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Microsoft released the new upcoming XBOX ONE to the market this year. It’s the new generation of entertainment world to stay connected and live together. Lots new things added to the new XBOX such as:

  • Home screen
  • New way to watch TV
  • Skype on Xbox One
  • Exciting social entertainment network
  • Favorite sports
  • Explore the web
  • New generation of apps
  • The world of Games
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The Xbox One comes with an upgraded controller. The new device has 40 new design innovations, including impulse triggers, Wi-Fi direct radio stack, integrated battery compartment and a precision directional pad. The console will come with 8GB of RAM, Blu-ray drive, USB 3.0 connector and HDMI.

The device will be available in the market by end of this year, with the price of $299.

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PhontoThere are lots of apps in the store for adding some text, icons, emotions, or symbols to your photo. I used the most popular apps and founded the Phonto is the best to use. What I liked from this is the options and items added are unique features.

I probably would recommend to use Phonto for any texting on photos that you would like to share on Instagram.

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BlackberryQ10_ConceptKuwaitFor the old Blackberry lovers, finally Blackberry Q10 is here now in Kuwait. Today noon, I received Blackberry Q10 devices from Concept Company Kuwait (Authorized Dealer locally). I was waiting for Q10 to release in the market to view the features. As I disliked Blackberry Z10 because of the shape and touch features. But why I liked Q10 is the phone shape and keypad.

BlackberryQ10By unboxing Blackberry Q10 device, the box comes with Battery, Charger, Manual Guide, Headset and Device. The first thing I done when I unboxed the device is touch the phone and view the design shape of it. Futhermore, I instered the SIM Card and starting explorering the operating system.

Blackberry Q10 Features

  • Processor: Dual-Core 1.5GHz – Snapdragon S4 Plus
  • Display: 3.1”, SuperAMOLED display, 720 x 720 resolution at 330 PPI, Touch On Lens
  • Camera: 8MP rear facing camera, Auto Focus, 5X digital zoom, 1080p HD video recording ・2MP front facing camera, 3X digital zoom, 720p HD video recording
  • Memory: 2GB RAM ・16GB Internal Storage ・Hot Swappable microSD Slot up to 64GB
  • WiFi: Dual Band 802.11 a/b/g/n ・2.4/5GHz ・4G Mobile Hotspot
  • GPS: Assisted, Autonomous, and Simultaneous GPS
  • Battery: BlackBerry NS1, 2100mAh Removable Battery
  • Sensors: Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Proximity, Gyroscope, Ambient light sensor
  • Connectivity: NFC ・microUSB ・microHDMI-Out ・Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy ・4G LTE
  • Dimensions (LxWxD): 119.6mm x 66.8mm x 10.35mm
  • Talk Time / Standby: N/A at this time from BlackBerry as it’s still in testing

After reviewing the full Blackberry Q10 Device there are some points I liked and disliked such as:

Liked:

  • Exterior Design
  • Keypad
  • Touch Screen
  • Operating System (Totally improved, unique and simple)
  • Way of holding the device in hands
  • Applications
  • Both front and back Camera

Disliked:

  • Screen could be bit bigger
  • Operating System: The way of exiting and return back to home (It’s really difficult and hard. Prefer if there is a home button to exit directly).
  • Device top sensor to stay stand-up.

Finally, the device is totally useful for Blackberry lovers, people love to text/chat, businessmen and students. BBM Expands To iOS & Android so don’t hesitate to re-change your device again to Blackberry. All Social Media apps is available and additional apps from Blackberry World.

The device is available at Concept Co. for 209KD with a year warranty by Concept Co.

Concept Stores: The Avenues, Shraq, Hawali or Farwaniya

Phone: 22200797 / 22656330

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PhilipsHomeCooker

Jamie Oliver, the world-renowned chef, and Philips, the electronics giant, have joined forces to launch the revolutionary Philips HomeCooker. The new product is specially designed to offer an innovative approach to home cooking and is a comprehensive tool to meet families’ daily cooking needs.

The Philips HomeCooker is a first-of-its-kind, multi-functional device that prepares and cooks food on its own. It chops, stirs, steams, fries and sautés, and can be left cooking unattended.

XCITEPhilipsThe new HomeCooker is matchless in its ability to perform multiple cooking functions like stirring, cutting, cooking, melting, stewing, boiling, steaming, frying and sautéing. Thanks to the new technology AutoStir, the device is equipped with a unique stirring arm that stirs food automatically. Other smart features are the PerfectTemp and QuickSet timer, which allow users to control the heat to perfection and set up cooking times up to 99 minutes, without having to stand at the stove endlessly.

Philips HomeCooker products are available now at XCITE AlGhanim Showrooms or XCITE Website.

Features

  • Autostir technology – stirs for you
  • Multiple cooking activities – stirs, melts, simmers, stews, boils, steams, fries and sautés
  • Includes glass lid, steam tray, steam basket, pasta insert and stirrer
  • Auto shut off
  • Intuitive control panel on base
  • PerfectTemp – for perfect temperature settings 40 – 250⁰ C
  • QuickSet timer – up to 99 minutes
  • 3 litre family sized stainless steel bowl
  • Dishwasher safe for easy cleaning

Sir JulianThrough today’s launching XCITE event at Grand Avenues, the event was totally exciting and fun by watching the world class performance by German juggler Sir Julian. He’s name is really new to me, but he really made me happy when I see him. Sir Julian is really a happy man with always impressed face. At the end the event was totally exciting with watching Sir Julian Juggle show.

