Abu Dhabi Hosts Thinkers’ Fête

By PRANAY GUPTE
Special to the Sun
October 26, 2007

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Of the 22 countries that constitute the Arab League, only three have formal diplomatic ties with Israel. The United Arab Emirates is not among them.

It would be fair to suggest, though, that the UAE — far more than Egypt, Jordan, and Mauritania, which maintain legations in Tel Aviv — is far more of an open society, far less hostile to Jewry, and much more welcoming to Western and, specifically, American, economic, political, and cultural interests. With a population of less than 5 million, of whom 80% are expatriates, the UAE is certainly a far more cosmopolitan place than practically any other Arab country, and one where there are virtually no restrictions on the nature of national discourse.

That was conspicuously evident during the four-day Festival of Thinkers that ended here late Wednesday. The idea was to expose young Emirati students to the world’s finest minds so they could better integrate into an evolving global culture, notwithstanding the fact that in the UAE no citizen is poor and no native really has to work for a living. The UAE, after all, pumps 2 million barrels of crude oil a day, has reserves of nearly 100 billion barrels of oil that will last at least 150 years, and will enjoy a surplus of more than $500 billion this year alone due to oil prices that have touched $90 a barrel.

At the heart of the festival was the notion that it isn’t enough for Emiratis to be born wealthy; it is far more critical to accelerate the cross-fertilization of ideas with the outside world. The festival attracted 16 Nobel laureates, and more than 100 thinkers, including American and New York luminaries such as the astronaut Buzz Aldrin; the president of the International Longevity Center, Dr. Robert Butler; the president of Cooper Union, George Campbell; the founder of NewYorkSocialDiary.com, David Patrick Columbia; the chairwoman of the New York Institute of Technology, Linda Davila; the editorial director of American Media, Bonnie Fuller; the president of the Institute of International Education, Allan Goodman, who also administers the Fulbright Program; the editor of Discover magazine, Bob Guccione Jr., and the CEO of Prudential Douglas Elliman, Dottie Herman. Also attending were the executive vice president of Edelman Financial Communications, Kathleen Lacey Hoge; the editor of Reader’s Digest, Jacqueline Leo; the senior editor of Vogue, Shirley Lord; the president emeritus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Paul Marks, and his wife, the Sarah Lawrence geneticist, Dr. Joan H. Marks; journalist Judith Miller; literary agent Lynn Nesbit; the president of Hunter College, Jennifer Raab; the president of Business for Diplomatic Action, Keith Reinhard, who is chairman emeritus of DDB Worldwide; the president of the New York Times Company Foundation, Jack Rosenthal; the president of the New York Academy of Sciences, Ellis Rubinstein; the CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Carl Schramm; President Kennedy’s closest adviser and speech writer, Theodore Sorensen; the president of Ursinus College, John Strassburger, and the head of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, Marion Wiesel.

They may have been surprised at the warmth with which His Highness Sheik Nahayan Mabarak al-Nahayan, the biennial festival’s founder and the UAE’s minister of higher education, received the guests, many of whom are Jewish. Mrs. Wiesel sat next to the sheik at last night’s farewell dinner. The Oxford-educated sheik, a member of Abu Dhabi’s royalty, put it this way: “We have had a record of trading with the world from ancient times, and we want to be even more open to the world in this age of globalization. Some might say that we are moving too fast. But change is the order of the day, and our country wants to play its role in promoting global peace, security, and progress.”

The role has many dimensions. Dubai, one of the seven sheikdoms that formed the UAE in 1971, has transformed itself into a glitzy metropolis; its financial institutions have taken stakes in Nasdaq and other bourses. The more conservative Abu Dhabi, which possesses more than 90% of the UAE’s reserves of crude oil and natural gas, has decided to concentrate on developing institutions of culture, science, technology, and education.

It has already arranged to support the establishment of an outpost of New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which will be designed by the Los Angeles-based architect Frank Gehry. It has invited the Louvre to plant roots here. Sheik Nahayan inaugurated the Nobel Museum a couple of days ago. New York University has agreed to start a campus in Abu Dhabi. In addition, The New York Sun has learned that the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Peter Gelb, is being asked to come over to begin discussions to create a branch of his institution in this city of parks, palm trees, and beaches at the edge of what the Emiratis prefer to call the Arabian Gulf.

