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Skype now officially on Nokia phones
Sunday, 7 Mar, 2010 – 17:38 | View Comments
Skype now officially on Nokia phones

Skype has officially released its app for Nokia phones. You can download the app from Nokia’s Ovi store which itself is another application that you will have to download from Nokia.

ChillNite.com is now on Facebook…
Sunday, 21 Feb, 2010 – 11:53 | View Comments
ChillNite.com is now on Facebook…

We are now on Facebook…click here to add us:
http://facebook.com/chillnite

Bing Maps takes one step over Google Maps with augmented reality
Sunday, 14 Feb, 2010 – 7:46 | View Comments
Bing Maps takes one step over Google Maps with augmented reality

Bing Maps the Microsoft version of Google Earth just demoed an interesting piece of tech at TED 2010 ‘ Augmented Reality’. Augmented Reality is basically yours/mine prayers answered when it comes to maps application. Whether its those sci-fi movies which show the CIA scanning down to Earth from Space in real time in Bourne Identity, [...]

How to test your internet connection speed with YouTube?
Friday, 12 Feb, 2010 – 12:19 | View Comments
How to test your internet connection speed with YouTube?

A very interesting new feature from YouTube is now available to check your streaming / connection speed. Just click on the link below to see how good your ISP, Country and your connection speeds are compared to global users. If you want to test your streaming speed in real time click on SHOW TEST VIDEO [...]

Watch SuperBowl XLIV [44] commercials
Tuesday, 9 Feb, 2010 – 12:05 | View Comments
Watch SuperBowl XLIV [44] commercials

In case you missed it or are not into American Football, Miami hosted the biggest Sporting event of US, the SuperBowl XLIV [44] on Feb 7 th. SuperBowl is comparable to Soccer World cup, and an estimated 60% of US households tune into the event on tellys. And if you are super-rich you would attend [...]

Google Phone : Nexus One now available online from Kuwait
Monday, 1 Feb, 2010 – 9:11 | View Comments
Google Phone : Nexus One now available online from Kuwait

Just checked Google’s Nexus 1 website, and it seems Google has removed restrictions for ordering the phone from outside US. Now you can order it from Kuwait. Only catch is that the shipping address has to be in US, UK,Singapore, Hong Kong. I already have mailboxes from Aramex and UShopWeShip so I guess I will [...]

Thank You..Thank You…
Wednesday, 27 Jan, 2010 – 12:15 | View Comments
Thank You..Thank You…
ALERT: New law being formulated to monitor blogs/bloggers in Kuwait
Monday, 18 Jan, 2010 – 12:53 | View Comments
ALERT: New law being formulated to monitor blogs/bloggers in Kuwait

Arab Times is reporting [click above to read the article] that a new law is being stipulated to monitor Kuwaits’ blogosphere and punish bloggers in case they cross the line.
Its yet to be seen what stipulated guidelines will be. Although looking at general press / publishing laws here is what I feel bloggers should be [...]

ALERT: NBK / WATANI Online phishing email will steal your account details
Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009 – 11:26 | View Comments
ALERT: NBK / WATANI Online phishing email will steal your account details

Got the above email today [look above], and from first look it seemed like genuine NBK / Watani correspondence. The sender email is ‘webmaster [at] nbk.com’, so GMAIL failed to detect it as SPAM. But when you click on the links in the email it will take you to a ‘fake’ site where hackers have [...]

Google Navigation (BETA) is really impressive
Thursday, 29 Oct, 2009 – 18:43 | View Comments
Google Navigation (BETA) is really impressive

Google has just released Google Navigation, a take on the GPS systems. The feature is currently slated for Android [Google's Mobile system] phones. The feature set in the package is really impressive with voice enabled search, satellite view navigation, Google street view navigation to name a few. The most important aspect of all this is [...]

Fasttelco 3X ADSL speed offer..very tempting
Monday, 26 Oct, 2009 – 13:22 | View Comments
Fasttelco 3X ADSL speed offer..very tempting

Fasttelco is offering now a 3X promotion for residential ADSL service. The pricing is bit higher than regular offerings. This is how 3X speed works…Lets say you buy 512 Kbps package then:
Monday – Thursday : 8am – 5pm : 512 Kbps
Monday – Thursday : 5pm – 8am : 1.5 Mbps [3X slot]
Friday – Saturday : [...]

Dear QualityNet: STOP spamming my inbox with your adverts
Monday, 27 Jul, 2009 – 13:12 | View Comments
Dear QualityNet: STOP spamming my inbox with your adverts

Seems QualityNet is trying really hard to push across its ‘Summer Promotion’ to everyone in Kuwait. I have been getting their emails for the offers at the rate of 2-3 every second day. To make matters worse they send one in English and another one in Arabic…ehmm Dear QualityNet, I can read English, I can [...]

New Yahoo layout coming up
Tuesday, 21 Jul, 2009 – 23:37 | View Comments
New Yahoo layout coming up

Yahoo! has again come up with a new layout..This time its more lean and clean. I like this one better than the gradient one they launched last year.

Blackberry update from Etisalat UAE has spyware
Wednesday, 15 Jul, 2009 – 10:56 | View Comments
Blackberry update from Etisalat UAE has spyware

It seems a latest series of updates from Etisalat UAE to BlackBerry subscriber devices is riddled with spyware. Reverse engineering on the updates found out that the spyware is snooping on the messages sent from the devices and storing them on Etisalat servers. This is serious issue and so far no one from Etisalat, BlackBerry [...]