charges are not as sky high as some of its cellular rivals. The report highlights the cost savings of using satellite services for making international calls over roaming GSM and hotel telephones.

Maktoob opens Shop@Maktoob and is appealing to both buyers and sellers of products to come and try out the service

Microsoft is hitting the road in the Middle East with its annual OpenDoor series of seminars. This year’s focus will be on the building blocks of its .Net strategy.

NCR and Noor have announced a strategic alliance, through which NCR will provide Noor with consulation, implementation and support services.

The world’s first Super Audio CD player, the Philips SACD1000, will set new standards in audio and video. And it’s due to hit the Middle East in March.

CAST together with Sybase Products Middle East have started running a series of seminars throughout the Middle East region to introduce CAST’s Application Mining solutions.

Jordan’s oldest mobile phone operator has joined forces with Brighpoint to boost the company’s m-commerce and prepaid services. Will a rise in prepaid availability send subscriber numbers surging?

Jordan Telecom has awarded Alcatel a contract to provide more than 90,000 lines in the country. Alcatel’s 1000 MM switching exchange will be used to take care of large volumes of Internet traffic and ADSL-based multimedia applications for Jordan Telecom’s customers.

The One to One Arabia exhibition in Saudi Arabia has attracted some of the top local and international media, advertising, and communications companies

Acer’s latest addition to its notebook range offers mobile users added data protection using biometric trechnology in the form of fingerprint security for one-touch access.

Microsoft plans to ship filtering and forwarding technology to enable mobile users to selectively manage Outlook from mobile devices

Jordan is carrying out a full scale review of all company and business related laws as it bids to become a New Economy powerhouse.

Siemens and Intel have signed an agreement which features a three-year commitment by Siemens to purchase $2billion of Intel’s wireless flash memory devices.

Receiving an e-mail from a friend with the latest photographs of Anna Kournikova is hardly a rarity for much of male-blooded society. Today, however, opening that attachment could bring down your company’s mail server.

Sweden is to mount its first Dubai Air Show pavilion at Dubai 2001 which is taking place this November

eTech Security stressed the major shortage of IT security awareness throughout the Middle East and emphasised the immediacy of security deployment, as it announced plans to open an office in Dubai Internet City.

Transmeta is getting set to release Mobile Linux as a toolkit, which is optimised for the company’s Crusoe processor, specifically for systems without hard drives and software to support devices such as MP3 players.

Intel’s nemesis says it wants a larger slice of the pie in this traditionally Pentium III-dominated customer space.

The number of online resumes has reached an all time high for career development solutions company CareerMidEast.com

The Dubai government is considering investing in a new $1.5 billion chip production project in Germany, in alliance with Intel.

Someone asks you for the time and you reply with nothing more than a quick glance at your wrist. What if every technology in your life was as accessible as telling the time?

Columbia Data Products has licensed its high-availability storage management software to Microsoft, which will include it in the Microsoft Server Appliance Kit.

Lee Ashurst has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to Etisalat’s Internet service being hacked last year, but Dubai Prosecutors say he has already confessed.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) has chosen Path Solutions’ Islamic Integrated Banking and Investment System (iMAL) to fulfil its banking operations.

Hawksmere training company is hosting a seminar dealing with legal aspects of e-commerce in Dubai from 19-20 February, in association with Al Tamimi & Company

France Telecom says its level of investment in the Middle East won’t be impacted by its own debts and a fall in the planned IPO price of Orange

Cisco and Compaq are working together to provide the hardware and services necessary for companies to migrate from legacy PBX to IP telephony systems.

Ghana Telecommunications has started work on a US$24 million submarine fibre cable project to hook up its grid to an intercontinental cable network. The project promises to tackle infrastructure problems caused by bad weather and earthquakes, in a bid to improve telephone connections within and outside Africa.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank has announced a collaboration with Path Solutions to implement the Kuwaiti company’s iMAL system for its banking operations

Security vendors are warning businesses to upgrade their virus definitions in time for Valentine’s Day.