Speaking of silly ads, just what is Microsoft Saudi Arabia thinking with this advertisement for Office 2010.
If you care about Arabic speakers why don’t you make ARABIC OFFICE FOR MAC ALREADY?
Originally posted by @Saudi.
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It never ends, does it? The following photo of Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri (Ar: محمد عابد الجابري), who died recently, was taken in 2009 by Fahd Alhazmi (فهد الحازمي).
The photo was taken during Riyadh Book Fair 2009 and posted here. Interesting note about the original photo, Mohammed’s eyes were closed and Fahd has edited the photo slightly. Now it appeared in the following Saudi newspapers/news sites. On Asharq Alawsat as well as their web site:
AlRiyadh newspaper’s website:
Elaph news site:
A Moroccan newspaper did it twice: here and here.
More details (in Arabic) at Fahd’s site.
Good timing especially after the unfortunate things that happened here (Arabic post) but not here (English version). The issue of Arabic content and intellectual property is serious. We Saudis will never understand or come to terms with copy rights or intellectual properties because we were never taught that in school (thanks Essam). It starts with copying a homework. That original issue should be resolved by simply saying “this is a quote” cause it’s a full quote from my post. Looks like “through SaudiMac” is enough. kbo. Anyway, Jassim has started a public discussion in Arabic on his blog about intellectual property. Feel free to join the discussion. Someone told me that once. I think it’s true. I am sad to see that this original post by Youssef on March 31st pictured here:
Was copied (I decided not to put a link to the plagiarized article) in this post on April 2nd. I will just put a picture instead of linking:
I am sad for Arabic content. Really I am. Both articles talked about Seton Hill University’s plan to give all students an Apple iPad. small update: the second post was deleted as expected. Make sure to check this list of Arabic web sites, I mean apps, strange, in Arabic it’s مواقع = websites but it’s web apps = تطبيقات الويب. Enough nitpicking. Here’s the list of Arabic Web Apps:
Voting will begin next Friday. STC was the first company to introduce an Android based cellphone in the region. The phone was the HTC Magic however native Arabic support is only available for Android OS 1.5 while the latest OS version for the Magic is 1.6 (HTC are working on 2.1 update to be released this year). Arabic support is not available in 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1. I should contrast this to the iPhone: iPhone OS 3.0 added support for many languages including Arabic. You do not need to download additional software to add Arabic to the iPhone and you don’t need to change anything if all you needed is to read Arabic. Apple did that in less than 2 years and all of their iPhones support Arabic by now. As for Android you should be able to add Arabic by visiting a site such as XDA Developers.
I bought an Android phone and I said since you already made the locale adding the Arabic language will be easy and fast , but now I have the phone for 5 months and no Arabic support still , we have two available Android phones in my country and two are coming in a few months , I had an iPhone but I sold it to buy an Android phone , so I think I’m wrong in selling the iPhone , anyway please Google add the Arabic support and Prove Me Wrong . Support this by voting for this issue to be resolved which you can do by simply clicking the star on the left (you might need a Google Account for that). I should remind Google that Nokia is a major market-share holder in Saudi Arabia, BlackBerry comes in second place. So they are the major competition for Android phones here, not the iPhone. Image from here. This article on Alyaum “اليوم” Saudi newspaper was stolen from this blog post by Nathan, a student in KAUST. Another intellectual property theft by a Saudi newspaper. All I can say is “فضحتونا قدام العالم”.
Via Indie Saudi. Update: Nathan: “I do want accountability. What Al Yaum did was wrong, but the tone of the discussion is also wrong. Outrage does nothing to solve our problems and does everything to create even more.” Al-Qabas (a Kuwaiti newspaper) has published this article on their website. The article is an exact copy of this original post at Apple-WD with no reference to the source.
If regular newspapers don’t respect intellectual properties, who will? Even Hilter is angry at the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and their crappy DSL service! He could only get 512kbps DSL to his house. Watch the video (Arabic subtitles): Youtube video removed, it was posted here. I understand his frustration with STC! If anyone wants an English transcript I am willing to translate. Just ask. Special thanks to @yassoma from twitter for posting the link to the video. I have translated it, here you go: Continue reading Hitler can’t get STC DSL (with English translation) |
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