egypt in comment and analysis
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment The keynote sessions on day three featured representatives of Australia, China and Egypt and then the lunch was funded by our very own Think London. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary offers some ideas. A couple of years ago at a technology conference in... [03 Jun 2008]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Offshoring, Cairo and KFC
Comment Egypt might be famous for its pyramids and mummies but it's not stuck in the past, as our perceptions of it might be. And Egyptian execs admit that foreigners - especially from the US - can't see any difference between Egypt and the Middle East. [14 Jun 2006]
3GSM Diary: The chillin' house, out of Africa and Olympic efforts
Comment There was talk of successes, of eight jobs created in Egypt for every one job in mobile, of farmers in the Congo no longer getting gypped on prices, of booming micro-businesses in rural areas across the Middle East and North Africa. [16 Feb 2006]
Radioactive: The next billion mobile users
Comment The majority of these handsets have now been delivered to the operators backing the GSM Association initiative, including BSNL and Bharti from India, GrameenPhone from Bangladesh, Thailand's AIS, Globe Telecom in the Philippines and Egypt's... [03 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.07.03
Round-Up And putting aside the obvious answers (Paris, Egypt, New York) the answer which the Las Vegas marketing machine want us to come up with is a resounding "Las Vegas, baby, yeah! As The Proclaimers once famously sang, in their improbable brogue: "When... [18 Jul 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Porn or no porn?
Comment In ancient Rome, Egypt, Greece and China sexual practices and publications were at least the equal of those today. Pornography of all types pre-dates the internet by a few millennia, so why do so many people consider the medium the cause of... [22 May 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Ingenious interfaces
Comment My correspondent pointed out that I had forgotten to mention papyrus, the reed based material used as paper particularly in Egypt. Are we missing chances to find better human-computer interfaces? Martin Brampton is given a history lesson. [21 Jan 2003]
The Director's Cut: Who needs managers anyway?
Comment In fact, thank goodness it wasn't around in ancient Egypt or they would never have got those pyramids built. However, as IT departments, we are still judged to a huge extent by our success at delivering projects. [22 Aug 2001]
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