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BBMRecently Blackberry RIM announced to expand more on Blackberry Messenger (BBM) not only targeting the Blackberry users by all the world. Blackberry made life easier for people to connect with your entire mobile social network.

This summer BBM will be available on the AppStore (For Apple iOS users) and PlayStore (For Android OS users). The first expected version got a new features and exposure on BBM App such as:

  • The immediacy of BBM chats
  • Multi-person chats
  • Voice note sharing
  • BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups of up to 30 people and share calendar, photos, files and more

From my point of view it is a new clever idea from Blackberry to merge all the smart-phones by connecting together. Would people stay using What’s App, Viber or either iMessage.

Source Blackberry Blog

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KuwaitCityOne of our readers Mr.Salman Khuraibet (Phd. Student in Royal Holloway University of London) would like to share for his questionnaire on the research he’s preparing in “What is the role of information systems in the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in Kuwait”.

Questionnaire: English VersionArabic Version

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NBKWOLI’m one of the daily user to The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) online and mobile banking. Since NBK launched their online Internet services as a customer I haven’t founded any innovation or reconstruction of the online interface.

Some recommendations which I need to share to NBK for improving their online and mobile banking:

Online Banking (WOL):

  • Interface Design is Too Old
  • Need More Graphics
  • Old programming
  • Not Supporting Some Browsers
  • Have to be supported to Mobile Browsers
  • Need Quicker Services

Mobile Banking App:

  • iPhone app is not updated with iPhone 5 (iOS 6 version)
  • Graphics used is too old
  • Need more graphics work
  • More functionality & features
  • Complicated to use with many tabs
  • Crashes down a lot

These are the points which I have to share to NBK as a customer point of view. I hope their could be a plan of re-innovating the online banking system. What I really like from this bank is their services and that why I’m still their customers since I was 7 years old carrying Zaina’s card.

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Since Facebook is now the owner of Instagram, new features will be innovate time to time. Therefore, Instagram now updated their apps which enable the users to Face Tag all their friends/followers on the photo. It is quite interesting feature by Instagram and we are looking forward for updated innovative ideas.

Today, we’re excited to introduce Photos of You and bring you a new way to share and discover stories on Instagram. When you upload a photo to Instagram, you’re now able to add people as easily as you add hashtags. Only you can add people to your photos, so you have control over the images you share. And it doesn’t stop at people—you can add any account on Instagram, whether it’s your best friend, favorite coffee shop or even that adorable dog you follow.

There will now be a Photos of You section on your profile. When someone adds you to a photo, you’ll receive a notification and the photo will appear in your Photos of You. Want to make sure you like the photo first? No problem: you can easily adjust your settings so nothing appears on your profile until you approve it. Before your Photos of You section is visible to other people, you’ll have until May 16th to play around and get used to the feature.

Source: Instagram Blog

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VIVAKuwait4GWhen VIVA Kuwait Goes LTE, I’ve switched to 4G LTE VIVA Service. I kept testing their coverage for a month, what I see is really poor service coverage in most of areas in Kuwait. I sat in my office (Kuwait City Area) on the 6th of April 2013, and I saw the service changes every minutes. That’s still happen’s to me in most of the areas when I switched to LTE.

I really don’t recommend anyone to switch to LTE now because you will still get the same issue that I’m getting. Sometimes my mobile moves to no service for minutes and switch back to normal.

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With Tap you can pay your mobile phone bills, renew for any subscriptions, manage your bills and do more with single tap. In a nutshell, Tap is the fastest, simple, and safe way to pay with in your mobile. Visit Tap website for more information.

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SamsungGalaxyS4Samsung Galaxy S4 is now available in Kuwait market. Companies started launching their prices with huge competitive differences. I visited XCITE Online Store to reserve a device and it was sold out all since two days ago. I’m welling to get one, but within the next few days.

The prices of Samsung Galaxy S4 in Kuwait are:

XCITE: KD202
Zain: KD202
AlBabtain (Samsung Dealer): KD202
Mobile 2000: KD240

It’s just a trend of competition in the market. The prices will decrease more and more soon. If you get it expensive now, you will get it cheaper soon.

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TwitterKuwaitQ8Path was one of great fan of Twitter since it came popular in the Gulf and Kuwait. We started using Twitter since 2011 when the trend of it increased and people are all moving from Facebook to Twitter.

Why Q8Path stopped tweeting because we see that people, business and organizations all moving to Instagram. Especially, the trend of Instagram has increased quickly locally. Twitter now is full with politics, news and fights between each others without any benefits.

Personally, I open the Twitter account only every morning to check the latest news and close it up till the next day. Instagram is one of the best social media channel for me personally and Q8path, as it’s benefiting more than Twitter. Of course sharing the photos on Instagram to Twitter is the way for keeping our account active on Twitter.

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