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...

Venture Capital firm Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), has announced three new investments in Lebanese-based companies: Pin-Pay SAL, iLevel SAL, and Multilane SAL. MEVP says the The funding will assist the companies in pursuing regional growth and extending their product offerings. The companies MEVP’s investmented are as follows: Pin-P...

This is not new, humiliation of Palestinians and Muslims men and woman around the world is not very recent. What is new is that social media and YouTube has made these footage public rather than hidden behind bars. Last August an Israeli female soldier posted her pausing in-front of humiliated Palestinian prisoners. This time Israeli sol...

The Arab world is one of Microsoft strong holds, the education system is Microsoft centric while open source solutions has very little presence, if any . As for companies that develop software, Microsoft technologies are the most used, in governments Microsoft products are the mains choice for many. If they were not selected then the choic...

Since 1967 "Israel" has been confiscating land from the indigenes Palestinian inhabitants of occupied westbank and Jerusalem (Alquds)  and building settlements on top of them for new illegal jewish migrants. Americans for peace now a US adjunct to Jewish Israeli Peace Now organization has launched an iPhone and web google maps mashup to tr...

It seems folks at Tasree3 have taken our advice and expanded beyond the Jordanian market as they launched few days ago their Riyadh version. Tasree3 Saudi Arabia is in Arabic since in that market Arabic is the mainstream language for web user, it offers the same features as of Tasree3 in Amman, search bar, where you can enter the restaurant nam...

Number 1 video sharing website owned by Google, YouTube now has an Arabic Interface. The move is some how late for Google to bring an Arabic interface for YouTube, since most of its other services are already has an Arabic UI. This move means local Arab video sharing startups such as iKbis and D1G which the later is headed by former Yaho...

It is another day and we are still alive and free :) the news today Group-buying startup GoNabit has launched its Lebanese version, now offering special deals the first one for women. GoNabit works by offering offering time limited deals with dissents that can go to 60-70%, and its uses your social graph to leverage group buying, if enough ...