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Month: February 2008

  • Apple COO: iPhone “not married” to single operator model

    Aha… This is the first sign that Apple might work with multiple operators in certain markets. Could that be the Middle East? AppleInsider reports that Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, has said that the company is not married to the single operator model. He also said that Apple has to take into consideration that in some…

  • Fuheis: Jordan’s Doomdeath Capital!

    Beards, long hair, black t-shirts. Tombstones. Creepy old doorways. Doomdeath! Or maybe I should just scream: “Doomdeath Metal” into a microphone. What on EARTH am I talking about. A link showed up in my Del.icio.us RSS feed which I set up for the tag Amman. I clicked and read: Days … months, and years went…

  • Amman’s anti-gravity street: now even on TV!

    Some people are going to hate me for posting about this again. But I just found this new video on ikbis.com: an MBC news report about Jordan’s so-called anti gravity street. The newest twist on this is that some people are now saying that the djinn are involved! You can read my first report/debunking attempt,…

  • First MacBook Air sighting in Jordan 🙂

    I walked into the iSystem Apple Store in Sweifieh to finally get a replacement battery and a new power adapter for my 3.5 year old PowerBook G4 (no Intel Mac for me yet!). As I walked into the store, I glimpsed something in the corner of my eye. Can it be true. Can that really…

  • Rumor: iPhone to be legally availble in Jordan by end of March

    Today I heard from a worker at a local Apple dealer that the iPhone will be available legally in Jordan by the end of next month. But the more interesting part of the rumor is that the iPhone will be released in Jordan without being locked to a mobile carrier. This w means you would…

  • Persepolis,: black ink on screen

    Ever since I heard that Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis has been made into a movie, I eagerly wanted to see it. Well, today I saw it. Sadly, not in a movie theatre but on my laptop’s screen in its original, French version with English subtitles. Closely based on her simply, but powerfully illustrated books,…

  • Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?

    Show me your website and I’ll tell you what kind of candidate (and person) you are. That’s essentially the gist of the very interesting article by the New York Times: Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? The article offers insight into the visual design and branding techniques used in the websites of these…

  • And the winner is: Blu-ray

    Today will go down in history as the day the format war of high definition video discs was won. Finally. Yippee.. After around four years of bitter fighting that effectively hindered consumer adoption of high definition video discs, Sony and its Blu-ray format has triumphed over Toshiba’s HD DVD. Toshiba announced today it will no…

  • Have you seen Digital City’s amazing glass facade?

    I haven’t been in Amman’s Shmeisani district for a while. Yesterday I passed through Commodore street and, from afar I saw the gleaming new glass facade of Digital City, a 17,000 square meters electronics mall that has been under construction for the past 2 years or so. The facade’s steel and glass construction looks impressive.…

  • Would you buy a flat in Amman’s newest 300 million dollar tower?

    Imagine swimming in the world’s highest suspended swimming pool. It’ll be at a height of 125 meters and will have a glass bottom. Just imagine this. In Amman! This is not a joke but what will be a reality in 3 years. Limitless, a well-know Dubai-based real estate development company (which is part of the…

  • Zain and TootCorp soft launch Watwet.com – Press release

    Today, Watwet banners came out on the Zain Jordan website, accompanied by the official launch press release. We’re thrilled! Read these related posts on 360east: Fastlink soft-launches new site, designed by SYNTAX 🙂 Hey Nokia Levant people: I STILL can’t get Ovi to work on Zain Jordan Toot gets Pulped Nokia Ovi not working for…

  • Watwet opens door to general public 😉

    The private beta of Watwet is over. Now you can join even if you don’t have a VIP “wasta”. Many things have been changed in response to the extensive feedback of our testers. Better privacy settings (you can now hide your timeline, prfile details, etc). Ability to whisper (in Arabic “Washwish”) to multiple friends (which…