Dubai based computer reseller Storm Computers has agreed to an out-of-court settlement with Tech giant Microsoft to avoid further legal action after selling pirated Microsoft software. The company shall be paying an undisclosed amount of money to Microsoft’s regional office, Microsoft Gulf.
Storm Computers was found to be selling personal computers with pirated versions of Microsoft [...]

The Criminal Investigation Department of Abu Dhabi police has received several reports of fraudsters sending bank account holders emails requesting sensitive information. As the email accounts of these criminals look genuine, many people have fallen trap to this scam.
The Abu Dhabi police officials have now issued a warning after the strong rise in number of [...]

The Telecommunications consultancy group, TeleGeography, has recently released a report where it says that firms in Dubai pay astoundingly high charges for establishing connection to their offices in other countries through VPN. The lack of competition in Dubai’s telecommunications sector has been mentioned as the main reason behind this.
Virtual Private Networks are used to connect [...]

Qatar has revealed plans of setting up an anti-doping testing and research facility in order to aid athletes throughout the GCC and Western Asia. Anti Doping Lab Qatar (ADLQ) announced its plans which will be done in Doha’s Aspire Zone. Operations are expected to begin in 2014.
The new facility shall be the first anti-doping [...]

In an annual report from Media Rights Without Borders (RSF), a host of Arab countries have been named ‘enemies of the Internet’. These countries include Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt.
These countries are what constitute according to the Paris based agency the “worst violators of freedom of expression on the net.” China, Burma and North Korea, [...]

Human Rights Watch has urged Saudi Arabia to drop charges against a Saudi man, Nasir al-Subai, who was using the Internet to complain about the official red tape as he tried to get state funding for the medical treatment of his brother.
Subai has been charged under a law issued in 2007 to prevent libel and [...]

Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecommunications company, said on Tuesday that it was expecting an increased growth rate in its Middle East operations this year as compared to 2009. The company had achieved $3 billion in sales last year, and the market has shown growing signs ever since.
The network equipment maker from China grew its [...]

Qatar Telecom (QTel) announced on Wednesday that it was investing QR600 million ($165 million) in the first phase of the Fiber To Home Plan. This plan has been made with an aim of revolutionizing Internet, telephone and digital TV Services over the next three years.
QTel has decided to collaborate with ictQATAR, in an effort to [...]

According to a new report published by the International Telecommunication Union, Kuwait offers some of the cheapest prices for mobile, land line phones and broadband internet services.
In a global list published by ITU, Kuwait ranks as the fourth nation in the world to offer the cheapest prices of mobiles and internet. The report also said [...]

Intel announced a collaboration with Nokia to introduce their new MeeGo platform at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. The announcement was made earlier this month when reports of this new Linux-based software platform were released.
This software platform is the product of a merger of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin platforms. MeeGo will [...]