Events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai Provide Opportunities To See Latest Virtualization, Unified Communications and Disaster Recovery Solutions In Action

Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) is presenting a series of seminars in the Middle East region with Microsoft and Intel on how to create disaster recovery solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2010, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, and Hyper-V environments.

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ADAOX Middle East, the regional business development centre of ESET NOD32 Antivirus, today announced the availability of ESET’s Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server and ESET Smart Security 4.2 in the Middle East region. The new ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server features major advancements over its predecessor, ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange Server, and can deliver similar results as the products of Kaspersky Lab International Ltd., which are available for online purchase.

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Apple captured the attention of movie buffs and the entire film industry by publishing a new teaser commercial for the iPad during the Academy Awards presentation Sunday evening.
The new 30 second spot, backed by The Blue Van’s catchy tune “There Goes My Love,” races through a variety of iPad features.
Meet Apple’s magical and revolutionary new iPad — the best way to experience the web, email, photos, books, video, and more. Go to apple.com/ipad to learn more.

Golden Systems Middle East (GSME), a leading distributor of IT products in the Middle East, announced today that it has achieved strong overall corporate growth as well as significant growth across all its product lines in 2009. The company credits proper planning, inventory and cash flow management and its strategy to expand its focus on newer markets (such as Iraq, CIS countries, and Northern Africa) as the key factors for their growth.

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Acer, ASUS and Lenovo Among Leading Vendors to Introduce Next-generation ION PCs

NVIDIA introduced the Next-generation NVIDIA® ION™ graphics processor today, which will supercharge netbooks with 10 times the graphics performance of standard netbooks¹ and enable up to 10 hours of battery life² thanks to NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology.

The new ION graphics processing unit (GPU) vastly outperforms basic netbook graphics by delivering rich HD media in games, movies, and Internet-based video. Unlike netbooks with Intel integrated graphics, ION netbooks have the power to play amazing HD video smoothly from sites like YouTube and support popular PC games like World of Warcraft.

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Amazon.com introduced Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) with Global Wireless – a new version of the 9.7-inch wireless reading device now with the convenience of wireless content delivery in over 100 countries. In addition to the convenient features such as 60 second downloads, easy-to-use page-turn buttons, and instant dictionary lookup that have made the 6-inch Kindle the bestselling product across all of Amazon, the new Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) has a large 9.7-inch electronic paper display, auto-rotate capability and storage for up to 3,500 books.

Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution 9.7-inch electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. With 2.5 times the surface area of Kindle’s 6-inch display, Kindle DX’s larger electronic paper display with 16 shades of gray has more area for graphic-rich content such as professional and personal documents, newspapers, magazines, and textbooks. Kindle reads like printed words on paper because the screen works using real ink and doesn’t use a backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays.

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Three new mice in fun colors give consumers ultimate mobility.

Today Microsoft Hardware extends its award-winning line of BlueTrack Technology mouse products, debuting the advanced tracking technology at its lowest prices ever — under AED110.¹ Now people have the opportunity to track on virtually any surface² at an affordable price with three new mice to choose from — the Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500, Wireless Mouse 2000 and Comfort Mouse 4500. The Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 and Comfort Mouse 4500 will be available in bright colors just in time for spring so people can add a touch of personality to their computers.

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SanDisk’s Highest Capacity SD Card Offers Increased Storage, Making it Ideal for Extended HD Video Recording

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today introduced the new SanDisk® iNAND™ Embedded Flash Drives (EFD) with support for the e.MMC 4.4 specification. Based on 3-bit-per-cell (X3) NAND flash technology, the drives offer up to 64 gigabytes (GB)1 of capacity in a single device, and can be used for boot, system code and mass storage functions. Different products on SanDisk are available on Amazon.com.

An increasing number of mobile phones offer a wide array of applications and storage-intensive content such as movie and music playback, imaging capabilities, gaming, GPS map data, business applications and more. SanDisk iNAND EFDs are specifically designed for these advanced smartphones and provide high capacity and reliable storage in a power-efficient package with a small footprint.

HP announced enhancements to HP Agile Accelerator to help customers increase the quality of their applications, enhance productivity, and respond to changing business scenarios quickly and cost-effectively.

Based on HP Quality Center software and HP Application Lifecycle Management consulting services, HP Agile Accelerator manages Agile development projects from proposal to production while helping IT departments better meet their application modernization initiatives.

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