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Few days ago Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2009 through the collective data of the world on Google.

Google Zeitgeist tools also offer insight into which topics were of interest across the globe. Top search terms from over fifty countries appear on our Google Zeitgeist webpage – from political candidates in South Africa, to news searches in the United Arab Emirates, to electronic brand searches in Hong Kong.

T his year’s global fastest rising searches show interest across pop culture (with the King of Pop at the helm, followed by searches for movie New Moon and singer Lady Gaga), social networking sites and new technologies such as Windows 7 and Torpedo Gratis.

Global Fastest Rising Queries according to Google:
1.    Michael Jackson
2.    Facebook
3.    Tuenti
4.    Twitter
5.    Sanalika
6.    New moon
7.    Lady Gaga
8.    Windows 7
9.    Dantri.com.vn
10. Torpedo Gratis

I have used Google Insights for Search, a publicly available tool that displays relative search volume across geographies, time periods and queries, to get the 2009 list in many Arab countries.

By looking at the list, you will see the most common Interest are are Photos, Music, and Games in the following countries: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, West bank and Gaza, Syria, UAE and Algeria.

You’ll also notice that Arabic keywords are dominant in Saudi Arabia, Jordan,Egypt, Syria, West Bank, reflecting that Internet users in these countries use Arabic as the main language online. While English is dominant in Lebanon and UAE, maybe because expats are the majority of the population in UAE and maybe because lebanon is more western educated. French queries are dominant in Morocco and Algeria because of the French colonial past.

Here the top 10 Queries for major Arab countries:

• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia top 10 search ( terms translated from arabic): forums,Games, photos, songs, youtube, tarrab (music) chat, newspaper, Riyadh, trivian
• Jordan (terms translated from arabic): games, Jordan, photos, songs. newspaper, Alrai, download, girls, adductor, facebook., msn, love,
• Lebanon (terms translated from arabic: lebanon, lyrics, google, games, facebook, photos (Arabic keyword”, صور”, video, Nokia.

• Morocco: maroc, telecharger, youtube, clavier, jeux, clavier arabe, facebook, msn, vidoe, google.

• Syria (terms translated from arabic: photos, Syriam download (english keyword), songs, Syria, Chat, Education ministry, Forums, Al Arabia, Syria.
• Palestine (terms translated from arabic):, Games, Photosm Palestine, togather, Al Quds, Chat, Girls, Forms, Gaza.
• ‎UAE ( English terms) : Dubai, Download, Youtube, Games ( arabic word) Yahoo, news, Google, Games, facebook, india.
• Algeria:Algerie, telechargerm youtube, jeux, gammes (arabic) vidoem yahoo, Alshrouq (arabic) google, facebook.
• And here are UAE Fastest Rising Queries:

1.     Tribal wars game
2.     Gitex 2009
3.     netLog
4.     FlyDubai
5.     blackberry
6.     Ramadan 2009
7.     Twitter
8.     Star academy 6
9.     Etihad airways booking
10.  Kingfisher airlines booking

Mapping, GPS and Navigation devices are a very useful tool for any person, while the west and USA in general has more advanced solutions in this area than what is available in the Arab world. There has been local and International attempts to solve this issue.

On the web, google has done a good job in few Arab countries namely Dubai but its awesome Google Maps Navigation is only available for Motorola’s come-back mobile Droid. NDrive a Portuguese mobile developer launched last October navigation applications for the iPhone, for United Arab Emirates (UAE) , Saudi Arabia Morocco and Egypt, using TeleAtlas the same company that provides maps to Google Maps and Competes with Nokia’s Navteq.

From the region, Ayna the Lebanese company launched this year “Ayna Maps“that are also available via a number of mobile devices but unfortunately Ayna maps need internet connection to work, and since Mobile Internet connection is still costly Ayna maps is not an idle solution. In Jordan, Inside Jo from Jordan, developed an online map along with its own low cost GPS device that unfortunately did not get authorized by the authorities in Jordan!

Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition, The Affordable GPS Phone:

Nokia on the other hand, has went ahead faster than anyone, introducing mapping solution online via its Ovi maps and on its Mobile devices (From High End to Mid level). To push into mid and low market (the developing world), Recently Nokiaunveiled the latest device in the company’s range focused on mapping and navigation, the Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition. The new arrival is GPS enabled and pre-loaded with Nokia Maps, making it the most affordable GPS device in Nokia’s broad portfolio.
Relevant maps are included on the device to save cost and make sure that just because you don’t have an Internet connection, your device isn’t rendered useless, an essential element for mobile mapping in order to be used in mobile handsets by the main stream users since Mobile internet connections are pricey.

Nokia 2710 will be available in the second quarter of 2010 estimated to cost, before taxes and subsidies, EU 110.

Nokia 2710: has a GPRS handset, a 2.2-inch screen, 2-megapixel camera and enough storage for 1,000 phonebook entries. It also sports Ovi Mail and Instant Messaging and it’ll keep the tunes turning with an MP3 player and FM radio. It also has a 3.5mm AV connector. The device will go for up to 18 days between charges in standby mode and will give up to four hours and 20 minutes talk time.

Nokia Adds Jordan to Ovi Maps:

After Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, In the mapping and navigation availability, Nokia recently added Jordan to its Ovi Maps application. Adding rich local content and local maps that can be used directly on users mobile device turning them into a navigation systems.

“Having Ovi Maps on their device gives our consumers a new sense of their surroundings, with the possibility to discover new places and share them with their friends using SMS, MMS or Bluetooth.”said Bruce Howe, Head of Marketing Nokia Levant.

Ovi Maps application for your Nokia device is enhanced through additional features and services: high resolution satellite and terrain maps, rotation, tilting, night view and fly-overs and fly-throughs. Nokia’s Jordan Ovi maps was available during the month of November.

Walk from one place to another using WALK, the pedestrian navigation with routing optimized for those on foot, providing better orientation in a city or outdoors.

Or use DRIVE, the navigation takes you from A to B with visual turn-by-turn guidance. It helps you to locate yourself by giving information about the surrounding buildings, roundabouts and streets and in newer handsets points the direction in which you are walking using the handset’s built in compass for orientation.

Ovi Maps uses vector maps are provided by Navteq, which was acquired by Nokia in end of 2007. The map data of Jordan, is offered free of charge and includes detailed Road coverage of 28,621 Km covering 100 municipalities, including street names and street directions.

By this, Nokia has 100 percent of the total road network of Jordan covered including all the major highways connecting Jordan’s major cities. It also has 13.500 Points of Interests including hotels, restaurants, places of worship, shopping malls, petrol stations and many others.

Maps can be downloaded free of charge over the air directly to selected devices or by using the Nokia Map Loader on a PC. however since my Nokia 5800 died and I am currenlty testing now N900 which Ovi Maps is not supported on it yet, I could not test the new maps in Jordan. (See the video I recorded last month for a preview of Ovi maps in Dubai on N900.)

In addition, Nokia also launched a crowed sourced “Get to good things“website to Jordanian consumers, so that they can add their personal POI’s from Jordan and share with the world.

Winners of Nokia’s Calling All Innovators “Bil3arabi” 2009 contest, a developer competition for Arabic-language mobile applications, have been announced by Nokia.

The grand prize winner of $100,000 went to “Here I am” from Enpronomics in Egypt.  It is a geo-presence application with personal safety features that enables users to call for help in emergencies, share their location with family, close friends and know the location of their beloved.

In second place, and winner of $25,000 in cash, is Elmathbakh created by private developers Senai Refai and her husband Kamel Seghaier from Tunisia.  Elmathbakh is an application that helps people keep track of their daily calorie intake. Its various features have been designed especially for Arabic diets.

