Technology & IT | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 4:15 pm

Mobily Awards Cisco Multi-Year Contract for Unified Core and Next-Generation Managed Services

At Mobile World Congress, Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), a leading mobile and data service provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced the signing of a 5-year agreement with Cisco to provide next-generation Cloud and Managed Services solutions.    The deal sees Cisco expand...

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Technology & IT | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 4:03 pm

Future of Smartphones – LG Sheds Light Industry Trends from MWC

  Mobile World Congress – a platform to showcase progressive technology    The overall theme of MWC 2016 will be ‘Mobile Is Everything’ and will centre on how the mobile communications revolution is driving the world’s major technology breakthroughs....

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Cars & Autos | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 1:54 pm

Driving the BMW M2: perfectly flawed

Car people are just like any other obsessive. They’ll talk to you about stuff that they expect you should clearly understand as being important, even if it’s unclear to you why it might be. Right now, car obsessives are talking about the BMW M2, a high-performance derivation of the...

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Technology & IT | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 1:30 pm

Xiaomi announces its latest flagship phone, the Mi 5

Xiaomi has officially announced the Mi 5, its latest flagship device, at events in Beijing and Barcelona today. The Mi 5 follows the Mi 4 launched 18 months ago. It is a 5.15-inch smartphone with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor, up to 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, a 3,000mAh battery, and ...

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Technology & IT | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 1:30 pm

Mobily Signs Up Huawei for Managed Network Services Across the Kingdom

Etihad Etisalat Mobily, has signed an MoU with Huawei, for provision of managed network services for a term of next 5 years. The memorandum was signed on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress 2016, in Barcelona, Spain by Ahmed Farroukh, CEO Mobily and Ramadan Ding, CEO Huawei Tech. Investment...

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Culture & Education | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 1:04 pm

‘We All Dream in Gold’ The Oscars airs live and exclusively on OSN

With just one day to go, the countdown for the most celebrated and prestigious awards of the year has begun. Stay tuned to OSN, the region’s leading pay-TV network, to see all of the live action from the star-studded 88th Academy Awards ceremony at the same time as the...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 12:49 pm

CAIRO TOURISM DECLARATION ANNOUNCED at “PLANNING FOR GROWTH – EGYPT’S TOURISM 2016” EVENT

At a conference held today in Cairo, attended by 200 senior tourism sector representatives from 25 countries as well as several Ambassadors to Egypt from several important tourism markets, H.E Hisham Zaazou, Minister for Tourism, announced "the Cairo Tourism Declaration" which sets out...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 12:23 pm

British Airways: Dubai Lounge Debut

British Airways has today unveiled its prestigious new lounge at the newly built Concourse D in Dubai International Airport.   The airline’s new concept lounge features a special Concorde Bar for those flying in First.     The lounge has been designed to...

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Environment & Energy | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 12:14 pm

First Solar Achieves Yet Another Cell Conversion Efficiency World Record

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced it has established yet another world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency, achieving 22.1 percent efficiency certified at the Newport Corporation’s Technology and Applications Center (TAC) PV ...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Wednesday 24 February, 2016 12:10 pm

Etihad Airways Signs Citi as International Cash Management Bank Partner

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced an enhanced agreement with Citi as its international cash management bank partner.   The new mandate, covering Etihad Airways' worldwide operations outside the GCC, will enable the airline to leverage...

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