Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Apr 24, 2008

Distance Rape, Wikipedia a book and Oman Air will adopt OnAir

Distance Rape
A Tunisian family sue young man for 'Distance Rape' their daughter via the phone. Source.


Print Germany version of Wikipedia
Bertelsmann, a German publisher will print the Germany version of ‘Wikipedia’ the popular online encyclopaedia.

The 993-page book will contain approximately 50,000 definitions and 1,000 illustrations.

It may appear in Germany stores in September 2008. More information about Bertelsmann in Wikipedia.


Oman Air will adopt OnAir
By year 2009, Oman Air passengers will be able to use their own portable electronic devices, including laptop computers, mobile phones, smartphones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), to communicate inflight , they will be able to send and receive text messages, emails including attachments, and to make and receive mobile phone calls during flights, just as they do on the ground via OnAir inflight passenger communication.

Jan 2, 2008

Taxi of life

Yesterday while my sister and I driving back home, we past an internet café which in the neighbourhood we live, she said:

“Subhana Allah (Praise to Allah or God in Arabic language), we used to come here (the internet café) to use the net and now we have 3G.”

Then she continued saying,
“We must not forget from where we were.”


Her phase simulated my mind and I recalled the times I used several internet cafés for one year and a half because we didn’t have a fixed phone line at our resident (and still don‘t have), after Gonu incident, I subscribed to the 2nd mobile company Nawras in the country for internet facility and after 6 months upgraded to the 3G+ facility with the same company.

I realized that we all ride taxi of life and got through different stops/station of life and see as well as hear too many things, which never keep record to track nor try to remember to learn or to pass the experience to others, as we are too obsessed with materialistic.

The topic name ‘Taxi life’ has been derived from a book in Arabic titled “Taxi, tales of rides” by first-time author Khalid Al Khamissy.

Oct 25, 2005

Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress is a novel written by Dan Brown, an Amarican writter and published in 1998, its a good book discussing about the world of encryption; decryption in National Security Agency (NSA), the bettel that NSA been through within the organization (between cryptographers, SYS-SECs, Internal security analyst
& the directors) etc. & outside the organization with the The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The struggle between the cryptographers about the loyalty of and for NSA.

Worth reading.