Triska Hamid | May 20, 2013
You would die before you could watch every video on Youtube. The website, which today celebrates its eighth birthday, has become the go-to destination for video uploads and streaming. Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded onto Youtube, more than four days’ worth of content uploaded every minute of every day. The site attracts a billion people a day, eager to watch music videos, learn how to fold T-shirts or find something to smile about. And the most popular comedy video of the past eight years? Charlie Bit My Finger. The short clip of two young brothers [...]
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Triska Hamid | May 15, 2013
BlackBerry will be opening up its messenger service to other platforms and will be available for free on Android and Apple’s iOS by this Summer, subject to approval from Google and Apple. For many, the BBM was the only reason to bother purchasing a BlackBerry, offering a reliable, secure and free messaging service that has inspired a host of copycat apps including Whatsapp and WeChat. In a bid to maintain its relevance in the smartphone market, BlackBerry incorporated voice and video chat capabilities onto BBM with its latest operating system the BB10 (still not available in the UAE), but the [...]
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Triska Hamid | March 19, 2013
Could the next viral sensation make a millionaire out of someone from the Middle East? YouTube has just opened up its Partnership Programme to users in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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Triska Hamid | December 13, 2012
Google Maps has finally returned to the iPhone, bringing a sigh of relief to Middle East users who complained after Apple decided to drop the maps from its operating system (OS) and replace it with its own, inferior alternative.
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Ben Flanagan | December 5, 2012
Naguib Sawiris has sold his Egyptian TV-news station ONTV to the filmmaker Tarak Ben Ammar.
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Triska Hamid | November 7, 2012
Twitter has joined Facebook and LinkedIn in boosting its operations in the Middle East and North Africa, having appointed a local representative to handle sales.
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Ben Flanagan | November 4, 2012
Ken Hu, the rotating chief executive and deputy chairman of Huawei. (Sarah Dea / The National)
The Chinese technology firm Huawei has held talks with Etisalat and du about launching its 4G-compatible smartphones in the UAE.
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Ben Flanagan | November 1, 2012
Du has renewed its partnership with Red Bull Racing, one of the teams revving up for this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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Triska Hamid | November 1, 2012
More than half of the UAE’s computer users struggle to identify phishing messages, according to the cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab.
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Triska Hamid | November 1, 2012
Wasting valuable work time on Facebook and Twitter is becoming increasingly difficult as the majority of regional companies limit access to social media sites.
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