Clearly, Sheikh Nahayan seeks closer ties with New York’s cultural and intellectual establishment, and American participants at the festival came away with the impression that the UAE — a traditional American ally that hosts the largest American naval base outside America itself — represents a role model among Arab states, even if its governance is by family rule and not in the style of Westminster or Washington democracy.

Of course, every aspiring institution builder in the world seems to want the UAE’s money: At the festival, for instance, Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs seized the microphone at three major events on the opening day, repeated his signature mantra of protecting the global environment and alleviating global poverty, and then promptly proceeded to get signed commitments from the organizers to host a science and technology summit here next year.

Professor Asad Abidi Develops A Universal Chip for Cell Phones

A Universal Chip for Cell Phones

News : A universal radio antenna receives all kinds of signals traveling through the air  some strong, some weak  and all at different frequencies.

In order to convert every analog signal to digital signals, a chip would require an analog to digital converter that burns “several hundred watts” of power, says Prof. Abidi far too much for a portable device.

Therefore, his team used a modified version of SDR that exploits the fact that not all incoming signals need to be converted at once. People are usually interested in only one channel at a time, he says, such as using Wi Fi or talking via a specific frequency on a cellular network.

So Abidi research group incorporated a type of device – previously used only in obscure applications into their circuit that’s able to examine the vast range of radio frequencies, pick out the band of interest, and emphasize it, while de emphasizing the others. In essence, this device – what engineers call a “wideband anti aliasing device” – is able to access the spectrum and focus on a single band, so that only small amounts of analog information need to be converted to a digital signal. By building band choosing into the circuit, the analog to digital conversion takes only tens of milliwatts of power, Professor Abidi says.

Their advance, he notes, starts from discovering the potential for this previously under used wideband anti aliasing device and integrating it with other wide band circuit components to build a complete receiver. “The concept had been around for a while,” he explains, “but no one saw how powerful it would be for software defined radio applications.”

“A chip that sorts out the incoming signal such as Prof. Abidi’s is the type of technology that could help SDR become a reality in cell phones”, says Bruce Fette, chief scientist of communication networks at General Dynamics C4 Systems, a company that builds large software defined radio equipment for military use. And the idea of SDR is becoming more attractive to the mobile device industry, he says, because it provides so much more flexibility in the functions of a single device, ranging from using the same cell phone all over the world, to having a PDA unlock your car door.

Prof. Abidi says there’s still more research to be done before the chip is ready for commercial applications. For one thing, his team has only solved the problem of converting incoming analog to digital signals over such a wide range of frequencies.

Wireless devices must also transmit an outgoing analog signal. A truly universal chip will need to convert outgoing signals from digital to analog form over a similarly wide range of frequencies. Still, his team has solved the most difficult part of the problem by addressing the receiver, Prof. Abidi says. Incoming signals are much more complicated because, with a receiver, “you’re listening to the whole world,” he says, whereas “with transmitters, you’re not contending with unwanted signals.”

Prof. Abidi and his team hope to smooth out the remaining technical issues with their universal chip by late summer. From there, the work of other researchers who design the digital processor and software for SDR will come into play, he says. Professor Abidi estimates that all these pieces will come together for a prototype sometime next year. And, he says, a universal chip could be in handheld wireless gadgets within three to five years.

Source : http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16756&ch=infotech
Information: (AA) research group comes with a single chip advanced mobile phone
Note : (AA) UCLA research group = Asad Abidi research group at UCLA More
Information: http://www.icsl.ucla.edu/aagroup/
 
Professor Asad Abidi

Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc. (with Honors) degree from Imperial College, London, U.K. in 1976, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and 1981, respectively.

He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1981 to 1984 as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is Professor.

He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in 1989. His research interests are in CMOS RF design, data high speed analog integrated circuit design, conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing.

Dr. Abidi was the Program Secretary for the International Solid State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990, and General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary of the IEEE Solid state Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.

Dr. Abidi received an IEEE Millennium Medal. He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award. He was a corecipient of the Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid state Circuits Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award at the 1996 International Solid state Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997 ISSCC, and the Design Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation Conference, and received an Honorable Mention at the 2000 Design Automation Conference. 

