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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... [14 Jun 2006]
Egypt touts itself as next offshore outsourcing hot-spot
News Egypt is making a pitch to be the next offshore outsourcing hot-spot, claiming that its foreign language skills and low labour costs put the country in a strong position to compete with India and eastern Europe. [10 Feb 2006]
Photos: Egypt follows Bangalore's offshore lead
Photo Ancient Pharaohs and pyramids may be what Egypt is most famous for but the country is now making a charge to become the next high-tech offshore outsourcing hotspot for European and US multinationals... [10 Feb 2006]
Ancient Egypt goes online with IBM
News The Eternal Egypt project has created a centralised digital database of Egyptian historical and cultural resources taken from nine separate Egyptian sites and museums. The database includes 32 three dimensional, high... [26 Feb 2004]
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... [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. I wondered about how the ancient world coped with the laborious process... [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... [22 Aug 2001]
UK school children praised for multimedia skill
News The National Educational Multimedia Awards 1998 (Nema) saw the 11-14 year old category prize go to Laburnum Junior School in Hackney for an interactive historical guide to Ancient Egypt. The BBC and the... [15 Jul 1998]
