Posted By
Najib
Sep 16, 2017 10:08
Fiber to the home was officially launched today in Beitmisk by Ogero & the Ministry of Telecommunication, making Beitmisk the first residential project to have fiber optics at home and the first smart-city in Lebanon. The massive residential project covering approximately 655,000 sqm had already installed state of the art infrastructure years ago to facilitate the integration of the fiber optic technology. Ogero head Imad Kreidieh tested the new speeds by downloading live a 1.5GB…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 16, 2017 01:15
Policemen in civilian clothes is apparently part of the latest ISF campaign to enforce traffic law and fine texting & driving offenders. I watched the below report twice and looked up on the ISF Facebook page and I still have no idea how they're going to spot offenders and I'm not very comfortable with it to be honest. Last time I was fined for using my phone, I wasn't yet the officer insisted I was…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 15, 2017 02:11
Every year at the Beirut Art Fair, I make sure to drop by Byblos Bank's stand to check out photos of the Byblos Bank Award for Photography finalists. The annual award was launched in 2012 and supports emerging local talents by placing their work at the heart of the photography market and giving them access to collectors, experts, gallerists, the media, and professional photographers. The winner is selected by a world-renowned jury of photography professionals…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 15, 2017 12:28
I have no idea who was behind this brilliant idea, but organizing a festival to celebrate the Lebanese Army's victory few days after parents of the martyred soldiers had buried their kids is a terrible idea, not to mention that the timing was a terrible one, on a Thursday afternoon in Martyrs Square! On another note, it was pretty awkward seeing a Defense Minister, along with the Tourism Minister, calling for such festivities in a…
Lebanon
8 years ago
A friend just asked me if there’s anything happening at the Casino du Liban and shared with me a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut barring any movement of U.S. government staff to that ...
Fun
8 years ago
Uber is partnering with Arabnet for the third edition of #UberPITCH where entrepreneurs will get the chance to pitch their business idea to a judge during a seven minutes ride, followed by seven minutes of ...
Humor
8 years ago
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8’s release date is officially on September 15th in the US & the UK and September 22nd in the UAE yet somehow Ahmaz has managed to get his hands on one ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Some guy called Abou Ali was threatening people with his knives yesterday in Hay el Selloum. He is seen in the video keeping away policemen and people trying to take him down but it doesn’t ...
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