One million Galaxy S and Wave units sold worldwide in just three and four weeks, respectively

Samsung Electronics, a leader in manufacturing smartphones and mobile devices around the world, has recently announced it has achieved record sales for Samsung Galaxy S and Wave smartphone, achieving one million units each in the first few weeks of their launch. Regionally, the first shipment of the Galaxy S phones has already sold out and the next batch, which is expected to arrive in August, is set to sell out just as quickly.

Sandeep Saihgal, general manager of mobile phones at Samsung Gulf Electronics said: “The record sales figures we have seen since the release of the innovative, user-friendly and fully-

A UAE delegation chaired by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), participated in the 2nd preparatory Arab meeting, held in Damascus, in charge of the preparation for the coming Plenipotentiary Conference “PP10” 2010 to be held in Mexico, Guadalajara from 4th till 22nd October 2010.

The participating Emirati delegation included Engineer Tariq Al Awadhi, TRA executive director of spectrum and international affairs head of the delegation and Chairman of the Arab team in charge of the preparation of the Plenipotentiary Conference 2010; Engineer Nasser bin Hammad, Senior Manager, International Affairs Spectrum & International Affairs, Deputy Head of Delegation; and Engineer Nasser Marzouqi, in addition to representatives from the UAE Armed Forces, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat), and Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du).

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has signed a major three-year agreement with Portugal Telecom to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network to support existing and new services to its growing customer base.

Leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage NetworkTM (HLN) architecture, PT will evolve its converged IP/MPLS network to support new video rich content and data services.

The architecture will leverage an all-IP network layered with embedded intelligence and application awareness that improves the end-users experience as well as PT’s ability to bring new services to market more efficiently. The platform will also enable Portugal Telecom to implement 100 Gigabit Ethernet, L2/L3 mobile backhaul and IPv6 services that will guarantee available bandwidth and an expanded address space to ensure the smooth introduction of the most sophisticated services.

Etisalat was informed today by the UAE Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) to suspend BlackBerry services providing email, web browsing, instant messaging and social networking from October 11, 2010 until an acceptable solution can be developed and applied which brings the BlackBerry services in line with the UAE’s telecommunications regulations.

This is an important decision made by the Regulatory Authority and we fully understand the legal and social considerations behind the decision.

Etisalat has an obligation to act within the law and the regulations of the TRA, while at the same time, providing our customers with the best service. Etisalat has a significant share of customers

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced it will support the Intel® Ethernet X520 family of SFP+10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server adapters. This extends NetApp’s ecosystem of tested Ethernet solutions and offers customers more ways to deploy an end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) infrastructure. By offering customers tested options to make the transition from a Fibre Channel infrastructure to a high-performance FCoE infrastructure, NetApp helps them increase the flexibility of their IT to manage more storage and protocols at lower costs.

10GbE unified networking provides a simple, flexible, and well-understood fabric for today’s dynamic data centers and lays the groundwork for new computing models, including cloud computing. With long histories of leadership in Ethernet storage and networking, NetApp and Intel are helping drive the transition to a unified data center on 10GbE. Both companies were early supporters of FCoE. NetApp is the first storage vendor to support native FCoE storage, and Intel is the first Ethernet adapter vendor to support Open FCoE (www.open-fcoe.org), which enables FCoE in standard 10GbE adapters.

Helps defend users against specific types of cyber crime

The security of the global Internet has been bolstered by a historic collaboration between government and the private sector. ICANN has joined the U.S. Department of Commerce and VeriSign Inc. to add security at the top of the domain name system – the technical infrastructure behind the Internet’s “phone book” - to protect Internet users from certain forms of online fraud.

“A cyber criminal can steal your money or your personal data without you even knowing it. Cyber crime doesn’t respect national boundaries,” said Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO of ICANN. “This upgrade will help disrupt the plans of criminals around the world who hope to exploit this crucial part of the Internet infrastructure to steal from unsuspecting people.”

With the Internet’s pervasive role in daily life expanding rapidly, finding viable solutions to cyber crime is imperative. Deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, at the “root” of the Internet has laid the foundation for a new generation of innovative cyber security solutions by creating a global authentication platform - a common source of trust in the validity of Internet addresses.