STC Finally Enables Personal Hotspot on the iPad

STC Finally Enables Personal Hotspot on the iPad

STC has released a carrier update that finally enables the personal hotspot function on the iPad (third and fourth gen) and iPad mini. iPads with an STC data SIM had the personal h ...

Apple Officially Registered Its Trademark in Saudi Arabia

Apple Officially Registered Its Trademark in Saudi Arabia

Umm Al-Qura newspaper, a newspaper mainly used to publish trademark registration announcements, posted an announcement by the ministry of commerce and industry regarding the regist ...

How to Enable iPhone and iPad 4G LTE with Zain, Mobily and STC

How to Enable iPhone and iPad 4G LTE with Zain, Mobily and STC

Apple recently released iOS 6.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. One of the features of this update is enabling 4G LTE in many countries including Saudi Arabia. Here is how to ...

iOS 6.1 Released, Enables 4G LTE with Zain and Mobily

iOS 6.1 Released, Enables 4G LTE with Zain and Mobily

Apple has released iOS 6.1 yeterday for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The iPad mainly enables LTE on many networks including Zain and Mobily in Saudi Arabia. From Apple: This up ...

Saudi iTunes Store Now Selling Movies and Music

Saudi iTunes Store Now Selling Movies and Music

Apple has started offering movies and music for sale in the Saudi Arabia iTunes Store. Starting with music (and gift cards) last week and movies today. You can buy movies from Disn ...

Mobily Begins Selling iPhone 5 Online, Announces Prices

Mobily Begins Selling iPhone 5 Online, Announces Prices

Mobily has started taking orders for the iPhone 5 using Souq.com e-commerce site. They also announced the contract-free iPhone 5 prices. The phone will be available in Saudi Arabia ...

Zain Saudi Begins Taking iPhone 5 Pre-Orders

Zain Saudi Begins Taking iPhone 5 Pre-Orders

Zain Saudi Arabia has started taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5 scheduled for release next Thursday December 13th. Zain's 4G LTE network is the only network that currently support ...

iOS 5.1 Released

Apple has released an update for iPads, iPhones and iPod touches. iOS 5.1 offers many features and fixes including: Japanese language support for Siri (availability may be limited during initial rollout) Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream Camera shortcut now always visible on Lock Screen for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation) Camera face detection now highlights all det ...

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Apple Announces New iPad: Retina Display, 4G LTE and more

The event of Apple, which awaited many Apple die hard fans has now come to end. Apples event was of 1 hour and 23 minutes. Focusing towards hardware, Apple today revealed the new iPad 'The New iPad', yeah I know Apples gone mad and the refreshed Apple TV which will support 1080p video. On the other hand Apple has revealed many new innovating, there own applications for the new iPad's retina display fun such ...

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Live Coverage of Apple’s iPad 3 Event

Tonight at 9 pm local Saudi time Apple will hold a special event to announce the third generation of the iPad. Here are some of the best websites to follow the event live: • The Mac Observer • gdgt • Engadget • The Verge • This Week In Tech video • The Loop • Techglued. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Please follow SaudiMac on Twitter and add SaudiMac on Facebook and SaudiMac on Go ...

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Mail More Photos [Cydia Tweak]

As you all know, iOS has an annoying limit of sending only 5 photos at a time from the Camera Roll using the built-in share via email option. Sure there are apps like ePhotos which allow users to attach up to 30 or so photos in an email or the alternate way of selecting a batch 5 photos at a time, copying and pasting them into mail. This adds an extra step in sending photos and takes more time. Fortunately, ...

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Batoul Apps Donating 100% of Today’s Sales to Benefit Syria

From Batoul Apps: The situation in Syria continues to deteriorate, and they are in dire need of our assistance. The death toll is already at 7,500 and over 80,000 have fled to the neighboring countries of Jordan and Lebanon. We ask you to join Batoul Apps in standing with the people of Syria by helping to provide humanitarian aid at this critical time. Together with our partners we have discounted all of ou ...

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Apple to hold iPad 3 Event Wednesday March 7

The Loop reported that Apple will hold a special media event next Wednesday March 7th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Apple will most likely announce the iPad 3 during that event. Everyone is expecting a more powerful iPad with a "retina display" and 4G. We'll know next week. The event will be 9pm local Saudi Arabia time. You can find the author of this post on twitter: @khaled. Ple ...

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Security Flaw Allows Calls and More from Locked iPhones Running iOS 5

Tareq from iPhoneIslam demonstrated an interesting security flaw in iPhones running iOS 5. The flaw was discovered by Safwan Saba and it allows you to access the address book, make phone calls and possibly send emails and messages in a locked iPhone. A similar flaw existed in iOS 4.1 and this flaw is a bit tricky to implement. As demonstrated in the following video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhy9_bYVI ...

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iPhone Development Workshop in Riyadh on February 25

The "STC IOS Workshop" is a keynote and workshop about iOS development sponsored by STC and organized by CCIS & Future Technology Club. It will be held in Riyadh next Saturday February 25th. From the event website: Your perfect guide to develop on iOS Platform The expertise came for you, don’t miss this event. PART 1.. (9 am – 10:30 am): Keynote: Why Mobile Apps? success stories. what can you do to get ...

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Apple Unveils Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8

Last Thursday Apple has revealed Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. Apple has completely shown love to iOS and iPad. The Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 has many of the old known new features from iOS 5. The new feautres are iCloud: The iCloud start up session where you will add your iCloud/Apple ID and password to access your iClud account. Your data which is on the other iDevices will be transferred to your Mac. Me ...

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Apple VP Meets with STC, Mobily Executives

STC and Mobily (both official iPhone carriers) announced that they had meetings with Pascal Cagni, VP & GM of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Asia. Mobily's press release didn't offer much info about the meeting. If I had to make a guess I'd say it's not about opening an Apple Store in Saudi Arabia. It's obviously iPhone related. We should note that Mr. Pascal has visited Saudi Arabia many times be ...

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