The other top 10 applications that have received the Judge’s Choice Award will get a one-year membership in Forum Nokia Launchpad, which enables members to receive access to exclusive resources and support to accelerate mobile application development and elevate developer’s business visibility in the mobile world.  These applications are OI2ot by Inficron, Arabian HawkGood by News 4 me, AlMoosiqar by Quirkat, Yoolki, Sarhan by Good News 4 me, Messagei, Wassal  by Inficron, Moodi by MT2, Konooz, and Frenzo.

In addition to the cash prize, the grand prize winner will receive a “spotlight” placement featuring the winning application for 4 weeks on the top page of Nokia’s Ovi Store; and paid travel to demo the winning application at a Nokia specified event.  The winning application will also be reviewed by Nokia for possible preload on future Nokia devices.  Second place will also receive a “spotlight” placement featuring the winning application for 3 weeks on a relevant category page on Nokia’s Ovi Store.

Have you ever been in a class and just not known what the teacher was talking about. The teacher likely asked you to read from a book to help you learn more about it and you still could not get it. We all feel that way at times.

Many people feel the same way when it comes to medical speak and the science behind it. For example, the gamma camera is one of those things that you may have heard of, but really do not know what it means. Even when someone explains how one of these cameras works, you may well not know anymore then than you do know about how it works or the parts in the camera.

In that case, you may want to learn more about how it is used or why it used. This can help you to better understand it and possibly start to understand about how a gamma camera works. That is the same with anything that you do not understand. By doing this you give you self a better idea of what it is and how it works.

A camera is a medical camera that involves radiation. The gamma camera is used in the acquisition of a images of a patient. A medical camera can be used in the cancer screening process or in other medical needs.

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As many believe, web users and innovators emerged winners upon the completion of the European Commission’s investigation into Microsoft’s browser-bundling practices. Microsoft will now offer users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a screen presenting a choice of Web browsers. In December 2007,Opera Software urged the European Commission to investigate Microsoft’s abuse of its dominant market position and the company’s bundling of Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.

The new “choice screen” (or “ballot screen”) enables users easily to select and install Internet Explorer alternatives, which are safer, faster and more standards-compliant browsers. By giving consumers a genuine choice of browsers, the door is now open for increased Web compatibility and equal access to Internet content.

“This is a victory for the future of the Web. This decision is also a celebration of open Web standards, as these shared guidelines are the necessary ingredients for innovation on the Web,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software (ArabCrunch.NET profile.) “Opera has long been at the forefront of Web standards, which ensures that people have equal access to the Web anytime, anywhere and on any device. We see the outcome of the EU’s investigation as a testament to our mission.”

After vigorously pursuing the bundling issue upon Opera’s initial complaint in 2007, the European Commission accepted Microsoft’s commitment to a Web browser choice screen, and the investigation was brought to a close. This browser choice agreement will have a term of five years and includes a semi-annual review of its effectiveness. Currently, the browser choice screen will be available to only European consumers.

“The days when companies could use poor standards support to tie down users are over,” said Håkon Wium Lie, Chief Technology Officer, Opera Software. “The browser choice screen will give users access to better browsers with better support for Web standards.”

In the Arab world, Microsoft pushes and lobby to force Arab governments to force copy rights and halt piracy so only its original software are being sold. But Microsoft has not given back to the hands that sends millions of USD to its pocket rather than only a couple of innovation centers with a handful of employees.

Citizen Watch Company is a watch brand that was established in 1924. The men who established the company chose Citizen as the name so that it would be easily recognizable to people everywhere. Citizen has become a world wide company in the last seventy-five years and is now recognized as a global brand. Every year since the year 1986 Citizen has been recognized as the largest watchmaker in the world. Citizen is also recognized for the innovative technology that they use to make Citizen watches. Citizen has been first for many types of watches. They were the first to create the world’s slimmest LCD. They had the first voice recognition watch. The Citizen dive watches were the first to have an electronic depth sensor. New to Citizen watches is the Eco-Drive collection, which is ecologically friendly. Eco-Drive watches are powered by light rather than a battery.

