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Cyber Gear Launches New Division To Develop Social Applications On Facebook Platform.


Summary: Cyber Gear has launched a new division that specializes in developing customized social applications for web sites owners in the Middle East.

According to Sharad Agarwal, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Cyber Gear, "The web has gone social and even the Fortune 500 Companies are using Facebook to promote their online presence. It is high time that businesses in the Middle East start capitalizing from the growing popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts.  and MySpace. Our technical team has specialized in developing applications for clients so they can target the captive audience of Facebook to build brands and drive targeted customer traffic to their web sites. Our proprietary analytics software helps clients analyse the engagement matrix and efficiency of the Facebook applications in building online communities.

Cyber Gear has launched a new division that specializes in developing customized social applications for web sites owners in the Middle East.

According to Sharad Agarwal, CEO of Cyber Gear, "The web has gone social and even the Fortune 500 Companies are using Facebook to promote their online presence. It is high time that businesses in the Middle East start capitalizing from the growing popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Our technical team has specialized in developing applications for clients so they can target the captive audience of Facebook to build brands and drive targeted customer traffic to their web sites. Our proprietary analytics software helps clients analyse the engagement matrix and efficiency of the Facebook applications in building online communities.

Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution.  site in the world and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. Facebook has built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC (Remote Procedure Call) A programming interface that allows one program to use the services of another program in a remote machine. The calling program sends a message and data to the remote program, which is executed, and results are passed back to the calling  framework that allows us to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform."

The Cyber Gear technical team is using Ruby on Rails See Ruby. , JavaScript and Python as development tools to program customized applications and desktop widgets. Some of the popular applications being integrated in the web portals include Top Friends, Super Wall, Living Social, Causes, Marketplace, MyCalendar, Top Friends, iLike, Videos, Movies and Music.

Users of current generation Windows Mobile 6 phones and Blackberries can also use the Facebook applications. The mobile users can upload video to their Facebook pages directly from a phone. Users can also create wall posts, share photos, send messages and update profile pictures from the application.

About Cyber Gear (www.cyber-gear.com)

Since 1996, Cyber Gear has been a pre-eminent force in the web design and e-business industry. Positioned as an industry leader, Cyber Gear provides a range of Internet technology solutions to a large number of multinational and local organisations in the Middle East.

Cyber Gear clients include Grand Hyatt, Habtoor Hotels, Shell, Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered Bank (LSE: STAN, HKSE: 2888 ) is a British bank headquartered in London with operations in more than fifty countries. It operates a network of over 1,600 branches (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) and employs almost 60,000 , Dubai Bank, Majid Al Futtaim JCB JCB
Noun

trademark, Brit a large machine used in building, that has a shovel on the front and a digger arm on the back [initials of Joseph Cyril Bamford, its manufacturer]

JCB® n abbr
 Finance, Dubai e-Government, Dubai School of Government, Abu Dhabi National Hotels, NFO NFO Info File (file type extension)
NFO New Fund Offer
NFO National Farmers Organization
NFO Naval Flight Officer (US Navy)
NFO National Family Opinion
 World Group, Burger King, Cisco, Emirates Leisure and Retail, Kingdom Centre, Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale American department stores that is owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the elite luxury department store market with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New  and Safari Group in Riyadh, Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha, Cairo Festival City and Citystars in Cairo.

Cyber Gear's Portals Include:

www.Go-Green.ae - a 'green' community portal www.DIYadsOnline.com - self serve display advertising portalwww.MiddleEastPostBox.com - email marketing and SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM.

(2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server.
 messaging with an 'opt-in' database of over 750,000 subscribers www.MiddleEastEvents.com - dedicated portal for event and conference management companies www.MiddleEastDirectory.com - English language search engine in Middle East www.Click2Advertising.com - online Internet advertising agency In Middle East www.DubaiCityGuide.com - a comprehensive portal on Dubai www.UAEToday.com - a local news portal www.eTicketsNetwork.com - a global online e-ticketing portal www.PressReleaseNetwork.com - a global press release distribution and online media monitoring service A media monitoring service provides clients with documentation, analysis, or copies of media content of interest to the clients. Services tend to specialize by media type or content type.  

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