2 posts and columns on Persian Gulf

Diplomacy 2.0 With Cellphone Games

in News on March 13, 2009 at 8:56 am PT

For diplomacy’s sake, the State Department is banking on the fact that it’s not just Americans who are obsessed with gaming and cellphones. The Bureau of International Information Programs at the DOS teamed up with MetroStar Systems, a Reston, Va.-based software developer, to create X-Life, a mobile game for Middle Easterners aimed at teaching them about English language and American history and culture.

Architeuthis TCP/IP Strikes Again!

in News on February 6, 2008 at 9:28 am PT

Undersea Internet cable damage is hardly unusual, but four five cables severed in one week? Seems a bit odd, doesn’t it? Last Wednesday, two cables in the Mediterranean were cut, disrupting Internet traffic from Egypt to India. On Friday, a third cable was cut, this one in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of the [...]