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Google IO Conference: Videos are available
Not sure how many of you wanted to go to Google IO conference. Well, I wanted to, but I was and still am stuck to this project which we are about to launch.
Anyway, Lucky me and for others who wanted to go but couldn’t. Google was generous enough to release videos of all sessions of [...]
Must Read! Time Magazine on that platform battle
Time Magazine has a must-read piece on the battle between Google, Facebook and Apple to build the best platform. The story looks at the open-vs-closed approach, the mobile-vs-tethered schools of thought, and why Google seems to be playing catchup instead of leading the way.
I did discuss in previous posts about how Facebook will lose the [...]
iPhone adapting centralized push based notification architecture
Since I tapped into iPhone Development with SDK, i’ve always wondered where is the background processing? Basically, poll a new data to keep things in sync with the main server. That was basically the wish that everyone was asking for.
But now, with iPhone 2.0 announcement, it was announced that the centralized push based notification architecture [...]
Update 2: Released! - Update on Fouad Al-Farhan: His blog goes down along with him
Update 2: Prominent Saudi blogger Fouad Alfarhan was freed today. He is back home in Jeddah after 137 days in custody. Alfarhan was arrested on 10 December 2007 for unspecified “violation of non-security regulations.” ~ Global Voices
I did post something about Fouad Al-Farhan few months ago in regards of his arrest and how the Western press pressured The [...]
Photography and I
Adrift
Originally uploaded by champy1013
Thanks to Abdu, he got me hooked into photography and here I am exploring flickr pictures.
I just came across this photo which I think is fantastic… Now, the question is, where can I grab such a thing in Qatar? Abdu claims that [...]
Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
