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Session I
Impact of Multinational Presence on the Development of the ICT Sector
This session was moderator by Dr. Sabri Saidam, President Advisor for Telecom, IT and Tech Education and featured Dr. Mashhour Abu Dakka, Minister of Telecommunication and IT. The session highlighted a presentation from the multinational company CISCO presented by Mr. Anthony Vonsee, General Manager for Cisco North Africa & the Levant. Other main speakers included Mr. Ibrahim Barham, CEO Safad, Mr. Maher Hamdan, CEO Paltrade and Ms. Gisel Hiscock, New Business Development team for Google Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The Speakers have made it a point that realistically, Palestine being under the Israeli occupation it will hamper the development of the economy. However, attracting multinational companies such as Microsoft and CISCO to invest in Palestine is a business and an economic decision where Palestine’s government and private sector have to develop its business case.

We heard a formula from the distinguished Speakers that the recipe for developing the business case starts internally. A holistic approach towards developing government regulation such as an independent telecommunication regulator, digital signature, catering for venture capital industry as part of the company registration and investment laws, also regulation for free zone culminating in Technoparks projects should drive an enabling and friendly environment as a first measurement for multinationals to consider investing in Palestine. As a first step to globalizing the ICT sector, the government has to invest in developing the infrastructure such as telecommunication, regulations, physical premises, human capital and in promoting innovation as well as entrepreneurship. continue

Upon invitation by PITA(Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies) and PICTI (Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator) and working with  the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership (UPP), Case Foundation and USAID, Google hosted a GPals day in Ramallah. On March 24th and 25th a Google team from around the world, provided cutting edge skills to more than 300 software developers and entrepreneurs.

The GPals day was spread across two days. The first day focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications using Google developer technologies. The day was also about bringing brilliant developers together to share their own ideas. Whereas day two was focused on a full review of Google product demonstrations for small or medium sized businesses to help spur innovation and entrepreneurship in the region which included a discussion on  how to create Arabic content using online tools, and how to use free Google applications (such as Google Docs) to better manage businesses. continue

In next few days Sadaf Technology Development Company will lunch a new unique internet project in Palestine and meddle east called ZAAD.

The hole meaning of ZAAD in the Arabic language that thing help the traveler and he need during the trip.

So if a one of us need to search for some information like “how to cook Mjadara” he may use Google search engine or msn to found any information related with “Mjaddra” and he will found many result about that ,the life became easy.

Therefore My Team in Sadaf Technology Development develops new solutions to help people to find specific information that not implement in search information like Google.

For example when any one needs to search about technology company in Palestine he will use Google or any search engine or directory but I sour he will can’t find good information.

But if you use ZAAD and just type “tech” in search box you will found not only many information but specific information like company name ,logo, contact numbers ,address’s ,emails, website and contact person and his title.

From this point we develop ZAAD and work hard on this project for five month to release it soon.

ZAAD team not normal team,All of us have a job in ZAAD and we complete each other.

Google launched today a new version of the Google Translation, which enables the user to translate words from Arabic into English and many different languages and become easy and even improved a mechanism to facilitate the use of the translation tool also included a number of amendments to the motherboard and acts as an addendum discharges names Tcetkvi not so much but also become was also translated by the words in the sentences of the same context and also added the possibility of his hearing the word translated audio to improve pronunciation and fluency effects.

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Here’s an extremtly nice pluign I found mentioned in AdesBlog. This Wordpress plugin turns your normal search string from: continue

If you are generating revenue off your website or blog, chances are you serve banner ads and they are either updated manually by adding the images and URLs into the source codes or with the help of external ad-serving scripts like OpenX or OIO Publishers.

Google has a similar web service, call the Google Ad Manager. In a nutshell, it is a simple (and free) web service that helps you manage banner ads. It also comes with a pretty complete inventory report module. Ad Manager integrates with AdSense, therefore webmasters have the ability to serve AdSense ads if there’s no banner for any particular slot. Here’s a quick look into advantages of Google Ad Manager: continue

OpenX Technologies, has announced that the company has experienced significant growth across its various product lines and in the size of its publisher community. As of December 2008, more than 300 billion ad impressions now run through OpenX’s open source software monthly. In addition, the company’s recently launched OpenX Hosted (Saas Version of OpenX) product has already achieved a more than 1 billion monthly ad impression run rate and generated 2,500 new publisher sign-ups, while the newest version of its core OpenX Ad Server has more than 10,000 active downloads and has achieved a 25 billion monthly ad impression run rate. The company also announced that the OpenX community now has more than 35,000 total publishers, a 25% year-to-date increase, and those publishers power more than 150,000 websites across the Internet. continue

How to install ruby on rails?

Ok, so this will basically be somewhat a repeat of the information made by Curt Hibbs in this great hands-on tutorial. However, the versions of all products changed from the time Curt made his tutorial, and in some areas I felt that additional description was required. So, in this tutorial you’ll get a step-by-step instructions on installing Rails on Windows 2000 Server (Windows XP would be very similar).

In order to have a fully working development environment, you can use your PC. You will need to install:

• Ruby - the language
• Ruby Gems - the plug-in manager for Ruby
• Scite or FreeRIDE - IDE for Ruby
• MySQL - the database
• MySQL query builder / MySQL admin tools - GUI to create databases, add users and create tables
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Have you ever wished that you could get more details of how your AdSense performance is going and wondered why Google AdSense and Google Analytics don’t have some way of talking to one another to give you more effective metrics?

Well it seems that the time is coming soon where you’ll be able to read AdSense stats in your Analytics reports. The kinds of stuff you’ll be able to see:

• Which pages on your blog get the most AdSense clicks
• Which pages have the highest CPM
• Which pages have the highest CTR
• AdSense graphs/trends
• Which traffic sources generate the highest income

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In the previous article of my i have addressed the some key issues of Google Ad Manager service . now i have found some pictures from monetizelab. currently this service is available only for some limited publishers only. Google ad manager service has a very good user interface as compare to Google’s current Ad sense interface. Google ad manager has one very good feature now publisher can put ads of other ad providers by using this service.

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