Qwaider Planet : international

Is America Islamophobic !!??

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:07:05 GMT

The Time Cover this issue is controversial as usual. Is America Islamophobic !!?? Has America become Islamophobic !!?? A good question to be asked now especially with the so-called ground zero mosque debate...(read more)

More Than A Center

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:04:01 GMT

I will tackle again the so-called ground zero mosque controversy as it seems that this is not the end and the whole world seems discussing it, it is not a local matter in the United States First of all...(read more)

Help Pakistan

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:58:01 GMT

I am really ashamed of myself of speaking about this matter now , Pakistan is devastated and millions of its people are threatened by death not from floods but from hunger and disease. It is shame that...(read more)

Onislam : From Those Who Gave Us IOL

Egyptian Chronicles — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:41:00 GMT

From the same fantastic team that presented to the world IOL comes its latest Islamic portal : Onislam . Just like IOL but without the Qatari administration OnIslam covers a wide set of topics combining...(read more)

Wiki leaks : When Leaks Are Good

Egyptian Chronicles — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:20:05 GMT

The world is speaking about the on going war between Wiki leaks and the Pentagon especially we are heading towards another battle as the famous website is going to publish new confidential documents rejecting...(read more)

Tanzil : Quran Navigator

Egyptian Chronicles — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:51:00 GMT

Tanzil : Quran Navigator Tanzil is a wonderful project to produce a highly verified precise Quran text to be used in Quranic websites and applications that started in 2007 as said in its wiki but it is...(read more)

Looking For Fame Through book burning

Egyptian Chronicles — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:21:00 GMT

What does Terry Jones think when he announces that he will burn Islam's Holy Book 'Quran' ?? Does he think that we as Muslims we will be happy as our Holy Book is treated like that !!?? How...(read more)

Review : Windows Live Writer Wave 4 Public Beta And Blogger

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:31:00 GMT

Here is my Windows Live writer Wave 4 Public Beta review which I hope to be useful. As you may know Microsoft has launched its Window Live Essential beta aka Wave 4 from couple of weeks ago to after a...(read more)

Book Reviews : The Lost Symbol

Egyptian Chronicles — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:08:02 GMT

The Lost symbol is the third and latest book in Dan Brown 's Robert Langdon series if we can call it this. Dan Brown wrote "The lost symbol" after " The Da Vinci Code " trying to...(read more)

Let The Cold War Games Begin For Real

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:43:03 GMT

It is not a secret that the cold war between the U.S and Russia returned back during Putin and Bush presidency which reached to its epic with the Georgia and the American missiles system. From two days...(read more)

Diplomatic Disgrace !!

Egyptian Chronicles — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:50:02 GMT

This is dedicated to our foreign minister Ahmed Abu El-Gait : One member of the Egyptian embassy in London was accused of shoplifting in 2005. Of course this is only accusation , we do not know if that...(read more)

Mr.Egypt Does Not Represent Egypt

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:20:00 GMT

I do not like beauty pageants in general and I love Men to be men , so you probably do not need to elaborate how I feel when I see the MR. World beauty pageants. Mr. World 2010- Egypt I will not say anything...(read more)

They Were All Arabs

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:33:04 GMT

A question was raised that why all the witnesses from the Gaza flotilla mentioned so far in the blog were all Arabs and thus they can't be considered unbiased witnesses who will not lie about what...(read more)

Flotilla Follow Up : And The Freedom flotilla has won

Egyptian Chronicles — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:17:00 GMT

This much more updated and comprehensive post than the first one I posted earlier. The commandos attacked happened on humanitarian vessels in international waters , the flotilla had not entered the Israeli...(read more)

I love You Lula

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:40:01 GMT

One of our professors in the university told us that the next two world powers are India and Brazil and that we should carefully watch both countries while they are doing it because it would be a good...(read more)

Another View To Iceland Volcano

Egyptian Chronicles — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:53:01 GMT

The travelers hate it , the journalists can’t its name and the rest of us stand from the photos and footage coming from that Volcano with our mouths open in fear and puzzlement but there are some who find...(read more)

Follow Up : Egypt's Pavilion in Shanghai World Expo

Egyptian Chronicles — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:18:02 GMT

Better late than never , after being hugely criticized in media the Egyptian government stated that it is going to inaugurate our Egypt Pavilion in the Shanghai world expo and that this delay in its inauguration...(read more)

Something Expected

Egyptian Chronicles — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:55:01 GMT

It was something expected and logic to find conspiracy theories surrounding the Polish president plane crash in Russia , it is logic when all the state's men die in a crash like this to have doubts...(read more)

The Religious Societies : The Hindus

Egyptian Chronicles — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:59:00 GMT

Hinduism does not have one single religious society but rather societies with its some many deities reaching to 1000 across India , it is also one of the most oldest religions in the world and thus it...(read more)

Miracle Child

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:30:05 GMT

This Dutch boy who survived that terrible jet crash is the talk of the world now and he has too , not so many people survive jet crashes like he did. 103 passenger and crew were not lucky as him including...(read more)

vimov And The technology behind the iPad success

Egyptian Chronicles — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:58:00 GMT

I really love the hope that this country gives from time to time , I remember when the iPad was revealed how the Egyptian comments in the news websites were depressing on how the world outside is advancing...(read more)

مصر دوت كوم Misr Dot Com

Egyptian Chronicles — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:37:04 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen , I am proudly present the first Arabic Domain : Misr Dot Com مصر دوت كوم The first Misr Dot Com Domain in Arabic in the world This is the first Arabic domain that hit the internet...(read more)

Is This The Best You Can Do !!??

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:24:00 GMT

Here is the Egypt Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010 The Egyptian Pavilion in Shanghai World Expo 2010-Reuters Can somebody tell me how this design represents Egypt !!? With all our history and all our...(read more)

Saving The Bacha Boys

Egyptian Chronicles — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:14:05 GMT

Honestly I did not plan to start my day watching a very disturbing clip from a documentary about the Bacha Bazi or the dancing boys in Afghanistan. As you can see in the Wikipedia entry the Bacha boys...(read more)

“Wasla” Should Be Independent !!

Egyptian Chronicles — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:34:00 GMT

“Wasla” Newspaper is making headlines as the first Arabic newspaper written by bloggers. It is a great move and addition to our Egyptian and Arabic press but as much as I happy with that “Link” yet I am...(read more)

Egypt Does Not Need A Revolution Kyrgyzstani Style

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:26:00 GMT

The whole world is watching what is currently happening in a remote country faraway from us called Kyrgyzstan . There is a whole bloody revolution there at the ex-Soviet nation where the people clashed...(read more)

And I Thought It Was The Egyptian Mercedes Complexity

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:04:00 GMT

Egyptians love German automobiles since the invention of cars and German cars means in the Egyptian psychology : Luxury and force. You are an “A” Class , a real “A” Class when you have a black Mercedes...(read more)

A Kiss To Remember

Egyptian Chronicles — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:27:00 GMT

I do not know why no one has spoken yet about Berlusconi's kiss in the last Arab summit , for God sake it is the only thing I can remember from this lame summit besides of course the duet between Qaddafi...(read more)

iDescribe Used by 2 Million Facebookers to Describe their Facebook Friends in 5 Words

ArabCrunch — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:48:47 GMT

Facebook is now #1 most visited site in USA ahead of Google. The social network has over 400 million people and most probably you are one of them. The major traction facebook offers to all of us, is keeping...(read more)

1,500 Members and Counting: ArabCrunch.NET Opens its Beta to the Public with a New UI, Facebook and Twitter Integration

ArabCrunch — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:37:27 GMT

Over the past few months, we’ve been working in a new and streamlined design for ArabCrunch.NET that enables us to take the largest technology community in the Arab and emerging world into Public Beta...(read more)

What Did Investors Say During The Global Technology Forum 2010? (The Complete Report)

ArabCrunch — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:22:17 GMT

(This the second and last full post by Amir Kabbara about the he Global Technology Forum, he is an entrepreneur and ArabCrunch Ambassador in USA, Amir is originally from Lebanon and now working with Microsoft...(read more)

Google Extends its Arabic Support with Arabic Tashkeel (Diacritics App)

ArabCrunch — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:21:44 GMT

Arabic language is different than English, for example it is written from right to left and has Diacritics describe how arabic text is pronounced, they are called in Arabic Tashkeel for example in Arabic...(read more)

Yamli Launches RealTime Translator Project Via Google Translator API

ArabCrunch — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:11:16 GMT

Yamli the Boston based startup launched about 2 years ago with a transliteration tool, has extended its offerings recently with its new Dynamic Translator Project, which allows users to translate from...(read more)

High Dam Special : Celebrating World Water Day in Aswan High Dam Style

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:09:00 GMT

The World celebrated yesterday the World Water Day in time where many people in the world can’t find a single clean drop of water. This year Egypt is celebrating the jubilee of inauguration of the Aswan...(read more)

Dad, Mom Not on Twitter? TweetToEmail App Can Send Your Tweets to Anyone Not using Twitter!

