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Khaled A., on October 25th, 2009
I have to say that I am not impressed with this presentation by Microsoft Saudi Arabia. Special thanks to @MarwanAlmuraisy for posting the video.
Microsoft is supposed to start a Windows 7 ad campaign this Wednesday, we will see how effective it is going to be.
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Khaled A., on October 24th, 2009
Microsoft Windows 7 is now available in Saudi Arabia. The prices are (from Jarir Bookstore).
Windows 7 Home Premium Full 469SR ($125).
Windows 7 Professional Full 889SR ($237).
Windows 7 Ultimate Full 949SR ($253). (thanks Zeyad).
These are full editions and not upgrades or OEM (system builder) versions. The full version of Windows 7 all allow you to [...]
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Khaled A., on October 24th, 2009
Update: finally found the press release by Microsoft.
In a small event in Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, Microsoft Saudi Arabia has launched the company’s latest operating system: Windows 7. Microsoft Saudi Arabia’s “launch party” was a small press release attended by Samir Noaman, MS Saudi’s new CEO, Waiel Snosi, manager of MS Saudi sales and [...]
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Khaled A., on October 10th, 2009
Covering technology event and everything of interest to the Geeks of Saudi Arabia, SaudiGeeks website was launched with that goal in mind.
Best of luck to Jalammar and everyone else at SaudiGeeks.com, make sure to follow them on Twitter as well.
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Khaled A., on October 9th, 2009
The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is now taking pre-booking requests for their upcoming HTC Magic, a Google Android based phone.
The phone will be sold for 2,399SR ($631) and includes a free subscription to a 12-month data plan with a limit of 1 Gigabyte each (notice that STC’s site called it Gega).
STC will hopefully open [...]
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Khaled A., on September 23rd, 2009
To celebrate The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s National Day, the Google Saudi Arabia homepage has changed the logo to the following:
The logo was previewed on Google Arabia’s facebook page hours before the beginning of September 23rd.
Additionally, Google has launched a Saudi Arabia edition of Google news a few days ago (via ArabCrunch).
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Khaled A., on September 1st, 2009
Western Digital is my favorite hard drive brand. Their drives are the most reliable I have ever used. I have contacted their email support many times and they always respond in less than 24 hours with useful information, something other companies should learn from them.
Western Digital has a strong presence in Saudi Arabia thanks [...]
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Khaled A., on August 28th, 2009
Yelp is a database of locations and reviews. It started covering San Fransisco then the rest of the country. Now it’s in Canada and UK. You can use it to find and review restaurants, shopping centers, and many more. Their database is accessible from an iPhone app as well.
It’ll take them forever to expand to [...]
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Khaled A., on August 4th, 2009
Spot On PR is looking for Twitter users from Saudi Arabia to take this survey.
The survey is about Twitter users in the Middle East and he would like more responses from Saudi users. Thank you!
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Khaled A., on July 25th, 2009
Great achievement for Saudi students from King Saud University, the “UT” team will represent Saudi Arabia in the 6th Sixth Scientific Conference for the care of the talented in Jordan.
Read more about it on Riyadh newspaper and Sabq (Arabic site).Forget about these links! Read actual info about it (in Arabic) on Abdullah Driaan’s site.
The odd [...]
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