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.
It does take a genius to know the Galaxy S III is iPhone 5’s biggest competitor. It also doesn’t a take a genius to know Samsung is going to attack Apple on all fronts. So it isn’t surprising Samsung has conjured...
iPhone 5 pre-orders have begun. The phone will reach consumer hands in a little under a week from now. If you are living in the USA and want an iPhone 5, there are three very important facts you need to know before you make the de...
In August 2011 Microsoft started an investigation into fake copies of Windows coming out of China. For this investigation, Microsoft employees bought 20 brand new PCs from various Chinese vendors and took them back to HQ to test f...
On March 6, 2012 six British soldiers were killed in the Lashkar Gah area of Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device (IED). Two days after this incident Azhar Ahmed — a 19 year old from West Yorkshire — posted th...
Hello dotTechies, I’ve recently made a few changes to dotTech and would greatly appreciate any and all feedback you all have. Content Changes A few months ago I decided to make a major change in what dotTech covers. Instead ...
Ever notice whenever a new iPhone comes out there is a group of people that cannot stop praising it and there is a group of people who cannot stop hating it. …Then there is a group of people that secretly wish they had an iP...
The following is a photograph of… I have no bloody clue. It looks like it may be some sort of residue from a man-made explosion, such as a flare, but the captions on the photo claim it is from nature. So the best way I can d...
Anyone that has lived in the desert knows how dangerous a dust storm can be. However, dust storms have a pretty side to them, too — if even from the sky. The following is a photograph of the aerial view of a dust storm that ...
…or Nokia copied the old iPod Nano with the Lumia. It depends on which side of the fence you sit on. If you are confused, let me explain. Last year Nokia unveiled the Lumia 800, the first ever Windows Phone device by Nokia. ...
TechCrunch, a technology blog, holds regular ‘Disrupt’ conferences where a bunch of geeks gather to talk about geeky stuff. At the most recent ongoing conference in San Francisco, TechCrunch interviewed Mark Zuckerberg...
When it comes to smartphone/mobile security, there are two types of malware. First there is socially engineered malware. This type of malware, typically in the form of apps, works by tricking users into installing it and then proc...
By now many people are sick and tired of the courtroom battles going on in the mobile industry. In particular, some people feel Apple is overreaching with its patents and intellectual property and, in the process, Apple is stiflin...
At the unveiling yesterday, Apple’s Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, claimed the new iPhone 5 is the “world’s thinnest smartphone” thanks to its 7.6mm belt size. An Apple executi...
Ever since Microsoft announced Windows RT tablets (aka Windows 8 tablets running on ARM-based processors) will come bundled with Microsoft Office, there have been a lot of questions as to exactly what that means. Will Office on Wi...
Ready for a ridiculously funny iSheep moment? As I’m sure many people know by now, the iPhone 5 was unveiled yesterday but will not be available until September 21. Jimmy Kimmel, a popular comedian known for his night shows,...