Prince Sultan bin Salman launched the first ever MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) mirror website at the King Faisal Palace on Sunday. The official launching ceremony brought together the university’s senior management. Prince Bandar Al-Saud, chairman of the executive committee for Alfaisal University, presided over the ceremony which was attended by Alfaisal University’s cofounders, board members [...]

Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has officially launched the BlackBerry Bold 9700 Kingdomwide. The 9700 is the latest HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) enabled BlackBerry device that runs on Mobily state of the art 3.75G network, a company statement said on Sunday. It comes with a touch sensitive trackpad and bilingual Arabic/English QWERTY keypad, a high resolution [...]

The Saudi labor Market 2009, in its second edition, comes under the slogan “employment without borders”. It aims to provide an opportunity to the talent Saudi citizens in all areas to meet directly the employers. The convention will also help the participants to apply for the jobs and lead theme to do perfect interview. The [...]

Wasta is a concept brand and a platform for Design related activities which includes products such as clothing apparel, art prints vinyl wall stickers and other experimental designs based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Wasta is an Arabic expression that loosely translates into ‘who you know’ and it refers to using one’s influence or connections to [...]

Central banks of four Gulf countries will halt their lending operations next week in line with their landmark agreement to launch the world’s second major monetary union, a Saudi newspaper reported yesterday. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, members of the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), will ask their central bank to completely stop lending [...]

The Saudi Government has recently unveiled the Kingdom’s largest budget for the 2010 fiscal year. Using conservative demand and pricing estimates for oil, the government projects revenues to value $125.3 billion (SR470 billion), while expenditures will total approximately $144 billion (SR540 billion), resulting in a projected deficit of $18.7 billion (SR 70 billion). The upcoming [...]

PCS Edventures!.com, Inc.  today announced the signing of an agreement between PCS’ Middle Eastern distributor, Global Techniques dba PCS Middle East, and the Prince Salman Center for Creating Leaders, involving the launch of a robotics professional development initiative for educators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in January 2010. (The Prince Salman Center is a subsidiary [...]

Arena Animation is the pioneer in animation and multimedia education with a global network of centers. Eleven years of experience. 2,00,000 professionals trained so far. These are just a few of the things Arena Animation is all about. Arena’s success in the mission of supplying top-quality professionals to the booming animation and multimedia industries is well-known. Arena [...]

Saudi nationals wishing to travel to Georgia are no longer required to obtain a visa to enter the country, the Georgian government said Tuesday. Saudi citizens can stay for one year in Georgia without obtaining a visa. The General Directorate of Passport here, called on citizens wishing to travel abroad to comply with regulations and [...]

An expansion plan for King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh has been approved by Saudi Arabia’s aviation authority. The General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) on Monday approved the project which will see the first phase of work increase the airport’s annual capacity to 25 million passengers. “The project includes developing the airport commercially. It [...]