Now don’t get me wrong. I like Microsoft and they can come up with some really good technology. But you just have to wonder about their marketing department sometimes.
Their latest Arabic effort, Maren, is arguably a nice tool (albeit not an original idea) that intelligently converts transliterated Arabic typed on an English keyboard into real [...]
Mash-ups is a relatively new fashion in web design - taking bits of other web sites to build up your own web page. It is not new or special - any search engine showing a small summary of a web site that it has found is a form of mash-up. Integrating an rss feed is [...]
I am at Didacta, the big German Education trade fare, this week. having been at shows from Arabia to the UK it is obvious that there are huge opposites. First, the British education market and the German Education market are poles apart. Here, in Didacta, there are stand after stand of educational engineering products on [...]
You know this market is controlled by a mafia… If I take one to court he will just send the judge 10 prostitutes and case over.
One person complaining about how hard it was to run a business in an Arab country that will not be named.
This is typical of the attitude many Arabs have about [...]
One thing you will not read about in any of the news reports on Gitex is Iran’s plans for the expo. Their approach has ben quite different this year. Last year was lots of small stands little Iranian tech companies selling half-baked solutions that probably only would work in Iran. This year was something else. [...]
