Dubai, UAE, 24 November 2022: In celebration of the much-anticipated football season, Samsung is set to give the MENA region its first-ever Roblox Space Cup tournament in December. Samsung released Space Tycoon, a virtual playground built inside the global Metaverse platform Roblox earlier this year, targeting primarily Gen Z customers to create, play games and share […]
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EEG Chairperson Habiba Marashi inaugurates ‘CarbonTek’, a new online tool which measures & analyses carbon emissions and supports businesses towards net zero Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 08 November 2022: Leading UAE-based smart and green FM company Farnek has launched a state-of-the-art online carbon footprint calculation tool, ‘CarbonTek’ which can measure and analyse carbon emissions and identify carbon […]
Dubai, UAE, November 9, 2022: Arthur D. Little (ADL) has published “The Metaverse: What’s In It For Telcos?” exploring how telcos can capture value by leveraging the metaverse. Metaverse represents a major new market for telcos with early estimates of the overall size of the Metaverse opportunity to be around $13 trillion by 2030. For example, Ericsson […]
UAE, October 12, 2022: Pioneers in the metaverse ecosystem explored the multi-billion opportunity in the emerging virtual universe on the second day of GITEX GLOBAL 2022. Diverse industries from gaming, retail, fashion and sports are looking to explore an increasingly vast and rich virtual ecosystem in Web 3.0, with Dubai Metaverse Strategy envisioning more than […]
Multinational telecommunications company Ericsson has always been at the forefront of pioneering the journey to a more promising connected future. In the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, the mogul is setting the needed foundation for fueling mobile connectivity across the region. Ericsson MEA President, Mr. Fadi Pharaon shares his insights with Inside Telecom on […]
Twitter buyer Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, but that could be put to the test in the Middle East where critics say authoritarian governments use the platform to track opponents and spread disinformation. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how it might deal with Middle Eastern governments’ […]
Batelco and Omantel join five operators in the ground-breaking Open RAN MoU ABU DHABI, 02 March 2022: Middle East operators have opened the first regional community lab in collaboration with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Intel, following the signing of the Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) MoU last year. The move will accelerate the implementation […]
The partnership enables the companies to rapidly serve customer demand across multiple geographies with a single seamless experience. Dubai, UAE, 2nd March 2022 – neutrality.one, a cloud networking company delivering software-defined infrastructure, has partnered with Neterra, a global connectivity and telecom solution provider, and Arc Solutions, a provider of integrated networking solutions, to provide seamless connectivity services across the […]
The United States Navy and security partners will patrol Middle East waters with 100 unmanned vessels next year to improve deterrence against attacks, like those presented by Iran, the U.S. Fifth Fleet commander said on Monday. The region is vital for global trade, especially oil supplies that flow out of the Gulf via the Strait […]
Dubai (UAE): In today’s hybrid IT environments, organisations are accelerating digital transformation for long-term growth and profitability. This transformation, however, comes at a cost for enterprises. According to Gartner, this journey is taking twice as long and costing twice as much than initially anticipated. To address this challenge, organisations must be able to understand their […]