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Shumon Zaman, CIO of the Bukhatir Group, reveals the secrets for building a successful enterprise resource management system in a large organisation.
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Venkat Raghavan, general manager of Al Futtaim Technologies, relates his experiences as a regional system integrator - and how his sales pitches have had to evolve to keep pace with the technology.
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The news that Skype is planning on opening an office in Bahrain could be good news for users.
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Secret CIO goes undercover.
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Roger Field examines the business case for 3G services in Jordan after the first licence is awarded.
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How do you feel about an advertiser, in essence, paying for you to play a game that revolves around an advertised subject? As Gareth van Zyl has found out, adver-gaming is not only prevalent amongst big global companies such as BMW, but it is also emerging as a concept in the Middle East.
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Standards of after-sales service vary tremendously in the Middle East IT market, but vendors are gradually beginning to realise that it is a subject which warrants greater attention if they are to harness the true power of their brands.
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Zain Bahrain’s recently announced plan to upgrade its network to LTE came as a surprising development for the region’s telecoms sector
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The recession has resulted in some lip-smackingly good F&B promotions in this region, says Lucy Taylor.
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ICANN has unveiled a program that will introduce Internet address names comprised of non-Latin characters or scripts; such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian.
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Next month, judging begins for the 2009 edition of the Arab Technology Awards – and for me, that will be the real litmus test of whether the region’s IT ventures have emerged from the global financial crisis.
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Shumon Zaman, CIO of the Bukhatir Group, suggests that sharing common IT functions in a single unit will allow businesses to function far more effectively in the uncertainty of the current economic climate.
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A Roadmap for Success: Driving service excellence through outsourcing and managed services contracts
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Merger talks between Bharti Airtel and MTN Group have put the spotlight back on developing markets, says Roger Field.
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The Mozilla team clearly enjoys thinking up new milestones. The recent news that the Firefox browser has been downloaded one billion times is just one milestone achieved amongst others, such when the world record was set last year for 8 million downloads of the browser in 24 hours. But there will most probably be bigger milestones achieved once Windows 7 makes its debut.
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Microsoft and Yahoo! have exchanged vows while Google remains silent. That says a lot, says Vineetha Menon.
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Growing talk that US sanctions on the export of ICT equipment to Syria will soon be eased promises to have major ramifications for the local market, not least when it comes to channel development.
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Recent research by PR agency Spot On suggests that Twitter is booming in the Middle East region with over 12 000 people from this region having registered a Twitter account. Interestingly however, Twitter is perhaps not the biggest micro-blogging site in the Middle East.
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Have you been effected by the BlackBerry spyware scandal? Tell us what you think about it and join the discussion.
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"Reach out. The world's waiting," Etisalat implores visitors to its website. What it doesn't mention is that if you are using a Blackberry to "reach out" - which is lately the bizarre Americanism for communicating - your emails could well be sent on to a third party.
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