Archive for category: Features
Samer Marzouq / February 15, 2012 5:16 pm
13 Years ago, one of London’s renowned mad-men with the name Donald Gunn decided to launch an index that measures creativity in advertising in Madison Avenue and the planet where it exists, he launched the Gunn Report, which combines the winners’ lists from the most important award contests across the planet to create an annual index for the industry. According [...]
Samer Marzouq / January 28, 2012 11:49 pm
National Geographic is one of the greatest sources for amazing photography, I’m always fascinated by photos they publish and it’s a great opportunity to meet some of the photographers who captured our world at its best moments, National Geographic Abu Dhabi is organizing a Photography Seminar by the internationally renowned National Geographic Photographer George Steinmetz, the seminar is titled “Photomentaries” [...]
Samer Marzouq / December 20, 2011 8:47 pm
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center is inviting photographers to participate in the second edition of “Spaces of Light” photography contest, which is held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the competition is focused around the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi as a tribute to the late president of the UAE, HH Sheikh Zayed Bin [...]
Samer Marzouq / December 12, 2011 3:42 pm
DUBAI AIRSHOW 2011 FINAL STATS AND HIGHLIGHTS 2011 Airshow proves Middle East vibrancy Dubai, UAE. 11 December 2011 – This year’s Dubai Airshow has heralded a resurgence in the aerospace industry, with numbers up and an order book of US$63.3 billion, more than four times larger than the previous event in 2009 (US$14 billion in orders). The final statistics for [...]
Samer Marzouq / November 28, 2011 11:35 am
The GEMAS Effie MENA Awards 2011 was held last week at the Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, this year OMD was the most awarded agency with 10 awards. Below is the full list of winners in addition to a video and some photos of the awards night: GEMAS Effie MENA Awards 2011 Winners: The Grand Prix went to Interesting Times Beirut [...]
Samer Marzouq / November 19, 2011 5:14 pm
With an overwhelming number of visitors and a great number of deals, the Dubai International Motor Show 2011 closed with hopes for even a bigger event in 2013, the event attracted more than 100,000 visitors who enjoyed the latest offering from car manufacturers. The Dubai Motor Show witnessed the global launch of 9 new models, and 50 regional launches as [...]
Samer Marzouq / November 12, 2011 11:06 pm
2011 has been quite an interesting year for Research In Motion, the company tabbed into the tablet market with the launch of the PlayBook, the new operating system BlackBerry 7 was released accompanied with couple of new phones and the company celebrated a significant milestone by reaching 70 million subscribers around the world, but it’s not all peachy, a major [...]
Samer Marzouq / November 3, 2011 12:46 pm
Here is an interesting Android app that enables you to figure out the direction of the Holy City of Mecca using augmented reality, download the app, search for Mecca and scan the area around you until you see an arrow that points to the direction of the Holy City, check out this video:
Samer Marzouq / November 1, 2011 11:05 am
After the BlackBerry Tag announcement during GITEX, Research In Motion made its second global announcement from Dubai when it revealed the BlackBerry P’9981 during an event that was held in the 442-meter high At.mosphere Restaurant in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, great news for Dubai and BlackBerry team in the Middle East! The new phone, which was designed by Porsche Design, is [...]
Samer Marzouq / October 31, 2011 11:24 am
The second Berlin-Dubai Festival opened last Saturday at the Pavilion Downtown Dubai with the “Inspiration Berlin” fashion exhibition, during the event, which attracted fashion designers and lovers from both the UAE and Germany, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Dubai Klaus Ranner welcomed the audience and touched on the uniqueness of Berlin as a city and [...]