Technology

A verified monthly digest: the new iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone Duo, Pixel 11, Galaxy Z Fold8, Mate XT 2 and Surface Laptop Ultra, AI firms rehearsing for a bad day, Qatar’s Al Meezan legal portal, Riyadh’s energy week and the thorium-229 nuclear clock. Each item ends with what it means for a UAE company and three things to do this month.

Amazon (over USD 21 billion), Microsoft (USD 17.5 billion plus 3 billion) and Google (about USD 15 billion) are building AI data centres in India through 2030. We checked the primary announcements and explain what the wave means for cloud prices, data residency and AI plans at a UAE company.

An app pays off when customers come back often and have a reason to keep it on their phone; otherwise a better mobile site is the smarter spend. Native, cross-platform or PWA, the running costs, and what to agree before a deposit.

BIGBANG ITS has released a free, MIT-licensed SMS module for WHMCS: campaigns with smart filters, Excel number lists that clean themselves, invoice and renewal reminders, quick send, delivery reports and a client opt-out page — with free installation support.

BIGBANG ITS has released its production WHMCS registrar module for Spaceship.com as free open source: full domain lifecycle, hardened logging, and TLD pricing sync that others sell as premium — plus free installation help for resellers.

Separating what has shipped from what is promised: AI that completes work, the compute being built in Abu Dhabi, robots in the narrow places they work — and why quantum, 6G and fusion are not your problem this year.

Four model tiers, an effort dial that is the biggest cost lever most teams never touch, agents Anthropic hosts and schedules, and MCP for connecting a model to your own systems. A plain-language guide to what Claude actually offers a business now.