New web threats could impede Mideast business growth Gulf News | Dubai: Computer users in the Middle East are under increased pressure from web-based threats, according to some of the world's leading experts in security technology. | A security leader, Trend Micro, witnessed a dramatic increase in web threat activity during the first half of 2008. | Web threats...
Net activism rattles Arabs The Australian | FACEBOOK, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a powerful vehicle for social change. | Squeezing out MySpace as the site of the moment and with 75million users (more than the population of most countries), it appears to be the most p...
Dish TV ban tuned out in UAE Bahrain Tribune DUBAI | Indian receivers being imported illegally | Despite a blanket ban on subscription to Dish TV of India-based Zee TV, many shops in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi are selling the service after smuggling receivers into the UAE, Khaleej Times repor...
Why the US Won't Attack Iran Middle East Online Reality Bites Back | It's been on the minds of antiwar activists and war critics since 2003. And little wonder. If you don't remember the pre-invasion of Iraq neocon quip, "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran..." -- then ta...
Saudi group launches Farsi movie channel The Boston Globe | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—A Saudi-owned media company on Wednesday launched a 24-hour satellite movie channel featuring subtitles in Farsi, making Hollywood films more widely available to non-English speaking Iranians. | Mazen Hayek, the di...
Farsi movie channel launched in UAE Canoe By Barbara Surk, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Saudi-owned media company on Wednesday launched a 24-hour satellite movie channel featuring subtitles in Farsi, making Hollywood films more widely available to non-English speaki...
Net activism rattles Arabs The Australian | FACEBOOK, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a powerful vehicle for social change. | Squeezing out MySpace as the site of the moment and with 75million users (more than the populati...
Corporate News Arab News | Arab News | GBCORP | Global Banking Corporation B.S.C (c) (GBCORP) has become a key contributor to Bahrain's Waqf Fund for research, education and training in Islamic Finance, established by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) and other Islamic finan...
Al-Jazeera: Arab-language network buys up ITN footage The Guardian | Arab-language news network al-Jazeera has bought access to more than 800,000 hours of ITN-owned video content. | The video content deal between al-Jazeera and ITN's archive business, ITN Source, is thought to be in worth more than £500,000 and wil...
Techno valley project takes off in Riyadh Arab News | P.K. Abdul Ghafour | Arab News | JEDDAH: King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh has crossed a new milestone in its efforts to develop a knowledge society with the launch of its Riyadh Techno Valley (RTV) project. Acting Riyadh Gov. Prince Sattam laid the foundation stone for RTV's first tower on the campus on Tuesday night. | Abdullah Al-Othman, pr...
Dubai hotels slash room rates by 50% Gulf News | Dubai: Hotels in Dubai have slashed room rates by an average 50 to 60 per cent to attract more guests in the low summer season as occupancy has slumped and new properties have created more competition. | With few trade exhibitions and conferences during summer, the number of trade visitors to the UAE drops sharply in the May-August period. | Tour...