Office: 53 143, Eng. IV, UCLA

Homepage: http://www.icsl.ucla.edu/aagroup/aaa

Biography: http://www.icsl.ucla.edu/aagroup/cv.html

Students:
Abbas Amirichimeh (Ph.D. Student)
Abbas Amirichimeh received his B.Sc. (with Honors) in Electrical Engineering with emphasis on Microelectronics from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, and ranked 4th in the class of 1988. During his bachelors program, he worked on several projects including a “Low Frequency Digitized Sweep Generator”. Abbas was with the Air Force for 5 years working on a G&C system before he joined Center for Advanced Electron Devices and Systems (CAEDS), University of Texas at Arlington in 1994 where he worked as a research assistant on 0.5 micron GaAs MESFETs and passive components at the device level and designed several monolithic wideband amplifiers. He received his Masters degree in GaAs MMIC circuits and technology with G.P.A 4.00 in 1995. Abbas was with Intel High Performance Architecture Group (IAG) in Portland, Oregon, from 1996 to 2000 working as an integral member of High-Speed Circuit Group (Fireball) in Pentium 4 development team (Willamette) where he developed and designed the Scheduler Scoreboard Unit (SSU) Fireball critical circuitries running at 2X the frequency of the rest of the chip, custom circuits and layouts running at 3GHz+ on Intel’s 0.18 micron process. Abbas joined Broadcom Networking Business Unit, Irvine, California, in 2000 and has been designing 10Gb/S SERDES chips since then. He joined UCLA Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (ICSL) in fall 2002 where he is working toward his Ph.D. degree in the field of Analog Circuit Design. His research interests are RF, Analog and Mixed-Mode Circuits.
Abbas has been a member of IEEE since 1987 and has published a paper in “2000 Intel Design and Technology Conference (IDTC)” on “High frequency on-die interconnect modeling”, and a paper in  “1996 International Conference on GaAs Manufacturing Technology,” on “Electrostatic discharge protection for GaAs devices and MMIC circuits”.
 
 

Rahim Bagheri (Ph.D. Student)

Rahim Bagheri received the B.Sc. (Ranked First) in EE and M.S. in BioElectric both from Sharif University of Technology,Tehran,Iran in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He joined UCLA in 1999, studying toward his Ph.D. and was a Graduate Student Researcher in MOSFET Research Lab (UCLA,1999-2000) working on deep submicron CMOS devices. He was at Valence Semiconductor, Irvine, as a senior design member of wireless group(2000-2001). His current research is the design of High Efficiency Linear RF Transmitters in ICSL, UCLA.
Rahim is the recipient of Gold Medal in national physics olympiad (IRAN) and Honorable Mention Diploma in the XXIV International Physics Olympiad,Virginia, USA. 
Homepage: www.icsl.ucla.edu/~rahim
 
 

Rodney Chandler (M.S. Student)
Rodney Chandler received the B.E. (Electrical and Electronic) from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1998. From 2001-2003, Rodney worked for Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit (formerly Radiata) in Sydney, Australia, designing Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) and analog baseband filters. This work resulted in two patents related to design of ADCs. He joined the Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (ICSL) at UCLA in Fall 2003, and is currently studying for the M.Sc. degree. His research interests are high speed Analog-to-Digital converters, wireless transceivers for high speed networks, and analog filters. Rodney plans to continue to the Ph.D. degree, after completing the M.Sc.

Jae-Hong Chang (Visiting Scholar)
Jae-Hong Chang was born in Republic of Korea. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic engineering at Kyungpook national university, Daegue, Korea, in 1998 and the M.S. degree in EECS at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea in 2000, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in EECS at KAIST. He was at RF CMOS TEAM in ETRI, Daejeon, as a part time engineer (2000-2002). His current research interests include the RF CMOS IC design, passive and active device modeling and RF MEMS. He received the Silver Prize in 9th 2003 Samsung Humantec Thesis Award.

Saeed Chehrazi (Ph.D. Student)

Saeed Cheharzi received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2001 and his M.S. from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. His research interests are RF, Analog and Mixed Mode Circuit Design.
Saeed was the Software Committee chair of the International Millennium Seminar on Electrical Engineering (IMSEE) held at Sharif Univ. of Tech. on March 1-3, 2000. He received the UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship for Fall 2001.

