There is no doubt that the general public in the Arab world, just like all over the world including USA is ignorant about many things with the Internet, this widely evident that the major browser used by users of mainstream websites in the Arab region is the ugly 10 years old IE 6.0 and in many cases IE 5.5!!!
Many users in the arab world do...
Google is pushing further to support Arabic and other 41 International languages in its quest to further increase its Internationalization revenues. In the Arabic front we reported recently about Google's Tashkeel, yesterday Google announced a new step to support Arabic online with an announcement to added Google automatic translation ...
Around 2 weeks ago Google Launched Google Tashkeel which adds missing diacritics to Arabic text. Yesterday Aljazeera Arabic asked ArabCrunch board members,CEO of nPairo and former Senior Vice President Yahoo! Bassel Ojjeh about Google's service at the 11:00 pm news hour.
Here is the interview recorded using Nokai N900:
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If you write in Arabic and need some translation help or if you stumbled in an English word that you wanted to translate into Arabic, there is a google talk bot that helps you translate english words to Arabic in realtime, right from your Gtalk.
Just add: en2ar@bot.talk.google.com a and enjoy getting your translation in realtime....
We reported yesterday Google Tashkeel, and if you are aware google has its own translation app and widget for websites.
This translation momentum by the giant is a strategy to tab into international markets and improve search, but now google is no longer alone, As few days ago at MIX10 Microsoft jumped to to the bandwagon with Translator w...
Arabic language is different than English, for example it is written from right to left and has Diacritics describe how arabic text is pronounced, they are called in Arabic Tashkeel for example in Arabic a (ـِ ) kasra (i) can make the whole meaning of a word different. In Arabic AL-Tashkeel is based on Arabic grammar.
As for Google to im...
Eric Schmidt CEO of Google (the only company than managed to compete with Microsoft in all fronts and lead) is now in Dubai for Abu Dhabi Media Summit an event ArabCcrunch was not invited to! ( I was invited a source confirmed seeing my badge at the event, and I just digged for the email invite and found it, i did not notice before, since I ge...
As we update the news about Google offering Palestine free SMS chat via gmail with info from a trusted source that Google also offers this feature to the African country Ghana and "Israel", Google spokesman just confirmed officially that update, here is the list of mobile operators list of operators Google Free SMS chat currently support:
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Update: as per our suspicion it turned out that "Israel" and Ghana have the service too.
Google has a neat gmail feature that lets user to send free text messages (SMS) to their friends directly from your Gmail account that works the same way gtalk works. Gmail SMS service was originally launched only for US mobile numbers in 2008. But now it h...
Until recently Google presence in the region was with a small office in Dubai, Cairo and Saudi Arabia, with a small team whose focus was in Google Ad words, marketing, PR and Arabizing some of its products, excluding the fully Arabic Google's Ejabat. While all the development work for Google has been carried out from its center in Switzerland.
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