Posts Tagged ‘Google’


Screenshot If you have a blog or a website with feeds it would be smart to integrate it with the new Buzz in town: Google Buzz. In case you missed the news, Google Buzz is the new social status update service from google that is integrated with Gmail, google maps, Google Reader and all other Google services ( including Mobile app) making it a strong of...
Screenshot We waited for few days and nobody wrote about  it, so we moved on and broke the news with a guest post from Abdulrahman Idlbi as we were upset when SourceForge the world’s largest open source software hosting website, blocked around 171 million people from Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba: from downloading open source software, a com...
Screenshot This is the first time a fully supported Yahoo! search engine has been available in Arabic and is currently in its first phase  on Maktoob.com . And this is the first integration step between Maktoob and Yahoo after the acquisition! Yahoo Arabic search is run on Yahoo!'s own search engine not Microsoft's bing. Yahoo Arabic search compet...
Screenshot According to Opera's State of the Mobile Web report, In Southeast Asia among mobile-Web users, Google is at the top of the rankings for numerous countries, with the very significant exception of Indonesia where Google is only at #6 and Yahoo! is at #2. The vast majority of Opera Mini users in Southeast Asia are in Indonesia. On the other hand, F...
Screenshot In a move to counter Google’s Free navigation applications, Nokia just announced that starting March 2010, new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include the new version of Ovi Maps www.nokia.com/maps, pre-loaded with local country map data, and that turn-by-turn voice guidance will be free for 74 countries in 46 languages. The new vers...
Screenshot Transliteration is typing for example Arabic or Greek using the English keyboard , the user types in English "as you hear it" and the transliteration tool will convert the words into its native script. Since Google launched Ta3reeb its online Transliteration for Arabic, which changes Latin letter into Arabic, it has been working in improving i...
Screenshot Mapping, GPS and Navigation devices are a very useful tool for any person, while the west and USA in general has more advanced solutions in this area than what is available in the Arab world. There has been local and International attempts to solve this issue. On the web, google has done a good job in few Arab countries namely Dubai but its awe...
Screenshot Jordan based Feedoor, the feed management service, today announced that Real-Time feed updates such as RSS or ATOM updates can be enabled for any website or blog. By implementing Real-Time protocols within it's technology and with the help of Superfeedr the Real-Time feed parsing service, Feedoor can now convert any feed into a Real-Time feed. ...
Screenshot Few days ago Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2009 through the collective data of the world on Google. Google Zeitgeist tools also offer insight into which topics were of interest across the globe. Top search terms from over fifty countries appear on our Google Zeitgeist webpage - from political candidates in South Africa, to new...
Screenshot Google announced yesterday that it has added a new feature to its contextual online advertising platform Adwords, for advertisers targeting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The new feature allows advertisers in both countries to target ads only to specific region, city or geographical location. Google is able to deliver regional targeting because it knows...
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