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HP printers find favour in Iran
News HP printers, like blue jeans in the old Soviet Russia, are apparently a hot item among consumers in Iran. According to a report in Monday's Boston Globe, a third-party distributor in Dubai has been selling HP printers in Iran since 1997.
[December 30, 2008, 13:35]
Nokia Siemens denies Iran web snoop
Blog To clarify: Nokia Siemens Networks has provided lawful intercept capability solely for the monitoring of local voice calls in Iran," wrote Roome. In most countries around the world, including all EU member states and the U.S.telecommunications...
[June 22, 2009, 17:32]
Twitter Goes Down Just After Iran Election Ceremony
Blog A coincidence - very possibly. But it is odd that someone would choose to launch a DDOS attack at Twitter just after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was voted in as president. Twitter was very useful to opponents of the president during the disputed election...
[August 6, 2009, 17:37]
Experts: Don't clamp down on social media
News The use of Twitter to spread information about the unrest in Iran can teach businesses valuable lessons about the flow of information in their organisations, according to leading lights of the IT security world.
[June 19, 2009, 17:14]
Hollywood shuts down video-on-demand site
News Hollywood dodged a second bullet in a burgeoning battle over online film distribution Thursday, quickly shutting down an Iran-based Web site that had sold access to copyrighted films over the Internet for $1 (70 pence) apiece.
[June 7, 2002, 8:44]
Monster.com under fire for CV alterations
News Job hunters at Monster.com who happened to go to school in Syria or Iran may be in for an unpleasant surprise on Thursday. In the case of Iran, for instance, US corporations can be fined up to $500,000 (about £320,000) for importing "goods or...
[April 24, 2003, 7:22]
Monster.com thinks again on CV purge
News Iran, Syria, Sudan, Myanmar, Cuba, Libya and North Korea are on the list. A Monster spokesman said, however, that if the company learned that a customer had expressed a desire to work in Iran or any other sanctioned country, that CV could be removed.
[April 28, 2003, 8:18]
Iranian blogger given 14 years
News An Iranian blogger has been jailed for 14 years -- for criticising Iran's arrest of other online journal keepers. Arash Sigarchi was convicted this week for charges including espionage and insulting Iran's leaders, after the 28-year-old criticised...
[February 24, 2005, 14:25]
HP darknet 'not for dissidents'
Blog One of the co-developers of HP's browser-based darknet told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the encrypted file-sharing technology should not be used by protesters to mask communications in places such as Iran or China.
[July 28, 2009, 16:52]
US Government 'lobbied EC' over Microsoft fine
Talkback Now the lunatic in Iran wants nukes and the EU is quite content to let them have them. To protect their respective national business interests in Iran. Give me a break. Some of you computer geeks have been sniffing the silicon too much.
[September 29, 2006, 14:44]
World's oldest animated movie
Blog But we can do even better than that, thanks to recent news from Iran's remarkable Burnt City, one of the most enigmatic Bronze Age sites in the world. Located in southeastern Iran, it's a city that dates back to more than 5000 years ago, and...
[March 16, 2008, 15:16]
Is eBay the future of Web politics?
News Hossein Derakhshan, also known as "Hoder", or the "Iranian blogger", discussed the rise of Web logs in his native country of Iran and the level of trust that people put in such sites as opposed to the government or media.
[December 13, 2004, 10:45]
News Schmooze: Tech industry gets re-stated
News The site was shut down in Asia, but reappeared as a company based in Iran, of all places, although the servers had to be based in the Netherlands because, well, they didn't have any in Iran. There was a lot of money around, so you could cook the...
[July 12, 2002, 11:11]
Hollywood Net horror gets sequel
News A video-on-demand site that was shut down earlier this year with the help of Hollywood has seemingly sprouted a new head in Iran, underscoring vexing problems of Internet copyright enforcement for movie studios.
[June 6, 2002, 11:32]
Persian/Hijri Shamsi Calendar
Downloads The Jalali calendar is officially used in Iran, and its surrounding nations such as Afghanistan, the republics of Central Asia, and Kurds. The Jalali calendar was revised and corrected by the great Persian Poet, Mathematical, and astronomer Omar...
[January 14, 2006, 7:00]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback India is just biding it's time until they feel they can help destroy the USA along with their best buddies, Russia and Iran. Screw India. I don't trust any Indians. They're liars.
[January 28, 2006, 10:01]
Polcotton Integrates Global Operations With Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition
White Papers Polcotton, a Warsaw, Poland-based cotton trading company, is a global operation - purchasing cotton from Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, and operating storage facilities in Latvia and Iran.
[December 14, 2006, 0:00]
Maybe there's an alternative reason
Talkback Maybe that's what's happening in IRAN. I remember stories that the French had sold communications equipment, FAX machines and printers I believe to Saddam's Iraqi military before the first World Oil war.
[January 6, 2009, 1:41]
Three undersea cables damaged five times
Blog The FALCON cable near Bandar Abbas in Iran was damaged in January. Iran has lost internet connectivity for one router serving Tehran, according to the Internet Traffic Report site. Web monitoring firm Renesys reported on Sunday that Iran had not...
[February 6, 2008, 11:41]
Studios sue defunct $1 movie site
News Film88 itself, whose operations were allegedly based at least partly out of Iran, has already been shut down and replaced with a message board and a note from the company's owners. Iran was chosen as a base partly because the country did not...
[July 11, 2002, 7:38]
