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Are CIA and Google teaming up?

30 Jul 2010: WASHINGTON: Hey, all you folks who like to plaster all the details of your daily lives on YouTube, did you know that your videos could soon be scanned and evaluated for terror threats? Yes, thanks to a new project funded by the US intelligence community,

IAEA meeting to discuss Israel nuclear

08 Jun 2010: The United Nations nuclear agency is expected to discuss Israel's nuclear capabilities at its board of governors meeting in the Austrian capital, Vienna. It is the first time since 1991 that Israel's nuclear issue is included in the five-day meeting of

Non-latin web addresses go live

06 May 2010: Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are

Wikileaks temporarily offline due to lack of funds

29 Jan 2010: The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds. The site, which has been a major irritant to governments and big businesses since it launched in 2007, says it cannot keep going without more public donations.

Hormuud Telecom Extends Microwave Backbone Through

27 Jan 2010: Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. a leading provider of wireless solutions that enable the evolution of next-generation fixed and mobile broadband networks, today announced that Hormuud Telecom Somalia, Inc., placed an order for 100 of its high capacity

Airports with full body scan: virtual strip search

31 Dec 2009: The wide use of full-body scanning at airports now being discussed at the White House has set off hot criticism from privacy advocates who call it a "virtual strip search," according to media reports Thursday. Ever since the Christmas Day terror attack

Twitter in licensing talks with Google and Microsoft

09 Oct 2009: Microblogging service Twitter is in advanced talks with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp about licensing its data feed to the companies' search engines, a Web blog associated with the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Twitter's discussions with

ICANN parts with US government, gets broader oversight

01 Oct 2009: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is breaking free of the US Department of Commerce. The many-times-amended Memorandum of Understanding between the two groups was replaced today with a new Affirmation of Commitments that

US Government Sets Up Online 'App Store'

17 Sep 2009: Today, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government. I'll be discussing this in a speech at the NASA Ames

Google’s search box has grown in size

12 Sep 2009: Google just got bigger. Not the company, but the search box on its home page, that is. The Mountain View, California, company has been loathe to tamper with the clean and uncluttered look of its home page but the Internet giant this week increased the

IAEA: Iran has slowed nuclear work

29 Aug 2009: Iran has slowed its expansion of uranium enrichment and met some demands for transparency but allegations it researched how to build atom bombs look credible and Tehran must address them, the UN atomic watchdog has said. In a report released on Friday,

Microsoft asks court to delay ban on MS-Word

20 Aug 2009: Microsoft Corp. is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to allow it to keep selling Word software as it fights an unfavorable patent ruling. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found Microsoft infringed on a

Google caffeine: faster search engine

12 Aug 2009: Web developers have been invited by Google engineers to test the new search engine and give their feedback. The front end of the engine looks no different. It is the back end technology which Google developers hope will noticeably index new content faster

DP World Djibouti Rejects Ethiopian Request for Dedicated Berth

11 Aug 2009: Disagreement is brewing between officials in the marine sector in Ethiopia and Djibouti over the use of the Port of Djibouti, and whether or not Ethiopia’s flagship carrier should continue to pay security fees, reliable sources disclosed to Fortune. The

Hezbollah chief becomes Facebook star

10 Aug 2009: Love him or loathe him, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has earned himself celebrity status -- at least on Facebook, where a good 20 forums are dedicated to the Lebanese Shiite leader. Many are favorable to Nasrallah but others are extremely hostile to

Mohammed ‘Goes Viral’ on Facebook

06 Aug 2009: DUBAI — If politicians can measure their popularity on the internet, then the Ruler of Dubai has a lot
to celebrate. Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, is now among the most popular
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The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the

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A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with

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In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque. Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an

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