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Mohammad Milyani blogged about a new Apple store in the holy city of Mecca, called i.zone. Blog post – in Arabic.

Apple posted the WWDC 2008 Keynote Address by Steve Jobs on their website. You can watch it streaming in either normal or HD quality through this page. Apple also posted the Keynote Address as a downloadable podcast through iTunes. Click here if you have iTunes installed.

Apple released multiple updates for it’s applications, it includes: Quicktime 7.5 which fixes some security issues. iMovie 7.1.2 – addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues. iDVD 7.0.2 – supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues. As usual, those updates are available from the ...

So much for that plan. iPhone Atlas confirmed that the new 3G iPhone that will be released July 11th 2008 will require an in-store activation instead of the regular iTunes based activation. The goal is to slow the market for unlocked iPhones. But that will mainly effect countries without an iPhone deal, like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, ...

According to the specifications of the new 3G iPhone. The iPhone will not have any Arabic language support at all. Language support for English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Polish Which is odd considering that the iPhone should be released in 3 Arabic speaking countries; Egypt, Jordan ...

View Larger Map The 3G iPhone will be available in more than 70 countries. 22 will get it on July 11th 2008. You can see the full country list here. What is missing are most of the GCC except Qatar who will get the iPhone from Vodafone. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are one the biggest mobile communication ...

With less than two hours to go until the WWDC 2008 Keynote, here are some sites with live updates from the Keynote: Mac Rumors Live Live Coverage from the Mac Observer Engadget Live Coverage Apple Gazette live coverage Audio Stream from iPhoneAlley We will be back after the Keynote with news on what will be announced.

Only less than 2 days until the WWDC 2008 Keynote and none of the Saudi Arabia mobile operators (STC, Mobily and the new Zain) announced any deal with Apple regarding the release of the iPhone in Saudi Arabia. If this is the case then Apple is either: 1) Already in talks with one of those and nothing was announced until ...

Another title would be: Why Apple should end their Apple IMC program and start selling their products directly. A Mac user in Saudi Arabia, Talal Bakry, posted on the Mac Rumors Forum about his unfortunate experience with GlobalStore ( An Apple Authorized Premium Reseller in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Arab Computers (Apple Authorized Distributor in Saudi Arabia) and Apple IMC(Apple’s third-party ...

This is probably the first time Google ever had a conference in Saudi Arabia. Although it is concerned with the enterprise I still find it interesting and worth checking out. The conference will be held on June 2nd 2008 in Marriott hotel in Riyadh. For me I am interested in Google Maps, as you can see (click here to view ...