Mohammad Esmaeil Heidari (Ph.D. Student)

Mohammad Esmaeil Heidari received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1995 and MS degree in electrical engineering in 1997 both from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Emad Semiconductor Co., designing CMOS analog IC for high precision data converters, analog filters and power amplifiers. He joined Valence Co. in 2000 and was involved in the design of analog sections of Codec for telephony applications.  He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (ICSL), University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests are in the area of low power CMOS RF transceivers, low phase noise Phase Locked Loops and Delta-Sigma data converters. 

Aly Ismail (Ph.D. Student)

Aly Ismail received his B.Sc. and M.S.degrees both in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1998 and 2000 respectively. Since September 2000, he has been with the University of California, Los Angeles as a Graduate Student Researcher. In January 2002, he joined Conexant Systems where he was working on the design of BICMOS RF circuits for cellular systems.
He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in integrated circuits and systems, his research is involved in the design of Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) receivers in CMOS technology. 

Minjae Lee (Ph.D. Student)

Minjae Lee received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees both in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1998 and 2000 respectively.
He was a consultant with GCT semiconductor, Inc., and Silicon Image Inc., designing analog circuits for wireless communication and digital signal processing blocks for Gigabit Ethernet. He joined Silicon Image Inc., in 2001, developing Serial ATA product. Since 2003,  he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree in the field of analog and mixed mode circuit design at ICSL, UCLA.

Ahmad Mirzaei (Ph.D. Student)

Ahmad Mirzaei was born in Tabriz, Iran, in 1978. He received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees (with honors) both in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2000 and 2002 respectively. He was working in Novin Rayaneh and Emad Company in designing of high speed data-converters and  RF frequency synthesizers. He is currently studying toward his PhD. in Electrical Engineering at University of California at Los Angeles. His main research interests include high speed analog integrated circuit design, high speed low-voltage ADCs, RF integrated circuit design and High-Frequency Gm-C Filters. He was the winner of Silver Medal in National Mathematical Olympiad in 1996, and was the first rank in Student Olympiad in Electronics in Iran in 2002. He was also the first rank in National University Entrance exam in Iran in 2000.

Sohrab Samadian (Ph.D. Student)

Sohrab Samadian received his B.Sc. in electrical engineeing from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1998 and his M.Sc. from UCLA in 2002 where he’s pursuing his PhD degree. His research interests are RF and analog circuit design and low power frequency demodulators. He worked on a direct conversion receiver for Bluetooth and especially on a low power demodulator for his Masters. Sohrab is currently with Sequoia Communications, San Diego working on 3G transceivers. Sohrab is the recepient of the design contest award at International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2002 and the design contest award of the 16th International conference on VLSI Design, India, 2003 for his work on low power GFSK demodulator. He also received APSIH’s award of excellence in engineering education in April 2003.
Zheming Li (Ph.D. Student)
Shervin Moloudi (Ph.D. Student)

Alumni: Hooman Darabi (Ph.D., 1999)
Hooman Darabi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1972. He received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1994 and 1996 respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He is currently a principle scientist in Broadcom Corporation, El Segundo, CA. His interests include analog and RF IC design for wireless communications. 

Emad Hegazi (Ph.D., 2002)

Emad Hegazi received his M.S. from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1998 and his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. He joined UCLA Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab. in 1998. His Ph.D. research was focused on Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer Design. His research interests are Low Phase noise VCO design,  Nonlinear Circuits, Frequency Synthesizer design and optimization methods. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University, Egypt.
Emad is the recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Pre-doctoral Fellowship award (2001-2002) and ADI Outstanding Student Designer Award from Analog Devices Inc., 2000. He has received the UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship for 1999 and the Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering Award from UCLA.
Homepage: http://www.icsl.ucla.edu/~emad

Ali Karimi (Engineer Degree, 2001)

Ali Karimi was born in Tehran, Iran in March 1974. He received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees (highest honors) in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He received the Engineer Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in March 2001 focusing on researches about 2.4GHz WLAN and 2.1GHz WCDMA receivers. His area of interests include analog IC’s for communication either wireless or optical applications.
Homepage: http://www.icsl.ucla.edu/~karimi

Daniel Q. Sun (Ph.D., 2004)

Daniel Qicheng Sun received B.E. in 1989 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.Eng. in 1996 from National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in eletrical engineering at University of California, Los Angeles. In 1989-1993, he was with the National Lab on Digital Microwave Communications at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. In 1996, he joined Data Storage Insitute, Singapore, where he was engaged in the circuits design of the first MDFE read channel. Since 1997, he has been a Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA. His research interests include high-speed mixed-signal IC design, HDD read channels, signal processing and communications. 

