Ismail Dhorat

Google launched mobile image ads a few days back, and i have been asking myself will they work? Techcrunch also ran a poll and unsurprisingly a large portion of people selected that they would not follow a mobile ad. However Google does point out that with increasing usage of mobile internet & larger screen [...]

There have been numerous reports of iphone shortages in Apple stores in the US. Check out news24 for the latest article on this or this article which speculated the shortages were due the launch of a 3G version. The main reason seems to be unexpected demand from the grey market (Imported via improper channels) and [...]

Being a regular reader of techcrunch i naturally followed them via twitter and this afternoon news broke on the techcrunch twitter account about an apparent security issue with twitter. See the screen shot below of my twitter timeline. The tweet pointed to a post on Techcrunch.

Links to the original twitter updates: 1,2,3
Initially, i took it [...]

Amatomu a round up of South African blogs has just passed their one year anniversary and the stats are quite interesting to note. If you happen to follow the SA blogosphere you can be forgiven for thinking majority of South African are huge rugby fans.
Take a look at the screen shot of [...]

Recently IOL ran a story called “Lost girls in MXit drama”. With Mxit being a South African mobile IM service i have gotten used to these stories. With all the radio shows discussing the issue to the concerned parents constantly calling into radio stations to complain.
But seriously now, ENOUGH! These headlines and articles, radio [...]

I was pretty surprised to find waiting in transit had a post on twitter being blocked in Dubai. He basically questions the authenticity of a post at techtree.
I personally just logged on to twitter this morning and as you can see i have been posting tweets regularly. However my internet is provided by Du and [...]

A team of researchers have found that your location can be spoofed on the Apple iPhone. This was bound to happen considering the technology being used (Skyhook’s WiFi Positioning System). You can read the full article at cellular news.
The use of sky-hooks system is a useful addition to the iPhone and makes sense when [...]

The run of uncensored internet enjoyed in UAE free zones is over. Today being the first day that the du proxy was switched on i wondered how long would it be before i received the dreaded error message for visiting a ‘Questionable site’.
After a ton of frantic sms this morning from friends with ‘Is (insert [...]

Recently one of the news agencies i subscribe to ran an article regarding a global survey on mobile phone usage by teenagers. Unsurprisingly, Nokia seems to be less popular.
“Nokia’s dominance at the top of the global chart has been weakened over the last 18 months. In the survey, conducted across 31 countries by Habbo, [...]