Citizen Watch Company is accessible a few different ways. You can access their website. Their website has a section that tells about the company. It also allows you to shop for watches. When you shop on the website for watches you can do specific searches. For example, you can search for ladies Citizen watches in $201 to $300 range. You can also do a search for Citizen watches by keyword. The website also includes links for press releases, a store locator, my favorites, corporate gifts and technical support. The store locator link will help you find the nearest Citizen Watch Company store. The My Favorites link lets you keep a list of your favorite watches so that you can easily find them again. The corporate gifts link shows you a watch to give as a gift from your corporation to an employee. The technical support link gives you information regarding setting your Citizen watch, recharging guides, FAQs, and Service information. You can also go into one of their stores. A third way you can access Citizen Watch Company is to call them.

BlueDial.com is one of the best stores that you can use to buy the best Citizen Eco Drive Ladies Watches for the best prices.

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Different companies provide you different types of life annuity plans which you can easily choose according to your specific needs. Every policy has a different investment and a different rate of return. Annuity is a contract in which a person enters with the insurance company. The insurance company promises to pay the “annuitant” a specific amount of money as long as he is alive. The insurance company offers guaranteed lifetime income options to you if you have entered into this contract.

You are given a secured time-period during which you will continue to receive payments. In this article, I would like to tell you about the different types of annuity option plans.

1. Straight Life annuity plans
In this contract, monthly annuity payments are made as long as you are alive. This will assure you a monthly rate of return which can be very beneficial for you. You have to invest a certain amount of capital before you receive a monthly payment from the insurance company.

2. Annuity options for two people
There are various companies who have annuity options that can cover the lives of two people. If one person dies then his policy extends towards the other person. Usually a married couple takes such types of annuity options. This option is very good because it ensures that you continue to get a fixed rate of return on a regular basis until and unless both the annuitant and their spouse die. One disadvantage of this policy is that you will receive a small amount of return every month.

3. Certain time period annuity
In this policy you have a minimum guaranteed payout period. Even if the main annuitant dies during this specified period, a beneficiary would continue to receive the payments until and unless the specified period ends. This policy also has a drawback, because you get payments for a specified period of time the amount that you receive would be lower than the amount that is given is the life income annuity option.

Try FreeAnnuityrates.com to know more about the Annuities Types.

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People facing foreclosure or are struggling to make their mortgage loan payments can find help in the form of a loan modification. This is not a magic solution and not everyone who applies for a modification will get one, using an attorney to help with the negotiations is recommended.

Given the recent increase in attention to loan modifications, attorneys have started to specialize in this area. Having experience and knowledge in this area, they are able to explain why it is so important for people to use lawyers to negotiate through this process. They know the regulations about lending better than anyone, so they are best able to represent homeowners.

Professionals handle these cases all the time, working with the lender to reduce mortgage payments by reducing the interest rate. Whatever type of loan you have, they are always willing to consider having it modified so you can continue to pay it off and avoid foreclosure. For attorneys, the most important consideration is how the law can work to benefit you and they want to show your lender that they will also benefit since you will be able to pay them back what you owe.

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For you who are interested in having a watch for sports activities the G Shock collection is a good option. These Casio G-Shock watches are very tough and robust and keep working in rough conditions. Whatever you do the G Shock are rugged and will stay with you no matter what kind of sports activities you do. The G Shock watches comes with atomic time keeping which mean that it receives data several times per day to keep updated time, date and daylight savings time. For women Casio has another collection called Baby G-watches.If keeping accurate timekeeping is important to you, you should take a look at Casio Wave Ceptor collection. The Wavceptor watches have the same atomic timekeeping concept as the G-Shock watches. Waveceptor also has the perpetual calendar that always will automatically be updated when time changes to summer or winter time.

You can try BlueDial.com to get the best Casio gshock watch.

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