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The Middle East Gets It’s Own Social Platform for Start-ups

TheNextWeb  Nov 10 09

Recently, I’ve become increasingly convinced that the Middle East is going through its dotcom boom. Today, the brilliant folks at ArabCrunch, a site I admittedly check every morning, launched a tool that we’ve been desperately in need of. ArabCrunch.Net is the first social network focused at fostering entrepreneurship in the region by connecting our local entrepreneurs [...] Full story...

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Xobni Mobile Now Available On Blackberry Smartphones

TheNextWeb  4 hours ago

“After attracting nearly 5 million downloads of its Outlook add-in, Xobni has today announced the availability of a new application for Blackberry smartphones; Xobni Mobile.

Facebook Now Delivering Better Search Results As You Type – It’s Blazing Fast

TheNextWeb  6 hours ago

Facebook is upgrading their search box today by instantly delivering results based on what you are typing, without making you click through to the next page.

Did Spain Really Legalize File Sharing? Or Did It Really Just Move One Step Towards It?

TheNextWeb  7 hours ago

In a case filed by the SGAE (the Spanish equivalent to the RIAA) against elrincondejesus, a torrent hosting website, a court in Barcelona recently sided with the website, and seemingly with the ability of internet users to pirate copyrighted content for non-profit reasons legally.

Microsoft: Designers! Designers! Designers!

TheNextWeb  7 hours ago

The now infamous Steve Ballmer tirade of “Developers, Developers, Developers” has turned into one of the worst tech jokes around, however Microsoft seems to have tweaked it a bit for the launch of Windows Phone 7 Series with the inclusion of a 69 page PDF.

7 Reasons Why The Windows 7 Phone Is THE iPhone Killer

TheNextWeb  8 hours ago

The sleeping giant is back. With yesterday’s announcement of the new Windows Phone 7 I believe we are seeing the rise of Phone 7 as the iPhone killer.

Nexus One: A Failure… Or A Ferrari?

TheNextWeb  9 hours ago

New research indicates that Google’s Nexus One launch has been a disaster – but is that really the case? The figures published today by mobile analytics firm Flurry show that while the iPhone sold one million units in its first 72 days on sale, the Nexus One managed a measly 135,000 in the same period.

Google Latitude Announces API Plans at SXSW. Oh, And Buzz will “Absolutely Not” Kill Latitude.

TheNextWeb  9 hours ago

Yesterday at SXSWi we had a chance to listen in to a panel entitled “The Life Graph” with panels from Google, Twitter and Loopt among others.

Microsoft launches IE9 Preview, takes fight to Chrome

TheNextWeb  9 hours ago

Microsoft today announces the IE9 preview to deliver an awesome new browsing experience. Our first look at Internet Explorer 9 follows much of the same core features we will see on the Windows Phone 7, mainly hardware accelerated graphics and text plus a new JavaScript engine and support for HTML5.

$531 Million, The Value of Net-a-Porter. Money is always in fashion!

TheNextWeb  11 hours ago

Net-a-Porter, pioneering online luxury fashion retailer, will be bought out by Swiss luxury goods group Richemont within the week according to Telegraph.

Piano Roulette

TheNextWeb  23 hours ago

I want to go on ChatRoulette if only because I want to try and chat with this guy. This is amazing.Original title and link for this post: Piano Roulette



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