First Independent Mena Newspaper
Technology giant, Samsung Electronics has announced that it will be establishing a factory in Egypt; making it the first of its kind by the company in the MENA region. The factory which will be located at the Kom Abu Radi Industrial Zone in Al Wasta City, Beni Suef will be covering 336,000m². The announcement was […]
Libya’s leading internet service provider, Rawafed Libya, has concluded a wholesale multi-year agreement with Eutelsat Communications on the KA-SAT satellite, to upgrade its services to another level. The agreement will enable it to have a 1.6Gbit/s capacity on two KA-SAT spot beams, which will be used to provide the best available services to its new […]
The president of the Board of Directors of Cargas, Tariq Al-Dagwa, alongside the secretary general Ghada Wali of Social Fund for Development (SFD) have inked an accord to promote natural gas in Egypt by converting more vehicles. In the concluded EGP 5million agreement, Cargas is tasked with the construction and conversion of 1,000 new vehicles […]
Reports are being echoed that Chinguitel in Mauritania will soon be on the market for grabs. The company is a subsidiary of Sudatel, Sudanese telecommunications operator. Sudatel also has subsidiaries in other several African countries namely Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, and South Sudan under the name Expresso. Reports claim that Sudatel might be selling all these […]
Three North African countries namely Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria will be benefitting from the Open Data Platforms alongside other 17 other African countries launched by the African Development Bank (AfDB). Upon completion of the project in July 2013, it is believed that quality data on Africa will be brought to the doorsteps of its users […]
A data transfer agreement which also includes internet security has been concluded between the Telecom Egypt Data (T.E Data), a telecommunication company, and Z Scaler, an internet service provider dedicated to security solutions. It will enable T.E Data to distribute internet cloud protection services to networks throughout the Middle East and also provide the region […]
Algeria will be having nationwide coverage of fiber optic by 2015 according to the minister of Post and Information Technology and Communication, Moussa Benhamadi. He made this announcement at Tiaret precising that the project is aimed at generalizing and connecting all municipalities and agglomerations where the population is more than 9000. The minister stated that […]
Scientists are turning back towards Egypt’s ancient paintings to develop new technologies and enhance better medical devices. A pigment know as the Egyptian blue has been considered by the Journal of the American Chemical Society as having clues which can be used by modern scientists towards the development of new nanomaterials with potential uses in […]
Plans are underway to generalize fiber optic connections between all industrial areas and business parks in Algeria and telecommunication operator Algérie Télécom will be supported in its investments efforts to carry out the plans. The announcement was made by minister of post and ICT, Moussa Benhamadi, during the signing ceremony of a Framework Agreement between […]
A notorious Algerian hacker wanted by the FBI has been captured lately at Bangkok’s international airport while travelling from Malaysia to Egypt. The hacker, Hamza Bendelladj, and his family had just spent their vacation in Malaysia. The U.S. authorities were hunting down Bendelladj for nearly three years for having hacked private accounts in more than […]