Macworld 2008 will kick off in January 14 which is 10 days away. Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote speech in the biggest Mac conference and expo in the world. I hear rumors that a big cheese will be announced in this conference… Hmmm, iPhone 2.0?
Few months after the release of AlJazeera Talk! Video Today AlJazeera Talk! team announces the release of AlJazeera Talk! Podcast.
English version of AlJazeera Talk! can be found here.
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The Ministry of Communications in Kuwait decided to cut all international calls, except GCCs, by 20%. The decree is already in effect since the beginning of the year. An official spokesman says that the reason for slashing the price is to “curb the spread of unlicensed international call agents and exercise control on the international calls ‘black market’ in addition to reducing the financial burden on citizens and residents”. More
List of overseas call rates can be found here. (Note: Arabic content).
Here’s TIME’s poll result of best gadget of the year:

Hehe at least I own one thing off the list… the DragonFly and soon iPhone I think!
Okay this one of the best articles I have read during the year. The author starts off talking about the Quite Structure design concept. Then he goes off explaining and comparing the between CNN and USA Today website design. For web designers this is a most-read article as it gives more and deeper ideas to consider when designing a webpage such as layout and image with text positioning, logo complexity, white spaces… etc.
I’m trying to form a team for Imagine Cup 2008 contest sponsored by Microsoft. I’m currently looking for 2 out of 4 students to join the team, if anyone interested please contact me or leave a comment with your email or phone number.
You don’t have to know .NET programming as we are going to train together one of the .NET tools. But you have to be a Kuwait University Student, undergraduate or studying master, and you need some experience in any other programming languages.
Contact Email: DELETED
For whoever is interested, I got a project for my E-Learning course and I have to advertise my online class as a homework. If you are interested in Arabic online course for Actionscript you can visit it here:
http://t3leem.6moo7.net/course/view.php?id=54
AOL announced today that it will no longer support Netscape Navigator, the first browser for many of us, including me! It’s time for Netscape’s fans to say goodbye for the 13 years old browser.

As of this month, Netscape had only 0.6 percent of the browser market, which was still dominated by Internet Explorer with more than 77 percent, according to Web application and analytics firm Net Applications. Firefox was gaining, however, with market share just over 16 percent.
The winner of Aral Balkan‘s SWX contest has been announced few hours ago. For more information check out SWX blog.