Professor presenter in the Gulf

Indian competitive strategy guru, professor Karnani, is to make a Gulf education debut in April, Dubai, where he will run a global business strategies programme

Weiss joins ITCC

Business strategist and technologist guru, Bill Weiss, is to join the advisory board of International Telecommunications Clearing Corporation (ITTC)

Credit Crunch

Distributors are tightening up their credit facilities in the face of more demand for finance from the reseller channel, forcing resellers to change the way they are paid by their customers.

On the streets of Dubai

Dubai’s Computer Street is in the heart of the city and features IT resellers of all shapes and sizes. But in the face of larger IT retail stores opening up, how are the resellers down on the street coping, and what makes their shop more desirable to customers than the one next door? CRN went down to the street to find out.

Is Linus killing Linux?

As leader of the free world of open-source computing, the Linux buck stops at the keyboard of 31-year-old Linux inventor and perpetual guardian, Linus Torvalds. But some open-source proponents question how long one man can control the technology’s evolution.

Freedom is a wireless world

Imagine the freedom of being able to take a laptop in to the conference room and not have to worry about finding a socket, just so the LAN can be accessed. Imagine sitting in an airport lounge being able to access the corporate Intranet, without having to use the business centre. Sounds far-fetched? Not anymore. Wireless technology is here and vendors have big plans to rid the world of cables. Are you ready for it?

One million credit cards stolen online

The FBI has warned that East European hacker gangs have stolen over a million credit card numbers from e-commerce and e-finance websites over the past year, each time using avoidable security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Windows NT to make their attacks.

Disposable mobile phones set to take off

People often make throw away comments but they have never had a throw away phone on which to make them. With the release of the world’s first phone card phone from pioneering inventor Randi Altschul a new age of mobile communications is on the way.

Intel predicts weak quarter

Intel has become the latest big technology company to say that it’s going to have a bad quarter. The company also plans to eliminate 5000 jobs over the course of the year.

Cisco confirms layoffs, cost cuts

Mighty Cisco proved it is mortal this week with an unprecedented round of layoffs which CEO John Chambers says is necessary if the company is to remain buoyant through what he describes as a much longer than anticipated slowdown.

The New Economy Kingdom?

Jordan is pulling apart its bureaucracy, rebuilding its legislation and overhauling its entire communications infrastructure in a bid to become a New Economy powerhouse. Can the country pull it off?

Comtrust boost to online security

Comtrust has announced the launch of its personal digital certificates and its digital server certificates to provide PKI infrastructure to e-businesses and consumers in the region.

Brokat makes e-business user-centric

Brokat Technologies has put forward a new strategy and introduced new product aids in a bid to facilitate the shift from an enterprise-centric to a user-centric approach for conducting e-business

Islamic search engine launched

A specialised Islamic search engine, ‘Hamza’, based on search engines such as Altavista, Google and Excite, has been launched on www.bilalphilips.com/hamza.

Batelco boosts profits in 2000

Batelco, the sole telecoms provider in Bahrain, has announced a 9% increase in profits for the year 2000; taking the company’s net income to BD 52.5 million.