Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Monday, January 21st 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Innovation, dedication and passion were celebrated by the Higher Colleges of Technology today, as winners of the Nikai Student and Faculty Awards for the 2011/2012 academic year were announced.

The annual Nikai Awards were held during the first day of the United Arab Emirates’ inaugural Curriculum Conference and Curriculum Institute at the HCT- Dubai Men’s College, which saw hundreds of international and locally-based educators and specialists, interested in advancing teaching and learning through curriculum development and design, attend to discuss how digital content and technology integration can be incorporated into modern classrooms. The two-day conference was inaugurated by H.E. Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor Higher Colleges of Technology.

The Nikai awards are proudly sponsored annually by the Nikai Group which support ... Read more »

To address "Storage Innovation and Toshiba's Strategy"

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TOKYO - Monday, January 21st 2013

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that Yoichiro Tanaka, Ph.D., Senior Manager of Storage Products Application Engineering Department, Storage Products Division, Semiconductor & Storage Products Company, will give a presentation at IDEMA[1] Japan January 2013 Quarterly Seminar on Friday, January 25. Dr. Tanaka will speak on "Storage Innovation and Toshiba's Strategy." The structure of the storage products market of HDDs and SSDs is rapidly changing with tablets becoming common in the client/personal market along with PCs. At the other end of the spectrum, use of high speed and large capacity storage products in cloud computing, big data, and smart community is evolving as infrastructure to support the client/personal market and the ITC society. Toshiba will continue to develop leading-edge technology and products for the drastically ... Read more »

HOUSTON - Monday, January 21st 2013 [ME NewsWire]

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, January 20th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mideast and North Africa are emerging as a key R&D hub for algae based products with cutting edge research and technology projects at Qatar, Abu Dhabi University, Masdar Institute and University of Mansoura Egypt, Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research. Centre for Management Technology’s Algae World MENA Summitin Dubai on February 25-27 will see the largest congregation of global algae experts to analyze and assess the future growth for an algae driven economy.

MENA region is geo climatically endowed with the key criteria- vast non-arable land, plentiful sunshine, wastewater and CO2 availability -for algae growth and has seen large investments in algae based projects.

Masdar City, one of the most prominent projects in the industry, is an extensive and ongoing R&D effort that focuses on renewable energy and sustainability. Professor Hector H. Hernandez, Assistant Profess ... Read more »

Leading provider of vulnerability management to offer defense strategies designed to thwart evolving security threats

SAN FRANCISCO - Sunday, January 20th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nCircle, the leader in information risk and security performance management, today announced a new web seminar entitled "Winning the Countermeasure Game: Playing to not Lose.”

In the inherently asymmetrical online world, the threat landscape is constantly changing. To mitigate these evolving threats, IT professionals must create effective security strategies and tactics that help protect their networks. Join Tim ‘TK’ Keanini, chief research officer for nCircle, for a discussion on specific defenses organizations can utilize to reduce the risk of attacks.

In this web seminar, attendees will learn:

    The benefit of raising the cost of observation to threat agents
    The security value of network diversity
    H ... Read more »