Google's wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy?Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during last week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable g More… |
Bahrain launches eContent award for 2013Bahrain Internet Society has announced the launch of Bahrain eContent Award 2013, which is an integrated part of the World summit Awards. The award, under the patronage of Deputy Premier and supreme Committee for Information and Communi More… |
Du, AUD in tie-up to launch scholarship schemeDu, a leading telecom operator in the UAE, will provide 300MBs Internet bandwidth to the American University in Dubai (AUD) until 2017, in return for which the higher education institution will provision du with scholarships. More… |
Enabling digital democracyThis article appeared in the May 2013 issue of The Gulf. When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake triggered minor tremors across Bahrain last month, the Gulf kingdom’s interior ministry reacted instinctively More… |
Syria cut off from Internet as civil war ragesInternet connections between Syria and the outside world were cut off on Tuesday, according to data from Google and other global Internet companies. Google's Transparency Report pages showed traffic to Google services pages fr More… |
Bahrain tops Arab world in media useMore Bahrainis read newspapers, books and magazines and listened to the radio compared to the rest of the Arab world, despite a major spike in Internet surfing across the region, a report said. However, the Internet has become the More… |
Dubai firm pays $2.8m fine for Syria deliveryA Dubai distribution company has agreed to pay a $2.8 million civil penalty for shipping embargoed US devices to the Syrian government to monitor and control internet traffic, according to US Department of Commerce documents seen by Reuters. More… |
Online marketing ‘can benefit SMEs in UAE’Online marketing strategies can benefit small businesses in the UAE, which represent 40 per cent of the nation's GDP, and help widen a company’s reach beyond its usual client base, said an expert. The SME landscape in th More… |
Home devices controlled by apps on the riseTired of checking the washing machine to see if a cycle has completed, or worrying that the lights were left on at home? Apps are increasingly helping people monitor and control objects remotely on their mobile devices. From Inter More… |
Viva Bahrain set to launch 4G LTEViva Bahrain, a leading telecom services provider, is putting final touches to its network in preparation for the upcoming launch of the high-speed wireless data technology known as 4G LTE, said a top official. Talk of what 4G LTE will More… |








