Friday, January 29, 2010

Digital Disruption

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John Domokos and Haroon Siddique, Guardian, How young Muslims are fighting extremist propaganda, 29 Jan 2010 "The communities secretary...

Mohammed Atif Siddique

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Guardian, Mohammed Atif Siddique terror conviction set to be quashed, 29 Jan 2010 , "He was convicted of possessing and collecting item...

Ali Gomaa on phonetones

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IslamOnline, Setting Qur'anic Verses as Ringtones: Permissible?, 28 Jan 2010 "Dr. Ali Jum`ah, the current grand mufti of Egypt, st...

iPad

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الآي-باد يدعم قراءة اللغة العربية, iphoneislam.com Article discussing the iPad, suggesting that the product will read Arabic, but the keyboa...

'Communications Capabilities Directorate'

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Chris Williams, The Register, Home Office spawns new unit to expand internet surveillance, 28 Jan 2010 , "The Home Office has created a...

Twitter against censorship

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John Gapper, FT, Twitter works on method to foil censors, 28 Jan 2010 "Twitter, the internet social network, is developing technology ...

COMEX

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globalarabnetwork.com, Digital society in Oman - OITE, ICT experts gear up for COMEX 2010, 28 Jan 2010 "With the vision to build a di...

Digerati Indonesia

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Vishnu Mahmud,CNET, Digerati Indonesia, Documenting the rise of Digital Indonesia,28 Jan 2010 "America is once again back in the limeli...

Q&A "goes viral"

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insidevandy.com, Vanderbilt 'Muslims in the Military' event goes viral, 28 Jan 2010 "“Common Ground: Being Muslim in the Milita...

Regulating 'the fatwa industry'

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Rachelle Kliger, Jerusalem Post, Saudis to Regulate ‘Chaotic Fatwas’,28 Jan 2010 "“If the Saudi authorities regulate the fatwa industr...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

The power of hip-hop

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Independent, Listen up, Auschwitz survivor is hip-hop MC, 28 Jan 2010 , "Esther Bejarano says music helped to keep her alive as a Jewis...

iMuslims listed

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The American Library Journal has iMuslims in 7th place in the "bestsellers in religion" list

Social networking research

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Dalia Yusuf, IslamOnline, Muslim-Christian Interactions on Facebook, Easing or Increasing Tensions? "Studying the Social Network Sites...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

iMuslims Review

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There's a review by Robert Rozehnal [Lehigh University] of iMuslims in the Winter 2010 edition of Middle East Journal [subscriber on...

Yahoo Arabic search

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Gaith Saqer, arabcrunch.com, Yahoo! Launches Arabic Search via Maktoob "Yahoo Arabic search is run on Yahoo!’s own search engine not M...

Egypt

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meedan.net, Egypt celebrates ‘Police Day,’ activist say stop targeting bloggers "Human rights advocates are calling Monday’s observati...

Yahoo big in Indonesia

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arabcrunch.com, Opera: Yahoo! More Popular Than Google in Indonesia . "According to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report, In Southeas...

'Top of the blogs'

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kippreport.com, ArabCrunch Ranked in the Top 25 Blogs Worldwide, First in the Arab World, 24 Jan 2010

iWait

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kippreport.com, Mideast awaits Apple’s iTablet – or perhaps iPad, or iSlate, 26 Jan 2010 "The Apple tablet is expected to have a 10in ...

ICT in ME

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globalarabnetwork.com, ICT market: the Middle East has the best growth potential in 2010, 24 Jan 2010 "Research covering the internati...