Archive for August, 2008
Press Release: Snowball and Snowflake introduced in the hot summer
Press Release:
Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors of Blue Microphones in the United Arab Emirates have begun distribution of the Snowball USB microphone and the new compact Snowflake USB microphone in iStyle (Apple Premium Reseller) and Virgin Megastores this week.
The Snowball is a direct plug and play microphone that connects to either a Mac or PC, [...]
Saturday’s Apple: Thoughts on Blackberry
Last week I wrote about iPhone and this week I thought I tell you a few things about Blackberry. I won’t dwell on mobile phones too much but I thought in fairness I would tell you something about what I like and not about that iPhone competitor out of Canada.
Note that all that I’m writing [...]
Saturday’s Apple: Impressions of iPhone One Year Later
So the iPhone has been widely available in our region for about a year now, and the new iPhone 3G is becoming more readily available although prices are still very high. I was thinking, what are my impressions of iPhone so far (we’re talking 1st generation iPhone with the 2.0 software)? As you will see [...]
Universal Music Enters Middle East Market
Yesterday it was announced that Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the largest music publishing companies in the world, signed a deal with a Fairwood/BKP Music (Arabia). Under the terms of the deal Fairwood would function as a “sub-publisher and licensing representative across the UAE and neighboring region”. This should certainly pave the way for [...]
BlackBerry Now Syncs With iPhoto iTunes
There is now a new version of PocketMac available. It has a line of new functions including iTunes and iPhoto support, which was previously only available in Missing Sync for Blackberry.
New in 4.1.25 is apparently:
Built-in support for syncing photos from iPhoto and MP3 (non-protected) music from iTunes
Entourage 2008 and LotusNotes 7 support
Sync Notes with the [...]
JungleDisk Launches Online Backup For Workgroups
JungleDisk, online storage software provider which we’ve covered previously in Shuffle, as an easy way of backing up photos online, has introduced their Workgroup Edition. Before you could only use a JungleDisk account with one user but now you can use it with several users, like everyone in your family, and all back up to [...]
Press Release: Net Nanny For Mac Powered by Intego
Intego Press Release:
Intego, the Macintosh security specialist, today announced that it has partnered with ContentWatch Inc. to provide a Macintosh parental control solution for the company’s award-winning Net Nanny product line. Intego will produce a version of Net Nanny for Macintosh based on its technology and content-filtering engine.
“We’re very happy that ContentWatch has chosen our technology,” said Laurent Marteau, Intego’s [...]
Apple Should Take Inspiration From Nokia’s Ramadan Applications
Nokia has developed and made available for free six applications aimed at helping people manage the month of Ramadan, which is coming up soon. They’re developed by Nokia in the Middle East and they seem to cover a range of information and services. Check them out, they look really interesting.
I think this is something Apple’s [...]
UAE has highest mobile penetration in GCC
Business 24-7 reports that “The UAE had the highest mobile phone penetration in the Arab world at the end of 2007, with its subscribers far exceeding its population.”
Apparently the number of subscribers were 7.6 million at the end of 2007, which is an astonishing 1.7 per actual person.
The article states, “The figure is far higher [...]
Business 24-7 Calls iPod “Tasty Device”
Rachel McArthur, writing for Business 24-7, calls the iPod Touch a “tasty device”.
She starts off with a statement we all can agree with, “Thank goodness for Apple. If there’s one company that has understood the needs of the MP3, sorry, I mean MP4 generation, it has been Apple.”
Rachel continues, “I got my hands on a [...]
IMC No More – Welcome VAD
Although I can’t find any official news or confirmation on this it seems that Apple has done away with the IMC (Independent Marketing Company) concept and now it’s called Value Added Distributor (VAD) instead. You can see a listof all VAD’s for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa on Apple’s web site. The list includes our [...]
Saturday’s Apple: The Pleasures of Vintage Apple Stuff
I’m running the risk of showing my age with this article, but that’s okay with me. Recently I posted about buying a cheap Powerbook G3 on eBay and trying to accessorize it to be functioning Mac.
The Wallstreet has G3 processor running at 233MHz and it runs Mac OS 9.2.2, the most recent OS before Mac [...]
Warner Music Reports 20% Revenue From Music Downloads
According to Wall Street Journal, US music giant Warner Music Group, reports that 20% of their revenue comes from music downloads. Their latest financial results show that they’re still making a loss, but digital downloads was up 39%. Also interesting for our region is that US domestic market declined 6.5% but international revenue increased by [...]
Confessions of a Mac Beginner
When I started using Macs the concept of “switcher” didn’t exist. It was back in 1986 – yes, I’m showing my age here – and I was working for the summer at a factory. I was in high school and studied electrical engineering and I had managed to get a nice summer gig basically sitting [...]
Publish a Web Page With Word 2008
Microsoft Word has been a good web publishing application for many versions now. In fact, Excel and PowerPoint can also publish to the web. I wouldn’t recommend it for a commercial web site for a company, but for occasional single pages, it’s not bad. In the 2008 version Microsoft included a new function, the Web [...]
