Arab Advisors Group has analyzed recently the ADSL rates in nineteen Arab countries. Iraq and Mauritania have the highest ADSL fees, while Egypt and Algeria have the lowest fees. When rates are analyzed in relation to GDP per capita in each country, the GCC countries and Libya lead the pack. ADSL remains the prevailing Internet broadband technol...

Recently more than ever, hackers with different agendas are launching different attacks on many famous websites with an attempt to take them down, control the servers to attack other servers, corrupt or destroy the database or even steal valuable data. Those hackers launch their attacks using immature to sophisticated mechanisms. Their agenda migh...

Go3 is a Canadian startup that has been developing online games since 2007 and has  grown to include more than 6 games and a number of other online properties in the gaming industry. Go3 games are mostly browser based games, however Go3 is also expanding into the 3D MMO game market, with Mechtek and other games yet to be announced. Explainin...

The Arab techies gathering was 4 days workshop held in Cairo, Egypt - from 23-26 December 2008. ArabCrunch was present and demonstrated itself there. This post is to sum up the workshop. written by Zeinab Samir a guest writer to ArabCrunch, Zeinab is an Egyptian Web designer who creates designs and themes for Drupal CMS. She also has a personal...

Royal Jordanian and OnAir signed an agreement whereby RJ, a oneworld member, will provide passengers with OnAir’s inflight Internet and mobile phone services, including email, SMS and voice calls, the first airline in the Middle East to offer such facility. President/CEO Samer Majali who signed the agreement with OnAir CEO Benois Debains said ...

Yesterday I visited Citex Software's ( the company behind Adhere) office office in Cairo Egypt, met its founder and CEO Hussein F. Salama also met with Citex team. We spent  many hours talking about Adhere, mobile advertising and starups in the Arab word. He also displayed to me Adhere and showed me a demo of how it works. This post profiles in g...

Middle East’s largest user generated content UGC community, Jeeran.com, announced the launch of a new marketing tool that allows bloggers and users to get insights about the traffic on their blogs and pages on Jeeran.com. The new tool, “Visitors” , features statistics and charts of the number of visitors each page/blog receives, with the ...

I have arrived yesterday and I started this visit to Egypt in meeting cool and innovative IT Egyptian startups .  Right now am posting this entry from the office of one of those startups. ArabCrunch is here to attend a tech workshop tomorrow, in which I will write about it later. I am staying here for around 10 days. Anyone who wants to cont...

This is a great news for us in Jordan, now iPhone is available in all Orange stores across Jordan, making Jordan the second Arab country to officially have iPhone 3G after Egypt.  ArabCrunch was first to publish the news about the iPhone introduction in Jordan , in which the price we mentioned were close to Orange announced prices and plans ...

OpenX Technologies, has announced that the company has experienced significant growth across its various product lines and in the size of its publisher community. As of December 2008, more than 300 billion ad impressions now run through OpenX’s open source software monthly. In addition, the company’s recently launched OpenX Hosted (Saas Version...