Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has banned the sale of soft drinks from the kingdom’s hospitals, Arab News reports on Tuesday.
“While banning soft drinks we want to introduce fresh juices or dairy products
June 20, 2010
If your iPhone 4 doesn’t have all the newest apps, it’s not taking full advantage of all the iPhone 4 offers. The reason the iPhone 4 is better than the last model is a faster processor, sharper screen, and background/multitasking functions Which apps are taking full advantage of these features? Plenty! Which is why we shifted through them and we’ve come up with the 10 best iPhone 4 apps.
1- iMovie allows you to edit video.
This is the biggest of the new iPhone apps/functions. Right in your phone you can edit the 720p, HD video you’ve shot. It looks like it’s a winner. It’ll set you back $4.99. iTunes link
2- Pandora is ready to rock in the background.
This is the second biggest in the bunch. Pandora is one of the most popular apps on the iPhone and it basically built Pandora into a viable business. Previously you could only listen to Pandora if you were in the Pandora app. Now you can listen to Pandora no matter what app you’re using, as long as it doesn’t need volume. Not exactly revolutionary but welcome, for sure. iTunes link
March 23, 2010
Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has announced that it has completed WiMAX coverage of the Saudi capital. Mobily first introduced WiMAX in September 2008 a few months after completing its acquisition of WiMAX licensee Bayanat Al-Oula in a deal that was reportedly worth SAR1.5 billion (USD399 million). The announcement means that Mobily’s broadband @subscribers can now use their WiMAX modems anywhere in Riyadh at speeds of up 2Mbps.
‘Mobily is working on covering most of the kingdom’s cities and regions with WiMAX as per its technical plan,’ said Abdulaziz Altamami, Mobily’s chief operating officer.
March 22, 2010
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Telecom Company (STC) to conduct an end-to-end Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial, to begin in the second half of 2010. Alcatel-Lucent will also provide a range of professional services including project management, planning, installation, integration and commissioning, and testing.
‘As a major operator, STC is committed to providing its customers with a superior service. It is clear to us that LTE has evolved to being more than just a promising technology,’ said Dr. Zeyad Al-Otaibi, STC’s vice president of networks. ‘As STC and Alcatel-Lucent are both on the edge of innovation, we are confident that this trial will help us fulfil our customers’ needs for innovative mobile broadband services.’
Alcatel-Lucent will be providing an end-to-end integrated solution including LTE base stations (eNodeBs), the Evolved Packet Core (EPC), IP service routing network elements as well as operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) systems.
October 20, 2009
A simple search query has exposed Google Voice mail messages (audio and transcript) for anyone to see and hear.
As first reported here, a user entering “site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/*” into the Google search bar discovered random voice mail messages belonging to random Google Voice accounts.
Clicking on each revealed not only the audio file and transcript of the call, but it also listed the callers name and phone number as it would if you were checking your own Google Voice voice mail.
I was able to replicate the issue and listen to several voice mail messages, including some legitimate ones with potentially sensitive information.
February 10, 2009
Information Week says that if Gmail’s growth continues at the same rate, we could see Gmail’s user share overtake Hotmail by the end of the year — an impressive feat.
Between December 2007 and December 2008, Gmail’s number of unique monthly visitors in the United States grew 43%, from 20.8 million to 29.6 million, according to ComScore. Windows Live Hotmail lost 5% of its unique monthly visitors during this period, falling from 45.7 million to 43.5 million.
Google still has a long way to go to catch up to
February 1, 2009
Someone at Google is having a very bad start to their weekend. Google’s VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer has just responded to the issue today that marked all Google results with the warning “This site may harm your computer” and advised users not to visit them.
The problem, she says, was simple human error: when importing the malware list from StopBadware.org, the URL ‘/’ was unintentionally added, meaning that every website would be included. The explanation in full:
If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message “This site may harm your computer” accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly an error, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.
January 31, 2009
I just about had a heart attack this morning when my SEO ranking software said none of my pages were in Google anymore!!!
You may have disappeared from Google, been listed as a malware site or at least looked like you got banned from Google results.
January 27, 2009
I still haven’t tried the Windows 7 beta, but everywhere I look I see more and more people speaking very positively about it (Dave Freeman positively shines with happiness talking about it). Truth be told, I’m not very interested in operating systems these days: the overwhelming majority of things I use my computers for are done through my web browser, so the OS is becoming less and less relevant to me. However according to some, Windows 7 will put the final nail in the coffin of desktop Linux.
Nick Farrell, over at the Inquirer, makes the bold claim that Windows 7 is enough to kill
January 23, 2009
Looking for the coolest jobs in IT? A new survey of information technology and network security specialists suggests that the place to look is on the front lines of cyberspace — and that the variety of work is greater than many might suspect.
The survey was conducted by the SANS Institute, the IT security training and research organization. The results will be published later this year in the form of an information booklet aimed at interesting students to consider a career in IT security.
The institute asked information security practitioners in government and non-government positions to describe their jobs and the most interesting aspects about working in them. It also asked security specialists to select which jobs they thought were “very cool.”
The top-ranking “coolest” IT security jobs according to government security employees:
1. Information security crime investigator/forensics expert.
Why it’s cool: “The thrill of the hunt! You never encounter the same crime twice!”
2. System, network and/or Web penetration tester.
Why it’s cool: “You can be a hacker, but do it legally and get paid a lot of money!” “The power to understand how systems can be (more…)
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