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.
Okay, this is insane. The following photo is of an Austrian skydiver standing on top of a plane (a glider) in the sky while holding the tail end of another plane (another glider) that is flying upside down above him. If you think ...
One of the ways software publishers improve their products is by collecting data on how their programs are being used by the end user. This data, if utilized properly, can provide significant insights to developers on how they can...
I’m not exactly sure what Motorola means by “the full-screen phone” in the ad shown above. What I do know, however, is Motorola is joining the ranks of Nokia and Samsung at poking at fun Apple’s latest and ...
Thanks to the popularity of always-on broadband and mobile devices, Wikipedia is only a click away for many people. However, what if you want to be able to access Wikipedia offline. Or, maybe print Wikipedia articles. What do you ...
I have a confession to make. I’ve never really ever made my bed. Yes, yes once or twice I’ve taken the initiative, but for the better part of my life my bed either remained messy, my mom made it, or my wife did. (Don...
Are dragons real? Yes Who knows. If dragons were real, what would they look like? Elongated face with large teeth and a short goatee? (Hey, don’t question my imagination.) I really don’t have any answers when it comes ...
iOS 6 has seen the boot of Google Maps from iOS and the introduction of a replacement, iOS Maps. News has been rolling in of how pathetically incomplete iOS Maps is with Apple even conceding that it is a work in progress. In the f...
When unveiling the iPhone 5, Apple proclaimed the iPhone 5’s A6 processor has 2x the processing and 2x the graphical power of its predecessor, iPhone 4S. This lead most tech blogs, including dotTech (guilty as charged), to m...
If a company is not directly selling products or serving ads, sometimes it can be difficult to figure out how a company is making money. An interactive chart by Seer Interactive looks to help you better understand how major tech c...
Earlier this week dotTech brought you news about a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer. Microsoft realized the significance of the vulnerability and quickly issued a hack-and-slash Fix it utility to patch the vulnerability. ...
With the iPhone 4 came “antennagate” — iPhone 4 owners experiencing dropped calls if they held the iPhone 4 in a certain way. The iPhone 5 may soon be hit by “scuffgate”, as CNET puts it. There are mu...
Today is the official release date for the much anticipated iPhone 5. While the features of the iPhone 5 may be nothing special for Android fans, how does its durability fare? As we have seen in the iPhone 4S vs Galaxy S III vs HT...
If you have updated your iDevice to iOS 6 and tried iOS Maps, or you have been reading tech blogs over the past two days, then you know that Apple’s version of Google Maps — iOS Maps — has epically failed. Not on...
Remember that rumor I posted last week about how Samsung’s phablet Galaxy Note II is coming to the United States? Yeah, well, it is no longer a rumor — it is official. Samsung has released an official press statement s...
Recall the comic I posted a couple days back that poked fun at Apple for dodging taxes, among other things? Yeah, well, some comics are actually based on the truth. The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in the United States...