Oman Air gets silky with Technology

The year 2009, Oman Air is giving a multiple gifts to its loyal and prospective clients, as soon Oman Air makes travel hassle-free via web check-in and mobile check-in.

Its clients now will able to check-in via four ways:

• using mobile phone,
• using Internet,
• using airport kiosks, and
• at the airport where customer service agents are equipped with mobile check-in technology.

The facility will start later this month January 2009. The four new and innovative check-in options at will be at Muscat and other key airports.

Above all, Oman Air will first in the Middle East region to offer such multi-facility.

Bits and Bytes

• Today, January 5, Royal Oman Police (ROP) celebrates Police Day.
• Oman3D started the year by changing it's name to “Republic of Code”, and started a 'Republic of Code Logo Competition'.
• Dr. Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz the new CEO of Bank Sohar.
• I have heard rumours that hundreds of expatriates in Oman been laid off in major local companies and more soon to follow, is it true?

Khaliji 19 fever

As the 19th Gulf Cup series (Khaliji 19) have started, and the fever has hit the AGCC population, specially Oman, as it’s the host.

As for this national event, I've subscribed to Koorah+, to get updated despite I am not a fan of football. Oman got even with Kuwait with no score as 0-0, while Bahrain lead Iraq by 1-0 at halftime, which was scored by Abdullah Ismael (God knows who he is) in the 28th minute, and the match is continuing.

Fever
About 'fever', I have been suffering from fever since 29th of December 2008. What a bad ending and starting a year with a sickness, couldn't attend a friend's wedding, and my cousin had his first newborn son.

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Spam attack

My journal been Spammed by an Anonymous who has left 6 new comments on 6 different posts, advertising his two Arabic Tunisian blogs.

(Click here to view the image source.)

It seems that the person is craving for attention for his blogs, needs to increase the number of traffic (who doesn‘t), as a result I have activated the word verification for comments.

Bits and Bytes

• Mark Ruffalo brother died, and a Saudi woman was arrested then released as it was rulled out his death as homicide. As per Al Arabiya newspaper, she is a Business woman, while the other newspapers refer her as a Saudi princess. So is who is Shaha Mishaal Adham?
• Condoleezza Rice admits USA's popularity decreased since George W Bush became the precident of USA.
• Rumours about 'killer perfume' in UAE and the police denies it.
• A Turkish shoe factory had to employee 100 individuals in order to fill in the 370 thousand pair of Muntadhar al-Zaidi shoes, as it turned out to be a Turkish made.

(The post been Edited on 24 Dec 2008 20:59 PM. GMT 4+).

AlRahma Campaign

When you treat persons/ animals mercifully, God also treat you mercifully. Never slave or oppress persons/ animals, because God will get someone else to oppress you.

If you have an atom of feelings of mercifulness, you won’t oppress anyone.

View the videos, Learn from it, recalculate your accounts and reconnect your self and be fair to your self first then others.

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Campaign #3

Sharing is caring, and the first video, which touch me the most, as I personally know people who fall on that category.

Bits and Bytes

• An interview with Abeer Ali Al-Mukhaini, Programme Manager, Women In Technology (WIT), Oman Women's Association.
• Cyber-bullying trial opens in US.
• The King of Pop, Michael Jackson is been sued by Prince of Bahrain Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, second son of the King of Bahrain, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
• The new credit card with keypad that promises to fight online fraud.(read more)

Yahoo's message and Obama won

Yahoo! the well known search engine and mail services beside other services is now recommending its visitors and loyal members to use 'Firefox 3' FREE web browser from Mozilla Firefox.

Is it a clear message to Microsoft, 'I don't want to deal with you!!?' or in another word 'Back off'.

Best Wishes for both of them.

Barack Obama has won the 2008 presidential election and now offically known as '44th President of the United States'.

• His father is Muslim from Kenya.
• Mother is Christian from USA.
• Step Father is Muslim from Indonesian.
• Wife is christian African American.

The question is:

• Will he support Africans?
• Will he support Muslims?
• Will he support Asians?
• Will he support Israel?

We'll see the next four years of his career as a President of the United States.

Read other bloggers from Middle East voice about it:

• 'Obama to the White House' in Arabic
• Obama Wins!
• Sen. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America
• We love Barack Obama

From Omani forums:

• Obama elected 44th President of the United States
• Obama has won the election

And more to come.

irevere.blogspot.com classified as 'fraudulent web page’

My beloved blog was classified as 'Fraudulent web page’ by Symantec.

