Hossam Hameed

Compaq executive Gianni Messora’s Dubai trip was planned to coincide with the recent launch of Compaq’s new Internet strategy, NonStop e-Business. Messora, vice president and managing director, business development group, Compaq Computer Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) is currently visiting Dubai to meet with regional Compaq staff, partners and customers. Compaq’s NonStop e-Business strategy […]

LINK Egypt, the leading ISP in the Middle East’s most competitive Internet markets (Egypt and Dubai), and its subsidiary LINK Development redesigned and deployed Microsoft Corp.’s Middle East website. The new design is aimed at providing visitors to the site with a richer experience and faster browsing capabilities. “LINK Development is pleased to have been […]

The inaugural Gitex Cairo 1999, which ended last Monday at the Cairo International Conference Centre, was deemed a resounding success by the regional IT community. The main exhibition attracted 30,000 IT professionals and businessmen and its retail partner, Cairo Computer Shopper, saw more than 38,000 public visitors streaming into the international debut of Gitex. Gitex […]

Cisco Systems recently urged delegates at a conference of Arab telecommunications operators and service providers to invest in integrated ‘multiservice’ data and voice networks to help create the new ‘virtual highways’ of the future. The New World of Communications and global competition is forcing many service providers to change or risk disappearing into obsolescence, according […]

With the rapid growth of e-commerce worldwide, there are increasing concerns over the security of transactions and the very integrity of the Internet. At seminars conducted during this year’s Gitex Cairo ’99, Ashok Sharma, director of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Middle East, explained the security issues that threaten all organisations in the Middle East […]

Middle East software firm Sakhr Software has announced the launch of its eagerly awaited Computer Aided Translation (CAT) system, designed for the Arab/English speaking market. Sakhr’s System is the first to apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) to both Arabic and English as source languages. It is expected to allow immense improvement in accuracy and productivity […]

Although e-commerce in the Arab region is facing many challenges, it has huge potential for Arab trade and industry if both government and private sectors pull together to support it. This was the message given by experts taking part in the Arab International Telecommunications Conference (AITEC 99) in Beirut . More than 150 top Arab […]

A high-level technology panel comprising senior officials from the Middle Eastern emirate Dubai’s government and private sector will visit Gitex Cairo, being held from April 2 to 5, 1999, to make a general evaluation of technologies displayed by major international IT companies. The panel will comb the exhibition for latest software, hardware, security systems, system […]