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Dubai’s 360-degree rotating skyscraper: an algorithm too far?
Blog Have you seen the BBC report on Dubai’s first ‘rotating skyscraper’ this afternoon? There’s some French architect saying how much he’d observed the wind affecting skyscrapers, so now he wants to use the wind to help shape the buildings themselves.
[June 27, 2008, 16:03]
Dubai tempts outsourcing businesses with tax breaks
News Dubai Outsourcing Zone is the latest venture from the people who four years ago launched Dubai's Internet City, which now hosts 600 companies employing 20,000 knowledge workers. Bin Sulaima said that four outsourcing operations currently based at...
[June 16, 2004, 10:25]
Dubai International Financial Centre Ensures Regulatory Compliance, Lays ILM Foundation, and Improves Productivity With HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System
White Papers The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the world's newest global financial hub, aims to develop the same stature as financial centers in New York, London, and Hong Kong. DIFC wanted a records management and archival solution that can...
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
Dubai’s 360-degree rotating skyscraper: an algorithm too far?
Blog Comment Sounds more like a French operation to extract some of the oil money out of Dubai. I think its Dubai that has the indoor snow skiing slope. Wonder how they're going to deal with all the sand in all those bearing chases they will need to have to...
[August 19, 2008, 9:15]
"Wireless Home" Project Heralds Exciting Career Prospects for Women of Dubai
White Papers In Dubai's booming economy, IT and networking skills are in demand. Cisco makes a conscious effort to help Middle Eastern women, as well as men, to build IT careers, for example by finding them internships.
[May 1, 2007, 14:19]
HP Technology Supports Excellence at Dubai International Academy
White Papers The newly built Dubai International Academy (DIA) started with a blank IT canvas. It wanted an infrastructure that would support its mission of 'Excellence in Education'. To compete in today's educational environment, it also wanted an...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
National Bank of Dubai Optimizes Sales by Increasing Customer Support Through Service Innovation
White Papers The National Bank of Dubai, one of the leading financial institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has a strong reputation for service and customer satisfaction. The bank wanted to optimize call center efficiency and provide a one-stop...
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
Guarding and Protecting Dubai Municipality's Network and Ensuring the Integrity of the Information That Drives the City
White Papers Few cities in the world are thriving to the extent Dubai is today. Diversification in the last few years into a service and tourism-oriented economy has placed significant pressure on the city's municipal services delivered by the Dubai Municipality.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Dubai’s 360-degree rotating skyscraper: an algorithm too far?
Blog Comment There's no mention of a real-life proto-type, but the fact that they've announced it means they have the confidence that it'll work. If they manage to pull it off though, they'll solve common problem; people will nolonger scrumble for the flat with...
[June 27, 2008, 16:52]
Dubai’s 360-degree rotating skyscraper: an algorithm too far?
Blog Comment It s not just the weather you d need to worry about, you d also hope that the voice doing the commanding belonged to someone nice and stable!
[June 27, 2008, 21:55]
Weissmann City Profiles-Dubai
Downloads Weissmann City Profiles provide frank, concierge-style advice on eleven categories of information: Dining · Lodging · Attractions · Business Services · Resources · Shopping · Transportation · Recreation · Nightlife · Fine Arts · City Scan
[October 17, 2001, 8:00]
Dubai Men's College Gets a World-Class Learning Environment to Attract the Best and Brightest Students
White Papers Aside from a comprehensive IT overhaul, two major goals of the school's ambitious initiative included the power to support widespread and secure use of wireless laptops, and a Video-On-Demand (VOD) solution that would enable new ways of learning...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
MP demands inquiry into Time Computers collapse
Talkback Maybe, the income from the UK was used to build the Dubai factory? The DTI & the Serious Fraud Squad should go to Dubai and continue investigations their. Middle Eastern countries do not look lightly upon thieves and fraudsters, maybe they could...
[August 24, 2005, 12:24]
Paramedics Use Tablet PCs to Send Patient Information to Hospitals During "Golden Hour"
White Papers Healthcare authorities in Ireland and Dubai are commissioning mobile solutions in ambulances to help optimise use of the "Golden hour" after paramedics collect patients. Valentia Technologies has been commissioned by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care...
[September 14, 2007, 1:00]
Man divorces wife by text message
News A man in Dubai who divorced his wife by a short text message has set a legal precedent for other Islamic divorce cases. The Dubai courts have now accepted that this can be done electronically, after a man divorced his wife by a single text message...
[June 28, 2001, 16:28]
HP printers find favour in Iran
News According to a report in Monday's Boston Globe, a third-party distributor in Dubai has been selling HP printers in Iran since 1997. If HP executives cut the deal with the Dubai company, called Redington Gulf, knowing it intended to sell HP products...
[December 30, 2008, 13:35]
Nigeria renews efforts to stop 419 scammers
Talkback about the telegraphic transfer,we received emails coming from unknown persons from Nigeria email received started last JULY 14,2006.up to now they insists us to pay $9700 to a person they were telling as the diplomat of Dubai and telling us to go...
[August 6, 2006, 13:21]
Biometric checks get air-passenger approval
News Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more than 3,000 passengers who volunteered to take part in the trial on Cathay Pacific and Emirates flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. This data was then uploaded onto an RFID smartcard, used...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
Divorce via email could be a reality
News The Gulf News reports that a Middle-East-born US citizen has asked a Dubai court to rule whether he be allowed to invoke this traditional enactment using email. The news service reports that the Dubai man sent an email declaring his intent to...
[May 8, 2000, 13:11]
Divorce by text message 'unacceptable'
News In a June report in Gulf News, there were 16 cases of divorce by SMS in Dubai between April and June. Abdel-Salam Darwish, a family advisor in the Family Reconciliation section of the Dubai courts told the paper that his department had made...
[August 8, 2001, 10:45]
