Yesterday got my self a shiny new Nokia N82, and since then I have been having a ball of a time playing with tons of features that this beauty has to offer. Bought the phone from AlGhanim for KD 125.000 thats 20% off the marked the price. They gave a mobile case free with this [...]

The Intel® Atom™ processor will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year. Together, these new market segments represent a significant new opportunity to grow the overall market for Intel silicon, using [...]

Meet Chumby my ideal bedside/work-side/couch-side fantasy partner..err I hope you dont get jealous! Chumby is the newest must have accessory in the household, a cute,sexy,all in one nerd fantasy, yet at home gizmo you (and I) should drool over now. Let aside the iPhone hype, I think this device will score a major draw [...]

There has been a third cut in the submarine cable that feeds internet traffic and communication data from GCC countries to Europe. This has been off the coast of Dubai about 56 km out in the sea. So more internet disruptions on Saturday??
Seems torrent traffic has been cutoff in Kuwait as .torrent files are getting [...]

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The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) Submarine Cable is an approximately 18,800 KM long cable connecting Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France. The system is using Terabit DWDM technology to achieve Maximum bandwidth with minimal cost.
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Came across this story on Gizmodo on how they pulled off an awesome prank at CES by turning off hundreds of Plasma/LCD screens at the flick of a button. Ofcourse they had to suffer repercussions by getting banned from CES till further notice.
This device works on displays from North America and Asia and on following [...]

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ISP’s in Kuwait are neck to neck in their Residential DSL offerings. KEMS is still leading the pack in the “256 Kbps – ideal for home” segment with its cheapest offering at KD 140/- per year, and FastTelco is the looser as usual with dearest pricing at KD 199/- per year. [...]

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Got myself a new laptop HP Pavillion dv6000 from Al-Ghanim. Some specs:

Intel Core 2 duo 2.0
160 GB HDD
2GB RAM
DVD/CD reader writer
WiFi/Bluetooth
5-in-1 Card reader
15.4″ screen with built-in webcam

Priced at KD 359.000 I had a choice between HP and Acer [KD 330.000]. Since I already own an Acer, and I wanted a change, I [...]

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Update: There is definitely a performance boost after installing SP3! Lets hope its much better after full release.
Windows XP SP3 – Release Candidate is available to limited users only. But now you can download and install the Service Pack 3 if you follow the steps below.

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A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below.
He descended a bit more and shouted, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago but I don’t know where I am.”
The woman below replied, “You’re in a [...]

Everyday we come across hundreds of products that have glass as a component or are made of glass. It could be the dial cover of your watch, or screen of your mobile phone, television screens, beverage bottles etc etc…
As far as I know the basic ingredient for manufacturing glass is sand, and we have that [...]

Plasma or LCD seems to be question of this decade. This brings back the memories of BETAMAX vs VHS and another one from todays, the so called HD vs BlueRay. Anyways, I have been window shopping for a flatone for some days now and have come across some very beautiful [performance wise], some dumb, and [...]