Andrea Xotta (Visiting Scholar, 2002)
Andrea Xotta received his “Laurea” degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from University of Padova, Padova, Italy in 1999, where he is currently a Ph.D. Student. His Ph.D. research activity is focused on development of analog turbo decoder for Hard Disk (HD) applications. His research interests include continuous-time filters, sampled-data analog filters and analog turbo decoders. 
Asad Abidi Group Members

Kashif Asad Ahmed
Farbod Behbahani (Ph.D. )
Anthony Brewster
Jing Cao
Patrick Chan
Glenn Chang
James Yung Chang
Jeffrey Chang
Paul Jinyung Chang
Michael Choi (Ph.D.)
William Colleran
Siavash Fallahi
Ramon Gomez
Koichi Hoshino
Karapet Khanoyan
Jikun Kim
Kwang-Young Kim
Haruo Kobayashi
Alexandre Rudolf Karl
Jaesup Lee
John Cumming Leete
Yoan-Tsang Liaw
Danny Daysang Loh
David John Loh
Patrick Pai
Hui Pan (Ph.D.)
Jacob Jude Rael
Ahmadreza Rofougaran (Ph.D.)
Maryam Rofougaran
Thomas Spargo
Wade Jay Stone
Shahrzad Tadjpour (Ph.D.)
Wee-Guan Tan
Chun Sei Tsai
Tyson Tuttle
Myles H. Wakayama
Yun-Ti Wang
Chun-Kai Wei
Joanne Joh-Mei Wu

Information as publishde by Prof. Asad Abidi group in 2005

مجموعة خدمات إتصالات الأعمال من شبكة شركة إتصالات

مجموعة خدمات إتصالات الأعمال من شبكة شركة إتصالات في الإمارات

خدمة الرسائل النصية القصيرة إلى الفاكس وإلى البريد الإلكتروني SMS 2 fax & Email تتيح هذه الخدمة لمشتركي الهواتف المتحركة “جي اس ام” المدفوعة مقدما “واصل” والمدفوعة بموجب فاتورة- ـ وسيلة سهلة ومريحة لإرسال الرسائل النصية القصيرة إلى الفاكس والبريد الإلكتروني. ـ إرسال الرسائل النصية 160 حرفاً / رقماً / رمزاً بحد أقصى لكل رسالة – ـ إلى أي رقم فاكس أو عنوان بريد إلكتروني من هواتفهم المتحركة. ـ

خدمة المرسال للرسائل للهواتف العادية- ـ Al Mersal Message Service DEL تعد خدمة المرسال للرسائل بمثابة خدمة متطورة للرد تتوفر لكافة مشتركي الهواتف العادية. ـ ويمكن اعداد الخدمة على نحو يلبي كافة احتياجاتك وتتيح لك مزايا البريد الصوتي مثل تلقي الرسائل الواردة وتسجيلها في حالة انشغالك أو عدم وجودك . ـ

خدمة التراسل اللامتزامن للبيانات – إيه تي ام Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM تعتبر تقنية التراسل اللامتزامن للبيانات إيه تي ام- ـ أحدى تقنيات النطاق الواسع التي تهيىء وسيلة لنقل البيانات باستخدام مجموعة واسعة من التطبيقات عبر شبكة واحدة لنقل أنواع متعددة من الحركة كالبيانات والصور والصوت والفيديو ضمن تسهيلات مشتركة تمكن المستخدمين من ربط شبكاتهم الحالية بغض النظر عن تباينها واختلاف تشكيلاتها

خدمة بث الرسائل القصيرة بالجملة بالأعداد الكبيرة- ـ Bulk SMS Push – Arabic صممت خدمة الرسائل القصيرة بالأحجام الكبيرة خصيصاً للشركات والمؤسسات وموفري الخدمات وموفري المحتوى والتطبيقات الذين يحتاجون لإرسال إعداد كبيرة من الرسائل النصية القصيرة شهرياً اما لتوفير خدماتهم إلى عملائهم أو لتطوير التواصل المباشر داخلياً او مع عملائهم او شركائهم. ـ

