Updated. There is no doubt that here at ArabCrunch we were big fans of Twitter since the day it was launched. We favored it over its Arab clone WaWet, for many reasons on top of them international adoption rate and a large applications ecosystem. We were happy that Twitter opened a new platform for the world to communicate on 1 to 1 and ...

“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 hack...

Adwords is google's goldmine where it gets most of its revenues, to those who do not know it allows small and midsize business to advertise on google search engine or via its Adsense partners's websites using text based ads. Google ads can be paid based on clicks or impressions, and they have greater targeting options because they are cont...

US official has been repeatedly attacking Wikileaks and its founders, Julain Assang, reports before the release of the 90,000 secret logs of the Afghan war suggested that US officials were looking to assassinate Julain. According to UK newspaper Guardian, Wikileaks said that the whislteblowing website's funding has been blocked, moneybookers a...

Iran has banned one of the oldest tech news websites, Arstechnica reported that Iranian users are no longer able to access the site. Arstechnica says this happened after the site published second piece of coverage about the Stuxnet malware which hit Ithe workers of Iranian power plant. Iran said it had some evidence that "Israel" is behind the a...

AljazeeraTalk is  one of the first citizen journalism  based websites in Arabic, as it was founded in since 2006, the site publishes interesting reports you do not often find in main stream media. Today they launched the English version. The English site which seems is not fully launched as some links are broken, has some videos promot...

For the first time in our history a technology event refuses to issue a media pass to ArabCrunch! No event from Dubai to London to Washington to Silicon Valley have ever refused to issue us a media pass before. But folks at MENA ICT Forum in Jordan did not issue one for us! The tech event coined as the region's ICT forum is organized by Inform...

Defense Research and Development Organization (DROD) of India is putting a dedicated team of 50 software professionals in the Bangalore and Delhi software development centers to develop an operating system (OS) of its own. Dr V K Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defense Minister of India told India times that he just set up a software center...

The US State Department entered into competition against ArabCrunch with very "fair terms" under the pretext of "helping Muslims." As part of the Obama's Promise and engagement plans for entrepreneurship and tech innovation in the Muslim world as a new pillar to fight “extremism” or “terrorism”. And After we posted about a leak from so...

Update: RIM replied to our question whether its agreement with TRA offers UAE authorities ways to monitor the service in the country, with the following statement: RIM cannot discuss the details of confidential regulatory matters that occur in specific countries, but RIM confirms that it continues to approach lawful access matters internationall...