Articles in the Internet Category
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.
We are now on Facebook…click here to add us:
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 : [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]








