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Writing applications for the popular smartphone is seen as the road to riches by some developers in the Gulf. With only a handful of the
150,000 iPhone applications are in Arabic, the decision to become a software developer may be an easy one. David George-Cosh reports
Float through any event with M’s fast facts. This week David George-Cosh explains Wolfram Alpha. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple’s iPhone may be popular with consumers, but for software developers it has been a dream come true. Read the rest of this entry »
Millions of internet scams target the UAE every day, aimed at the trusting or wealthy. While most go ignored, David George-Cosh meets one victim of a “romance hoax”. Read the rest of this entry »
ABU DHABI // As Steve Jones sat on a camping chair on the edge of the Corniche watching the fifth Red Bull Air Race Championship yesterday, the 38-year-old pilot with Emirates Airline could not help daydreaming of trading places with one of the daredevil aviators.
“It’s completely different from what I do,” he said, as planes noisily buzzed overhead. “But if I had the money, I’d love to have a go up there.” Read the rest of this entry »
Google plans to put more effort into supporting products in Arabic rather than trying to make money right away through online advertising. Read the rest of this entry »
Every night, Roy Choi drives his kitchen van around the bustling streets of Los Angeles, stopping frequently to sell gourmet Korean-style meat tacos to a hungry crowd. Instead of relying on print or even word of mouth marketing, Mr Choi publicises his up-to-the-minute whereabouts using Twitter, the micro-blogging phenomenon that permits users to send messages of up to 140 characters to more than 14,000 people. Read the rest of this entry »
Etisalat has tripled its BlackBerry subscriber base to 100,000 users since launching the service in 2006, giving the UAE one of the highest penetration rates of the device in the world. Read the rest of this entry »