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Knet Mobile From Zain

July 25, 2008 on 10:11 pm | In General, KNET, Technology | 3 Comments

Before one year we had this Device from NBK they were testing with zain , now officially is comming . I hope 6alabat take this one because they don’t have either online payment nor knet mobile .

Knet Mobile Device Service Description: GPRS POS are wireless devices that have Zain SIM cards within them. They authenticate payment using K net cards or Credit Cards by processing the transaction over Zain’s secure and fast data network. Main Advantages: Wireless Payment using Knet GPRS POS machines have many benefits for both the end user as well as the Merchant. Major Benefits : Can reach out to his customer, no matter where he is located in Kuwait, thanks to Zain’s nationwide GPRS coverage and secure data network Improve service delivery by offering a secure and more convenient payment option Fully authenticated by Knet and supported by Zain Who can benefit from wireless GRPS POS? Target market segments are, among others, Food Delivery Companies, Restaurants, Hotels, Transport (Taxi) companies, Customer Service Centers, Gas Stations, Large Trading Houses, Web based businesses, and any other outdoor based activity. How to get Wireless GPRS POS? The merchant has to approach his bank for the service. Should the merchant require any assistance or information about the service, Knet POS team will gladly provide help. What are the fees? The merchant has to contact his bank for more info regarding fees. What is the support process? K net Help Desk is the main point of support for the merchant.

source [link]

MOI eye and hand scanners

July 22, 2008 on 2:32 am | In General, Gov, MOI, Technology | 2 Comments

MOI will apply eye and hand scanners soon .

‬بصمة العين‮ ‬بالمنافذ قريباً قال مساعد مدير ادارة حماية أمن المطار العقيد اياد الحداد ان مشروع استخدام‮ »‬بصمة العين‮« ‬في‮ ‬طور التنفيذ وسيطبق في‮ ‬القريب العاجل في‮ ‬الكويت،‮ ‬وكذلك بالنسبة لاجراء بصمة اليد العشرية الجاهزة ايضا للتنفيذ الذي‮ ‬سيبدأ العمل به الاسبوع المقبل‮.‬ ونوه بالجهود الكبيرة التي‮ ‬تقوم بها اللجان المختصة المكلفة في‮ ‬الكويت بالاجتماع والتنسيق لامن الحدود البرية،‮ ‬لاسيما مع الدول المجاورة بهدف العمل على حل مختلف الاشكاليات التي‮ ‬قد تطرح من الجانبين وتخص منطقة حدودية معينة مشتركة بين البلدين‮.‬

source [link]

PACI and new smart cards

July 22, 2008 on 2:13 am | In General, Gov, PACI, Technology | 4 Comments

PACI will get new smart cards and replace our old Civil ID cards with GCC standards . This will lead us towards egov in kuwait hopefully .

كونا ــ أعلن المدير العام للهيئة العامة للمعلومات المدنية مساعد العسعوسي أمس عن توقيع عقد لتوريد بطاقات ومستلزمات اصدار البطاقة الذكية التي ستستخدم لتنقل المواطنين بين دول المجلس. واضاف العسعوسي لـ«كونا» ان الكويت تعتبر الدولة الأكثر التزاما بالمقاييس التي تم وضعها من خلال الاجتماعات التنسيقية بين الدول الأعضاء لوضع الدليل الموحد لمواصفات البطاقة. واشار الى انه تم الاتفاق على الحد الأدنى من التطبيقات المشتركة بين الدول الأعضاء، وكذلك استخدامها للمرور عبر البوابات الالكترونية التي ستوضع في مطارات ومنافذ الدول الأعضاء لتسهيل الاجراءات لمواطني المجلس. واوضح انه يمكن لكل دولة ان تستخدم البطاقة لتطبيقات أخرى وفق احتياجاتها بما يدعم مشاريع الحكومة الالكترونية ويمهد للتحول الى التعاملات الالكترونية عبر الانترنت أو الوسائل التقنية الأخرى. وقال ان البطاقة الذكية تتميز باحتوائها على شريحة الكترونية تمكنها من تخزين البيانات والتطبيقات لأغراض متعددة، مشيرا الى ان اصدار البطاقة الذكية جاء تنفيذا لتوجيهات ملوك ورؤساء دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي. واضاف ان مدة العقد ثلاثة اشهر وان الهيئة بدأت بوضع خطة متكاملة ومبرمجة زمنيا لتنفيذ المشروع، حيث ستستبدل البطاقة المدنية الحالية بالبطاقة الجديدة بالتدريج منعا للتزاحم وفق خطة ستعلن لاحقا. وأوضح ان غير الكويتيين ستصدر لهم بطاقة بلاستيكية من دون شريحة الكترونية وسيكون التصميم موحدا لكلا النوعين من البطاقات، ولكن بلون مختلف لكل منهما وذلك بناء على موافقة مجلس الوزراء ولفترة مؤقتة.

