Online music website is expanding geographically, hoping to move into profit in next 18 to 24 months Online music website Vevo is set to start in the Middle East and North Africa regions after in launches in the UK in the next month or two, CEO Rio Caraeff told Bloomberg. The site, which is supported [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Saudi Arabia has backed away from a plan to block BlackBerry messenger services after some of the country’s regulatory requirements were met, a media report said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia’s Communication and Information Technology Commission made the decision due to “positive developments in the completion of part of the regulatory requirements on [...]

bloomberg — Saudi Arabia delayed shutting off Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry instant messaging until midnight tomorrow, giving operators time to test a system that can monitor user data, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said. “Appropriate action on whether to suspend the service” will be taken after the proposed solution is shown to comply with regulatory [...]

RIYADH/NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Tuesday ordered at least one Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphone service to be blocked as of Friday, becoming the latest government to threaten to curb the device on security grounds. The issue, which pits governments against BlackBerry’s super-secure encrypted services, has flared at a particularly inopportune time [...]

The United Arab Emirates, long regarded as one of the most business friendly economies in the Middle East, announced Sunday that starting in October it will prevent BlackBerry owners from sending and receiving e-mail and other messages and browsing the Internet because the security-minded government cannot adequately monitor those features on the popular electronic devices. “Today’s [...]

In a precedented move,  STC launch’s a unique service of interactive TV “Invision”, provided to AFAQ DSL Shamil customers (Interactive TV free calls and internet speeds of up to 20 Mb/s). This service provides visual content (satellite television channels, sports and cultural programs, movies and documentaries and a library of video and other) in an [...]

Domain names in Arabic for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were added to the Internet’s master directories on Wednesday, following final approval last month by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. It’s the first major change to the Internet domain name system since its creation in the 1980s. [...]

The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is delighted to announce the agenda for its upcoming “IT Forum: The Challenges and Opportunities of Developing IT in Saudi Arabia” conference to be held at Riyadh’s Four Season Hotel on May 9th 2010. Aimed at spurring discussion around the development of the information technology industry in Saudi [...]

Subscribers to Mobily‘s 1-gigabyte Connect bundles will get three months for free, the company announced on Saturday. For the usual SAR 245, subscriber’s sill gets an HSPA modem and a data SIM card, but instead of only one gigabyte for one month, they get three months. The offer is valid for both prepaid and post paid [...]