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Egypt Grabs First Arabic Domain Name

in News on November 16, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

On the first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened registration for non-Latin script domains, Egypt says it has seized the opportunity to register the first all-Arabic domain name.

Facebook Denies Responsibility for Morocco's Lousy Sense of Humor

in Social on February 29, 2008 at 10:11 am PT

If Fouad Mourtada spends the next three years in prison for creating a fake profile of a Moroccan prince on Facebook, it won’t have been the social-networking site that put him there. Facebook insists it didn’t help the Moroccan government identify the 26-year-old engineer as the author of crown prince Moulay Rachid’s fake Facebook page. [...]

Facebook Denies Responsibility for Morocco’s Lousy Sense of Humor

in Social on February 29, 2008 at 10:11 am PT

If Fouad Mourtada spends the next three years in prison for creating a fake profile of a Moroccan prince on Facebook, it won’t have been the social-networking site that put him there. Facebook insists it didn’t help the Moroccan government identify the 26-year-old engineer as the author of crown prince Moulay Rachid’s fake Facebook page. [...]