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As housing prices dip, six-year Dubai property boom comes to a halt 2008-12-11 02:10:15 House prices in Dubai
are likely to drop nearly 28 percent this year, due to sudden drop in demand. This puts a halt to the six-year property
boom that the emirate had been witnessing, reveals the survey report by Reuters.
The residential prices in Dubai will see a decline of 15 percent next year reveal the [...] Read more:comes
Dubai property boom halts as prices fall, jobs go 2008-12-11 00:50:29
By Jason Benham
DUBAI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Dubaiproperty
shares plunged and its biggest private developer slashed jobs this week as the global financial crisis tightened its grip on the tiny emirate, until now synonymous with the Gulf Arab real estate boom.
Dubai’s glittering skyline and luxury tourism sector have lured investors in droves over the [...]
HTC launches Touch Viva in the Middle East 2008-10-30 04:54:29 Published: October 11, 2008, 11:47
Dubai: HTC Corporation on Saturday announced the launch of the new HTC Touch Viva in Dubai.
The Touch Viva uses TouchFLO, HTC’s finger-touch optimised navigation experience enabling quick, one-touch access.
The Touch Viva blends an affordable touch phone with the benefits of HTC’s TouchFLO, an easy to use phone and an optimised mobile [...
UAE set to change domain name norm 2008-10-30 04:52:43 By Nadia SaleemStaff Reporter
Published: October 25, 2008, 23:33
Dubai: The UAE is set to become the first country worldwide to offer complete internet domain
names in a language other than English by late next year.
Currently, efforts to this end by some countries, like in China, have achieved only partial success since the .com part of the [...]
Dubai Mall is finally here 2008-10-30 04:50:56 By Kevin Scott, Staff Reporter
Published: October 28, 2008, 23:32
Dubai
: The aptly titled Dubai Mall opens at 10am on Thursday morning along with Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre, Dubai Ice Rink and The Gold Souk.
The flagship development from Emaar, part of the Downtown Burj Dubai development, covers an internal floor area of 5.9 million square feet [...]
100% of services online by 2010 - labour ministry 2008-10-19 09:11:43 on Sunday, 19 October 2008
ONLINE DRIVE: The labour ministry plans to have all its services available online
by 2010. (Getty Images)
The UAE Ministry of Labour expects to have 100 percent of its services available online by 2010, the ministry’s IT director said on Sunday.
“IT departments have now become the backbones of any organisation and we [...] Read more:services online
Dubai launches mobile phone barcode visas 2008-10-19 08:58:21 on Sunday, 19 October 2008
MOBILE VISAS: The DNRD has unveiled new technological advances in customer services at Gitex. (Getty Images)
The Dubai
Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) on Sunday unveiled several new technological advances in customer services, including a system that allows people entering the emirate to use a barcode sent to their phone
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Google to launch browser to compete with Microsoft 2008-09-02 04:08:49 At Google
, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser
, Google Chrome. As we [...] Read more:Microsoft
Dubai homeowners face impact of increased charges 2008-08-27 07:16:38 Homeowners in Dubai
have seen service charges for communal areas almost double in 2008. Developers have blamed this on the inflationary pressures being felt in the markets as the cost of raw materials and necessary utilities increase.
Residential service fees are often the ‘hidden’ charge placed on home owners living in community developments.
At present these are [...] Read more:impact