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Screenshot Google's YouTube has launched a UAE domain name ...
Screenshot So Muslim Brotherhood has announced last night that they will nominate from their part Khairat Alshater as presidential candidate for Egypt. The news was very much controversial on socialmedia as some denounce it and others supported it. Right after his nomination Alshater official facebook page has been setup and it received so far 43,000...
Screenshot Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrests and trials of netizens in the United Arab Emirates, yesterday. It also listed the UAE as a country “under surveillance” in its 2012 report on “Enemies of the Internet.” “The Emirati authorities are cracking down harder on bloggers and netizens who criticize the regime,” Report...
Screenshot What might be worrisome for Arab online activists that Twitter might collaborate with Arab oppressive regimes after Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, and Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), announced today, Monday, December 19th 2011, a combined investment of $300 Million in Twitter. Prince Alwaleed has a strong presence and influence ...
Screenshot 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...
Screenshot Update: facebook responded by saying that the new translation button is powered by Bing translation engin, meaning it supports all the languages the bing supports (about 50) For now, the button is visible only to people who have installed the translations app. If a human translation is also available, they show that, instead. The way it works i...
Screenshot Twitter finally has enabled right to left writing, which is great news for languages such as Arabic Hebrew and Farsi. Before this feature when writing in Arabic in Twitter, the tweeted message used to mixx words togather, in many times changing the meaning of the tweet. This case gets worse when adding an english word. Now, this problem...
Screenshot Folks at Yahoo are raising the white banner and surrendering their social networking site in the Arab world "As7ab". In an email sent to Yahoo Maktoob’s Arabic social network Asa7b members, Yahoo is saying that they will shut down the service as of 18/9/2011 and deleting everything, the email urges members to download their voice and video...
Screenshot It seems that Syrian secret police or "Mukhabrat" is behind issuing forged facebook's security certificate in Syria when accessing via https connection or man in the middle attack, which enables them to get users password and spy on Syrian facebook users' activities. This event happened around a week ago. users in Syria are adviced not to lo...
Screenshot After reaching more than 10,000 members in few hours in light of his assassination by American forces in Pakistan Facebook deleted we are "All Osama Bin Ladin" page. We do not know what is the excuse this time for deleting this page, is it call for violence? we did not notice any. And this excuse that any page that calls for violence should ...
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