Cinemozis one of the Middle East’s very first on-demand online video service. With an obvious comparison toHulu, the service is set to officially launch by the end of summer. Founded by 27 year old Lebanese-French Karim Safieddine, Cinemoz started out as aconceptjotted down on a post-it-note. The service launched having secured the necessary funding with the help ofSeeqnce, a Middle Eastern start-up catalyst based in Beirut. With a private beta coming at the end of the summer, Cinemoz will be offering Arab films, TV series and documentaries, with a social networking twist, allowing you to share and rate what you’re watching on your social networks....

At first glance, profiles onCircleMelook a lot like About.me, but scrolling down the page reveals there’s a lot more to the service than first meets the eye. If About.me and your Facebook Likes got together and decided to create a social network – CircleMe would be the result. The site is a profile of your interests and likes, it’s a social network, and it’s even something of a bucket list. By connecting to various social networks, CircleMe allows you to create a page which represents all of your favourite things, and connects you with other like minded people who use the site as well....

Slowly rebuilding something as massive as a Google social network is a total pain in the ass. I have requests for invites from friends-of-friends from high school clogging my inbox. And every Google page I turn to: Gmail, Calendar and Google Search has these little pop-up notifications in the top-right corner, beckoning for me to check my Google+ activity. My willpower has never felt so exhausted. Right now, the process of building Circles is dizzying....

Boy, oh Boy! Its the end of an era! Cisco has just announced that they are shutting down the production of those epic, portableFlipcams. In apress release, Cisco states that it will “Close down its Flip business and support current FlipShare customers and partners with a transition plan.” The move is part of a wider restructuring of the company’s consumer business, moving away from directly catering to end-users. “We are making key, targeted moves as we align operations in support of our network-centric platform strategy,” John Chambers, Cisco chairman and CEO is quoted as saying in the release....

Networking giant Cisco is being sued by Chinese political prisoners for allegedly providing the Chinese government with the technology and training to effectively monitor, censor and surpress citizens,SMH reports. The case has been brought by US law firm Ward & Ward on the behalf of Du Daobin, Zhou Yuanzhi, Liu Xianbin and 10 unnamed others, likening the company’s actions to “IBM’s behaviour in Nazi Germany”. Ward told Australian reporters: “Cisco has, for years now, knowingly aided and abetted the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing efforts to stifle the free speech and discourse of its citizenry....