Communications and Marketing professional Carrington Malin gives on Spot On PR an interesting view on the impact of social media like Twitter can have on public life and tells about a Twitter festival held in Dubai. Read his take: As one of the volunteer organisers for the first Twestival Dubai held in February

Company Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the commencement of sales of new desktop SimpleDrive external hard drives up to two terabytes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Region EMEA). In addition, the company announced a withdrawal of portable hard drives Hitachi Easy and Stylish Portable Drive and Hitachi Rugged Portable Drive, as well as the internal hard... ...

Reuters - Tecom Investments, a telecom investor owned by the ruler of Dubai, is mulling a joint venture with Dell Inc. and said it expects to make up to three acquisitions in the Middle East and Africa this year, including in a mobile phone firm.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Earlier today we brought you word on the entire new stable of free Ramadan-related mobile software that has just been released and made accessible via nokia.com/ramadan. Created and championed by the Nokia team in Dubai, this morning I chatted to Mohamed El-Sheakh, Business Manager of software and services for Nokia Middle East and Africa, who sent us a great little v...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Earlier today we brought you word on the entire new stable of free Ramadan-related mobile software that has just been released and made accessible via nokia.com/ramadan. Created and championed by the Nokia team in Dubai, this morning I chatted to Mohamed El-Sheakh, Business Manager of software and services for Nokia Middle East and Africa, who sent us a great little v...

NAVTEQ announced the registration deadline for the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge has been extended one week from 30 October 2009 to Friday, 6 November 2009 for the Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region.

North America overtook EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as the largest regional market for PNDs in the final quarter of 2008, according to research firm Canalys. In fourth-quarter 2008, the US alone accounted for 52% of the worldwide PND shipment total, compared to 36% for EMEA. "The US has continued to deliver unit growth on-year, despite the economic situation, but this is supported by... [

Two China-based handset vendors - TCL and Konka - have made more inroads into the global handset market, especially in emerging markets, according to data released by the companies. TCL has said that it shipped 6.7 million handsets in the first half of this year, up 60% from the same period of 2007. In particular, TCL's shipments of Alcatel-branded handsets to the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and...

In a quest for Canalys, independent company for analysis of the technology sector, published this month, revealed the latest data on the sale of the Smartphone market in EMEA, that European Middle East and Africa.

French telecom Orange has inked a deal with Apple for iPhone carriage in countries throughout the Middle East, Africa and a number of European countries. The carrier issued a one sentence press ...