Watch some of the highlights of the glittering sixth edition of the annual Reseller Middle East Partner Excellence Awards.

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Reseller Middle East recognises channel excellence
At its sixth annual Partner Excellence Awards 2015, Reseller Middle East, bestowed its highest honour upon the best performing companies from the regional IT channel community. Held last evening, at Jumeirah Beach Hotel, the awards commended channel players who have strived to grow their business through differentiation and innovation.

Google reveals Android M
During the recently held Google I/O conference, Dave Burke, Vice President of Engineering for Android, gave developers a glimpse at the next update for Google’s mobile operating system, code-named Android M.
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Reseller ME speaks to industry experts to explore the opportunities social media offers to partners.

Interview: Helena Norman, CMO and CCO, Ericsson
Helena Norman, CMO and CCO at Ericsson, talks about the telecom behemoth’s transformation plans and changing dynamics of the mobile industry.

IBM’s new Power E850 can take on cloud and database processing
IBM is building slimmer versions of its Power hardware — used by its Watson supercomputer — to run complex database applications as well as simpler Web-based ones.
Microsoft Corp. unveils Lumia 540 Dual SIM
The Lumia 540 Dual SIM features the latest Windows Phone 8.1 innovations and boasts a 5-inch HD display and crafted …
Aptec launches “flyHigher” programme
Aptec has recently announced the successful launch of its flagship “flyHigher” programme for Cisco resellers in the Middle East.

Twitter eyeing Apple to help distribute its tweets
Twitter is working with Apple to incorporate Twitter content and accounts into Apple’s Spotlight search feature,

Dropbox to pay security researchers for bugs
Dropbox said Wednesday it will pay rewards to independent researchers who find software flaws in its applications, joining a growing …

Dropbox to pay security researchers for bugs
Dropbox said Wednesday it will pay rewards to independent researchers who find software flaws in its applications, joining a growing …

Six simple security mistakes
Many recent studies of security vulnerabilities come to the same conclusion: The human factor is a greater risk to organisations than flaws in technology.

Iran ‘ready to welcome Google’
Iran is ready to cooperate with Google and other global Internet companies to allow them to operate in the country, according to the country’s media reports.

Port authority
Yousif Almutawa, CIO, DP World, has seen some ups and downs. From a start-up in California during the Internet boom and subsequent crash, to the surge in construction in Dubai in the mid-2000s, Almutawa has learned a few things about success and failure.

Where there’s a will…
Nader Henein is all too aware of the ever-present IT security risks that envelope our day-to-day lives. BlackBerry’s Regional Director for the Advanced Security Division describes the ease at which the everyday user can be compromised, and what the company is doing to secure defences.

China increases censorship with VPN crackdown
China is clamping down on unrestricted access to the Internet by blocking services that allow users to get around government censorship.

WhatsApp arrives on the desktop
WhatsApp is now available for the Web, in a form that pairs the mobile version of the app to a user’s desktop computer.

Turkish government threatens renewed Twitter ban
Turkey’s government has threatened to block access to Twitter after the company failed to suspend the account of a newspaper who published details of a secret government investigation.

US and UK to step up cyber defence plans
The U.S. and Great Britain are stepping up their collaboration to fight digital threats by planning to launch more attacks against each other to test their defences and deter potential enemies.