P2i Limited, the world leader in liquid repellent nano-coating technology, has acquired 100 per cent of the share capital of Surface Innovations Ltd, a UK-based technology company with a wide range of functional nano-coating patents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition expands P2i’s product portfolio beyond its market-leading technologies for liquid repellency, adding “functional” coating technologies with applications including anti-bacterial resistance, liquid attracting (super wettable), and many others.

Surface Innovations is a research and development company with 17 patent families that focus on functional nano-coatings obtained using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. It was founded in 2001 by Professor Jas Pal Badyal as a spin-out of Durham University. Professor Badyal will sit on a new Technical Advisory Panel to provide ongoing scientific advice to P2i, as well as developing new patents and applications for the company.

Offers first-of-its-kind, on-campus preferential calling rates, Snap & Share, Facebook® Zero, Facebook® Mobile Text and much more

Supporting the lifestyle of the UAE’s youth, du today unveiled its ‘My People’ programme offering a host of exciting benefits exclusively for the youth in the UAE, including On-campus preferential calling rates, cool services such as Snap & Share, Facebook® Zero and loads of rewards and entertainment.

‘My People’ will be introduced in various stages throughout 2010, beginning with a ‘Snap & Share’ service featuring one-click picture and video uploads to preferred social websites, a Facebook® Mobile Text service which enables networking on facebook via SMS & MMS, a Facebook Zero service which allows free mobile browsing on the new 0.facebook.com site and a pilot On-campus initiative offering students an impressive 50 per cent discount on their mobile calls made from select University campuses in the UAE.

New Professional Service Offerings and Design Guidance help Service Providers deliver additional value to SMBs

(NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced enhanced integration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise-class data protection solutions to cloud service providers by leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Although enterprise-class data protection has historically been too expensive for most small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to implement themselves, NetApp and Microsoft now enable service providers to offer enterprise-class data protection to their SMB customers. Additionally, NetApp announced the availability of new professional service offerings and additional resources and guidance for service providers to build a variety of enterprise-class cloud services.

“SMB customers have many of the same disaster recovery and business continuity requirements as large enterprise organizations, but often times don’t have the necessary skill set or budget needed to achieve the desired results,” said Laura DuBois, program vice president, Storage Software and Solutions, IDC. “Solutions that address this gap by providing enterprise-level data protection along with the support and guidance needed to deploy will be integral in helping SMBs realize the true benefits of a cloud infrastructure.”

Nexans, global expert in cables and cabling solutions, has welcomed the latest data centre standard from the international standards organisation ISO. The standard, ISO/IEC 24764, was published in April and requires copper cabling to support a minimum frequency of at least 500MHz. This effectively limits data centre copper cabling to Class EA (500MHz), Class F (600MHz) or Class FA 1000MHz) cabling and an RJ45 compatible connector interface.

“Nexans is delighted that our GG45 connector was re-elected as the interface for Class F and Class FA. The new standard is important as it harmonises the requirements for copper cable and connectors used for data centres with the same products defined for use in office buildings. This new data centre standard will help our customers in the Middle East to ensure that their data centres are ready to handle bandwidths of 40G and more, not only with fibre, but also with copper cabling solutions” says Tarek Helmy, Regional Director Gulf and Middle East of Nexans Cabling Solutions
 

ESET, the global leader in proactive protection against malware, has increased the speed of its scanning engine by 30% on average. With the signature update 5187, many processes have been optimized for even higher performance.

For illustration, the scanning speed of executable (.exe) files has improved by more than 50%. This update affects all products in the ESET product line (excluding ESET Mobile Antivirus), confirming ESET in the forefront of the industry in speed and detection accuracy.  

The United Arab Emirates has taken the initiative to protect Intellectual Property Rights by applying successful procedures to prevent illegal decryption of PayChannels on the Internet. The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) launched the initiative in collaboration of the telecom operators where they have successfully blocked illegal Internet traffic used to unscramble the encrypted PayChannels for the first time worldwide.

H.E. Mohammed Al Ghanim, Director General of the TRA said: “The UAE gives utmost importance to Intellectual Property to ensure the most advantageous economic environment through supporting owners of property rights. This step will protect consumers against this type of fraud and it will limit infringement of Intellectual Property Rights and violation of federal laws.”
In the same context, the TRA warns of the unlawful use of telecom services which harm consumers and the national economy. The TRA also urges the consumers to take caution while purchasing satellite receivers or PayChannel services by ensuring its legitimacy.