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Wednesday, 26 Jul, 2006
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat - More people are using the internet in the Persian Gulf than ever before, a study commissioned by the Madar Center for Research concluded. In the Gulf Cooperation Council member states, the number of internet users increased from 513,000 in June 2003 to 1.8 million for the same period last year. This represents a 250-fold increase in two years.
In total, 5.24% of the population of GCC member states uses the internet. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates had the most u...
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Monday, 10 Jul, 2006
Kuwait, Asharq Al-Awsat- The Kuwaiti Ministry of Information (MoI) has intensified its awareness campaign through a series of raids in cooperation with the Arabian Anti-Piracy Association (AAA). The MoI recently confiscated five computers loaded with pirated software following a raid on five computer companies in Kuwait City.
The campaign is part of the Ministry’s strategy to protect the intellectual property rights in Kuwait. The MoI is launching multiple initiatives, which aim at raising p...
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Tuesday, 27 Jun, 2006
Abu Dhabi, Asharq Al-Awsat- Emirates Telecommunications Corporation- etisalat- has announced a partnership with Spacetoon Channel to launch Spacetoon Mobile service, which targets...
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Monday, 26 Jun, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Cell phone emissions excite the part of the brain cortex nearest to the phone, but it is not clear if these effects are harmful, Italian researchers reported ...
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Monday, 12 Jun, 2006
TOKYO (AFP) - Data-flashing mobile telephones may have lessened the need to wear watches, but a Japanese firm is hitting back, creating a wristwatch for the technophile on the move...
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Saturday, 3 Jun, 2006
Dubai, Asharq Al-Awsat- Etisalat today announced the availability of a new software for Internet users in the UAE to alert them against Internet Dialer scams. In order to downloa...
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Sunday, 28 May, 2006
LONDON (Reuters)- Amnesty International marked its 45th anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp out state censorship of the Internet.
The human rights press...
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Friday, 26 May, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp. may need to cut prices or pursue a deal similar to Yahoo Inc.'s and online auctioneer eBay Inc.'s partnership to gain ground in the lucra...
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Sunday, 21 May, 2006
BOULDER, Colo., AP - For millions of PC users, the privacy-snatching programs known as spyware have been nothing but a headache as they swipe personal information, slow systems to ...
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Saturday, 13 May, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. antitrust authorities on Friday rejected concerns that a search feature in the new version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser would give the ...
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