الخدمــــة 600 استرجاع المعلومات في شكل رسائل مسجلة عبر نظام الاستجابة الصوتية التفاعلية- ـ

الخدمة 600 من الخدمات الملائمة التي تتيح للمشتركين استرجاع المعلومات في شكل رسائل مسجلة عبر نظام الاستجابة الصوتية التفاعلية IVR- ـ أو من خلال مركز الاتصال. ـ وتشمل استخداماتها الشائعة الخدمات المصرفية الهاتفية حيث يمكن لعملاء البنوك القيام بمعاملاتهم المصرفية عبر الهاتف كما يمكن استخدامها من قبل محطات التلفزة والإذاعة والشركات والمؤسسات التي ترغب في توفير المعلومات إلى عملائها بسهولة وعلى نحو يومي مثل البعثات الدبلوماسية المعلومات بشأن التأشيرات- ـ والدوائر الحكومية والمراكز المختلفة التي توفر خدمات المساعدة. ـ

خدمة قارئ البريد الإلكتروني Email Reader Service إن خدمة قارئ البريد الإلكتروني من التطبيقات السهلة الاستخدام التي تتيح للمستخدمين التنقل عبر رسائل بريدهم الإلكتروني باستخدام الصوت الطبيعي. ـ يمكن للمستخدم أن يبقى على اتصال دائم مع جميع أصدقائه وعائلته وزملائه طوال اليوم, وتوفر هذه الخدمة تقنية حديثة لتحويل النص إلى حديث, الأمر الذي يتيح قراءة رسائل البريد الإلكتروني للمستخدمين عبر الهاتف. ـ

خدمات الفاكس المحسن Fax Plus Service خدمات الفاكس المحسن هي خدمة لتخزين وإرسال رسائل الفاكس بصورة آلية صممت لتوفير وسيلة اتصال تتميز بالسهولة والسرعة من خلال جهاز الفاكس . ـ

الترحيل بالإطارات : خدمة خط الوصول المنفرد للأعمال والشركات للترحيل بالإطارات Frame Relay تقدم خدمة مرحل الإطار حلاً اقتصادياً يوفر بيئة مشتركة لدمج شبكات المناطق المحلية عالية السرعة مع تطبيقات ارسال البيانات بالحزم الأقل سرعة من خلال خط وصول منفرد. ـ

باقـة “إشـعار” GSM Ishaar Package – arabic تضـم باقـة “إشـعار” ثلاث من خدمات القيمة المضافة الخاصة بالهواتف المتحركة “جي اس ام” وهي انتظار المكالمـات وخدمـة المؤتمر من ثلاثة أطراف والإشعار بورود رسالة بريد إلكتروني على جهاز الهاتف المتحرك “جي اس ام” من خلال رسالة نصية قصـيرة . ـ

خدمة الرسائل متعددة الوسائط ـ ام ام اس- ـ MMS خدمة الرسائل متعددة الوسائط ـ ام ام اس- ـ هي نسخة للجيل التالي من خدمة الرسائل النصية القصيرة اس ام اس – ـ. ـ لا تتيح هذه الخدمة إرسال وتلقي الرسائل النصية فحسب ولكن تمكنك أيضا من إرسال الصور والرسوم والمشاهد القصيرة للفيديو كليب والأغاني. ـ وبوصفك أحد المستخدمين لخدمة الهواتف المتحركة التي تقدمها اتصالات ، يمكنك إرسال واستقبال الرسائل متعددة الوسائط من هاتفك المتحرك المتوافق مع تقنية ام ام اس – ـ إلى هاتف متحرك آخر متوافق أيضا مع هذه التقنية والى عناوين البريد الإلكتروني. ـ

الشبكة الرقمية للخدمات المتكاملة ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network -ISDN توفر الشبكة الرقمية للخدمات المتكاملة أحدث التوصيلات البينية الرقمية لدعم مجموعة واسعة من الخدمات بما فيها خدمات الصوت والفيديو والبيانات. ـ

خدمات الاستجابة الصوتية التفاعلية Interactive Voice Response توفر اتصالات خدمة الاستجابة الصوتية التفاعلية وهي خدمة مميزة تتيح للجمهور الوصول آلياً إلى خدمات ومزايا الاتصالات بمنتهى السهولة والراحة. ـ

