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RIM Parlays Near BlackBerry Ban Into UAE Government Partnership

BY Neal Ungerleider
Relevancy Score: 44

Research In Motion just landed a deal to bring advanced egovernment services to the United Arab Emirates, just days after the end of a highly public spat between RIM and the Emiratis. What changed?READ»

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UN Report: Cellphones a Ticket Out of Poverty for the World's Poor

BY E.B. Boyd
Relevancy Score: 50

Cellphones aren't all fun and games for the world's poor. For many, they make the difference between bringing home the bacon--or not.READ»

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RIM's Bargaining Chip for Dodging Future International BlackBerry Bans: Privacy

BY Neal Ungerleider
Relevancy Score: 35

Research In Motion has struggled in the United Arab Emirates--the BlackBerry was almost banned. But what does a deal between RIM and the UAE mean for RIM's foreign operations?READ»

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Abu Dhabi and Dubai Ports to be Connected Via Rail

BY Jenara Nerenberg
Relevancy Score: 100

Dubai's bankruptcy hasn't stopped the United Arab Emirates from making multi-billion-dollar infrastructure investments.READ»

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Cambodia Spurs Development With Second Tallest Building in Asia

BY Jenara Nerenberg
Relevancy Score: 53

At least that's what the country hopes to do.READ»

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Is U.K.'s New Passport Design More Secure Than the Last?

BY Addy Dugdale
Relevancy Score: 26

The British Passport gets yet another revamp, in the name of security.READ»

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A City in the Cloud: Living PlanIT Redefines Cities as Software

BY Greg Lindsay
Relevancy Score: 26

When did Silicon Valley become so obsessed with building cities? Last month it was Cisco’s SVP of strategy Inder Sidhu describing the company’s smart city play as the $36 billion company’s “biggest opportunity.” Then, at the ...READ»

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UAE's BlackBerry Services and Porn Ban a Boon to Steve's iPhone

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 18

BlackBerrys have no future in the United Arab Emirates: It's emerged that special requests to ban porn have been made, and the upcoming service ban will affect visiting BlackBerry owners, too. It's all good news for Steve Jobs.READ»

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Peace Dividend Trust Finds New Business Frontiers ... in Afghanistan

BY Jenara Nerenberg
Relevancy Score: 13

WikiLeaks be damned, former Afghanistan diplomat Scott Gilmore cuts out middle men in international aid and brings global trade to a country often considered war-torn.READ»

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UAE Government Frets About BlackBerrys, Threatens Ban

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 21

Chalk this one up under "worrying governmental attitudes to tech": The authorities in the UAE are making very public noises about RIM's BlackBerry smartphones. Apparently they're a threat to national security. Late yesterday the ...READ»

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Wiring a Smart City in the Desert

BY Greg Lindsay
Relevancy Score: 91

Is Dubai the world’s smartest city? Maybe not in the sense that it mortgaged long-term infrastructure with $100 billion in very short-term debt, but “smart” in a way IBM, Cisco and other tech heavyweights would be envious ...READ»

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Abu Dhabi Plans World's Largest Concentrated Solar Plant

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 62

The United Arab Emirates continues on its quest to be the most contradictory country in the world--the country with the world's largest carbon footprint also contains a carbon-neutral city--with an announcement that Dubai will play ...READ»

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Design Crime: New Luxury Hotel Is a Five-Star Disaster Shelter

BY Suzanne LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 63

Slumming it never felt so rich.READ»

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Work/Life: All Right, Let's Do This Thing: The Video Conferencing Issue.

BY Michael Valkevich
Relevancy Score: 19

Much in the way social media has acquired quite the blemished patina from passersby touching it, curiously, like a golden knickknack, the so-called 'virtual alternative' to business travel is a concept everyone has been, ...READ»

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New Urbanists Convene in "Sprawlanta" Seeking Solutions to "Bright Flight"

BY Greg Lindsay
Relevancy Score: 24

Musician David Byrne joins the HUD secretary and transportation specialists in an effort to reinvigorate city centers.READ»

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Search Engine Patched up!

BY Sheikh Imran Ahmed
Relevancy Score: 59

Jawoco.Com Search Engine got patched up yesterday. The Problem was related to the data center which caused UK, Russia and Dubai users a problem to search the web in proper platform.Jawoco.Com Developers are now seriously working on ...READ»

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A Guide to Dubai 4 Star Hotels

BY Harris Adam
Relevancy Score: 100

Dubai is a hub of luxury hotels and there are many 3 star, 4 star and 5 star hotels, located in the beach areas as well as other strategic areas of Dubai. The 4 star hotels in Dubai are world class luxury hotels, offer facilities like ...READ»

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Bridging the Modern and Middle East With Furniture Inspired by Bedouins

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 43

Swedish/German designer Katrin Greiling plumbs Arab traditions in her furniture designs.READ»

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Leaders Presents... Balanced Scorecard Forum 2010

BY Joey Fitts
Relevancy Score: 47

Joey Fitts chairs the BSC Forum 2010 in Dubai and will join Drs Kaplan and Norton for a 2 day masterclass. Fitts presents 3 sessions on The Social Strategist - explaining how new social media capabilities enable improved strategy formulation, communication and execution. www.leaderspresents.com/bscREAD»

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Why the Bipartisan Proposal for Biometric ID Cards Will Probably Fail

BY Addy Dugdale
Relevancy Score: 26

A pair of senators, one red, one blue, have today proposed a biometric ID system to "mend" immigration. It's part of a bipartisan immigration bill backed by President Obama, and proposes to replace everyone's social security cards ...READ»

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Video excerpt: Customer Intelligence @ Strategy Leaders Roundtable w/ Kaplan & Norton

BY Joey Fitts
Relevancy Score: 76

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerKNhodrao Joey Fitts discusses customer intelligence at the Strategy Leaders Roundtable with Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton at Palladium's Americas Summit in San Francisco in November 2009. Fitts cites cases of organizations utilizing both structured and unstructured information to gain competitive advantage. Included: the case of a leading cellular communications company who realized a savings of USD $2 Million per month, an example from the book he co-authored, Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution.READ»

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Rampant Lack of Trust Drives Employee Defections

BY Kate Sweetman
Relevancy Score: 16

Organizations today are in a tough spot, says Nick Holley, Director of the HR Centre of Excellence at Henley Business School in the UK. The solution lies not in the employee engagement survey but in the sincere actions of individual managers.READ»

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San Francisco's Old Bay Bridge to Become Gateway Park--Wacky Proposals Ensue

BY William Bostwick
Relevancy Score: 34

San Francisco plans a 50-acre park underneath the new Bay Bridge.READ»

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Floating Architecture Docks in Shanghai

BY William Bostwick
Relevancy Score: 18

SPARCH Architects adds a floating pod city to its giant cruise-ship terminal.READ»

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It's Alive! Faulders Studio's Building Proposal Grows Its Own Facade

BY William Bostwick
Relevancy Score: 73

Geotube is a proposal for Dubai (natch) that self-generates a salt-based skin with seawater.READ»

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