Archive for December, 2008

New unibody MacBooks spotted in Amman

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

I got my first hands on experience with the new unibody MacBooks at SmartBuy yesterday Friday. Both the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros are available at SmartBuy and Virgin Megastore. At Virgin they are safely hidden away in their packages, as some Virgin employees were busy either perfectly aligning gadget boxes in shelves, dusting off [...]

Nokia XpressMusic 5800 available for pre-order in Jordan

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

I just came back from a 5 hour gadget hunting tour of Amman. One of the places I visited was the Nokia Store in City Mall. The whole store is branded in the 5800 style. The sales people actually have demo devices on them: one in blue and one in red.

You can book your XpressMusic [...]

Huge Aqaba logo brands new hot air balloon

Friday, December 5th, 2008

What a nice surprise in this morning’s Jordan Times. A front page article about the new activities of the Royal Aero Sports Club had a picture of a new hot air balloon, branded by the Aqaba logo, complete with the icon strip and, as can be noticed at the edge of the balloon, the tagline: [...]

I am sorry Siniora, but plain lettuce is MUCH BETTER than your products..

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Siniora, the meat product manufacturer, is running a huge ad campaign in Jordan. Outdoor billboards and two page full color ads in the newspaper declare: “Only Siniora, the rest is.. lettuce.”

This comes from the popular Arabic phrase which is used to declare that something is the best. Lettuce is used as a symbol for something [...]

InsideJo: Jordan’s homegrown GPS car navigator debuts in January ‘09

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Hot on the heels of Nokia’s announcement of a Amman GPS map (made exclusively on 360east) comes another, pretty amazing announcement.

Two Jordanian home-grow companies, GenieSoft and Reborn Industries have created a joint venture and launched InsideJo, a full GPS map and navigation system for Jordan.

The announcement was made using a full page ad in yesterday’s [...]

Check out the Jordanian Family on The Simpsons

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Get your hands on Episode 7 of Season 20 of the Simpsons. Not only does it feature a Jordanian family (“We met at the Jordan University of Science and Technology”) but also makes fun of a certain electronics maker with a fruit as a logo (hint: it’s called Mapple and its Founder and Chief Imaginative [...]