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Saudi Arabia - Zain launches third operator

Kuwait’s Zain launches mobile phone service in Saudi
Kuwait’s telecom giant Zain will launch its mobile phone service in Saudi Arabia on August 26, the group said Monday in a statement.
Last year, a Zain-led consortium won the third mobile phone licence in the oil-rich kingdom after making the highest bid of 6.1 billion dollars.
At the start, [...]

The Return of KITT

growing up as a young boy there were several TV programs that interested me such as The Duke’s of Hazzard which created my fascination with car’s followed by Knight Rider. Apart from the Million Dollar Bionic man, this year in 2008 we shall not only see the return to the small screen the Bionic Woman [...]

WiMax gets closer and further away at the same time

A strangely cryptic article in the New York Times today announced that several companies had banded together “to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks” in the US (link). I read it and thought to myself: what, another new vaporware wireless technology? I couldn’t make sense of the [...]

Nokia goes for 1% market share in the US

Okay, I’ll admit in advance that this is going to be a pretty snarky post, but it never ceases to amaze me how badly Nokia handles itself in the US market. In Europe and most of the rest of the world, Nokia operates like a fighter jet, incredibly nimble and powerful. But in [...]

Adobe frees mobile flash: It’s about time

Today Adobe announced a series of changes to its emerging web applications platform. The changes include:
–The next version of the mobile Flash runtime will be free of license fees. Adobe also confirmed that the mobile version of the Air runtime will be free.
–Adobe changed its licensing terms and released additional technical information that [...]