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High-Performance, Automated Cargo Management Solution for Emirates SkyCargo: Emirates SkyCargo is the award winning air-freight division of Emirates Airlines. It is an industry leader due to its strength in innovation and service quality. Emirates SkyCargo required an innovative solution apt to support its growing business and functional needs. Emirates SkyCargo required a new application that would be scalable...; Tags: MindTree Consulting, High-performance, Emirates SkyCargo, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; Case studies 2008-01-24

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Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer: The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...; Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-17
Emirates Post Replaces Point-of-Service Application to Support Courier Expansion: Emirates Post, whose core business is postal services, has transformed itself into a diversified commercial entity offering several non-postal services, including government services, banking, freight, and courier. Operating in one of the world's most competitive markets, Emirates Post is now a major force in postal services, including online payment services....; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Service, Online Payment, Emirates Post, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet; Case studies 2008-04-01
Anchor found at cable cut site: Anchor found at cable cut siteOf course, if it was a conspiracy, do you think they'd tell US?My theory is still valid: the anchor was actually a disguised weapon, dropped by a secret US submarine to prevent global warming data from being transmitted by eco-terrorists.Did the same anchor cut all...; Tags: Network technology, cable, Anchor Control; Discussion threads 2008-02-08
Enterprise-Wide Service Oriented Architecture and Methodology for the Emirates Group: MindTree Consulting, based on its experience in internet technologies and in the travel domain, was selected to define the next generation Service Oriented Architecture SOA that would become the de facto standard for all future projects. MindTree architects followed a consulting approach to help Emirates articulate a vision, establish drivers,...; Tags: MindTree Consulting, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; Case studies 2008-01-24

Employees at Middle East Construction Business Access E-Mails Round-the-Clock: United Arab Emirates-based ETA Star Group manages construction projects across the region. Many employees who travel extensively lacked e-mail access when working away from the office. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, they can reach inboxes using their mobile phones. In addition, through the consolidated infrastructure, IT administrators have increased efficiency.; Tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-11-01
Windows Live suite debuts ... on cell phones: Microsoft has been promising for a couple of months now that it's going to bundle a bunch of its core Windows Live offerings into a suite. Yet Microsoft still hasn't made that kind of an announcement.But if you dig into Microsoft's newly minted Live Services deal with "the world's largest...; Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Cell Phone, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-08-22
Images: A spinning skyscraper in Dubai: United Arab Emirates state, already known for interestingly shaped buildings, may gain a "tower in motion" that lets each floor rotate independently.; Tags: Dubai, U.A.E.; Image galleries 2007-04-20
Jimmy Wales is a super-duper rocket scientist: If Jimmy Wales didnt exist, silly satiricists like myself would have to invent him.Yesterday, I promised myself that I wouldnt write any more about Jimmy Wales this week. I dont want you thinking that Im obsessed with him. After all, there is other news out there. AT&T are jumping out...; Tags: SEARCH, Wiki, Jimmy Wales, Wikia; Blog posts 2007-03-09
MIT joins with Emirates for country's first research-driven grad program: In a joint effort to pave the way for a new Science and Technology Institute in Abu Dhabi, MIT and the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company have sign an agreement to establish regions first-ever research-driven graduate program, according to the MIT News Office. The Masdar Institute of Science and...; Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, International; Blog posts 2007-02-27
United Arab Emirates Finds Partnership a Fast Path to Leadership in the Global Knowledge Economy: A unit of the Higher Colleges of Technology, one of the UAE's three public universities, CERT was founded to provide an institutional framework for commercializing strategically important technologies. While boasting a per-capita income that rivals many developed nations, the UAE recognized that its future economic security depended on its successful...; Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Partnership, U.A.E., Business Structures, Leadership, Strategy, Finance, Management; Case studies 2007-02-01
Nortel Network Case Study: Habtoor Grand Resort & SPA: Part of the Al Habtoor Group in the United Arab Emirates, Habtoor Hospitality owns four hotels and a catering company in Dubai, two hotels and a theme park in Beirut, and one hotel in the UK. Hotels need to run smoothly, 24x7, so reliability and resilience were the number-one voice...; Tags: Hotel, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, Telecommunications, Wireless; Case studies 2007-01-01
The truth behind the iPod's 5 1/2 mile high club: On Tuesday Apple announced that it had struck deals with six airline companies who would offer passengers the ability to hook up their iPods to the in-flight entertainment systems. If you were planning on buying an iPod based on this, hold onto your credit card just yet.Apple had announced...; Tags: Apple, Air France, Apple iPod; Blog posts 2006-11-16
Why Microsoft's Zune can't dent Apple's iPod: Microsofts Zune music player has little or no chance of denting Apples iPod juggernaut and contrary to all the digital ink spilled on product comparisons and reviews most of the reasons are strategic. Apple has built up quite a moat around its iPod business.Bottom line: Even if Microsofts Zune is...; Tags: General, Personal Technology, Mobile, Entertainment, Microsoft Zune; Blog posts 2006-11-14
Bank Migrates From Mainframe System to Align IT Resources With Business Objectives: Mashreqbank, the largest private bank in the United Arab Emirates, ran its core banking applications in a Unisys mainframe computing environment. At the end of the support cycle for this technology, the bank made the strategic decision to replace its mainframe with systems based on open standards. IT services and...; Tags: Bank, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Financial Services, 64-Bit, Servers, Hardware, Processors, Semiconductors, Components; Case studies 2006-10-04
Trip report - Dubai: Just to set the scene, Dubai is one of seven emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates, a sovereign state; the UAE is a federation of jurisdictions with some local laws and economic regulations, and some central ones. As everyone I met stressed, the UAE is...; Tags: There&rsquo, s; Blog posts 2006-09-26
Third World VoIP blocking has the stench of corruption: Namibia is the latest nation to go absolutely convulsive over the prospect of some of its citizens bypassing the local phone monopoly by selling and using VoIP. Five people have been busted. Mike at TechDirt has the story.Then, as Mike also points out, there was a bust two years ago...; Tags: Telephony, Namibia, VoIP; Blog posts 2006-09-23
Defense worried about Israeli acquisition of SourceFire: United Arab Emirates control of US ports is not the only deal with national security implications facing scrutiny. The administration group that's doing a 45-day review of the ports deal is also looking at the sale of a small US company to Israel's Check Point, AP reports. Defense...; Tags: Snort, Sourcefire Inc.; Blog posts 2006-03-02
91% of emails in India are spam: 91% of email traffic sent to Indian PC users is spam, according to MessageLabs. United Arab Emirates had the highest rate of viruses transmission, with one virus received per 13.9 emails.; Tags: e-mail; Blog posts 2006-03-02
As Arab company buys ports, tagging tech is slow to arrive: As Washington roils from the news that six US ports have been sold to a state-owned company from United Arab Emirates, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that only a very small percentage of cargo has been tagged with RFID tags that would actually allow ...; Tags: Army; Blog posts 2006-02-23