PACI site news PDF [link]
PACI on alqabas PDF [link]
PACI on alqabas [link]

Panoramic Optic 0-360

July 21, 2008 on 10:49 pm | In General, Technology | No Comments

I am looking for Panoramic Optic and I found
1- 0-360

0-360 Panoramic Optic™ (w/software) cost $595

2- immervision

This is for all standard cameras

And this one is a web cam it take 360 and you can use the software so you can do web conference 0-360 (very cool) .

3- immersivemedia Video Panorama

You have probably seen several times in the past, those immersive digital photographs in which you can easily look up and down and turn your vision all around in full 360° glory. The 360° panoramic new year’s eve of 2003 in Times Square, New York, has been one of my first memorable favorites, as it captures so well the thousands of emotions and different people celebrating on the street at once.

But video technology is now surpassing even these spectacular capabilities, by delivering navigable 3D, immersive video which as good or better than the 360° navigable images you and I have seen until now.

Check this video out. Once it starts rolling, click and move your mouse in different directions. You will be surprised to see that you can now fully navigate also inside moving video images.

The visual impact is really quite shocking, especially if, this is the very first time you are in front of a 3D, immersive and fully navigable video.

This spectacular feat is achieved by utilizing eleven video streams arranged according in a geodesic fashion. By doing so it is possible to capture an almost complete spherical image; a high-resolution 360 degree view of surroundings that is seamlessly stitched together.

source [link]

ATM Reverse PIN

July 20, 2008 on 2:42 am | In General, Technology | No Comments

Claim:   Entering one’s PIN in reverse at any ATM will summon the police.

Status:   False.

Example:   [Collected via e-mail, 2006]

I just found out that should you ever be forced to withdraw monies from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. The machine will still give you the monies you requested, but unkown to the robber, etc, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you. The broadcast stated that this method of calling the police is very seldom used because people don’t know it exist, and it might mean the difference between life and death. Hopefully, none of you will have to use this, but I wanted to pass it along just in case you hadn’t heard of it. Please pass it along to everyone possible.

Origins:   This seemingly helpful heads-up began circulating on the Internet in September 2006. However, “seemingly” is the best that can be said of it at this point, in that entering one’s Personal Identification Number (PIN) in reverse at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) does not summon the

Such a system was first imagined in 1994 and patented in 1998 by Joseph Zingher, a Chicago businessman. His SafetyPIN System would alert police that a crime was in progress when a cardholder at an ATM keyed in the reverse of his personal identification numbers. The flip-flopped PIN would serve as a “panic code” that sent a silent alarm to police to notify them that an ATM customer was acting under duress. Because palindromic PINs (e.g., 2002, 7337, 4884) cannot be reversed, Zingher’s system included work-arounds for such numeric combinations.

However, Zingher has had little success in interesting the banking community in SafetyPIN despite his pitching it to them with great persistence over the years. He did in 2004 succeed in getting the Illinois General Assembly to adopt a “reverse PIN” clause in SB 562, but the final version of the bill watered down the wording so as to make banks’ implementation of the system optional rather than mandatory: “A terminal operated in this State may be designed and programmed so that when a consumer enters his or her personal identification number in reverse order, the terminal automatically sends an alarm to the local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the terminal location.”

In 2006, Michael Boyd pressed the Georgia State Assembly to pass a law requiring banks to create ATM panic codes that would operate the machines normally while also alerting police. His wife, Kimberly Boyd, was killed on 12 September 2005 after being carjacked by convicted sex offender Brian O’Neil Clark and forced to withdraw cash at an ATM. (She died when Clark crashed her SUV while being followed by a civilian who ultimately shot Clark to death afterwards.)

Such a bill is before the Georgia Senate, having been placed there on 29 December 2005. But nothing has happened on SB 379 since then.
In 2004, the Kansas state senate sent to its Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee

All this talk of various bills in three different state legislatures may serve to obscure some of the more important points attaching to this issue, points that are key to making up one’s mind about whether having such a system in place is actually a good idea.

No one in the banking industry seems to want the technology. The banks argue against its implementation, not only on the basis of cost but also because they doubt such an alert would help anyone being coerced into making an ATM withdrawal. Even if police could be summoned via the keying of a special “alert” or “panic” code, they would likely arrive long after victim and captor had departed. There is also the very real possibility that victims’ fumbling around while trying to trigger silent alarms could cause their captors to realize something was up and take those realizations out on their captives. Finally, there is the problem of quickly conjuring up the accustomed PIN in reverse. Even in situations lacking added stress, mentally reconstructing one’s PIN backwards is a difficult task for many people. Add to that difficulty the terror of being in the possession of a violent and armed person, and precious few victims might be able to come up with reversed PINs seamlessly enough to fool their captors into believing that everything was proceeding according to plan. As Chuck Stones of the Kansas Bankers Association said in 2004: “I’m not sure anyone here could remember their PIN numbers backward with a gun to their head.”

