(A personal post) It has been almost a year since I moved to Amman. And as such, I started having strong opinions about places and activities here. Here's my list of "Best in Amman". This post will evolve as I find better alternatives - so please feel...

  What: Cloud Computing Revolution! What is the Cloud Computing Revolution? And How can Jordanian Companies capitalize on it? An overview of Windows Azure www.JordanRuns.NET Facebook Event Who: Naseem Tuffaha , Microsoft General Manager of Middle...

Hello friends, I created a new blog for all technology & events topics: http://blogs.msdn.com/MSJordanTech   I will use this blog mainly for personal and more social posts from now on. Also join me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MSJordanTech...

PDC – the premier Microsoft Developer Conference is coming to a location near you in the Middle East! Choose your location and learn more when you can attend this great event… possibly in your own neighborhood .

  IEEE Computer Society Chapter in Jordan in cooperation with the University of Jordan are pleased to invite you to attend this Microsoft Jordan Natural Language Processing (NLP) research seminar. Main Speaker: Dr.Kareem Darwish. Title: Natural Language...

The Palestine Sharepoint User Group (PSUG) organized a great event last week – the first ever Sharepoint Saturday Palestine . I wish I can take any part of the credit – but it all goes to the Palestine User Groups, and the Sharepoint Community Worldwide...

Please join us this Wednesday for a great presentation by Rami Awad, a veteran of Microsoft and the Quality Assurance Manager at MSN Core Services in Redmond, WA. I’m re-posting the announcement as it was sent by JorDev last week. Please register on Facebook...

This tool helps you find research papers, and visualize how researchers work together. The site also has nice graphs of # of papers published vs citations, and the like. Try it out: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer.aspx#894127  ...

IE9 beta – the first ever browser to use GPU acceleration will be released today! Come along and witness history: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com

I woke up on Friday September 10th first day of Eid to the nice sound of Eid prayers and Bing’s nice Eid picture. This picture is of a Eid Tent in Egypt. The picture was (and can still be seen) in the Arabic & Islamic world region http://www.bing...

محاضرة ملهمة ورائعة من الجراح العالمي دكتور ابراهيم صبيح ألقيت في مسرح التفكير الجديد (و هي مبادرة ابداعية من مركز الجود وماهر قدورة) هذا الفيديو موجود على موقعين أدرنيين إكبس وديوانجي – و لجبي للاثنين فسأعرض كل جزء من الفيديو من موقع:

Bing is not just a search engine, it’s a decision engine. Thus, if you search for “muslim prayer times amman”, it’ll try to understand what you’re looking for and give you the answer directly.

These come from the cool programmers at http://IeArabic.com

Big thanks to the students who started the petition. And big thanks to the Bing Team for responding, all the way from Bellevue, WA. Bing.com today as seen in Arabia /South East Asia (and most of the world): Bing.com today as seen in the US : Incidentally...

Bing Maps has detailed street maps for Amman now! So you can get turn-by-turn directions here. This also means you can use Bing Maps in your local applications & websites to provide mapping solutions in Amman. Next is to fill the Local database of...

I am an avid Audiobook listener. Audiobooks are books read & recorded usually by professional actors. You listen to them in the car, in the bus, or on the computer. I started listening to audiobooks about 7 years ago, and I love them. I would say...

The Imagine Cup “People’s Choice” competition has started. Your vote counts. Start voting now . Team OaSys who won the Jordan SD competition are listed here: http://www.msstudentlounge.com/studentrally/tabid/81/Default.aspx?cid=20&uid=6316 Team PPU...

Under the Royal Patronage of Her Highness Princess Sumaya bint Al-Hasan, president of the Royals Scientific Society, the Jordan Imagine Cup 2010 Awards Ceremony will take place today at 5pm at Princess Sumaya University of Technology – Friendship Hall...

Amazing! Looking forward to seeing an implementation of this in a Jordanian university lab! They estimate it’ll become commercial in 5 years. (this was a question from Bill Gates)

http://www.alghad.com/index.php?news=508930 جميل أن نرى أخبار جيدة عن التكنولوجيا الحديثة في الصحف العربية. شكرا للغد. دبي- نصح كبير الباحثين الاستراتيجيين لدى مايكروسوفت كريغ مندي، قادة دول الشرق الأوسط بالبدء في إعداد الطلاب والتقنيين لديها للتعامل...

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126436297378672 UX Silverlight – User Interface Principles with Silverlight (giveaways at the end!) Time 10am - 12noon Location Princess Sumaya University; Friendship Hall ( no registration needed ...

Very nice… gives me ideas.

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Thanks @BebeOmari and @Tarakiyee for great social media coverage of the finals of the Jordan Imagine Cup 2010 (and here ) (May 1st at the Microsoft Innovation Center in the Royal Scientific Society). Thanks to @BebeOmari for the nice video: