Archive for the ‘Where 2.0’ Category


Screenshot Watwet the micro blogging & social networking Arabian clone of Twitter has launched a new design today with some new features. ( I have reviewed watwet in the past here) What is new: The new design is very nice, sleek and straightforward, I personally like it. And it seems other wawaters did. The new design also comes with a nu...
Screenshot Press Release from  ArabAdvisor Group. A new Arab Advisors Group analysis of 19 Arab countries reveals that 3G cellular networks are available in 12 countries. The most common 3G services offered by the 3G operators are Mobile Internet, followed by video calling and mobile TV. Twelve countries in the Arab World have commercial 3G services. ...
Screenshot You know UPS, DHL, ARAMEX, well meet Darrb which means "way" in Arabic. It is a crowd based shipping online community, or shipping 2.0  which was beta launched recently. Unlike conventional shippers who have paid staff to deliver items, and charge a predefined charge. Darrb shippers can be any one (including you !) who is welling and can de...
Screenshot Operator-billed service revenues across the Africa & Middle East region are expected to rise to more than $107 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report found that growth would be driven by mobile data services, fuelled by the greater availability and wider variety of rich-media content coupled with lower b...
Screenshot Places.ae BlackBerry version allows users to find locations near them by using GPS, making the process of finding locations of restaurants, hotels, shops and so on, more easy and more convenient when on the go. This move puts places.ae in the LBS (Location Based Services) market, but currently Places.au services are only available in Dubai whi...
Screenshot weNear a mobile 2.0 location based  platform developed by Alexandria, Egypt based eSpace,  has launched location based applications competition using the weNear API. The competition is open to the students of The Computer Science Department at Alexandria University, Egypt. The final submission date is 31 August 2008 11:59 PM Alexandria ...
Screenshot Nokia has introduced new Maps 2.0 services in the Arab region as part of Ovi, the company's mobile internet service brand name. Maps 2.0, the updated version of Nokia Maps has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download. Nokia's mapping and navigation solutions give people navigation features, local content and world maps directly o...
Screenshot I've been privileged to receive an invite to Brightekite privet beta a few days ago, for those who do not know the service it is a location based micro blogging and photo sharing social network, my profile is here. On BrightKite you can use both the web and mobile to send your status update or photos. From the mobile you have to check in your cu...
Screenshot Watwet was launched to the public about a 2 months ago After being for a while in privet beta. The services is similar to twitter, it lets you to send your status update to your friends and receive their updates, via web, email and SMS. Unlike Twitter, on WatWet you can send and receive photos to and from your friends via web and MMS. And the se...
Screenshot Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) based on Amman, Jordan, which aims at helping tech entrepreneurs start their ventures, has officially announced the third year of the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC) with $70,000 of cash prizes in addition to in-kind services provided by the Centre for the winners to...
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