Barbara “neither Smith nor Wesson is known to prompt mental acuity in those they are pointed at” Mikkelson

Sources
1-Snopes Rumor Has it [link]
2- viewsreviews Blog [link]

Wild Wadi - Dubai

July 19, 2008 on 2:34 pm | In RFID, Technology | 1 Comment

Wild Wadi [site]

I just came from there and it was fun . I hope they make aqua park [site] the same here in kuwait .

Imagine spending an entire day in the park, enjoying the rides, the food, the drinks and even buying great stuff from Souq Al Wadi, and not having to carry a single buck in your pocket! At Wild Wadi you can do just that. Our cashless payment system (just a techie term for a nifty waterproof wristband) stores electronic credits, which can be used to buy whatever you need in the park.

If any credit is left over you can have it refunded at the end of the day.

They are using RFID [source]

That is not also when you order in the restaurant they give you pager

Zain launches new Business SMS service

July 18, 2008 on 11:07 am | In Internet, Technology | No Comments

Zain Kuwait announced the launch of a new Business SMS service that gives corporate customers the ability to send bull SMS to their own predefined customer base for promotional and awareness purposes related to their business fields.

The new service, tailor-made for businesses, grants corporate customers superior management of the bulk SMS through a dedicated interface, maximum communication and marketing potential, integrated end-consumer billing options and numerous other valuable revenue building features.

The user-friendly ‘Instant Mass Communication’ service is easy to run, configure and use and is accessible from any PC connected to the internet. It has multi-functional interfaces thus allowing companies to send Bulk SMS to their own customers or their own employees, all while allowing messaging integration in any environment.

Zain Business SMS users will experience the cost efficiency of PC-to-Mobile messaging in their one-to-one and one-to-many Business SMS.
Among its many features, the service allows message personalization, customization and delivery scheduling and recurrence, as well as the ability to send up to 10 concatenated messages.

The service, which comes in different convenient packages as to the bulk sizes and expiration dates, grants Enterprises full-time access to messaging.

Mr. Shafeeq Al Sayed Omar, Zain Kuwait’s Marketing Director said, ‘Zain’s business SMS will add value to the businesses in Kuwait by enhancing their mass communication capabilities whereby further bridging the gap between the enterprises and their customer base or employees.’

‘The launch of the Zain Business SMS fulfills a key requirement from our existing Corporate customers and will surely attract more enterprises to utilize Zain’s wide business portfolio. Zain has been at the forefront of bringing new, simple and business-oriented solutions to Kuwait’s highly demanding corporate customers and Zain Business SMS is one of them,’ he added.

Zain business SMS is tailor made for Government organizations, Large enterprises, SMEs or even SOHOs that truly facilitate mass communication through one of the simplest and most effective tools which is bulk SMS.

Zain boasts a dedicated Key Account Managers who can provide further information to interested enterprises. Further details are available from Zain’s Corporate Sales department.

My comment:

I used clickatell and I’m thinking now I try this new service but i must check the prices because it is all about the prices .

Source [link] Kuwait: Sunday, June 01 - 2008 at 13:33

update1:

Wataniya have similar service called WPro-Message

Wii Fit

July 8, 2008 on 1:17 am | In Computers, Games, Technology | 2 Comments

I’m Thinking to get for me Wii Console and Wii Fit Bundle . I liked this guy :

This guy made me love this Wii Fit i saw it on amazon [link]

Bye Bye Public High Schools (Thanaweya Al3ama)

July 3, 2008 on 10:25 pm | In Gov, MOE, Technology, WebSite | No Comments

Just finished publishing results of “Thanaweya Al3ama” after minister of MOE had the speech on the TV at 9:00 am today . At the same time we broadcast the KTV on Qualitynet throught our web site And the bandwidth reaching the maximum in crazy way about 10 M giving no more connections .

About 10 am we publish it on our web site the load also going crazy about 2000 Concurrent connections on each server . all students in kuwait want to check their grade ! also their fathers mothers . in the same time both Qualitynet and Fasttelco publish the results but our traffic already going high from yesterday !

moe on Quality [link]
moe on Quality [link]

But unfortunately United Networks didn’t want to participate this big event as part of main ISPs in Kuwait .

What I liked also the Panasonic 103″ Plasma was there by yousifi company .

Now bye bye thanaweya 3ama students . no more waiting like this going crazy for the results All this after 50 Years of Thanaweya 3ama .

Installing Windows XP on Eee PC

June 21, 2008 on 3:16 pm | In Computers, Hacking, Internet, Technology | No Comments

I want to change the operating system on my Asus Eee 900 PC but because It doesn’t have CD Rom I’m Searching for away to use flash memory instead and i found this video on youtube [link]

References:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13257/Boot-Windows-XP-from-a-USB-flash-drive
http://www.techmixer.com/install-windows-vista-from-bootable-usb-flash-memory-drive/
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm