Wireless

Hugms

by Haitham Sabbah October 11, 2005

Hugms connects to your mobile phone via Bluetooth and then when you squeeze it, is sends a “hug” text message to the person of your choosing.

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OneWallet: cell phone’s new trick may make billfold obsolete

by Haitham Sabbah June 19, 2005

After all, since more than a quarter of the people on the planet already carry cell phones, and hundreds of millions are joining them every year, why should they bring along credit and debit cards when a mobile device can make payments just as well? This is not new, in fact this is already a [...]

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Teens jailed in Dubai for ‘indecent pics’

by Haitham Sabbah May 13, 2005

17-year-old boy and 19-year-old girl, both UAE nationals, were each sentenced to spend one month in jail. The teenagers were exchanging “indecent” pictures through their cellphones and sending pornographic pictures through email. The Dubai Court of First Instance heard that one of the girl’s friends was jealous of the relationship she had with her male [...]

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Talking Loud But Saying Nothing

by Haitham Sabbah May 13, 2005

NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed. How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in California have developed a system [...]

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AwareFashion

by Haitham Sabbah May 11, 2005

AwareFashion are clothes that react to invisible communication technology in the surrounding and thus enable the wearer to sense their immediate digital environment. The detection device is hidden in a detachable pocket and the fiber optics sewed into the cloth. When a mobile is near, small light spots appear on the sleeve.

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UAE breaks telecom monopoly

by Haitham Sabbah May 6, 2005

Good news for mobile phone users. Emirati government licenses new telecom company with 1.08 billion dollars, breaking Etisalat�s monopoly.

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Cell Phones No Luxury to Palestinians

by Haitham Sabbah May 5, 2005

Palestinian youths do not buy mobiles just to hear them ring.
�We send SMS alerts to university students in the Gaza Strip informing them about exam and registration dates and keep them updated on the latest developments in their respective universities. All they need is just o send us their full names, their universities and their mobile numbers.”

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In the Gulf, Dissidence Goes Digital

by Haitham Sabbah March 30, 2005

The following article was published in Washington Post yesterday. The author made it sound as if the Gulf countries are the only people in the world using the sms’s for social, political, etc… reasons. He made it sound so strange that made me wonder after I read it, SO? What is strange? I just can’t [...]

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Car-Tracking Device (GSM/GPS Wireless) Trades Privacy for Dollars

by Haitham Sabbah August 19, 2004

Imagine this. You’re driving around in your HOV (highly ostentatious vehicle), and you follow your normal route home. The next day, you are notified by your insurance company: “Under the terms of Court Order 34/FKC/34 paragraph 12 subsection iii, your auto insurance is void.” It turns out that you drove within a mile of the [...]

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Nigerian Killer Calls

by Haitham Sabbah July 20, 2004

Mobile phone use has taken off in Nigeria in recent years Nigerian mobile phone users have been anxiously checking who is calling them before answering them in recent days. A rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain “killer numbers” then one will die immediately. A BBC [...]

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Phones On Planes

by Haitham Sabbah July 16, 2004

Airplane 3G mobile phone test successful American Airlines and Qualcomm have completed a test flight of a new system to allow airplane passengers to use their mobile phones while in the air. The 3G “picocell” network used on the 2 hour proof-of-concept flight out of Dallas allowed passengers to place calls, send text messages, and [...]

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Novel to come out in SMSs

by Haitham Sabbah July 15, 2004

A Chinese author is bringing out a novel that will only be available as a sequence of text messages. BBC Online, quoting China’s official Xinhau news agency, says Qian Fuchang has reduced his novel Outside the Fortress Besieged into 60 chapters of 70 characters each. And pundits insists the novel, described as a steamy tale [...]

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Computerising The Body

by Haitham Sabbah July 6, 2004

Microsoft wins patent to exploit network potential of skin. Fact or fiction – carrying a keyboard on your arm. Call it the ultimate wireless network. From the ends of your fingers to the tips of your toes, the human body is a moving, throbbing collection of tubes and tunnels, filled with salty water and all [...]

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All Hands on Tech

by Haitham Sabbah June 20, 2004

The Queen Mary 2, the World’s Largest Floating IT Ship. In this long article, CIO Magazine looks at how IT supports the Queen Mary 2, the most technologically advanced vessel on the ocean. The magazine describes the challenges and the technical aspects of the design and the implementation of IT onboard. But it also makes [...]

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Couple To Exchange Vows By SMS

by Haitham Sabbah November 3, 2003

A Belgian couple are to get married by SMS because text messaging has played such a big part in their relationship. Ronald Bollen, 39, and Ingrid Peeters, 43, will exchange vows by SMS but then sign the registry in the traditional way to make sure the wedding is legal.

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