Human Rights Watch has urged Saudi Arabia to drop charges against a Saudi man, Nasir al-Subai, who was using the Internet to complain about the official red tape as he tried to get state funding for the medical treatment of his brother.
Subai has been charged under a law issued in 2007 to prevent libel and [...]
Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecommunications company, said on Tuesday that it was expecting an increased growth rate in its Middle East operations this year as compared to 2009. The company had achieved $3 billion in sales last year, and the market has shown growing signs ever since.
The network equipment maker from China grew its [...]
Qatar Telecom (QTel) announced on Wednesday that it was investing QR600 million ($165 million) in the first phase of the Fiber To Home Plan. This plan has been made with an aim of revolutionizing Internet, telephone and digital TV Services over the next three years.
QTel has decided to collaborate with ictQATAR, in an effort to [...]
According to a new report published by the International Telecommunication Union, Kuwait offers some of the cheapest prices for mobile, land line phones and broadband internet services.
In a global list published by ITU, Kuwait ranks as the fourth nation in the world to offer the cheapest prices of mobiles and internet. The report also said [...]
Intel announced a collaboration with Nokia to introduce their new MeeGo platform at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. The announcement was made earlier this month when reports of this new Linux-based software platform were released.
This software platform is the product of a merger of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin platforms. MeeGo will [...]
The world’s largest integrated wholesale carrier, Dubai India’s Tata Communications, has announced that work on its Tata Global Network (TGN) Gulf undersea cable network is on the way and is expected to be completed by July, 2011. Due to the recently increased economic activity along with an increased demand in broadband and mobile connectivity, [...]
Iran makes another attempt at fighting cultural invasion through Barbie dolls. Iran had earlier called Barbie as ‘Cultural Invasion’ and had started their own version of dolls called ‘Sara’ and ‘Dara’. To protect their national identity, the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults had launched Sara and Dara as an answer to American [...]
Google has recently launched a online portal in Arabic to target Middle East population. The forum is named ‘Egabat’ which means ‘Answers’. The portal can be used by users to ask questions and answer those. Analysts feel that the motive behind starting Egabat is to incease Arabic content in Web.
According to Associated Press,Wael Ghonim, the company’s [...]
After the Iranian’s conflict got the spot light in the twitter, the potential of the social media in the developing countries and the countries in conflict have risen higher than before. The power of sending messages to the mass and making aware of the conditions and conflict in the society is very high. It has [...]
Yahoo has officially acquired Arab’s Internet Portal, Maktoob. Sources say, it cost Yahoo $85 Million for Yahoo to take this acquisition and make its presence felt strongly in the Arab World.
Yahoo has around 20 M users in Middle East and this will get almost doubled with the addition of 16.5 strong users base from Maktoob. [...]
