Month: April 2007

  • A week with the Nokia N95: There’s a little monster in my pocket and it’s SMART!

    Almost exactly two years and 5 months ago, on November 27, 2004 I posted the photo below to say farewell to my Nokia 6210 which I carried for four years and say hello to my first ‘smart’ phone the Nokia 6600. Now it’s time for the 6600 to fade into the background, as I welcome…

  • Got the Flickr/YouTube blues? Ikbis is the solution 🙂

    Just saw this cartoon on AdBlogArabia.. I just want to say.. [Adopting TV commercial voice]: Are you tired of having your photos and video clips on two different sites with two different logins. Are you confusing your friends and family by referring them to different sites when you want to show them your stuff. Are…

  • Cool photography on ikbis.com

    Some of the photos that caught my eye on ikbis.com.

  • Micro SD: The 4GB fingernail!

    Why am I suddenly interested in Micro SD cards? Well, I’ll be revealing that in a later post.. (click on image for credits) It just blows my mind that SanDisk will be launching a 4GB version of it’s fingernail sized memory card in a few days (in May). The 2GB version is retailing for 20-50…

  • “If you love a girl..”

    Someone has been posting Arab graffiti on ikbis.. Love and Betrayal. That’s the writing on the wall. Read these related posts on 360east: Mobile video exposes brutality in a Ammani girls’ school Apple arrogance? I am shock! I am strange! I am really strange! Macheads: the new documentary for Apple fanatics Color on a wall:…

  • More media coverage of Nokia and Ikbis.com cooperation

    Today, Gulf News, the leading English language daily are running a story on Nokia’s tie-up with Ikbis.com, which shows the extent of Nokia’s commitment to bringing sticky Arabic content to its customers. Ikbis, dubbed the You-Tube of the Middle East, allows users to post photos and videos on its website. Launched last November, by January…

  • Google drops the Froogle brand name

    I just noticed that Google Froogle service is now simply called Google Product Search. That’s a bit sad. The Google+Frugal=Froogle combination was a lovable quirky name. Oh well.. Read about the name change in Google’s official blog: So we’re renaming Froogle as Google Product Search. We’re taking the opportunity to refocus the user experience on…

  • Perrier tree: innovative environmental advertising

    Hey, I am back in Amman. I was in Dubai for a few days, in the land where everything is branded! I saw these trees at the entrance of Madinat Jumeira. I was rushing to a dinner gathering so did not check if these where real trees or fakes. But you get the idea. Luckily…

  • Karim and Ahmad in the Nokia Baloon

    Flying.. Read these related posts on 360east: TootCorp’s Karim Arafat talks about Watwet and World Domination on the Spin Show! Huge Aqaba logo brands new hot air balloon Nokia 5800 XpressMusic ships in the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in December ‘08 Hey Nokia Levant people: I STILL can’t get Ovi to work on Zain…

  • Nokia ties up with Ikbis for unmatched multimedia imaging experience

    Ikbis is in Photoworld Dubai 2007 and here is the news promised in the last post.. Upload your photos and videos directly from Nokia’s Nseries devices Ikbis is the first member of Nokia’s global Forum Nokia PRO Imaging Zone Ikbis service to be built into selected models of the Nseries family Here is Nokia’s press…

  • Ikbis at Photo World Dubai: stay tuned for some cool news

    The Ikbis team is Dubai. We’ll be making a really cool announcement from Photo World Dubai 2007 on Sunday morning. Can’t say more right now All I can say that we are there and would love to meet any Ikbis users from Dubai. And before I forget, we also launched a new homepage yesterday. Check…

  • Steorn video update

    Key points: There are 22 not 12 jury members, currently looking at the technology and starting their tests in ‘a couple of months’. There will be public demonstrations of the technology in July, to be held in London. And there will also be internet broadcasts demonstrating the technology. So, I guess we’ll have to wait…