While visiting a computer store, I noticed a pile of paper bags with some brochures at the desk, on a closer look I found a pleasant surprise!
It was a campaign for having a cleaner street focusing on the habit of throwing trash out of the car’s window! Which is something I totally despise!
The campaign package [...]
Filed under: Events, Syria on November 3rd, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ok so after like two years since the last ADSL prices cut, they did it again.
This time they introduced new type of subscription which depends on how much of Gigs you download.
Prices are as follow:
Limited by bandwidth
256 Kbps costs 900 SP a month (~ $19) - 2 GB bandwidth - each extra 1 GB costs [...]
Filed under: Internet, Syria on March 5th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of the two Mobile networks in Syria, SyriaTel, is about to release a new service called “My Backup”.
The service let you backup your mobile by first installing a software from the company (a .sis file some program) and then it uploads all kinds of data from the mobile like the SMS, MMS, Contacts, Calendar, [...]
Filed under: Syria, Technology on June 18th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Charity Garage Sale will be held on the 1st and 2nd of March 2008 from 10 AM to 7 PM at the Arabic Cultural Center in Kafarsouseh area - with the sale income donated to Basma(Kids Cancer Support organization) .
Look at this flayer for more info:
Filed under: Damascus, Events, Syria on February 24th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last Friday (15 Feb 2008) Kids Cancer Support Walking 2008 took off in Damascus, Syria.
The event was organized by Basma organization and the marketing campaign by U.G.
This walking was arranged to raise the attention and understanding about Kids Cancer, and at the same time try to entertain the Kids.
There were some activities for the Kids [...]
Filed under: Damascus, Syria on February 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are some strong rumors saying that Zain a big telecommunication company is about to buy SyriaTel one of the two mobile networks in Syira.
It looks like the company is becoming a major telecommunication player in the area serving customers in 22 country in the Middle East and Africa with a net income around $820 [...]
Filed under: Syria on December 29th, 2007 | 8 Comments »
People in Syria have been waiting too long for the ADSL, and probably this week or the next one new subscriptions will hopefully be available at reason prices (Strong rumor!).
I’ve heard the the 256Kbps plan will cost 1000 SP (~$19) which is some how reasonable, well at least better than before. But I hope the [...]
Filed under: Damascus, Syria, Technology on January 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Christmas - Damascus, Syria
Originally uploaded by Hasan Bazerbashi.
This is a part of how Christmas looks in Damascus, Syria.
I walked in “Bab Tuma” area where you can find lot of Christmas decorations there.
It was nice walking in the market there, the weather was nice ~5 C, well maybe not that nice, but [...]
Filed under: Damascus, Events, Syria on December 26th, 2006 | 6 Comments »
OK, the new year is coming close with some Internet rumors around.
Yes you might see me mostly nagging about the internet connection here in Damascus, Syria, but what can I do? I’m a heavy Internet user, and Technology happens to be my job.
Today I was reading some fresh news, Technology news, and I was shocked [...]
Filed under: Internet, Syria on November 11th, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Thursday (26-10-2006) was the last day of Eid Al fitr, and I had the opportunity to go to Qasyoon mountin in Damascus and took some photos.
It was rather cold weather, all cloudy and rainy … so bear with me about the image quality
The first photo shows Damascus with Omawyeen circle on the right (Finally [...]
Filed under: Damascus, Photography, Syria on October 28th, 2006 | 5 Comments »
From the author’s Description:
A short movie showing old Damascus in Syria in 10 minutes. See old allies, streets, shops, Omayed Masjed and remember your old times you had in these places. Done by Kamar Nasri.
This is a wonderful short movie about old Damascus done by a young lady (My niece :):)!) that I wanted [...]
Filed under: Damascus, Photography, Syria on September 11th, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Probably the title didn’t make any sense, but if you look at the picture below you will see what I mean.
Yesterday after I got out of work I felt something is wrong, because everything looked redish! I looked in the sky and I saw a dark red clouds! …. I thought it is an alien [...]
Filed under: Damascus, Photography, Syria on April 2nd, 2006 | 9 Comments »
It’s been almost a month since I got the ADSL subscription and I thought I would share my experience with the ADSL in Syria.
After I heard the prices are dropped last month I went to get a subscription right away, and I thought I would love to have it with the new ISP Aya since [...]
Filed under: Internet, Syria, Thoughts on March 27th, 2006 | 18 Comments »
FINALLY !!
ADSL prices here in Syria dropped!!
Now it costs like the following:
One time Setup fee: 2000 SP (~37$)
256Kbps: 2400 SP/month (~45$)
512Kbps: 3700 SP/month (~69$)
1 Mbps: 5900 SP/month (~111$)
2 Mbps: 9800 SP/month (~184$)
4 Mbps: 17000 SP/month (~320$)
8 Mbps: 29800 SP/month (~562$)
And an ADSL modem: 2000 SP (~45$)
And you can add 1 Mbps for any subscription [...]
Filed under: Internet, Syria on January 28th, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I was visiting the Syrian ISP web site (Called “190″, www.190.sy, governmental ISP not private) looking for news about ADSL prices, and while looking in the ADSL settings page I saw a weird picture showing some Mummy or I don’t know what! Look at the picture above.
I don’t think it is a mistake, unless they [...]
Filed under: Internet, Syria on January 15th, 2006 | 11 Comments »