The Wireless Athens Group Zone – WAGZone, is a wireless local area network that’s built around 24 blocks of downtown in the small city of Athens, Georgia. It started as an experiment for the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute. The project took about 18 months to build. Having 9 Wi-Fi transmission boxes spread around the...
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In April 2003, a new Lebanese law concerning motor insurance was enacted. This law states that all cars on the Lebanese territory are to be insured for third party liability bodily injuries, so everyone had to pay the fee for this insurance. The problem with this new law is that it is unfair to those who already have insurance contracts that...
According to recent statistics and figures, the hotel sector in Lebanon currently seems to be an attractive one, offering many opportunities for investors. It is growing very fast, and since tourism in Lebanon is also improving, the hotel sector growth grows accordingly. This article, was written in 2003. In the past couple of years, the number of...
Nowadays, enterprises are realizing that it is really important to “know what they know” and make maximum use of that knowledge. The most valuable asset that companies in general have is the knowledge of their employees. Firms now realize how important this is, and are starting to focus more on the field of knowledge management for it...
Just because you’re the biggest doesn’t mean you’re the best.. at least not in my book. Perhaps you’re only the biggest because all the other competitors are dumb.. not because you’re great. Have you ever felt that way towards a certain company or business? I certainly have. Here are some fails and mistakes made by...
I was searching Amazon.com, when I finally found the CDs I’ve been looking for. Since I couldn’t find them in any local store, I had to buy them online using my credit-card. I was hesitant about the idea, but at the same time, I really wanted those CDs. I was hesitant because I’ve heard a lot of stories where hackers waited and...
The below article was written back in 2003 when aldukan.com was still new and promising. I never heard of that site again, nor did I ever bother to check if it still existed until now; more than 10 years later! No, it no longer exists. I wonder what went wrong… Was is too early and “new” for its time? Or did it run into financial...
The Green Paper aims to launch a wide debate and seek views on corporate social responsibility at European and international levels. The Commission is concerned in raising the standards of social development, environmental protection, and social rights… and hopes that the outcome of this initiative will be a new framework for the promotion...
Walking through Downtown Beirut on a Sunday afternoon, seeing all the people walking and sitting in the cafes all dressed up, looking at and being looked at by passers by, a CS 251 student can’t help but remember what he had learned about Impressionism and the bourgeois lifestyle of Paris during the late 1800s. Downtown Beirut...
Remember the social network Hi5?! It was one of the most popular social networks before Facebook. And the term “social network” wasn’t even commonly used at the time. Then Facebook was born and Hi5 died. Some of you may argue that Myspace was the most popular social network before Facebook.. but the truth is Myspace was mainly...