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Tweeting masses shine in new Hurricane Katrina
11 Oct '09 | Culture & Society / Comment
... on the region’s growth potential. First, don’t underestimate how Twitter Inc or Facebook can exert people power. Twitter, for example, played an unexpected role in protests after Iran’s recent election. China even blocked Twitter on June 4, the 20th anniversary of ...
Iran election protests move online
16 Jun '09 | Technology / News
... using DoS attacks against protest sites hosted in the US.Since the disputed election results were announced on Friday, Iranian authorities have been accused of ... . On Monday, Twitter announced that it would postpone routine maintenance downtime to avoid disrupting the service at peak times in Iran.
Google and Facebook rush services to support Iran
19 Jun '09 | Technology / News
... company said it is working on other languages.Facebook has also launched a beta version in Persian, also as a direct result of the Iran protests.“Since the Iranian election last week, people around the world have increasingly been sharing news and information on Facebook about the results and its ...
Facebook blocked in Iran
24 May '09 | Technology / News
Popular social networking site Facebook has been blocked in Iran to prevent supporters of the country’s leading opposition candidate ... . "Access to the Facebook site was prohibited several days ahead of the presidential election," the ILNA report stated. "According to certain Internet surfers, the site ...
Iran blocks access to over 5mn websites - report
19 Nov '08 | Technology / News
... networking sites as Facebook and YouTube, as well as news sites.Iran's reformist press was hit by a massive crackdown in 2000, ... which is yet to be launched and warned against interviewing or cooperating with such media.The head of Iran's state-run television recently said that 30 percent of Iranians ...
Persian potential
12 Apr '09 | Technology / Features
... looking for a stable environment to do business in," he adds. Franca says that the next six months in particular could be difficult for business in Iran. "If you look at the overall economy there is a general perception that the next six months are going to be rough: elections are coming and the ...
Fuss over HP and Redington doesn't change the bigger picture
18 Jan '09 | Technology / Comment
... its actions have been wrong.The sentiment in the US appears to be that all American companies are prohibited from selling their products to Iran — either directly or through a third party. In the recent conclusion of a case implicating a vendor that sold software to Iran via a Dubai distributor, ...
Michael Jackson: Internet Thriller; Broadcast Killer
30 Jun '09 | Technology / Comment
... big news breaks on Twitter or Facebook.Our need for information has become overwhelming and its delivery has become up to the second thanks to the internet. Even when the post-election violence in Iran broke out, news broadcasters such as CNN practically became aggregators of Facebook and Twitter ...
The Spam Report, October 2008
6 Oct '08 | Technology / Features
... by luring victims with e-mail headers such as ‘Who will win the 2008 presidential election?’ and ‘Is Obama ready to lead?’The most shocking trend however has been the rise in ... 555% rise, while the other Middle Eastern countries of Turkey, Iran and Morocco had zombie increases of 310%, 233% and 155% ...
Straight Talker
1 Mar '07 | Technology / Features
... 6% of its total gross revenues. "I do not see a good return on investment period on many of the investment opportunities around, be it in Egypt, Pakistan, Iran or Turkey," Shalaby asserted. Etisalat as the new licensee in Egypt has been granted a number of concessions in order to make its entry ...
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