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Updated: Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]

Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The latest crime “in the name of social customs and religious rules.”

A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.

The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]

Apple iRack

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

You gotta watch this:

Microsoft reading your mind!

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

“Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says.

The company is not happy with evaluating human response while they interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers, so, they wants to read the data straight from your brain as you [...]

iPhone or Sex?

Monday, October 15th, 2007

In the last two months I received countless spam emails, ads and invitations to join iPhone groups such as those at Facebook, all of which entice me to buy the new Apple mobile called, iPhone.

Until couple of weeks ago I didn’t even think of it, when a friend of mine showed me his new iPhone [...]

Israel Goes on the Virtual Offensive

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

By Gregory Levey

The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals.

For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio.

The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel’s new MySpace page, however, says she isn’t sure if the link to the [...]

Who’s your online enemy?

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Web-savvy criminals have turned Israel into the world’s highest ranking source of malicious Internet activity per user, security experts have told The Jerusalem Post.

From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to [...]

Microsoft Web 2.0 and Refugees

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

I feel sick to my stomach when I see a multi-billion giant like Microsoft using “children refugees” as a cover up to market their latest web 2.0 businesses called live.com! While doing my search for my previous story, I came across a press release by UNHCR which said: “Microsoft launches “Click for Cause” initiative to [...]

Will the human race ever populate another planet?

Monday, January 8th, 2007

This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today - Love to Lead - where:

Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives [...]

US Electromagnetic Weapons: To Invade a Person’s Body Without Their Consent

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

It was July 2005 when first published some information about the deployment of a new weapon in Iraq called “Active Denial System weapon.” The weapon was deployed in Iraq for testing free-fresh-flesh-samples (to make “Fried Chicken”). This weapon fires a 95GHz microwave beam at “rioters” to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five [...]