tag: Egypt

Facebook: growing fast in the middle east and Africa, with plenty more opportunity (infographic)

December 7, 2012 3:21 PM John Koetsier

Facebook might have almost fully penetrated core markets such as the U.S. and Europe, two regions in which the world's largest social network's growth is slowing. But there's still plenty of room to grow in the MENA regions: the Middle East and North Africa countries.

Snatchly, the Pinterest for porn, signs up 15K users in less than 2 months

March 30, 2012 10:00 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Porn today, gone tomorrow: Egypt bans porn websites

March 28, 2012 11:43 AM Meghan Kelly

Meghan Kelly

Looks like the Internet’s oldest profession is putting some clothes on in Egypt. Courts in the country have ruled that porn websites are illegal.

The decision is based on a similar 2009 ruling against online smut that has not yet …

Google confirms Internet users in Iran are blocked (updated)

February 13, 2012 1:16 PM Meghan Kelly

Meghan Kelly

Updated with charts from Google.

Google confirmed today that its users in Iran are being blocked by a new regulation against access to secure browsing, or HTTPS websites. The block has been in action since February 10.

In celebration of …

Apps for occupiers make organizing, communicating and sharing easier

November 19, 2011 9:30 AM Chikodi Chima

Chikodi Chima

The smartphone has been at the center of the Occupy Wall Street movement, just as it has played a pivotal role in the Arab Spring. And while the cameras in phones have recorded some of the movement’s most searing images, …

Internet shut down in Syria amid mass protests

June 3, 2011 11:34 AM Sean Ludwig

When a Middle Eastern country is in the thick of an uprising, it’s almost expected that challenged governments will shut shut down the Internet to hinder protesters from communicating.

Syria on Friday became the latest country to follow the trend: …

Egypt restores Internet access amid continued Mubarak protests

February 2, 2011 7:47 AM Devindra Hardawar

The Egyptian government has restored Internet service to the country after an unprecedented nationwide Internet shutdown that lasted almost a week, the Internet security firm Renesys confirms.

The communications shutdown, which began on January 27, was meant to make it …

Can we really trust the cloud?

January 31, 2011 1:10 PM Matthew Lynley

Software architects like to shorthand the spaghetti of interconnected networks that make up the Internet as “the cloud” — an amorphous entity, somewhere distant, that you don’t need to fuss over.

But events around the world have brought cloud advocates …

China is blocking coverage of Egypt protests on Twitter-like services

January 30, 2011 12:27 AM Dean Takahashi

China appears to be trying to limit public knowledge of the unrest in Egypt. Over the weekend, Chinese Twitter-like services run by Sina, Tencent and Sohu blocked the word “Egypt” from being used in microblogging messages passed around by users.…

Egypt's internet shutdown sparks a communications battle

January 28, 2011 5:41 PM Dean Takahashi

Freedom of expression and internet access go hand in hand. By shutting down the internet, the Egyptian government has sparked a wider battle about communications, technology, and free speech that goes beyond issues of concern among the country’s protesters.

It’s …