Badlisham said the 19 companies participating in MSE 2009 offered, among others, solutions and services in e-business, IT security and management, outsourcing services, multimedia content development, mobile applications and services, software solutions providers, customer care and consultancy. Among the 19 companies are: M3 Technologies (Asia), a mobile content and applications developer, which offers a wide range of consumer, enterprise and partnership products and services, caters to the business to consumers (B2C), business to business (B2B) and business to organisations (B2O); and Radicalbox, which specialised in operational support systems such as backend solution ranging from operations, customer relations, and inventory and knowledge management.

"The other MSC Malaysia status companies that will be taking part in MSE 2009 are, 3ntity, Extol, SSITA, Architree Design, FronTech Solution, SKALI, Custommedia, NadComm, SPK Technology, Entropic Technologies, i-xeon, Verion Research, eProtea, Kompakar, Scicom and Vision Technology Consulting (VTC)," added Badlisham.

"Malaysia's international experience and understanding of the Middle East market will be an added advantage for the MSC Malaysia status companies to introduce their ICT-related solutions, content and services," said Badlisham.