The State of Technology Innovation in the Middle East [Report]

So you think you are an aspiring entrepreneur

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 0:09

While reading Silatech 2nd wave report “Voices of Young Arabs“, a report released late February this year which offers insights on Arab youth perspectives, hopes, fears, and ideas, the report’s key-findings inspired me to extract a list of criteria that if they are found in own-self/-environment he or she will have high potential to be [...]

Google Facts and Figures in Infographic

Monday, March 1, 2010 23:25

The internet giant Google drives people curious on important and interesting numbers. Pingdom is an international creative agency that has brought to you these numbers in a interesting infographic better than a boring wikipedia interface.
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students [...]

ArabNet Got Twibbon

Sunday, February 21, 2010 19:15

A Twibbon has arrived for ArabNet conference, the first Arab web conference happening on March 25-26 in Lebanon (we covered the announcement before). Yallah, start showing your support on Twitter by adding a Twibbon to your avatar; you can generate it from here.
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Are you a start-up in the Middle East? Then please help yourself

Monday, February 15, 2010 21:52

I have been among internet start-ups in the Middle East for around 9 years, yet recently I started hearing this stereotype from people that twitter is their main place for start-up in these days so they start spending so much time on it and building hope around it; and my question always follow by: Is [...]

Startups Guide: Mind your website development process

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 17:00

If you got the idea of creating a website, an application, or even looking to revamp your website in order to start buzzing the media; it’s important for you to understand the road-map for this process and indulge yourself into the development before the web agency or the developer initiate the work [knowing that the [...]

When a digital agency takes the lame lane

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 16:46

A digital agency going offline approach to promote their service is not a new thing or harmful approach yet Rufus Leonard advertisement is definitely wrong and lame approach to promote their digital marketing services.
I never heard of Rufus Leonard before and asking around was the same answer; it seems they have recently set-up in UAE [...]

Effective Measure in the Middle East is growing like grasshopper

Saturday, February 6, 2010 19:43

While our website is tagged by Effective Measure for audience measurement, I met Dinesh Arasaratnam the commercial director of the platform the other day between his busy schedule traveling across the region introducing the platform to big and small players in the web industry. I asked him about the status of the platform in the [...]

Ahmadinejad: You can shop online but not tweeting

Friday, February 5, 2010 20:31

With nearly half of the population penetrates the worldwide web which represents 32,000,000 users, there should be at least one thing Iranian can do online if not tweeting or socializing on Facebook. The UK newspaper guardian exposed the new launch of the first online supermarket which is probably one of the rare activities you can [...]

Check out IPad accessories that started rolling out

Friday, February 5, 2010 19:29

Griffin Technology Inc., maker of ingenious ways to power, play, protect and connect, has responded to Apple’s new product announcement with a line of accessories to complement the new iPad. Griffin promises to be available in US Market and on Griffin online store within 3 months from now.
Griffin’s first offering of accessories for Apple iPad [...]

It’s not Aishti nor Massimo Dutti, it’s Google-inspired designs

Friday, February 5, 2010 18:46

No surprise to all that Google is trying to acquire everything digital or transforming thing to digital like ancient books. But entering the fashion business acquiring fashion designers creativity is yet to be unique and bold move. Simply, many websites and organizations use Zazzle-way of branding T-shirts, mugs, and office supplies for internal use, sales, [...]

Google is warming up for Arabia 2.0 event

Thursday, February 4, 2010 20:55

Despite the fact that Google is a bit late to organize such event, it will remain a big news for the industry.  Google is turning its head towards the Middle East and warming up to organize its first Google Day: Arabia 2.0 event.
Google Day aims to bring around 150 government and thought leaders together to [...]

The First Step in Social Media Marketing

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 0:32

Everyone is talking about harnessing the power of social networks to further brand messages.  But the key element in successfully using social media is not identifying the social network’s tools of communication, but rather understanding how people use the network.All social networks, be it facebook, myspace, youtube or twitter, are built upon the population’s contributions [...]

Seven Steps To Achieve A Usability Test While Bootstrapping

Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:51

The website represents your brand and image; if your website is awful then you will turn everyone out. Imagine you are trying to sell a unique software with long list of features at competitive price, would you think anyone wouldn’t be concerned if he found few bugs on your website, he would think that the [...]

Updated: No IE6 Support Campaigns Get Substantial Support

Saturday, January 30, 2010 18:24

Despite that IE6 is just very old browser and causes developer a headache that comes from a lot of necessary yet unpleasant work; IE6 used to own the biggest market share until only last year which was taken over a better browser, Mozilla Firefox. Google just recently has decided to disrupt IE6 domination on world’s [...]

Arabic Web Kicks Off On Google’s Browser

Friday, January 29, 2010 21:03

The primary purpose of a web browser is to bring information resources on world wide web to the users, they can generally display any kind of content that can be part of a web page. If you can’t use it in Arabic to retrieve Arabic content, then simply you can’t get to the Arabic Web. [...]

Facebook Toolbar Now Speaks Arabic

Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:59

Originally launched in English language for the Firefox browser only, Facebook Toolbar was released today to for Internet Explorer browser as well and made both browser versions available in a total of 16 languages including Arabic.
Facebook Toolbar can be used easily utilize the most common sections and applications on Facebook in a one click-away, including [...]

Find Out How Apple Kicks Down Competitors and Kicks Up Performers

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 22:34

Apple product introduction today to the new revolutionary device doesn’t mean it’s just another gadget with Multi-Touch display to buy, there is a complete business model that works behind this product which makes things tougher on competitors and opens up a lot of opportunities for partners who are/can-be up to speed.
iPad, the new 0.700 kilograms [...]

Apple Launches iPad: Read The Very Detailed Official Press Release

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 22:32

This is the official Apple press release:
Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch™ display lets users physically interact with applications and content. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and [...]

Meet the Geek: Firas Steitiyeh Talks About His Digital Lifestyle & ProBlogging

Monday, January 25, 2010 20:32

This is an interview with a Jordanian internet marketing guy, we will unleash his digital lifestyle as well as take his point of view on blogging in the Arab World.

Tarek: Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
Firas: On a personal level, I was born and raised in Jordan and love anything related to technology [...]