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  • Get Ready for Boot Camp

    Posted by Dinesh on April 5, 2006 at 09:06 am
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    Well, hell has finally frozen over! The unthinkable has happened. Now you can run windows XP on an intel mac natively. Still in disbelief? Check out the apple website, http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ ...

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  • The Big Three O

    Posted by Dinesh on March 30, 2006 at 08:59 am
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    So my favourite tech company is turning 30 this week. Ironically on the first of April. The question is what's next in the offering, and where will I blow out my hard earned money! Its funny how ...

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  • Happy 10th Anniversary!

    Posted by Martin on March 29, 2006 at 03:08 am
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    Happy 10th anniversary to Lars & Klaus from AME Info. Both of you have built a tremendous strong brand in the Middle Eastern online world and it's amazing to see what vision it took to go the road ...

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  • The best chatup line in the world?

    Posted by Yousef on March 19, 2006 at 10:17 pm
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    Thursday night, 8:30 p.m., Murooj Rotana Ballroom What a night.. After numerous delays by the event organizers, the UAE Web Awards finally went ahead. Arriving at the event with 15 colleagues, 14 ...

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  • Team Flip at the ultramarathon

    Posted by Yousef on February 28, 2006 at 12:56 pm
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    So Martin and I did our big run for charity on Friday morning. My friend Vishal Bhatia had organized a 60-kilometer ultramarathon which was to be run in teams of three. I was a little apprehensive ...

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  • I-gency.com - First or Last?

    Posted by Martin on February 27, 2006 at 11:27 am
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    I-gency.com - a Dubai based web agency - recently published a press release on AME Info claiming to be the first agency in the Middle East offering "real-time sales activity reporting". Let me correct ...

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  • MSN Messenger Live Beta out, will it be blocked by Etisalat in the UAE?

    Posted by Martin on February 11, 2006 at 09:42 am
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    It's called MSN version 8.0 or Windows Live Messenger and can be downloaded from here. The design reminds me of Yahoo, the beta is restricted to "by invite only" and the required reboot after install ...

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  • Online not good enough, say Campaign Award judges

    Posted by Martin on February 2, 2006 at 08:54 am
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    I was so annoyed at Campaign ME misquoting me again in an article about 'Air Arabia e-mail spamming to consumers' in their last issue, that I wasn't gonna go to the awards at all. Anyways, who can ...

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  • 2006! Let the games begin

    Posted by Dinesh on January 8, 2006 at 02:04 am
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    What a way to start the year. If anyone has been reading up on the CES show that happened in Las Vegas, the internet was the sole focus on everyones mind. Starting with the boring keynote from Bill ...

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  • Etisalat reforms English language via 3G

    Posted by Martin on December 13, 2005 at 02:14 am
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    I recently bought a 3G Etisalat Data Card for high-speed internet access whilst spending hours and hours in Dubai's traffic jams. Although the installation of the software was straight forward, the ...

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