According to Syrian website Nobles-News (Arabic Link) Facebook has deleted Esmail Haneea's fanpage on Facebook, which was under the name "القائد إسماعيل عنية ( the Leader Esmail Haneea) Esmail Haneea was the prime minister of the Palestinian authority from The Islamic Resistances movement (HAMAS.)
The movement won the vast ma...


Colleges of Computing and Information Technology/Jordan branch held last Tuesday 12/4/2009 a technology lecture at the Arab Open University in Amman, as part of Third Information Technology Forum which commenced at the Islamic University (IUGaza) in Gaza.
The lecture in Amman used a video conference with the Forum in Gaza. According to the org...
ZAAD is a Palestinian Arabic/English user generated Local search engine. Currently maintains a database for Palestinian private sector and NGOs. ZAAD allows users to enter their information directly to the site and update it frequently.
According to Ibrahim Jabour from ZAAD, the website aims to build national databases for several sectors in P...
In another incremental development, Yamli has recenlty launched News Search . The news search is powered by google and works the same way to their recently launched search. Where Yamli automatically expands Arabic keyword searches to include all of their transliterated variations and returns news results for both Arabic and transliterated co...
AlJazeera Network announced yesterday, the world’s first repository of broadcast-quality video footage released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time, footage of the War in Gaza - will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitl...
While I was about to go sleep Saturday, I witnessed unusual traffic on AC, at a closer look most traffic was coming from Slashdot. ArabCrunch was experiencing Slashdot Effect, or has been Slashdotted.
I remember knowing about Slashdot since the late 90s, back then I remember most of Slashdot visitors used to be very anti-Microsoft. I also ...
As the crisis continues in Gaza, Aljazeera Labs is continuing their innovation. This time they recently beta launched crowdsource mapping mashup "Mapping the War on Gaza" service, in collaboration with Ushahidi who have successfully used their platform to crowdsource information during recent crisis in Kenya and South Africa.
The platform...
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... 


