Tag: IRAN

Iran has blocked Gmail before. In fact, think of any communicative or social networking site, and chances are that Iran has blocked it at some point. But yesterday, the government-run telecommunications company announced that Google's e-mail service would be blocked permanently and replaced with a state-run option. The national e-mail service will, of course, be tightly controlled and ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/02/04/twitter-undermines-hugo-chavezs-media-takeover/ '; As we learned last summer in Iran, whenever a dictatorial regime senses trouble in Totalitarianville, one of the first things it does is tighten its grip on the media. And whenever the thick walls of censorship go up, Twitter is there to slip through the cracks. Share Case in point: Venezuela, ...

If you tried to visit Twitter last night, at around 1 a.m. EST you might have seen this message in broken English: THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don't, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To.... NOW WHICH ...

In what could only be described as a dumb (if not callous) move, the design-oriented, U.K.-based furniture seller Habitat decided to come to the Iran/Twitter party with hopes of peddling its wares. With hash-tags (also known as #tags) featuring 'iran' and 'mousavi' (increasingly popular as the world tries to stay abreast of the situation in Iran), Habitat did not protest brutality or ...

What do Wimbledon, Iran, and Perez Hilton have in common? Not a whole lot other than the fact that all three are popular topics on Twitter right now. Mashable reports that Panda Security, an antivirus company, has found that scammers are posting fake tweets that include these popular topics and a link to a malware site. Sean-Paul Correll, a researcher at Panda Labs, described the scam in a blog ...

Since the first reports that Iranians had taken to Twitter to express their outrage over the dubious reelection of incumbent leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Mir Hossein Mousavi on Monday, Iranian officials have reportedly cracked down on online media. Tuesday, the Iranian government banned international reporters from leaving their headquarters and filming the ongoing protests, claiming to have ...

Twitter, Facebook, live-blogging: they're no longer just social media networks. Instead, they're becoming legitimate sources of news information where ordinary people can not only participate in the reportage of news stories, but make headlines as well. On June 13th, incumbent Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeated Mir Hossein Mousavi in a landslide victory characterized voting ...

Last month, the so called "blogfather" of Iran, Hossein Derakhshan was arrested during a visit to Tehran and accused of spying for Israel. Nobel Peace Prize winner and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi is now calling for his release. She told a news conference in London, "I very much hope that he will be released soon, because prison is not the place for journalists and for bloggers." ...

The Iranian government just grows more desperate to prove that it's tough and more afraid of failure with every day that passes. Need proof? Just look at the photo above. Anything seem a little off? Now look at the picture below. See the difference? Initial photos of the Iranian missile test showed only three of the four missile launching. The fourth was still on its launch vehicle, and ...

We've known for quite some time that China has been mandating filtered Internet access for its citizens, recently going so far as to claim massive hacking attacks in order to rationalize even more strict controls. Now Iran is starting to do the same, blocking access to Google and Gmail from major ISPs. Not long after news of the mass filtering hit the wire, Iran reversed the block, saying it ...

So what do you do if you're an oil rich country that lives under the constant threat of sanctions, invasion, or mass nuggie? Why, you make a first person shooter about your prime rival in the world, of course. 'Rescue the Nuke Scientist' puts you in the shoes of the Iranian security forces as they try to rescue a husband and wife team of nuclear engineers who were kidnapped on a pilgrimage to ...