Google has launched recently gmail SMS chat in many Arab and some African and Asian countries with a number of mobile operators.
SMS with Gmail enables users to send free text messages (SMS) to their friends directly from their Gmail accounts.
if the user's contact replies, the text message response will appear as a reply in C...


A number of mobile operators reported over Twitter that BlackBerry service is off in the Arab world and Europe due to problems from RIM.
Mobinil one of Egypt's mobile operators says over Twitter the services resolution time is about 4 pm GMT today.
Update 12 GMT 11/10, service still have problems and not yet restored fully to all users.
Upd...
AreebaAreeba a business social network geared towards residents of the Arab world has reported reaching 650 thousand registered users from 110 countries, in less than a year since its launch.
The Dubai based AreebaAreeba offers smiler functionality to Linkedin, users can post status update where other users can comment on them, start and join gr...
There are some controversy about the role Wikileaks has played in the recent Arab Awaking or the Arab Spring that ousted 3 tyrants so far.
However today the role has become clear, as around 200 military veterans and activists demonstrated in front of the US embassy in Amman, Jordan. The first demo in front of the embassy in Amman since 25 year...
Jordanian youth movement has launched online petition 7erakjo.org rejecting the proposed Jordanian constitutional amendments and in demand for a comprehensive reform.
The activists are demanding to amend Jordan’s constitution in ways that would bring a completely elected parliament as right now half the parliament is appointed by the king, bri...
A US diplomatic Cabal classified as "C O N F I D E N T I A L" and sent from the American embassy in Tunis published on Wikileaks this week, disclose some details of the agreement between Microsoft and ousted regime of Zain Al Abdin Bin Ali which was signed in July 2006, Microsoft did not disclose the full details of the agrement but the cable...
Wikileaks has published its full archive of 251,000 secret US diplomatist cables in an easily accessible and searchable manner. The site is here wikileaks says over Twitter, due to huge demand the site is experiencing difficulties and is asking for donation to buy more capacity.
The cables are very important because they reveal many crimes, ...
Update: English version fo the sites is back, Arabic site Tawhed.ws is still not accessible in Jordan. Update 2: one commenter is claming he is in Jordan and the site is accesible, however he is only one claiming so, if you are in Jordan please let us know if tawhed.ws opens with you.
After testing in several IPs from Jordan we found that ta...
We have great news, Anas Marwai has been freed in Syria according to Ardriod blog post. Anas Marwai founded Ardroid that specialize with Arabic news and views about Android.
Anas Marwai was arrested in July 2011 with no charges, by the security forces in Syria, obviously for political freedoms.
We do not know if Anas was tortured, this is...
Hacktivists group Anonymous has organized a protest against USA San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART ) for shutting down cell phone service to four stations in downtown San Francisco in response to a planned protest. The protest was planned against killing an innocents man by BART police.
EFF called the action Pulling a Mubarak in ... 


