About Ashraf
Happily married to the most beautiful woman ever, Ashraf is the founder of dotTech. Ashraf spends insane hours on dotTech (usually writing articles but sometimes doing absolutely nothing except staring). Yes he is weird, but he is also very friendly.
Although Apple has some legitimate patent related claims, the absurdity of some of its other claims are a foregone conclusion. Aside from the most diehard Apple fanboys, most people will agree Apple asserting intellectual property...
Look outside your window. If you live in any place but the most arctic regions of the world, chance are you can see a tree when you look outside the window. What does that tree look like? More specifically, does it have a straight...
Last week Google chairman Eric Schmidt sat down with Wall Street Journal for an interview on all things Mountain View. When asked if Apple and Google have any plans to settle the patent disputes going on between Apple and Android ...
Look at the above image. If you think it is of someone playing Call of Duty, you would be wrong. Rather, the above is an image of the targeting system for the Sham II, a homemade tank constructed by rebels in Syria. Yeah, you read...
If you read my opinion piece on the iPad mini, you already know I think it is junk. However, some people disagree with me. According to them, the iPad mini is the holy grail (along with the iPhone and the iPad). These are the same...
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, dotTech has featured many images of lions in the past. Today we have another photo to show you, albeit this one is a bit different than the others. (I swear I don’t have an obses...
Prior to Zynga going public and tanking, people hailed console (and related computer) gaming as dead and social gaming as the next big thing. Heck, at the time Zynga was even speculated to be worth more than Electronic Arts, a mas...
Remember that ad Samsung ran earlier this year mocking iPhone 5 fans for standing in line for a smartphone when “the next big thing” (aka Galaxy S III) is already here? Yeah, well, according to Visible Measures (a vide...
Aside from the United States where iPhone pulled in just above Android by the end of October, more Android devices are sold worldwide than iPhones and iPads. Despite having more devices out there, however, iOS still dominates Andr...
Android dominates globally — no one will question that. Even in the United States, before the release of the iPhone 5, Android smartphones sold more than iPhone. With the release of the iPhone 5, however, Apple has regained ...
The government may have taken the first punch against Mega by taking down Me.ga, but Mega is far from out. In fact, it appears that Mega is still on track for a January 19 opening, despite opposition from the American government. ...
Back in the day (clearly before my time), people used analog (then digital) alarm clocks to wake them up in the morning (or any other time of the day). With the advent of the modern smartphone courtesy Apple, many people (includin...
Earlier this week we saw the ‘Seabreacher’, a dolphin-shaped dive boat that even James Bond would be proud of. Want to know what is James-Bond-style? An underground, hidden parking garage. The following is a hidden und...
There are many things NASA does. One of the perks of their job is access to stunning photography of space, particularly Earth. And NASA has recently released absolutely stunning photos of Earth at night, as seen from space. You ca...
Do you like purchasing things, especially technology? Yeah, we all like to purchase things. We like to think we own these things. However, sometimes we become so dependent to our toys that it can sometimes feel the gadgets own, an...