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- egypt shuts off cell anonymity
- As protests continue to mount over rising food prices, Egypt is moving to keep close tabs on cellphone users. The government wants cellphone companies to close down anonymous subscribers, Reuters reports. "Everyone who uses the telephone must be known," Trade Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid told a news...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Egypt, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Middle East Internet outage: Do you have backups for your offshore ops?
- Countries across the Middle East are sans Internet connections due to a cable break on Wednesday. Two lessons: The Internet in some areas lack redundancy and telecommunications infrastructure is weak. And companies that outsource customer service operations offshore need to plan ahead. Egypt's Minister of Communications and...
- Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Call-center, Backup, Outage, Egypt, Internet, Outsourcing, Cable, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacturing, Call Centers, Product Marketing, Network Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- egypt Establishes E-Government Infrastructure
- With roughly 76 million citizens, the Arab Republic of Egypt is one of the most populated countries in Africa. The services once offered by the Egyptian government were largely manual, which made completing routine procedures difficult and time consuming for everyone involved. The country needed a faster, more efficient service...
- Tags: Citizen, Microsoft Corp., Egypt, E-government, Government
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- egypt's goal: To be the land of offshoring
- Egypt's goal: To be the land of offshoringHigh Ambitionswell, I wish good luck to the country, but I have some concerns about security. Lest us forget that there might be extreme islamists in that country and many people are not tolerant to western cultures.Many would hope that does things go...
- Tags: Social Security, Telecom Egypt, Egypt, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2006-02-10
- Gary McKinnon: Scapegoat or public enemy?
- Gary McKinnon: Scapegoat or public enemy?Our Gov.'s IT is full of idiots knowing NOTHINGabout IT. They got what they deserved. He should be given an award for showing how weak the US IT infrastructure really is.Our Gov. and the IT personnel should be prosecuted for negligence!!!!LOL!Unemployed? After he...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Gary McKinnon, security, McKinnon, Egypt
- Discussion threads 2005-07-15
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- iPhone's international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch
- Apple's iPhone will be headed to a few more countries courtesy of a new deal with French telecom carrier Orange. In a statement, Orange said: Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic,...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Wireless, Telephony, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?
- Obviously, Microsoft has a significant interest in making sure that users of the new breed of netbooks and MIDs hitting the market don't get too comfortable using Linux. Many manufacturers have taken to installing various flavors of Linux on these devices to minimize footprint, improve performance, and reduce costs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Corp., ULPC, Negroponte, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- egypt shuts off cell anonymity
- Egypt shuts off cell anonymityHmmm...I have connections to high levels of the Egyptian government, and I can assure you, this is simply due to security needs. Where there is a more volatile situation, it is more necessary to have counter-terror measures in place. Not that hungry citizens are...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, cell anonymity
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- On being detained in Cairo
- I've brought up Twitter before. Twitter is a micro-blogging service. You use it to "tweet" messages of no more than 140 characters. Your friends, colleagues and the general public can follow your Twitter stream and keep up with such urgent intelligence as, "Feeling bored," or "Currently surrounded by idiots." Or,...
- Tags: Twitter, James Karl Buck, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Apple's iPhone lands in 10 countries via Vodafone pact
- Vodafone said Tuesday that it will bring the iPhone to 10 more countries as Apple methodically rolls out its device across the globe. In a short statement, Vodafone said: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vodafone Group Plc., Apple Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Are Twitterers Tworons?
- Are Twitterers Tworons?So what is that twitter anyway?Checked website once but did not understand what it is about :)A couple more...(For the record, not pleased with "twittard". Any thing that comes close to using the name "retard" or associates with the term "mentally retarded" should be banished.) With...
- Tags: Twitterers Tworons, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Through Enemy Eyes (exe)
- In this game you play Steven McCoy - dauntless adventurer, whom fate has brought from England to a camp of the French Foreign Legion in Egypt. Since you have had the good luck to find a magic amulet, you are able to see the world through the eyes of your...
- Tags: England, ArabellaGames, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- Urban food deserts in major cities
- Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighburhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As...
- Tags: Supermarket, Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins
- In my previous piece discussing the first four Open Source Commandments I talked a bit about the traditions of Passover, where Jewish families gather together to eat a festive meal and discuss our liberation from slavery in Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh (while the one in the...
- Tags: Console, OSS, Open Source, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Making the most out of Earth Day, the green tech way
- As you can imagine, my colleagues and I have been deluged with special promos and greenwash marketing campaigns related to the Earth Day event on April 22. I've combed through the e-mails and wanted to mention the following campaigns and programs that might interest you as a green IT buyer....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Twitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where's the next ban?
- The discussion about a UC Berkeley student that Twittered his arrest in Egypt and got help from the U.S. Embassy, the media and friends makes me wonder how long it will take to ban Twitter in the Arab world and elsewhere. Sound crazy? Perhaps not. Twitter is already banned in...
- Tags: Twitter, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff
- For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuffNot sure of the point hereThe article didn't state much. Are they wanting to ban the sales on these items? If so, i wholely disagree. Nothing listed in this article is illegal. Nore should it be. If it was...
- Tags: Government, uniform, MRE, biological protection, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- The Open Source Commandments
- The Open Source CommandmentsFirst CommandmentShouldn't the first commandment be: "Microsoft is Evil"?;-)RE: The Open Source CommandmentsWhat about the other commandments:"Thou shalt insult anyone who criticizes open source""Thou shalt not use any other software except the ones we use"Religion and sciencewhat a great taste that tastes great together. Someone calls...
- Tags: commandment, open source, Passover Family Experience, Open Source Commandments, OSS
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- The Open Source Commandments
- Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...
- Tags: Industry, Microsoft Corp., Pharaoh Rameses, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
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