ArabCrunch — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:28:10 GMT

If you are a Twitter user, there is a high chance that there are a lot of people you care about who are not using Twitter yet, at least in my case mom and dad! But, almost everyone uses email, if you wanted...(read more)

GameSlider.com: Social Gaming Platform For Browser-Based Games

ArabCrunch — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:32:51 GMT

Do you play online games like Mafia wars? Khan wars? if you do, then Gameslider might become your online home when it opens to the public. Gameslider is a new social platform geared for enthusiast gamers...(read more)

Live Blogging From Global Technology Forum 2010 in Silicon Valley

ArabCrunch — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:55:36 GMT

#This the first by Amir Kabbara he is an entrepreneur and ArabCrunch Ambassador in USA, Amir is originally from Lebanon and now working with Microsoft in Seattle. Amir tried to live stream the event but...(read more)

Bassel Ojjeh and Former Yahoo & SAS Data Executives Join Forces To Create nPario, a Startup That Helps Organizations Understand and Market Consumer Intent

ArabCrunch — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:56:11 GMT

nPario Inc., a provider of data products and services that enable companies to understand and market consumer commercial intent, opened its business operations today. Led by former Yahoo executives Bassel...(read more)

Facebook Shows Respect to its Muslims Users and Deletes the Fake “God” Fan page!

ArabCrunch — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:32:17 GMT

Last week, the talk among many facebook Arabic users is the fake fanpage with the title “Allah” which means in Arabic “One God.” The group creator/s was dispatching status updates claiming that he is God...(read more)

TwitLoader: a Light Desktop App For Uploading Images to Twitter

ArabCrunch — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:53:51 GMT

One of the reasons that made Twitter famous are its APIs and the third party desktop applications that made life easier for many of us to follow what people tweet and stay in touch with them. And because...(read more)

Junaio 2.0 First Indoor Social Augmented Reality App at SXSW With Developers API

ArabCrunch — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:22:41 GMT

0 Call it web 3.0 or Augmented reality (AR), the technology that overlays digital content such as text, graphics, or 3D models on real objects through any video output. A Technology that is changing the...(read more)

collecting comments – PLEASE RESPOND

melicieuse — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:38:06 GMT

so I was just having a discussion with a few Palestinians about the 1000 days for Gaza movement going on, I wanted to put across to them my simple question……….what is this movement doing...(read more)

Something Is Wrong

Egyptian Chronicles — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:50:00 GMT

First we got Haiti's earthquake. Second month later we got Japan's earthquake. Third hours later we got hours later Chile's earthquake. Fourth hours later we got Pacific Tsunami Fifth days...(read more)

Get Bargain Deals With BunndleBuy’s Patent Pending Group/Social Buying Approach

ArabCrunch — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:36:22 GMT

0 With US recessions not yet over and jobs market still tight, every penny you have can adds up to your bottom-line. With bunndlebuy you can save hard-earned currency in buying music, outdoor, Sunglasses...(read more)

AlJazeera Launches Its Arabic Live Streaming iPhone App for Free, Makes its Symbian/WinMobile App Free

ArabCrunch — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:38:38 GMT

0 The number one TV news station in the Arab world, Al Jazeera, has just launched its Arabic channel Live streaming iPhone app for free. It also made its apps on Symbian and Windows Mobile also free removing...(read more)

Support My Cause

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:56:00 GMT

Can you please support my cause and help world food programme !!?? :) Little clicks for couple minutes can mean hot meals for improverished children. Of course you should not forget to try changing...(read more)

Dubai-Based Infinitec Launches The Infinite USB Memory (IUM) Drive

ArabCrunch — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:22:56 GMT

0 Some of the fruits of having hosting multinational companies in the Arab world is being realized today, Ahmad Zaharan a Palestinian ex-Nokia and his ex- Nokia Australian college , David McKern launched...(read more)

TwitHorus: Real-Time Tweet Updates and Analytics of Tech Companies

ArabCrunch — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:20:26 GMT

0 If you work in the tech industry, it is business 101 to know what your competition is up to. And there is no place better than Twitter to know what your competition are up to, you can create a list and...(read more)

Global Technology Forum 2010, March 18th: Arab and American Venture Capitalist & Investors Converge in Silicon Valley -Discounts to ArabCrunch Readers.

ArabCrunch — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:23:53 GMT

0 Since around 2 years ArabCrunch has been fighting through this blog to help Arab startups and the technology industry in this region. Before us, Arab American technology professionals came together to...(read more)

An Earth In Chile And Threat To 1/4 of The World

Egyptian Chronicles — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:36:05 GMT

We all knew today that Chile had an earthquake that made Haiti's earthquake look like a picnic !! Up till now the number of death toll is not final and it may rise despite I feel that it is not that...(read more)

UNICEF : 28 Million Child In Egypt Live In Poverty

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:55:01 GMT

UNICEF : Despite progress, millions of children still live in poverty in Egypt, UNICEF study says Because these 28 million child will grow up blaming us on their poverty , because these 28...(read more)

“Majed”, The Most Famous Arabic Cartoon Character to Enter the Augmented Reality World

ArabCrunch — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:05:14 GMT

0 As I mentioned last year on this post , when I was young, I grow up reading an Arabic Magazine called “Majed” which is based on one of the most popular Arabic children’s comic book character. Tomorrow...(read more)

Parade Chooses Mubarak As One Of The World's Worst Dictators

Egyptian Chronicles — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:26:03 GMT

This is much interesting than Elton John's interview at least for us back in Egypt Well he did not make it to number one and I think it is good for him as he used to be no. 17 in 2008 so there is an...(read more)

Breaking: Facebook’s First Acquisition in a Muslim Country: Octazen Solutions

ArabCrunch — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:39:46 GMT

0 Around a week ago the most popular social network in the world Facebook acquired a 2 employee Malaysian startup called Octazen Solutions , which develops contact importer software that facebook was reported...(read more)

Is This Ike's Great Granddaughter !!??

Egyptian Chronicles — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:52:00 GMT

Is this lady truly the granddaughter of Eisenhower !!?? I know Susan Eisenhower is the granddaughter of Ike who supported Obama in the Presidential elections despite being a republican. Back to Laura Read...(read more)

Breaking News : Egypt in The UN human rights Council

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:50:01 GMT

Watch it live here http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/ Read More......(read more)

iPad Geeks: Vimov Enables Developers to Develop Multi Touch Apps Before the iPad is Even Released

ArabCrunch — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:14:26 GMT

0 It is still 6 weeks till you can an iPad, but as developers rush to develop an iPad app it would be great -if you are one of them- to have the full features of the iPad up and running in your app and...(read more)

Feedoor Connects Any Blog or Website Feed In Real Time to Google Buzz

ArabCrunch — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:58:49 GMT

If you have a blog or a website with feeds it would be smart to integrate it with the new Buzz in town: Google Buzz. In case you missed the news, Google Buzz is the new social status update service from...(read more)

Auto Post Your Blog/Website Feed to Google Buzz in Real-Time Via Feedoor

ArabCrunch — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:58:49 GMT

Africans Vs. Latin Americans

Egyptian Chronicles — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:01:00 GMT

This is more like a scene you see in some action film from Hollywood where East coast gang is in a fight was some Latin American gang over some drug deal , yet unfortunately this is not an action film...(read more)

Just A Handshake !!

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:26:00 GMT

The historical hand shake between Saudi Prince Turki El-Faisal ,the former Saudi intelligence chief with Danny Ayalon , the Israeli deputy foreign minister in Munich at the international security council...(read more)

SourceForge Simi Unblocks Syria, Sudan,Iran, N.Korea & Cuba- Freedom Loving Admins: Unblock Now

ArabCrunch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:41:29 GMT

We waited for few days and nobody wrote about it, so we moved on and broke the news with a guest post from Abdulrahman Idlbi as we were upset when SourceForge the world’s largest open source software hosting...(read more)

Apple iTunes Store Soon in Jordan, Tunisia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Niger and 8 other Counties

ArabCrunch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:29:15 GMT

Apple recently posted an updated Terms of Agreement for publishing applications to the App Store, and among the changes are newly added countries in which Apple’s iTunes Store is set to expand, these...(read more)

Support Avinunu

Egyptian Chronicles — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:04:00 GMT

Ali Abunimah , the Palestinian activist and founder of electronic Intifada has become from the short finalists in Shorty awards for Politics. I believe that we should all support him as he deserves this...(read more)

Muslim Inventions That Shaped The World

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:51:00 GMT

I am so happy to know that there is an exhibition in London celebrating the Muslim invention s showing young generations of how really Muslims contributed to world civilization. I really would like my...(read more)

The Most Cleanest And Dirtiest Countries in The World : Where are we !!?

Egyptian Chronicles — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:30:00 GMT

The Environmental performance Index " EPI" ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality...(read more)

Samih Sawiris And Alexander Lebedev To Acquire The Independent

Egyptian Chronicles — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:50:04 GMT

Samih Sawiris is not interested in old Khedival buildings only but just like his younger brother he is interested in Media too. Samih Sawiris is reportedly interested with Russian Oligarch Alexander Lebedev...(read more)

Opera: Yahoo! More Popular Than Google in Indonesia.

ArabCrunch — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:03:11 GMT

According to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report, In Southeast Asia among mobile-Web users, Google is at the top of the rankings for numerous countries, with the very significant exception of...(read more)

#ArabCrunch.NET Hits Over 1000 Members and Launches Improved Startup Q&A with Smart Matching.

ArabCrunch — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:44:07 GMT

Amman, Palo Alto. Even though we are still in private beta, our engineering and product development team has been working hard to improve ArabCrunch.NET , the technology ecosystem community, to empower...(read more)

Nokia Makes Worldwide Walk & Drive Navigation Free On Smartphones

ArabCrunch — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:42:57 GMT

In a move to counter Google’s Free navigation applications, Nokia just announced that starting March 2010, new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include the new version of Ovi Maps www.nokia.com/maps...(read more)