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 [...]

Nature’s miracle a human tooth explored in real video footage from normal viewpoint to atomic depths. Its a fantastic journey to the abyss of enamel.

Cool video of an assembly line for Nokia N97 in Finland…

Still nothing posted on their site, but newspaper are reporting that Wataniya has now launched BlackBerry service. Although no dates are specified but I guess its all in the works. Wataniya will be offering plans with BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 in the intial stages. Wataniya has tied up with EMS [Emitac Mobile Solutions [...]

Wolfram|Alpha is the latest kid on the search engine block. Its NOT Google. its NOT WikiPedia, but it is a new breed of search engines christened as ‘computational’. What that means is that Wolfram|Alpha will help students, researchers, writers, authors and people looking for very specific knowledge whether its mathematical formulas, scientific data, statistical data, [...]

Ok this is an IT related entry, but the topic I am discussing here its quite significant to lot of corportations around the World because of its repercussions. Oracle the global leader in Enterprise Database solutions has bought Sun Microsystems. Sun in case you are not aware is behind the JAVA language, another enterprise level [...]

Microsoft recommendations & procedures:
Win32/Conficker is a worm that infects other computers across a network by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE). If the vulnerability is successfully exploited, it could allow remote code execution when file sharing is enabled. Depending on the specific variant, it may also spread via removable drives and by [...]

iTable like other ‘i’ prefixed gizmos is not from Apple, its from PQ Labs. Yet iTable is very impressive. Now iTable is a strong competitor to Microsoft Surface which surfaced [no pun intented] in 2007, but has since been available for ‘commercial’ use only. Where as iTable is targeted towards both premium home and commercial [...]

MIT fellows have recently showcased this amazing product that can bring ‘Minority Report’ style technology to reality soon. Watch this amazing video that shows how a simple device costing merely US$ 350 might revolutionize the way we interact with everyday objects and tasks by blending in technology. The best part is how one can visit [...]

Yep its that time of the year again when we will have InfoConnect at the Kuwait International Fairgrounds in Mishref. This time the InfoConnect / InfoBiz is slated for Feb 1st till Feb 7th. Am I excited?! Nopes…2 reasons…
Numero uno it will be crap as usual with some lame offers from ISP’s, and vendors trying [...]

Interphone researchers are pooling and analyzing the results gathered from studies on 6,400 tumors sampled from patients in 13 countries. If the final results mirror the preliminary ones, the world’s three billion cellphone users might want to dial back their talk time. Israeli researchers participating in Interphone found that people who use cellphones regularly are [...]

Ok Apple brace yourself for another big headache [after the economic slump] …A Chinese company is selling iPhone knockoffs at US$ 75 [bulk orders]. This phone is something that every tom, dick, and harry would go for just for the kicks of having an iPhone. Imagine this product getting flooded in 3rd World, 2nd World, [...]

The internet is crawling in Middle East after another incident in the Mediterranean where a submarine snapped atleast three cables between Italy and Egypt.
These are major cables carrying upto 75% of traffic. The cables will be back up by December 31.
More details [>a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aBa0lTN.dcoQ&refer=europe" target="_blank">LINK]

Okay…this is pretty awesome. Wii now a defacto must-have game console across the World can be seriously damaging to your Plasma/LCD screens if you get too carried away with it. Nintendo even came up with better quality grip bands after initial complaints of Wiimote snapping on sudden movements. But then it all comes down to [...]