TechnoLibya

23 February 2010

Vodafone and Almadar Aljadid, the national Libyan mobile operator, today jointly

announced that they have signed a non‐equity Partner Market agreement. The exclusive

strategic partnership will help both companies to better serve the needs of their respective

customers in the country, including support for the growing number of overseas businesses

looking to establish a presence in Libya.

Under the terms of this agreement, Almadar Aljadid will have exclusive access to

Vodafone’s range of products, devices and services in Libya. Almadar Aljadid also will be

able to draw on Vodafone’s experience in supply chain management, technology

development, the acquisition of enterprise customers from multi‐national companies as

well as improved voice and data roaming services across 67 countries.

In addition, Vodafone will be able to use Almadar Aljadid’s network to offer its customers a

range of services, which utilise ‘home’ network capabilities as well as extended coverage

within Libya. The partnership will also enable multinational companies located outside

Libya and with local operations to meet their needs for unified communications, centralised

customer care and Vodafone services using Almadar Aljadid network.

Commenting on the agreement, Colin MacDougall, Vodafone Partner Markets director for

Africa and the Middle East, said: “We are delighted to partner with Almadar Aljadid in order

to better serve our business customers’ communications requirements as they look to grow

their operations in Libya.”

Underlining the benefits of the partnership, Abdulkhalek Ben Ashuor, Almadar Aljadid ’s

CEO, said: “The partnership with Vodafone will enable us to offer our customers the chance

of being served by the world’s largest international mobile network, whilst maintaining the

advantages of being a local operator capitalizing on the fact that Almadar owns a

nationwide coverage and prime quality network, thus supporting our prime mission of

best serving the Libyan population. This partnership will bring substantial benefits to our

customers, becoming a catalyst for expanding our service portfolio and improving our

operational efficiency as well as serving our strategic vision of strengthening our

competitive advantage specially in the shadows of the state plans to open up the telecom

sector for foreign investments ”

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Notes to Editors:

About Vodafone

Vodafone is the world’s leading international mobile communications group with

approximately 333 million proportionate customers as at 31 December 2009. Vodafone

currently has equity interests in 31 countries across five continents and around 40 partner networks

worldwide. For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com.

About Almadar Aljadid

Almadar Aljadid is the first Libyan mobile operator established in 1995, with 43% market
share , customer base of 3 million at end of 2009 and prime quality nationwide mobile
service coverage . For more information, please visit www.almadar.ly .

Yes TechnoLibyans, finally you can enjoy local/international calls and internet on air while travelling on Afriqiyah Airways, and please don’t mention that cell phones and laptops aren’t allowed, that was in the past when factories didn’t follow international rules when making those.

INTERNATIONAL. OnAir, the world’s leading provider of inflight communications, today announced agreement to install OnAir inflight passenger connectivity services on Afriqiyah Airways’ entire Airbus long range and short range fleets.

This is the first time an airline has announced a decision to install connectivity in both the long and short range fleets.

In phase one of this agreement, OnAir will install the full connectivity suite (Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir) on the Airline’s A330 fleet.

In phase two Mobile OnAir will be installed on the Airline’s Airbus A320/A319 fleet. Passengers will be able to stay connected inflight using their own mobile phones or BlackBerry®-type devices to make and receive phone calls, send and receive emails and text messages, and access the Internet.

“Offering inflight connectivity is part of our ongoing drive to continuously improve our customer travel experience, while helping to differentiate us from the competition,” said Eng. Rammah Ettir, CEO of Afriqiyah Airways.

“With OnAir providing both GSM/GPRS as well as Wi-Fi Internet, our passengers will have the broadest range of inflight connectivity options available anywhere in the world today.”

“OnAir is proud to be working with Afriqiyah Airways,” says Benoit Debains, CEO of OnAir. “The Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir services together provide air travellers with a complete solution: a full range of service and the highest levels of performance whether they are using mobile phones, BlackBerry-type devices or their laptops – and with global coverage.

Afriqiyah’s decision to install inflight connectivity across its entire long and short haul Airbus fleets is a first in the industry and underlines the importance airlines attach to providing their passengers with such services as we head into a new decade.”

Mobile OnAir uses the industry’s most advanced and extensive infrastructure for mobile communications, along with Inmarsat SwiftBroadband, high capacity services from Inmarsat 4th generation satellites. This gives passengers and airlines the best reach and performance available today.

Afriqiyah Airways (AAW) decision comes amidst mounting demand for inflight passenger communications. A growing number of commercial airlines and private aviation companies either currently offer OnAir inflight communications services or will offer them in the near future.

Via [BI-ME]

Technolibya in Arabic “ليبيا للتقنية” is up and running for weeks, now it’s time to officially publish it in beta stage, please visit Technolibya Arabia and tell us what you think.

your opinion matters.

Accessing youtube while it’s blocked isn’t a hard thing to do, you can simply use a web based proxy, change your connection to pass through proxy “Internet setting on Windows”, or FoxyProxy you name it, but these methods comes slow as they comes for free, and they ain’t worth your wallet as they expose you to the proxy owner, they can simply filter out sensitive information about you, plus your ISP is still seeing what are you doing and hackers can still sniff your data while it travels over the network which any script kiddie or Newbie can do.

