Akamai Pulls Al-Jazeera Web Support
News Akamai Technologies, which provided Web server services to the Arabic news network, has abruptly cancelled its contract after working only briefly with the organisation. Both the Arabic and English versions of the Web site were vandalised last...
[April 4, 2003, 15:49]
The Week In Review: Fooling The Tech Industry
News Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news agency, was foiled in by sustained denial-of-service attacks its initial attempt to put English-language news online, but has now come back with a reinforced site and will distribute text-message headlines to 130...
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
Google Goes To The Top Of The Language Class
News Google scored the highest in Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English translation tests conducted by the US National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST). On a scale from zero to one, the company's software scored 0.5137 on the Arabic tests...
[August 23, 2005, 9:20]
Al-Jazeera Hacker Awaits Sentence
News The Arabic and English news service, based in Doha, Qatar, found itself the focus of controversy during the war in Iraq for its coverage of the conflict. By then, Racine had already contacted the FBI and provided the agency with evidence of what he...
[June 13, 2003, 9:18]
Fraudsters Search Google For Credit-card Numbers
News Ernst's information is now posted to an Arabic bulletin board with more than a hundred other people's financial records, at the beck and call of a simple search on Google. The sites seemed to be spread out over the globe: One had a Russian domain...
[August 4, 2004, 8:45]
FBI Taps ISPs In Hunt For Attackers
News Authorities have also seized a rental car containing Arabic-language flight-training manuals at the city's Logan International Airport, where two of the hijacked planes originated, the papers reported.
[September 13, 2001, 9:57]
Arab News Site Suffers Outages
News Arabic news site Al-Jazeera and its English-language counterpart were only intermittently available for the second straight day due to an onslaught of network traffic, said Internet monitoring service Keynote Systems.
[March 26, 2003, 8:16]
Microsoft Puts Out Three Patches
News Along with the three vulnerabilities, Microsoft re-released another patch that had caused computers that run Windows in Hebrew, Arabic and Thai to crash. The H.323 flaw was found by the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, the...
[January 14, 2004, 7:35]
Al-Jazeera Struggles Against Continued Attacks
News The news network's Arabic and English Web sites remained inaccessible for the third day in a row, according to Internet performance measurement service Keynote Systems. According to Keynote Systems, both the Arabic site and the new English-language...
[March 28, 2003, 8:14]
