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Team Assistant
Industry: Other
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE -
MEP Construction Manager - Airports Experienc
Industry: Construction
Location: Tripoli, Libya -
Senior Welding Inspector/ Senior QA QC Inspec
Industry: Oil & Gas
Location: Muscat, Oman -
Concrete Works Engineer - Marine
Industry: Construction
Location: Tripoli, Libya -
Receptionist
Industry: Facilities Management
Location: Dubai, UAE
Monday, 18 May 2009
The future of searching (almost) anything
Technology
In the week that the new Wolfram Alpha search engine has gone live, I’ve been thinking about our need to index information electronically
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Daring to look ahead
Technology
There are still noticeable inconsistencies when it comes to how vendors and the channel interpret the health of the Middle East market right now.
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Lost opportunity
Technology
Etisalat’s failure to secure Iran’s second mobile licence has surely come as a significant blow to the UAE incumbent.
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Browser Gaming
Technology
If you’re bored at work but want to look busy behind you’re computer screen, you’re in luck as online gaming is evolving.
Monday, 11 May 2009
Thinking outside the box (but pressed right up against it)
Technology
I recently had a very interesting discussion with an IT manager about the various means of securing an enterprise.
Sunday, 10 May 2009
I can’t get no (customer) satisfaction
Technology
“Sometimes they over-promise or simplify. They say that something can be done in three months, but in reality it takes a lot longer. A lot of solutions providers in the Middle East don’t think long-term — they are just too inflexible."
More perils of outsourcing
Technology
In the second of a two-part series, Ziad Choueiri of the Rights Lawyers goes into further detail about what to be aware of when writing outsourcing contracts.
Wednesday, 06 May 2009
Raising the bar
Technology
There is just under two weeks to go before the fifth annual NME Innovation Awards and NME has received a host of high quality entries from across the region
Fixed focus
Technology
With Bahrain’s TRA having set this week as the deadline for feedback to its draft document on Local Loop Unbundling, telecom professionals in the region are now eager to see just how the country will go about unbundling its network – a course of action that now looks almost certain.
Sunday, 03 May 2009
Getting what you ask for
Technology
The man who invented the Mathematica computer software has developed a search engine that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does, but is it a ‘Google Killer’?
Channel proving difficult to knock off its stride
Technology
It seems an element of change is in the air at the moment as vendors and channel players engineer relationships which they hope will give their businesses fresh impetus.
A failure to communicate
Technology
Secret CIO holds his first press conference - and most likely, his last.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Timing is key
Technology
It has finally happened. After a number of false dawns and missed deadlines, the Middle East’s first-ever virtual mobile network is now up and running and open for business.
Monday, 27 April 2009
Robotic recession
Technology
The current economic downturn has affected many industries with many companies that previously performed well facing poor results. But has the recession gone as far as to affect the consumer robotics industry?
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Getting results from outsourcing
Technology
The Rights Lawyers' Ziad Choueiri discusses how contracts should deal with IT outsourcing.
More questions than answers, but Oracle-Sun will shake up channel
Technology
The dust has hardly settled on news of Oracle’s US$7.4 billion pursuit of Sun Microsystems, but that won’t stop the channel pondering the potential implications that this mega-deal has for resellers in the region.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Tackling security threats
Technology
When it comes to security, telecom operators are in completely different territory from just a few years ago, when TDM network architecture ruled supreme
Monday, 20 April 2009
Pirate Bay: Bad press is good press
Technology
Owners of the world’s most notorious illegal file-sharing web-site ‘The Pirate Bay’ are facing a prison sentence, but the site has probably never been more popular owing to media coverage it received last week
Silverware season
Technology
The NME Innovation Awards take place this month. Will your name be called?
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Is that really the bottom we can see?
Technology
Intel had the IT channel dreaming about the prospect of a market ‘recovery’ this week by suggesting that PC sales have fallen as low as they are going to get
SPOT POLL
Have you cut back your spending on groceries amid the downturn?




