Author Archive for Magnus Nystedt

iPhone 4 sales success, du in talks to bring it to UAE

Many of us thought that it would be hard for Apple to keep up the tremendous success they have had with their line of iPhones, going back to the first one in 2007. Today Apple pretty much silences anyone thinking that so far iPhone 4 hasn’t been a success saying that they’ve sold 1.7 million [...]

Take a dip in the pool with Toshiba CAMILEO BW10 Sportcam

Toshiba says it can “easily withstand snow, rain and dust.” Hopefully it can also take the humidity and sand we struggle with pretty much every day in the Middle East.

Who comes up with names of products, James often asks on the radio show and I’d ask the same here?
Who thought “CAMILEO BW10 SportCam” was a [...]

LG is getting in to the gaming notebook segment with Widebook R590

LG is getting in to the gaming notebook segment with their latest model. The Widebook R590 has a 1.73GHz Intel Core i7 processor with PM55 chipset, which together with a NVIDIA GeForce GT230M (1GM DDR3 VRAM) should produce enough power to run even demanding games.
On LG’s own UAE site it still says it has i5 [...]

Two new compact digital cameras from Samsung ST5000 and ST60

Samsung today introduced two new compact digital cameras to the Middle East. The ST5000 and the ST60
ST5000 has a 14.2 megapixel sensor, 7x optical zoom, 3.5-inch AMOLED touch display and records 720p HD video. It comes with a range of functionality like face recognition, face detection, panorama shots, smile and blink detection, etc. It also [...]

Infinitec finally announcing shipping date for delayed IUM

When Dubai-based Infinitec unveiled the Infinite USB Memory (IUM) to the world on March 1st, they said it would ship in July. Since they they’ve been pretty quiet until now.
Now, according to Infinitec the first IUM units will start shipping to customers on August 31 with pre-orders starting starting August 1 for $129.The company offers [...]

LG goes slim and light with X300

LG is going slim and light with their latest notebook to hit the Middle East. Available in July in the UAE at a retail price of AED 4,199 the X300 weighs 970gr and is 17.5mm thin.
It seems that they’ve not skipped on performance though. The X300 has an 11.6-inch screen (1366 x 768 pixels), 2.0GHz [...]

GamesLatest comes to an end

Middle East gaming web site GamesLatest.com has announced that they’re  closing up shop.
As a follower of GamesLatest pretty much since they started last year, I’m sad to see them go. I especially liked how they put up all posts in Arabic and English, even though I don’t read the Arabic. As we’ve done that with [...]

Apple iPad coming to nine more countries in July

Apple today announced that they’ve sold three million iPads in the first 80 days of it going on sale.
Impressive.
What’s perhaps more interesting is that Apple’s press release said that iPad will hit nine more countries next month.
Obviously we don’t know this for sure but I very much doubt this includes any countries in the Middle [...]

Kaspersky claims Mac platform is less secure than Windows

Kaspersky today introduced their latest 2011 Windows-only Anti-Virus (KAV) and Internet Security (KIS) suites to the Middle East markets at an event in Dubai.
Kaspersky also makes Anti-Virus for Mac. Vasily Razuvaykin, Business Product Manager, Consumer Business Division at Kaspersky told me today that depending on the resources available there may be new offerings for Mac [...]

Kaspersky launches 2011 suite of security products [video]

Kaspersky today launches new security suites amidst increased threats to personal computers and the information stored on them. According to Kaspersky, a computer security company based in Russia, about 30,000 new pieces of malware appear every day with about 3,500 of them being of “unique signatures” meaning new types of malware.
Regardless of the exact numbers I [...]

Radio 2010-06-22: Season finale

Over 24 shows we’ve covered almost 100 different gadgets, divided as follows (if we split out iPod/iPhone accessories that’d be about 10 or so of what is now in Accessories). Note that I compiled the list in a hurry so I’m probably missing some items:

Computers: 11
Cameras: 9
Printers: 1
Monitors: 1
Camcorders: 2
Webcam: 2
Mobile phones: 15
Accessories: 38
Hard drives: [...]

Cool accessories

These two accessories may be overpriced, but they are also clearly very cool. We will try to bring you more examples of stylish and innovative accessories for computers and mobile devices in future posts.
Twelve South BookArc
www.twelvesouth.com
Twelve South is a manufacturer of different kinds of accessories. Different in that they are innovative, stylish and [...]

iOS 4 update now available

Go ahead and connect your iPhone or iPod touch to iTunes and it should tell you that iOS 4 is available.
iOS 4 in itself for my iPhone 3GS is about 380MB but it requires iTunes 9.2, which if you don’t have it already is about 100MB more to download.
iOS 4 brings a line of updates [...]

Busy week ahead: GeekFest and DemoCamp hits Dubai

It’s a busy tech week ahead in Dubai as GeekFest as well as DemoCamp takes place again.
Wednesday evening starting at 6pm there’s the second DemoCamp hosted by Dubai Internet City in Knowledge Village. Six “finalists” will present their business ideas to a panel of judges and mentors in the words of the press release. They’re [...]

All about Canon compact digital cameras and printers [audio]

In this podcast episode we talk to two guys at Canon in Dubai about some of the things they offer in digital cameras and printers.
First we talk to Jason Rego, Product Manager DSC & Selphy, about Canon’s lineup of digital compact cameras. He picked out a few particular models to talk about but we also [...]