At ArabCrunch, every now and then, we publish guest posts from thoughtful readers. Today's guest post writer is Ayman Alkhateeb who works at Oracle as a senior enterprise 2.0 consultant. Ayman is passionate about social media, web 2.0 technologies and is also a mobile casual developer. His opinion here does not represent Oracle. Ayman can be found...

Updated. After Reaching the 1 million user mark, the Arab/Pakistani iPhones duo who won the best User Interface award of 2009, has just launched a new great dead simple 2Do application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Earlier on, at AC , I started blogging about  Squeezer (Update: Squeezer, the stunning iPhone apps, developed by  Naser AL Zah...

Following Yahoo! acquisition of?Maktoob?and Noupe Acquisition by Smashing magazine, I was tipped from a VC friend of mine of another good news for the Tech industry in Jordan and the Arab world in general. As of 10 days ago, Bahrain based private Equity firm, GrowthCapital announced that it acquired 30% of? Amman, Jordan based?Rubicon. Rubic...

In a move to integrate Opera Unite with Opera browser. Opera, the leading web browser company announced that Opera Unite is now available in the new beta release of Opera 10.10. Opera Unite turns your PC into a server, allowing you to host websites locally and share  files and photos directly from your PC with your fiends with no need for web...

Updated. Aljazeera, the popular Arab TV Network and the only English TV station that is based from the Arab world has officially launched its blog network called Aljazeera Blogs . Update: Aljazeera English TV station remains blocked by US cable operators with no reasonable justifications rather than being racists. was blocked, as it seems the b...

Updated. Few days ago Smashing Magazine, the popular design and web development website with over 4 million visits per month has acquired the popular Egyptian blog Noupe which  also specializes in website design and  development. Noupe was founded in Egypt 2007 by Noura Yehia, and has grown significantly with great posts tutorials and ho...

Thanks to God, after a long wait, with an excuse or no excuse and in compliance with the popular demand, your blog AC announces today the launch of "ArabCrunch Arabic Edition which will be the first Arabic blog that focus on tech startups, entrepreneurship, social media and mobile news and views and is based on citizen journalism. Citizen Journalis...

Last June, AC exclusively published the full profiles of MIT Arab Business Plan Competition 2008-2009 winners, back then we said that it is one of the great initiatives that are helping entrepreneurial drive in the region. The competition which is the equivalent of MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competitions in Boston, has launched its 2009-2010 edi...

Following the launch of Pixon12, Samsung officially announced the launch of the world's first 12-megapixel camera phone with a 3X optical zoom Samsung AMOLED 12M (SCH-W880). The device will be in the Arab region post Gitex Technology week in Dubai. The device price has not been announced yet. Mr. Sandeep Saihgal, general manager of mobile ...

Updated. [caption id="attachment_171" align="alignright" width="189" caption="Etisala Logo"][/caption] Mohammad Al Zaki, Marketing Director of Etisalat, told the Emarati newspaper Emarrat Alyoum, that Etisalat, the largest triple play operator in United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch iPhone 3GS before the end of this month and that the comp...