Update: as per our suspicion it turned out that "Israel" and Ghana have the service too.
Google has a neat gmail feature that lets user to send free text messages (SMS) to their friends directly from your Gmail account that works the same way gtalk works. Gmail SMS service was originally launched only for US mobile numbers in 2008. But now it h...
Mobile devices are being used in many ways and every day they are getting smarter, as a result there are new markets being opened by the abilities of smart phones. Today, Juniper Research published a report that estimate a "mobile retail market" to exceed $12 billion by 2014.
The mobile marketing and retail strategies report found that the...
Update: The event's video is below to read the text details go here.
We are here live in Beirut Lebanon for a major announcement from Nokia, here is the live streaming:
updates:
Nokia launched Music store, it comes with with free unlimited Music for 12 months.
Nokia to bring unlimited Music to 12 Arab countries, with 4 million songs, Noki...
As everyone knows Mobile devices are becoming more like computers, take a look at iPhone 3GS, Droid and N900.
Today, with new smart mobiles you can do everything you do on a PC as processing and memory speed are going up. However, it is not really everything, because the screen is small which limits the interaction between you, the mobile an...
According to a recent Arab Advisors Group Mobile Handsets Retail Tracking Reports, Pakistan is the largest mobile handsets market of the four countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya).
In terms of handset models, the research has also revealed that Nokia is the market leader in Iraq with varying performance depending on region and with ...
Etisalats ,the Emarati Telecom company has launched today its own kids phone, the device is geared for families to monitor and stay in touch with their kids.
KidsPhone is a simple device that comes only with a 4 programmed numbers, GPS and SMS. The device will alert parents via SMS and email if their kids leave a predefined zone such as school, ...
Update: Kzalek was on private beta, the download link has expired, sorry for late update it was a miss communication with its founder.
Last month, I nagged and was wondering why the current Twitter AIR based Desktop apps such as TweetDeck and Seesmic do not support Arabic text on Mac or Linux? But now I can breathe the sigh of relief. ( Arabi...
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...
The launch Apple's biggest innovations in years, the iPhone and its app marketplace was the biggest earthquake that shacked all mobile manufactures and forced them to rethink their strategies. Though, in the Arab world, Apple has shown little or no care to the market even though Steve Jobs, the cofounder and CEO of Apple, is from Syrian origins, as...
Update: Look at the end of the post.
Yahoo's acquired Maktoob has launched its first application for the iPhone called "Maktoob Dictionary."
Maktoob Dictionary is a text translation app from English to Arabic and vice versa, it has around 160,000 Arabic and English words and phrases and enables you to bookmark words.
The app also c...
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