Before dawn on March 1, 2026, while most of the Gulf was asleep, a swarm of Iranian Shahed drones crossed into the United Arab Emirates. They weren't headed for a military base. They weren't aimed at a port or an airstrip. They were looking for something far more valuable — and far more vulnerable. They found it. Two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE took direct hits. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a nearby strike. Structural damage. Fires. Power knocked out. Fire suppression systems flooded the hardware with water. Two of the three availability zones in AWS's entire Middle East region went dark simultaneously — something the system was never designed to survive. Banks went offline. Payments failed. Careem, the Gulf's dominant ride-hailing and delivery platform, went down. Emirates NBD, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank — all reported disruptions. The UAE stock market halted. AWS quietly told its customers to migrate their workloads to othe...
People in Seoul, South Korea finally got their taste of the iPhone on Saturday. Being a tech savvy society. About 65,000 people placed orders since Nov. 22, according to KT. Liked the headline on cnn.com that said "The iPhone's got Seoul". The reason why the iPhone took so long to debut in South Korea is because the government was trying to protect local manufacturers and carriers for several years. Since the announcement last week of the debut of the iPhone local manufacturer Samsung slashed the Price of it's iPhone like phone called Omnia2. There have been 40,000 pre-orders for the iPhone since the announcement if it being offered in Seoul. Local manufacturers Samsung and LG account for 90% of the cell phones sold in South Korea. KT Corp the carrier offering the iPhone said iPhones will sell fast as they are a status symbol in this tech-Savvy country. The iPhone is already changing the pricing of Smartphones in the country. As South Koreas are willing to spend heavi...