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Years ago, when I used to read a couple of local and regional computer magazines, they used to mentioned something about the future of the internet and if we will be able to use Arabic domain names instead of the English ones.
According to the BBC News, the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) board yesterday voted to allow non-Latin domain names; such as Arabic and Chinese.
The first Arabic or any other non-Latin domain name, or what they call Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), will be available within 9 month from now!
A couple of days ago, a friend of mine who is using a wireless router and modem in the same device, that he got from outside of Jordan, suddenly lost his internet connection, after a trillion trial to call Orange to see what happened, they checked the connection and told him that all is well and nothing is wrong with his connection.
Yesterday I received a message from Zain that I never expect to get anytime soon. Finally Zain ADSL is the first ISP that provide broadband internet connection up to 8M of speed.
Directly I called the customer service center of Zain to get more information, and I figured out that they provide the service with 4, 6 and 8Mb. I asked about the prices of the service which are less than getting the connection for 2Mb. Do you know why? you don’t have to pay anything to Orange (Jordan Telecom Group) now to get the service. We will only pay for Zain as an ISP without any monthly payment to Orange. The installation fees are 70JDs for those who don’t have an internet connection already and they are offering the service with free installation until the end of this month.
“Ya3teek el 3afyeh…”
“Ahlain…”
“Bs bedi as2alak, momken te7kilna kif 7asalt 3ala waziftak?”
That is the first part of the radio promotion that most of you heard on Play 99.6 FM or Rotana 99.9 FM. Today the Akhtaboot team is proud to introduce Akhtaboot himself in his first live appearance to the public in this animated video:
Al Ghad newspaper was very proud to announce few days ago that we have in Jordan around 92,000 ADSL accounts! Yes we have a lot of internet user, but I bet that all of those users are being cheated in a very dirty way!
