Have you ever met NAO the humanoid robot? Yesterday I did! During an event that was held yesterday at the Place Hotel in Dubai, Aldebaran Robotics and in partnership with Intel showcased the NAO robot and reveled the capabilities of this futuristic invention, the robot as you will see in the video can talk, walk, sit, dance, play music and [...]

Last week Nokia opened the door for mobile apps developers in the UAE to pitch their app to compete for a chance to win $10,000 in addition to few other cool stuff, the competition was kicked off last week in a special event that was held in the Emirates Towers in Dubai. Each developer was given the opportunity to pitch [...]

A message from RIM Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis on the BlackBerry Service Outage, the company announced a significant improvement on the BlackBerry performance in the Middle East, Europe and Africa this morning 9am Dubai time.

Apple’s founder and visionary, Steve Jobs, has died yesterday Wednesday 5th of October 2011 at 56, loosing such a great mind is a big loss, his life story was steeped in success despite all difficulties he faced, he was adopted, didn’t have enough money to finish his education, he founded Apple from the garage, then he was fired, then he founded another companies, went back to [...]

People use tablets for many reasons, looking cool and trendy is perhaps one of these reasons, but many people found in tablets as astonishing alternative to the traditional reading experience, the medium itself is richer than ever, a magazine is not just a dull set of colorful pages magazine, in the time of tablets publications can combine video, audio and [...]

Research In Motion (RIM) is celebrating 70 million global BlackBerry subscribers, and is inviting you to share your BlackBerry story via the global @BlackBerry Twitter account. “BlackBerry is integral to the way we live and the diversity of our global community is truly outstanding. We want to celebrate hitting a landmark 70 million subscribers, and thank our customers, by sharing [...]

The Internet Show 2011 kicked off yesterday in the capital Abu Dhabi will the participation of a lot of websites and internet companies like Yahoo! Maktoob, ikoo, Logta.com, AME Info, OOX Monitoring and others, this year’s edition included a conference and an awards event that was held in the Aloft hotel. Here is an interview I conducted with Matt Wallhead [...]

I had this chat with Ahmed Nassed the Vice-President and Managing Director of Yahoo! Middle East at the Internet Show 2011, which opened yesterday in the UAE capital, I asked him if the departure of Carol Barts will affect Yahoo!’s commitment to the Middle East, Internet trends in the era of the Arab spring and which sectors will be leading [...]

The upcoming TEDx Dubai is different than previous editions, this year you get to choose a community speaker, the organizers of the TEDx are running a talent hunt competition of their Facebook fan page, 16 candidates each with a one-minute elevator pitch are competing for votes from fans. The winner will join Maria Conceicao, Erika Ilves, Anna Stillwell and Illac [...]

The address was Downtown Dubai, the date was September 20th 2011, the crowd was a mix of journalists, techies and curious people all gathered for a gig to celebrate the launch of the all new smartphone from Nokia, the N9, in the Middle East. The N9 is expected to be available in selected markets across the MENA region in three [...]