Science & Technology

ALKHOBAR, 6 January 2004 — A few months ago the Second Arab Human Development Report was released and for a little while the pages of Saudi newspapers were filled with commentary on the diffi

HP Middle East has opened in Alkhobar its first Saudi Arabian SAP Competency Center. The facility is one of only 16 HP SAP Competency Centers worldwide.

In a move set to widen the company’s client base in Saudi Arabia, EMC has appointed the Riyadh-based National Technology Company (NTC) as its partner and value-added reseller across the Kingd

Independent research into disaster recovery commissioned by Veritas Software revealed that 82 percent of Middle East companies suffered unplanned downtime in the last 12 months, yet IT managers did

SEEF DISTRICT, Bahrain, 30 December 2003 — The Kingdom of Bahrain entered the brave new world of third-generation (3G) mobile communications with the commercial launch of MTC-Vodafone’s

Vicci Thompson, spouse of a Saudi Aramcon, is the driving force behind the website, aramcoexpats.com.

The Sage Group (Sage) has agreed to acquire ACCPAC International (ACCPAC), a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, based in California, for an equity value of £62.5 million.

Computer Network Systems (CNS), a UAE-based IT systems integrator, has opened its first office in Saudi Arabia.

Capital spending on information technology by the banking sector in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will reach a total of about $400 million by end 2003, according to estimates by Madar Re

ALKHOBAR, 23 December 2003 — My regular readers know that recently I was in Paris where I dropped in on Alcatel.