Saudi Arabia Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) asked the 3 operators in Saudi Arabia: Saudi Telecom Co, Mobily and Zain Saudi Arabia to immediately stop the BlackBerry (BB) service in the country starting this Friday.
This comes 3 days after news went out of the kingdom decision in blocking BB messenger and in UAE's...


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Update 2: this is a long post: Our sources who are close to the U.S State Department and the US Department of Defense have informed us that if you do not find ways to collaborate with the State Department ” they wi...
It is not a jock Obama's administration plan for "entrepreneurship" in the Muslim and Arab world, as the U.S. government Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved recently a total of $455 million in financing to support the establishment of five private equity investment funds.
We have gathered data about the U.S. federal ...
"Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public."
This is what US army intelligence analyst Private Bradley Manning allegedly wrote to the former hacker Ad...
Following UAE's decision to ban BlackBerry Messenger, email and web browsing, Etisalat the #1 telecom and mobile operator in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is owned by the government, announced an alternative replacement offer to blackberry (BB) subscribers on or before 31 July 2010.
The offer located at Etisalat BlackBerry Alternative ...
Around 10 days ago ArabCrunch had a meeting with Barig Seraj the CEO of ICT Ventures a Saudi based Venture capital firm.
Barig Seraj informed us about his company and his recent investments, ICT Ventures is a growth based VC that focus in the IT sector. The VC firm made 3 investments so far. First in Mobidiv an Egyptian mobile app develope...
Update: A number BlackBerry users in Saudi Arabia told ArabCrunch BB messenger is still running.
Following UAE's decision today in in suspending blackberry Messenger, Blackberry E-mail and Blackberry Web-Browsing Services in Octabor, Saudi Arabia today ordered the 3 telecom operators in the kingdom to freeze BlackBerry messenger, accor...
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Telecom Regulatory Commission (TRA) a government authority that governs the telecom sector, has announced today that BlackBerry Messenger, Blackberry E-mail and Blackberry Web-browsing services in the UAE will be suspended as of October 11th 2010.
In a press release TRA said it informed the only 2 mobile operators i...
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The time was around 10:00-11:00 pm, the day Thursday April 19th 2010, the first ArabCrunchStart meetup has just concluded in Amman, Jordan. The meetup was planned as a starting point for a series local meetups in Jordan as a preparation to launch ArabCrunchStart as monthly event in Jordan. I went to check ArabCrunch.com's current visits, it... 