The reasons are unknown.

No more half sleeve shirts for Men in Egypt

Mohammed Abu Zaied, a lecturer in Al-Azhar university, had given a lecture to men to stop wearing half sleeve shirts and T-shirts as well as short thawb or thobe/ dishdasha/ kandura/ khameez (an ankle-length garment, usually with long sleeves, similar to a robe), opened buttoned shirts and fitted pants/ trousers; because it attracts and rouses female’s sexual emotions. He also advised people to wear socks when they wear short thawbs. Read more from Arabic newpaper.

Bits and Bytes

• On 26 October 2008, at 5 pm KSA i.e. 1 pm GMT, MBC.net has lunched it’s latest free air channel known as ‘MBC MAX’. I don’t know what’s the difference between this channel and MBC 2.
• Lebanon's First National Bank (FNB) has introduced new product for fertilization to those can’t conceive normally. It’s the first bank in Middle East to launch such humanitarian product.
• PCCW - Awaser Oman Consortium was awarded the second fixed-line license tender by Oman’s Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRA) and now it's coming to an end of monopoly for the majority state-owned Omantel is the sole fixed line service provider in Oman. Pacific Century Cyber Works (PCCW), an Hong Kong-based telecom company had joined in hand with a Omani partner (a joint venture) and won the tender. It seemed Nawras, the 2nd mobile company had bided for the second fixed-line license tender and lost.

Oman Nightlife from Facebook to Global

Who ever joined Facebook and wanted a snap shot of the nightlife in Oman, he/she would have joinned 'Oman Nightlife' group to get the latest all kind of events and activities that take place in town.

Now Oman Nightlife is going to offer for the rest of the world its services by lunching it's website via http://www.omannightlife.com/. At the moment the Oman Nightlife team working on making it work smoothly. The offical launch has not been set yet, but keep your eyes open.

Bits and Bytes
Two Omani youths jailed for rash driving.

Knol the new Google jewel

Google the world leading search engine has removed its velvet veil and flashed us with it’s latest collection of diamond known as Knol.


You may ask what is ‘Knol’? what is she talking about flashy jewels and Google? She’s out of her mind, she isn’t making any commonsense. Yes I am making sense, ‘Knol’ is the newest jewel of Google, its an free online encyclopaedia, it’s name is short of Knowledge. It may be the opponent or competitor of Wikipedia, the leading online encyclopaedia which soon be printed in paper and published by German publisher.


I believe one of the giant search engines such as Yahoo or MSN should buyout Wikipedia to enable to have a fair competition with Google.

At the moment Google lunched the BETA version of Knol, so make it live by browsing knol and sharing your knowledge at ‘a unit of knowledge.’

Spread our wings

Be proud of your self been a Muslim & spread the word about your religion, by purchasing Sytleislam product.

Sytleislam is not just a name or a brand of a product, it's a symbol of your your identitiy, it's a message and reminder for your slelf and everyone that I\ You\ He\ She\ They\ Them\ We are Muslims, Islam Is Our Religion and Mohammed is our Massenger from God (Allah).

You can read about, blog and shop around at Sytleislam, and don't forget to spread the word arround.

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Oman Legal Zone

Oman Legal Zone the first offical legal website in Oman and Middle East. It's the brainchild of Rozalin Al Bulushi, an Omani legal advisor at Oman Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).

This is quoted from Oman Legal Zone official website.

Oman Legal Zone is one of the first legal websites in Oman which provides legal services via the internet. It is our belief that the law is the foundation upon which modern society is built. Thus it is your right as an individual, a company, and a member of society to have access to the best legal services wherever and whenever you are.


It is for this reason that Oman Legal Zone’s mission is to provide the best legal services to everyone, in the shortest possible time, and at reasonable and affordable rates.


Oman Legal Zone has a team of highly qualified legal counselors and lawyers and we are proud to be associated with the most prestigious legal firms in the Sultanate. Your time is valuable to us and that is why The Oman Legal Zone Team assures you of the highest quality services, in the shortest possible time.

Mr. Blue-Chi has mentioned about the website and the founder in his journal under the title 'New Website Alert: Oman Legal Zone'.

Microsoft promotes via You Tube

Microsoft started to promote its products and service via YouTube to grasp the market to the maximum by lunching free video demos for Windows Vista and Windows Live products and services.

Click here to view the video demos.

And I thank Duncan Riley from TechCrunch for posting the article ‘Microsoft Using YouTube To Promote Vista & Live, Leaves Comments Open’