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Samsung Galaxy S III Goes for Sale Early in Dubai

Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone is set to make an official appearance on shelves in late May, yet it appears that some stores around the world are selling it early. In Dubai, the handset is already listed as available for acquisition, and it’s not just for pre-orders, a Reddit user has found out. Th...

22 May 2012
10:37 GMT

Quick Look: Spec Ops – The Line Demo (With Gameplay Video)

I can’t remember the last first-person shooter title that opened up with a shoot-out involving helicopters and skyscrapers, which might be a sign that developer Yager Development and publisher 2K Games are really aiming to introduce some innovation to a genre that has become so stale that even the new Call of D...

10 May 2012
18:21 GMT

FIFA Interactive World Cup Finals Take Place in Dubai, May 21 to 23

The 24 finalists of the FIFA Interactive World Cup will this year fly to the Jumeirah beach Hotel in Dubai in order to participate in the competition between May 21 and 23, after the same contest was staged in Los Angeles last year and in Barcelona in 2010. The official ambassador for the FIFA Interactive World Cup ...

19 April 2012
02:32 GMT

Report Puts iPhone 5 Release Date on June 15th

A highly speculative Monday feature by Dubai Media Incorporated claims Apple has provided all the clues that point to a June 15th unveiling of the next iPhone. Citing “recent developments” and “a good amount of common sense,” Emirates24|7 says we should have every reason to believe “tha...

2 April 2012
07:41 GMT

Dubai Announces Giant Solar Park

Dubai, one of the most tempting destinations for luxurious vacations, will green up its name in the near future, as part of a costly project seeking to open the nation's first solar park, in an attempt to reduce its coal and oil addiction. The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park is expected to provide up ...

10 January 2012
07:57 GMT

Dudu.com Fetches $1 Million, €769,000

The year is barely underway and the first million dollar domain sale has already been announced. Dudu.com was sold for $1 million, €769,000 to a Dubai company named, quite obviously, DUDU Communications. The company operates a social networking site that comes with built-in translation, enabling anyone in the ...

5 January 2012
11:41 GMT

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Flies In on October 11

Video game publisher Namco Bandai, hot on the heels of announcing some good financial results for the fiscal year 2011, has announced that the all-new Ace Combat: Assault Horizon has a launch date of October 11 in the United States and October 14 in Europe. The game will be launched on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft an...

12 May 2011
03:30 GMT

‘Spiderman’ Alain Robert Conquers World’s Tallest Tower, Burj Khalifa

Frenchman Alain Robert also goes by the name of “Spiderman” and a simple Google search will show that it has nothing to do with wearing a red and blue mask / costume. Known for his love of climbing some of the world’s tallest buildings, Robert has done it again. Since he’s always going for...

30 March 2011
14:51 GMT

The World’s Largest Panorama, Dubai in 45 Gigapixels

There seems to have been a veritable ‘gigapixel’ war brewing for these last few months, as world records for the largest panoramic images are being smashed at a break-neck pace. The record was at 18 gigapixels in December 2009, it became of 26 gigapixels in March 2010 and, now, it’s at 45 gigapixels...

4 May 2010
06:39 GMT

British Woman Assaulted, Then Jailed in Dubai

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world’s tallest building, the very pinnacle of modern architecture. It was just recently unveiled and, given the considerable investments poured into it and its exquisite style, it is already becoming the hot spot for tourists from all over the world. A couple of British citizen...

8 January 2010
06:06 GMT

New Spec Ops: The Line Goes to Dubai

2K has been rumored for a few weeks to be working on a new title in the old Spec Ops franchise and the Spike Video Games Awards offered it the perfect opportunity to show off the first trailer for the game, which is apparently casting the player in the role of United States Special Forces operatives sent to battle te...

15 December 2009
14:51 GMT

WinMo-Based I-Mate 810 to Be Launched in July

According to the latest news on the Internet, a new mobile phone running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system is expected to come to the market in the near future, namely the I-Mate 810. The handset has been spotted in the wild for the first time back in February, during the Mobile World Congress in...

19 June 2009
10:18 GMT

Meet the World's First Rotating Skyscraper

A growing agreement of opinions among architects worldwide holds that almost everything that could have been done with conventional construction techniques has been done. As proof, we have the City of Culture, in Galicia, Spain, a mind-boggling architectural complex, and the newest innovation – the first rotati...

17 February 2009
02:24 GMT

Microsoft Moves to the Oil “Center” of the World

The Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ CERAWeek 2009 event in Houston was the stage where Microsoft announced that it was moving the leadership of its Worldwide Oil and Gas Business to Dubai. The Redmond company is attempting to no less than secure a presence at the oil “center” of the world, rev...

11 February 2009
06:18 GMT

Resellers Adopting Look and Feel of Apple Retail Stores

While some resellers die at the hand of Apple, other authorized merchants thrive thanks to support from the Cupertino-folks themselves. ifoAppleStore is reporting that an authorized Apple reseller in London is set to move into a new 3,200 square-foot facility early next year. The site dealing exclusively with Apple...

22 December 2008
09:54 GMT

Hotel Managers in Dubai Hire Engineers to Cool Beaches

The Palazzo Versace Hotel, to be opened in Dubai, will be one of the most extravagant in the world and will feature large sunny beaches, to comfort all tourists that will visit it. But while constructing this luxury resort, managers found that the beaches near the building, which are heated in the summer by temperatu...

16 December 2008
07:10 GMT

Middle Eastern Businesses to Benefit from Security Threats

All types of Internet users, from large corporations to single individuals in Dubai, have to face a growing number of security threats, ranging from spam, to phishing and virus infections. This is something that security software provider Sophos has noticed all over the world, but in the case of the United Arab Emir...

18 July 2008
08:44 GMT

Sharon Stone Shows Us Her Fur... Again

Wait! Why has no-one told me they're doing an Adams Family remake starring Sharon Stone? I mean, I totally loved Angelica Huston's performance as Morticia, why have they replaced her with the queen of vagina-flashing on screen? Oh, OK, I got it, it's only Sharon Stone attending an event in Dubai - I wo...

11 December 2007
05:00 GMT


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