23% of parents in Saudi Arabia not aware of digital content their children are fond of
July 2, 2020

RIYADH — Modern parents have to constantly educate themselves and keep up to date when it comes to the Internet trends. There is a strong reason for it — their children. If parents do not know what is popular on the Internet, they can have misunderstandings or even conflicts with their children. It turns out, not all the parents keep up with current trends online and do not have enough knowledge about content that their children prefer.

According"...

Intertek certifies SEC for information security and IT service management
July 2, 2020

RIYADH — Intertek, a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide, has awarded the ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 certification for Information Technology Service Management and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 for Information Security Management to the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), the largest utility company in the Middle East and North Africa.

SEC acquired certification for 50 different services within the company’s Information Technology"...

Saudi’s construction sector to see faster recovery with the utilization of drones in the ‘new normal’
July 1, 2020

DUBAI — Saudi Arabia’s construction sector will see faster recovery with the utilization of drones under the ‘new normal’ set-up, which continues to require safety measures including social distancing.

This is according to Rabih Bou Rashid, CEO of Falcon Eye Drones (FEDS) — the Middle East’s leading provider of Drone Technology, Data Technology, and Digital Transformation. He said that drones are an imperative tool"...

Huawei strikes Saudi smart cities deal with Batic
July 1, 2020

RIYADH: Saudi investment firm Batic has struck a deal with Huawei to work on smart cities projects throughout the Kingdom.

Smart City Solutions Company, a unit of Riyadh-based Batic Investments and Logistics Co. (Batic) will work with the Chinese technology giant om smart projects covering areas such as parking lots, transportation, the reduction of energy consumption as well as lighting"...

Modern Governance 12.0: Diligent Launches Modern Leadership to Help Organizations Build More Diverse and Inclusive Boards and Leadership Teams
June 27, 2020

Diligent Corporation, a leading modern governance company used by nearly 700,000 board directors and leaders, today introduced Modern Leadership – an initiative to provide senior leaders with the resources, insights, partnerships, and technology they need to further catalyze diversity in their organizations and modernize governance. Diligent also announced today, Diligent Director Network – the largest and most diverse community of board-ready executives globally created to widen the pool of diverse candidates for a vacant board seat. With the Director Network, Diligent is: Activating Diligent’s network of nearly 700,000 board directors and leaders across 16,000 organizations to nominate diverse, board-ready executives to build a database of largely untapped talent that will be searchable......

IDEMIA and Treezor Launch the First Eco-friendly Payment Card by Onlyone, a French Fintech Firm
June 27, 2020

IDEMIA teamed up with Treezor over three years ago to develop a broad range of groundbreaking products like metal cards and new look / new-feel cards – colored layers, bushed metal finish, transparent - targeting key French neobanks and fintechs.

This collaboration between IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity and Treezor the French banking-as-a-service market leader, has today"...

Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir Collaborate to Validate Web-Scale Technologies for 5G StandAlone (SA) Core
June 26, 2020

Mavenir, an industry leading end-to-end cloud-native network software provider, has announced that it has collaborated in successful lab testing of its containerized 5G Core solution, on Deutsche Telekom’s Cloud network infrastructure. Mavenir’s 5G Core uses state of the art, web-scale technology and cloud-native principles providing support for 4G/5G combo-core functionalities. In addition to 3GPP 5G functionality, the collaboration focused on automation, on-boarding, cloud native principles, CI/CD and other non-functional areas such as resiliency, fault tolerance and performance (load and stress tests). Furthermore, together Mavenir and Deutsche Telekom have validated the combo nodes, with its 4G micro services, to validate seamless 5G to 4G handover on a next generation web-scale core.......

Brightcove Launches Industry-Leading Virtual Event Experiences Solution; Empowering Companies to Quickly and Easily Connect with Audiences Online
June 26, 2020

Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), the world’s leading video technology platform, today announced Brightcove Virtual Event Experiences, a solution that allows organizations to deliver high-quality virtual events featuring bold, interactive experiences. Responding to a crucial market need, Brightcove Virtual Event Experiences enables organizations to host events with market-leading video technology to engage with audiences securely and reliably around the world. The adoption of video communications in enterprise organizations is growing at a rapid pace. According to the recent Brightcove Global Video Index, in the first quarter of 2020, video views among enterprise companies increased by 91% year over year, with preliminary year-over-year data from April and May showing viewing increases of nearly 80% and 54%, respectively. Along with this adoption, many in-person events and meetings are moving to online video. With no timetable for the return of large-scale,......

BenQ ‘s Smart Projector Range for Business offers Effortless Wireless Projection & Video Conferencing Capabilities.
June 25, 2020

BenQ, the global No.1 DLP projector brand for Eleven years and global leaders in display technology, announces its range of android based wireless smart projectors for the SMB segment to amplify the efficiency of virtual meetings and wireless presentations.

Their latest E600 Standard Throw and E800 Short Throw series come with BenQ Smart Systems that enable these smart projectors to facilitate"...

Mavenir’s RCS Mobile Business Messaging Cloud Completes Interconnection between Telefónica, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom Germany
June 24, 2020

(AETOS Wire) -- Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end, cloud-native Network Software Provider and a leader in messaging and Rich Communication Services (RCS) today announced its Mobile Business Messaging Cloud in Europe completed peer-to-peer (P2P) RCS interconnection with the networks of Telefónica (BME:TEF), Vodafone (OTCMKTS: VODPF) and Deutsche Telekom Germany.

This"...