Many young Saudi entrepreneurs are abandoning the idea of setting up a website for their new businesses and are investing all their marketing resources in social media channels. That’s not a good idea according to Social Media Strategist Doreen Nicastro of Nicastro Consultants, a boutique social media and information technology consulting firm.
LONDON: Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
WASHINGTON: Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.
A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we’ve only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of the yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists say. So far, only 1.9 million species have been found. Recent discoveries have been small and weird: a psychedelic frogfish, a lizard the size of a dime and even a blind hairy mini-lobster at the bottom of the ocean.
TAIPEI/HONG KONG: Asian suppliers to Apple Inc. have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
SAN FRANCISCO: Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it’s only a narrow mimicry of what the human brain is capable.
LAS VEGAS: Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone.
Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google’s popular Android operating system. The application not only logs details about incoming and outgoing phone calls, it also records those calls.
NEW YORK: A new iPhone app launched this week is designed to educate parents about teen dating abuse and violence, and how to get help to combat it.
AMSTERDAM: Social networking site LinkedIn says it will alter an advertising technique, following criticism and questions in the Netherlands about whether it violated privacy laws.
MIAMI: Heat and drought are parching the southern US plains, floods and tornadoes have shattered long-standing records, and the tropical Atlantic is steaming into the traditionally busiest part of the hurricane season.
LOS ANGELES: NASA says its surviving Mars rover Opportunity has reached the rim of Endeavour crater after a nearly three-year trek across the surface of the red planet.
NEW YORK: Facebook says Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company after six years.
WASHINGTON: Now that the shuttle fleet is permanently grounded, the US space spotlight could shift toward the path-breaking astronomical science that NASA does without human beings on board.
A ceremony last Wednesday in Riyadh marked the opening of the new Center for Complex Engineering Systems (CCES), a collaboration between King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
SANTIAGO, Chile: This has been the wettest winter in decades for Chile’s arid northern desert, where fractions of an inch of rain have done major damage in some areas and set the stage for spectacular floral displays in the weeks to come.
HONG KONG: Three Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of them, located in humid regions and on lower altitudes in central and east Nepal, may disappear in time to come, researchers in Japan said on Tuesday.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: NASA’s upcoming mission to Jupiter can’t get much greener than this: a solar-powered, windmill-shaped spacecraft.
WASHINGTON: Pick up the phone and hear, “Hey, what’s up?” Chances are, those few words are enough to recognize who’s speaking — perhaps unless you have dyslexia. In a surprise discovery, researchers found adults with that reading disorder also have a hard time recognizing voices.
The work isn’t just a curiosity. It fits with research to uncover the building blocks of literacy and how they can go wrong. The eventual goal: To spot at-risk youngsters even before they open a book inndergarten — instead of diagnosing dyslexia in a struggling second-grader.
WASHINGTON: From sea otters to blue whales, marine mammals are under stress from climate change, ocean acidification, hunting and other threats. Researchers have identified 20 important sites around the world where they say conservation efforts should concentrate.
LONDON: People from northern parts of the world have evolved bigger brains and larger eyes to help them to cope with long, dark winters and dim skies, scientists said on Wednesday.
SEOUL: South Korea’ communications regulator said on Thursday hackers from China had attacked an Internet portal and blogging site operated by SK Comms, accessing the personal information of up to 35 million users in what could be the country’s biggest cyber attack so far.
SEOUL: South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Yonhap news agency reported.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri: An American man is building a huge house in the Ozarks Mountains in Missouri with 13 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms and other features that could include a library, music room, theater and a massive garage. With a footprint equivalent to a little under two acres, it would be one of the country’s largest privately owned houses, according to various lists.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island: The next frontier in the fight to keep America’s crucial electronic networks safe from harm will play out close to home and require more involvement from private industry, which controls 85 percent of the infrastructure, experts say.
WASHINGTON: Technology may be providing a cure for that bane of commuting drivers, the rear-end collision in bumper-to-bumper traffic, according to an auto insurance industry-funded study released Tuesday.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A pair of spacecraft rocketed toward the moon Saturday on the first mission dedicated to measuring lunar gravity and determining what’s inside Earth’s orbiting companion — all the way down to the core.
SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI: From San Francisco to Seoul to Sydney, fans of Apple paid tribute to Steve Jobs after he resigned as CEO, calling him an icon for the entire technology industry, not just the company he co-founded.
Apple says Steve Jobs resigns as CEO
Winner of 20 “Best Sports Game of E3” awards, including the prestigious 2011 E3 Game Critics award, FIFA 12 hits stores September 27th in North America and September 30th worldwide. FIFA 12 will be available for the PlayStation3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo 3DS, PSP, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Arabic menus and commentary will be a part of FIFA 12, with legendary commentators Issam Chaouali and Abdullah Mubarak S. Al Harbi providing the audio.
• Upgrade your drive
• Proactive about security
• Make the most of hardware
• Find what you want
• Take two screens along
Back to school time is nearly here. Parents will soon be buying notebooks and uniforms, book bags and pencil sharpeners. While there’s lots of attention on the external things that students need to return to school, most families forget that vision is critical to a child’s success in the classroom. Early detection and treatment are key in correcting vision problems and helping students see clearly. This means that yearly eye exams for students are essential. Computers are common in schools now and three-dimensional imaging is making its way from the TV screen at home into the classroom.
Polly wants a network connection It seems like everyone has signed up with at least one social networking site. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube — they all have devotees. But now social networking is going to the dogs — or cats or birds. That’s because people are creating profiles for their pets.
Saving music files to mobile handsets is pretty standard these days. But handsets can use some help when it comes to producing great sound from those .mp3 files. With that in mind, Nokia has just introduced some new audio accessories that are sure to put a song in your heart.
• One-armed robot at a discount
• Dump those ugly glasses
• Music streaming for tweens
• Edutainment courtesy of Garfield
How many accounts do you have that need a password? I did a quick count and found that I have more than 200 different personal password protected accounts. My situation is extreme, but I’m not alone. People are using a lot of online services and every one of those services requires a password.
I’m a big supporter of intellectual property rights. I create original content for Arab News every week. When I find those articles, which are the intellectual property (IP) of Arab News, being used by another company without permission, I’m not pleased. So when Autodesk contacted me to discuss licensing compliance for their software in Saudi Arabia, I welcomed the opportunity.
