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YouTube Launches Paid Subscription Service
Today, there are more than 1 million channels generating revenue on YouTube, and one of the most frequent requests heard from these creators behind them is for more flexibility in monetizing and distributing content. Google on ...
Father in India arrested for letting his son drive his Ferrari
A father has been charged in India after his nine-year-old son drove his Ferrari. Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala charged Mohammed Nisham with endangering the life of a child and allowing a minor to drive. Nisham&...
Unique Digital Journalism Training for Arab Journalists
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and Google, in partnership with the World Bank, delivered a full two day Digital Training to 25 top social media editors and web journalists from 11 nationalities, including Jordan, ...
Special Opportunity for Student Filmmakers at the 6th Gulf Film Festival
The Gulf Film Festival (GFF), the home of bold, experimental, and contemporary cinema from the Arabian peninsula, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai C...
Dubai Police invests in AED 1.7 million Lamborghini Aventador
Keen to crack down on ‘road racers’, the Dubai police has invested in the AED 1,660,337 million Italian hyper-car Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 capable of reaching speeds of 217 mph (350 kph). With the increase...
Top Gear | Helicopter Crash Caught on Camera
A Helicopter crash was caught on camera during filming for Top Gear Korea. Thankfully no one was seriously injured. The video involved a slight incident with a Cobra AH-1 helicopter and a Corvette ZR-1, the former crashing qui...
Population Concentration and the Standard of Living
As of 00:00 on 10th April 2013, the world population count reached 7,109,330,000. The exponential increase in the human population, not only calls for the increased resources, but also the management of resources. Cities have ...
Twitter to charge for using Vowels
Vowels aren’t really necessary in today’s digital age, are they? Twitter doesn’t think so, as it announced a new “two-tiered” service including its free model called “Twttr.” You can only tweet without vowels thou...
LinkedIn to Introduce New Jobs Feature
LinkedIn is excited to unveil the new LinkedIn Jobs, which will be rolled out to all of members around the world in the coming weeks. Helping to help find your dream job, the new LinkedIn Jobs experience has been completely re...
Letterboxd, the social network for movie buffs
Hear ye Hear ye! Calling all movie buffs, fans, critics, enthusiasts and experts to the latest in social networking, Letterboxd. Its an online community that is right up our alley. Letterboxd lets you share your taste in film,...
World leaders in education gather in Dubai for Going Global conference
Seventy delegates from the UAE will join more than 850 of the world’s leaders in education to attend the British Council’s Going Global conference, which is being held this year in Dubai. Going Global is an annual conferen...
Alicia Keys, Maroon 5 among several Headlining acts for Grammy Awards 2013
Fourteen-time GRAMMY® winner Alicia Keys and current nominees Maroon 5 will join together for a special performance, and current nominee Frank Ocean is set to perform on the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards® telecast. Curren...
Rapper Freddy E. Live Tweets His Own Suicide
Young Seattle rapper Freddy E committed suicide on January 5 with a self-inflicted rifle wound to his head, after a series of cryptic tweets. The 22-year-old, whose real name is Frederick Eugene Buhl, was best known by his comi...
LinkedIn reaches 200 million members worldwide
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the Internet, announced on the 10th January that it has reached 200 million members. New members continue to join LinkedIn at a rate of two per second. The company has add...
The aftermath of the gang rape in India
It was the night of 16 December, 2012, when everything changed for Damini. A name given by the media for a studious and a talented girl, Damini, 23, lost her life after she was sexually assaulted by six drunk men in a private b...
Gang rape in Delhi: Women’s dignity at Stake?
This is true, there has been a dramatic change among nations as women do have the liberty to work. They are seen as the independent and successful. But gender inequality does not seem to come to an end. Men always are in an...
Sachin Tendulkar: The End of an Era.
“There are two kinds of batsmen in this world. One Sachin Tendulkar; two all the others.” – Andy Flower (Team England Coach). This morning when Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from One Day International Cric...
Sachin Retires from One-Day International Cricket
After 23 years of Cricket, the Little Master, One of the game’s all-time greats, hangs up his boots for the One-Day Internationals (ODI). His ODI statistics are unparalleled and reads, 463 matches, 18426 runs, including...
24-Hour Metro Service on New Year’s Eve
After the huge traffic delays in last years New Year’s Eve demonstration at the Burj Khalifa, the RTA has taken measures to ensure smooth flow of traffic in the region. The Dubai Metro will run for 24-hours on New Year&#...
Sons In Exile – A Photo-Documentary by Kashish Parpiani
UthMag presents this exclusive preview of photographer Kashish Parpiani’s photo-documentary, “Sons In Exile”. Parpiani, in 2009, bagged the Nikon Better Photography “Young Photographer of the year”...