خدمة المكالمات الخارجية المجانية International Toll Free Service – Arabic تسمح للشركات في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة بتلقي مكالمات مجانية خارجية. ـ وتكون المكالمة مجانية بالنسبة للمتصل من تلك الدولة. ـ وتحتسب تكاليف المكالمة على المشترك في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة . ـ تحتسب رسوم المكالمات حسب الرسوم الكاملة للمكالمات الدولية المباشرة. ـ لا تحتسب الرسوم المخفضة للمكالمات الدولية المباشرة . ـ

خطوط الإتصال المؤجرة – حلول الأعمال التجارية Leased Circuits الدوائر المؤجرة عبارة عن قناة اتصال مخصصة بشكل دائم بين نقطتين أو أكثر. ـ وتتوفر مقابل إيجار شهري حصرياَ من قبل المؤسسة التي تستأجرها . ـ

مباشر- خدمة الجيل الثالث لاتصالات الهواتف المتحركة Mubashir – 3G – Arabic “مباشر” من اتصالات هي الجيل الأحدث من أجيال تقنيات اتصالات الهواتف المتحركة وهو ما يعرف عالمياً بـالجيل الثالث 3G- ـ. ـ

شبكة تحويل البيانات بالحزم – حلول الأعمال التجارية Packet switched data network شبكة تحويل البيانات بالحزم، تتيح ارسال البيانات من نظام اتصالات معين على شكل حزم متسلسلة إلى نظام استقبال. ـ وهذا ما يجعل خدمة ” إمدان” حلاَ مثالياَ لمؤسسات الأعمال التي تحتاج إلى إرسال بيانات متوسطة الحجم إلى جهات داخل الإمارات العربية المتحدة أو خارجها. ـ وبهذا، فإن هذه الخدمة تلبي الحاجة إلى وجود اتصال سريع ودقيق ومعقول التكاليف لنقل البيانات. ـ كما توفر التكامل التام للبيانات وميزة تصحيح الأخطاء تلقائياَ. ـ خدمات النداء Paging Services طرحت خدمات النداء بدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة عام 1988م. ـ تتيح هذه الخدمات للمشتركين البقاء على اتصال مباشر مع أسرهم وأصدقائهم ومكاتبهم عبر وسيلة بسيطة واقتصادية. ـ

خدمة” اضغط لتتحدث” Push to Talk – arabic تعتبر خدمة” اضغط لتتحدث” واحدةبفضل تقنية ” Push to Talk ” يمكن تحويل جهاز الهاتف المتحرك إلى جهاز لاسلكي محمول “ووكي – توكي ” مما يتيح للأفراد والمجموعات التواصل مع بعضها البعض . ـ تمكن هذه التقنية المستخدم من اختيار أي فرد أو مجموعة ممن تم تخزين أرقامهم على جهاز هاتفه المتحرك والتحدث معه أو معهم بمجرد الضغط على زر مخصص لهذا الغرض ومباشرة التحدث ثم تحرير الزر حيث يتم نقل الرسالة الصوتية للمتلقين بصورة فورية. ـ

الخدمة 500 Service 500 الخدمة 500 هي خدمة الوصول إلى البيانات عبر الشبكة الهاتفية وتتوفر من خلال الشبكة الهاتفية العامة التابعة لاتصالات سواء عبر خطوط الهاتف العادية أو عبر الشبكة الرقمية للخدمات المتكاملة ISDN. ـ

الخدمة 9000 للشركات خدمة الإستجابة الصوتية التفاعلية- ـ Service 9000 تتوفر الخدمة 9000 للشركات التي ترغب في تقديم معلومات أو محتويات إلى المتصلين في شكل خدمة الإستجابة الصوتية التفاعلية الرد الهاتفي الآلي أو تقديمها مباشرة من شخص لآخر . ـ ويمكن أن تغطي هذه المعلومات أو المحتويات مجالات إجتماعية أو ثقافية أو تعليمية أو مالية أو رياضية أو إخبارية يقوم مزود الخدمة بإختيار الرسم المحتسب على كل دقيقة والمطبق علي الخدمة , بينما تتولي إتصالات مسؤولية التحصيل و المشاركة في الإيرادات مع موفر الخدمة . ـ

خدمة بث الرسائل النصية القصيرة إس إم إس- ـ SMS Broadcast – Arabic خدمة بث الرسائل النصية القصيرة إس إم إس- ـ – طريقة سريعة ومبسطة و مناسبة التكلفة للبقاء على اتصال مع موظفيك وزبائنك والموردين الذين تتعامل معهم. ـ

الخدمات الإضافية للخطوط الهاتفية العادية Supplementary Services DEL توفر الخدمات الاضافية للهواتف العادية سواء كان هاتف منزلي أو هاتف خاص بالعمل العديد من المزايا التي تلائم احتياجاتك. ـ يتم الاشتراك في أي من هذه الخدمات اما عبر الاتصال بالرقم 182نظام الاستجابة الصوتية التفاعلية- ـ , حيث يتوفر الاشتراك مجاناً أو من خلال زيارة أحد مكاتب اتصالات. ـ تحتسب رسوم ايجار ربع سنوي رمزية وتختلف من خدمة إلى أخرى. ـ

خدمة التلكس TELEX Service التلكس هو نظام لارسال واستقبال الرسائل النصية، خضع للفحص والتجربة، وكان له خلال العقود الماضية أثراً بارزاً على الأعمال والتجارة الدولية. ـ

خدمة الاتصال الهاتفي المجاني الرقم 800- ـ Toll Free Service تتوفر خدمة الهاتف المجاني بيسر لكبرى شركات ومؤسسات قطاع الأعمال مثل شركتك، وتمكنك من تزويد عملائك بخدمة هاتفية مجانية وسهلة الاستخدام. ـ وكمشترك في هذه الخدمة المتميزة ستتمتع بالحصول على رقم هاتفي مجاني يبدأ بـ800 بوسع جميع المتصلين الوصول إليه مجاناً، مما يجعل هذه الخدمة إحدى الوسائل الفعالة لتسويق منتجات وخدمات شركتك وسط قطاع أكبر من الجمهور. ـ وتعد أيضاً هذه الخدمة مثالية للشركات والمؤسسات التي بحاجة إلى تقديم المعلومات اللازمة لعملائها بصورة مستمرة . ـ

خدمة نقل الإشتراك من نظام الخدمة المدفوعة مقدما “واصل” الى نظام الخدمة المدفوعة بموجب فاتورة النظام العادي القديم للدفع حسب الفاتورة نهاية كل شهر- ـ WASEL to GSM Migration خدمة نقل الإشتراك هي خدمة جديدة تتيح للمشتركين الحاليين في خدمة ” واصل ” ً نقل اشتراكاتهم مجاناً إلى خدمة “جي اس ام” بنظام الفاتورة الشهرية مع الاحتفاظ بأرقامهم الحالية لخدمة “واصل” وببطاقات جي اس ام SIM- ـ الخاصة بالخدمة

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Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais: Punish Mockers of the Prophet … confront the smear campaigns against Islam.

Makkah Imam unish Mockers of the Prophet

P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News

JEDDAH,11 February 2006 — An influential imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah yesterday called for the imposition of stiff punishment on those daring to mock the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Delivering his Friday sermon, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais also emphasized the need to activate international resolutions that condemn and punish such crimes as defamation of religions and prophets.

“All Islamic countries have condemned this act of crime,” Al-Sudais told the faithful who packed the large mosque complex, referring to the blasphemous cartoons published by Western newspapers.

“We make a call from the podium of the Grand Mosque and the birthplace of Islam, on behalf of Muslims all over the world, that tough punishment should be imposed on those who make a mockery of the Prophet,” the imam said.

Sudais said Western countries and organizations were adopting double standards on the issue of Danish cartoons allowing abuse of Muslim sanctities and their Prophet.

“The repulsive cartoons depicting the Prophet have violated the sanctity of 1.5 billion Muslims around the world and their feelings…. This has exposed those who are actually promoting extremism, violence and hatred between peoples,” Sudais said.

He praised Muslims all over the world for standing up to the challenge and protesting the publication of cartoons.

Sudais told Islamic scholars and intellectuals to do more to spread themessage of the Prophet and his noble qualities and ideals. “We must seize this opportunity to spread the correct perspective of his noble life through publications and programs in various languages,” he added.

The imam called on wealthy Muslims to use their money to confront the smear campaigns against Islam.

Source : Arab News … 2006.02.11