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The Kurdistan Democratic Party has filed a one billion US dollar defamation lawsuit, the largest in Iraqi history, against an opposition newspaper, the Metro Center to Defend Journalists, which represents the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory JFO in Kurdistan region, said on Monday. On July 20, Rozhnama, a newspaper affiliated with the main opposition group Change, published […]
A road accident in Jordan has killed at least six people, including two British nationals, and injured 28 others, including an Iraqi minister, police say. The crash happened when a tourist bus was transporting the victims from the Dead Sea back to Amman late Thursday night, said police spokesman Mohammed al-Khatib. Four Iraqis were also […]
INTRACOM IT Services Middle East and Africa signed an agreement with the Ministry of Interior in Iraq, which aims to ensure the Ministry’s sustainability by implementing innovative" EMC” solutions in storage consolidation and back up recovery solutions with disaster recovery, hence helping the Ministry maintain its business by protecting its valuable dates and information. INTRACOM […]
By end of June 2010, 26 out of 55 operators licensed to offer WiMAX offered the service. WiMAX is commercially available in Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the UAE. Moreover, Yemen and Oman are slated to WiMAX services in the second half of 2010. WiMAX stands for World […]
Korek Telecom, one of Iraq's three national telecom operators, has recently chosen Aastra, a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market, for the expansion of its contact center of its headquarters in Irbil, in addition to establishing two new contact centers in Baghdad and Sulaimaniyeh. This major step comes as a necessary […]
The IT spending in Iraq is expected to be at US$ 63.2 million in 2010 from US$ 55.7 million in 2009, predicts Springboard Research, a leading innovator in the IT Market Research industry. Springboard’s latest report, “Iraq IT Opportunity 2010” attributes the growth to the relative stability and a rebound in oil prices since the […]
The managing director of the Telecommunication Company of Iran in Kurdestan province, Mohammad Saeed Ahmadi, told Fars News Agency that his company was ready to help upgrade the telecommunication infrastructure and fiber-optic systems in Iraq's northern regions. "In addition to fiber-optic projects, we have the ability to undertake all kinds of telecom activities in the […]
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Asiacell, the largest private Iraqi company and the first and only mobile telecommunications company to provide coverage for all of Iraq, signed an agreement with Leo Burnett on Wednesday, the 9th of June 2010, at Leo Burnett's offices in Amman. By virtue of this agreement, Leo Burnett will provide Asiacell with its comprehensive advertising and […]
Internet calling service Skype Ltd. said Tuesday that it continues to see growth opportunities in the Middle East despite being banned in parts of the area and is optimistic about the company's growth potential in Asia. "There are a couple of governments that officially banned Skype...but what we see in most of the developing world […]
The Basra Investment Commission announced on Monday that two projects in the province are up for bidding. “The first project is for a fishermen’s harbor in the al-Faw suburb,” a source from the commission told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The second project is for a factory to produce chemicals in the Abu al-Khaseeb suburb,” the […]
Info2cell.com, the leading mobile application content and service provider in the Middle East, has announced the successful launching of three new SMS-based services for its subscribers in Iraq - including a BBC Breaking News Channel and dedicated SMS services for men and women