Now what is the expert way, it’s encrypting your connection or securing in another meaning, SSH or VPN, it might sound like some advanced thing but it’s not, by using VPN your connection is encrypted and virtually  no one can see what are you doing, not your ISP not hackers and technically  it works as a proxy in the same time.

Now VPN is so expensive unless you have a server in USA/Canda or other country under your full control, but there is a lot of free alternatives that works the same way with less speed “50kbps” which is better then 14kbps web based proxies with no risk of exposing your data to strangers.

Take hotspot shield as an example, this little application is rates as best free VPN in the world featured on PC magazine the CNN and others, all you have to do is to install it, run it and all your programs “Firefox, Chrome, IE, Massenger” you name it, will pass through a secured encrypted tunnel to thier servers, it’s like using a computer in USA.

Download HS Shield

well enough said, the most important thing, you will watch youtube faster and no one knows that you are watching youtube in the same time, for more security check this article about how to change your DNS server.

Please not “Changing your IP or DNS wont unblock Youtube, don’t forget it’s not youtube blocking you, it’s ISP or your internet service provides in this case LTT.”

LTT’s VOIP Service Via Wimax which have been protested by LTT Engineers will be available for the public so soon, as they are now installing the system and re-assembling Wimax antennas which explains the slowness of Wimax network “Sometimes little Bits per second”, until then this could be a rumor.

[Untrusted Source]

For some reason Youtube is not accessible from Libya, some people said it’s banned but we heard from an engineer in LTT company that they are assembling a Youtube caching server to make browsing youtube faster for Libyan users.
Sooner or later Youtube will be back, until the content they are blocking youtube for get deleted, or until they assemble the caching server.
By this blockage Google inc. “GOOG” which is the owner of Youtube.com is losing money from advertisements Libyan users was viewing and clicking.
By the way, it’s not necessarily that LTT is blocking Youtube, Youtube might be filtering and banning Libyan users.

Croatian phone numbers in serial have been calling Al-Madar numbers randomly and I don’t know about Libyana, so many people got calls “Just one ring” from at least 2 numbers in serial, and no answer when you call one of the numbers back, I personally got calls from numbers like these:
+385 XX XXX X89
+385 XX XXX X90
+385 XX XXX X91

We think that this is an automated system (Crawl numbers from the web, Call in them in serial), or it could be just a coincidence, this theory is built on people  who got called randomly, We did try reverse lookup, phonebooks and all with no use, if you did notice, heard or got called too please comment it out, if not also post your opinion.

If this means anything it’s that when we put our phone numbers online we don’t take security as a concern and if we got called without posting numbers, it’s not hard to build up a list out of one number, it’s already in serial.

Here is the best and most popular posts of 2009 based on editors pick and community popularity, and hope you all have a happy productive new year.

• What’s The Best AntiVirus Available In The Libyan Market
• Libyan Internet Users Are Not Chat Addicted
• Using Libyan Credit Cards On Online Shopping
• Al Madar and Libyana Roaming Service
• Enable Multi-Touch Gesture (Finger Scroll, Momentum and ChiralMotion) on any Synaptics TouchPad in Windows 7/Vista/XP/Server
• How To Boost Wimax Coverage Using Dish Antenna DIY
• Libya Internet Services Comparison
• How To Get A Job In Libya
• Internet Services In Libya Guide
• Most Popular Web Browser In Libya
• Electronic Banking, in Libya!
• Swine Flu H1N1 In Libya
• TechnoLibya Supports UFO Researches
• Twitter Users Complain About .LY domains
• How to add Wireless Capability To Wimax Lan Router
• Fast Free Public DNS Servers To Use With LTT Adsl Routers

Photo by [Shamsik]

I recently discovered this free application http://www.mikogo.com/

Mikogo is an easy-to-use cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support.

And it’s FREE for both commercial and private use up to 10 users can participate.

Mikogo can be employed for a range of professional, academic, or personal uses, including:

• online meetings
• web conferences
• product demonstrations
• web presentations
• remote support
• webinars
• and more!

Provide online technical support for your customers. Conduct product demonstrations for business customers. Use Mikogo to discuss and edit a current team project. The ideal tool for free online group collaboration.

Mikogo is a cross-platform app that runs natively on both Windows and Macs. Start and participate in desktop sharing sessions from both PC and Mac computers.

I have been using this app with Wissam and we are both impressed with it!

Check it out and let Techno Libya know what you think of it!

As you all know that www.bit.ly used by twitter to make URL’s shorter is registered in Libya, also other services started using it for the benefit of what’s called domain hacks “Means playing with words no hacking involved”.
Twitter users specially from the United States have been using bit.ly for so long and now they are surprized, they just found out that LY stands for Libya and they don’t want to use it anymore, the reason is because they are supporting Libya, we don’t know what they  means by the word “Support” but it should be the media creating a buzz that will end with bit.ly and LY domains winning the un-started fight.

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