No smoking, no partitions between computers, ample lighting, midnight closing and prohibiting minors are five rules that Riyadh officials say they will begin enforcing on Internet cafes within a week, officials announced on Sunday. The crackdown on Internet cafes comes by order of Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Prince Mansour bin Miteb, who has [...]
Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has officially launched the BlackBerry Bold 9700 Kingdomwide. The 9700 is the latest HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) enabled BlackBerry device that runs on Mobily state of the art 3.75G network, a company statement said on Sunday. It comes with a touch sensitive trackpad and bilingual Arabic/English QWERTY keypad, a high resolution [...]
PCS Edventures!.com, Inc. today announced the signing of an agreement between PCS’ Middle Eastern distributor, Global Techniques dba PCS Middle East, and the Prince Salman Center for Creating Leaders, involving the launch of a robotics professional development initiative for educators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in January 2010. (The Prince Salman Center is a subsidiary [...]
Under Auspices: Prince Turki bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz , Assistant Minister of Culture and Information. The Riyadh Media and Multimedia Technology Exhibition 2009, in its second edition, aimed at identification of the different government, semi- government and private sector information systems, dealing with the latest international technology in the field of information and multimedia, and [...]
Qanawati (’My Channels’ in Arabic) is a new mobile based service that was just launched from Saudi Arabia by Remal IT, allowing you to check for flight reservationavailability via SMS. The service enables you to check for the availability of seats to be reserved specifically for the following airlines: Saudi Airlines, Nas airand Sama; as well as for all [...]
Ever since the iphone 3GS hit the Saudi market everyone has been excited about obtaining the new technology. Only to be shocked with the ridiculous prices. Over at Mobily, prices are anywhere from 3,699 to 4,500 S.R.. Over at Axiom prices are even crazier with a 36G iPhone 3GS going for 6,500 S.R. ($1,733). At [...]
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