I don't know if you've seen the broohaha, but there has been an almighty spat between members of the security industry and PC manuf...

(Photo credit: lipjin ) HSBC has, in a moment of rare brilliance, broken its IVR. Not that it was ever an IVR to write home about in ...

That's not a girl - it's a boy with some badly Photoshopped hair extensions. What an odd thing to do to a chocolate packet! What...

إلى العين وعودة (Photo credit: Abdulla Al Muhairi ) Some companies will do anything to get behind a trending topic these days...

clarity matters"" (Photo credit: atinirdosh ) EIDA, the Emirates ID Authority, has established a remarkable track record ...

Chuck Norris EX2 01 (Photo credit: (vhmh) ) You CAN disable the touchpad on a Samsung Series 5 Ultra notebook computer. One...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Sharjah police have an unusual case on their hands at the moment - someone's going around shooting...

English: Close-up image of TN panel display, Dell Mini 9, Magnification - 300 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Back in October last year, I...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Many, many years ago I was on a business trip to Austria when some loon or another decided to dump a dho...

Image via Wikipedia For some reason, the people at Dubai-based document imaging company Xeratek think using the sound of an ECG flatlin...

Image via Wikipedia I'm not sure I am aware of any organisation that is quite so skilled at ineptitude of the highest order a...

Image by bunky's pickle via Flickr I'm not sure what made the marketing team over at the UAE's National Bonds corpor...

Image via Wikipedia You might recall the brouhaha around Benihana Kuwait , the restaurant that sued blogger Mark Makhoul for posting a mild...

Back in the late nineties, I travelled to Beirut in the company of Microsoft's Middle East marketing manager to manage the opening of t...

Image via Wikipedia I know I've been going on about this, but it really is such a brilliant case study. The Great Sharjah Fuel Crisis co...

Image via Wikipedia Gulf News confirms what my eyes can see - EPPCO and ENOC stations in Sharjah have been sealed off today, shut down by t...

It can't get much worse than this. The latest development in the UAE's petrol shortage saga is that the Executive Council of Sharjah...

This is the front cover of today's Gulf News Paper Edition. You may notice that instead of the expected devastation captioned above, we...

Image via Wikipedia There's an interesting image in today's soaraway Gulf News that isn't posted up on its website (well, I coul...

I think we might get into an iterative link loop here, as this excellent piece on the maladroit gibbering gumboils over at HSBC by the Kipp ...