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Kuwait Bans DSLR Cameras Use For Non-Journalists
DaveNJ1987 writes “Kuwait has banned the use of Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras in public places for anyone who is not a journalist. The ban, which was passed by the unanimous agreement of...
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Kuwait Not Banning DSLR Cameras After All
Voulnet writes “The Kuwait Times, the newspaper that started the false rumor of Kuwait banning DSLR cameras, has posted an update saying that after investigation, it turned out they didn’t verify their...
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NSFW: Hey, Assange’s Celeb Supporters, What Time’s Your Protest Outside...
I think we can all agree that the one thing the world needs right now is another column about Julian Assange. I’m sitting in a hotel bar about an hour north of London, and spread out on the table in...
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Blogger Sued By Restaurant For Bad Review
Voulnet writes “A recently opened Benihana branch in Kuwait sued 248am.com, a well known Kuwaiti blog, for posting a bad restaurant review about its food, asking for the blog to be shut and more than...
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ONI Report Details Western Complicity in Mideast Online Tyranny
Today, the OpenNet Inititative has released a report on the roles Western tech companies have played in enabling repressive Arabic regimes to filter and control the use of the Web by their citizens....
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ONI Report Details Western Complicity in Mideast Online Tyranny
Today, the OpenNet Inititative has released a report on the roles Western tech companies have played in enabling repressive Arabic regimes to filter and control the use of the Web by their citizens....
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LivingSocial Expands Daily Deals Empire; Buys Ensogo, GoNabit And DealKeren
Looks like LivingSocial is employing the same strategy for international expansion as its rival Groupon: by acquiring local daily deal sites to serve as a foundation for discount distribution on a...
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An Open Letter to LivingSocial: Learn from Groupon’s International Mistakes
Another day, another unfortunate piece of news out of Groupon’s international operations. Today it’s that SoSata, Groupon’s Indian site, got hacked. In a letter to users, Groupon encouraged them to...
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Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing “Miracle”
bhagwad writes “When a statue in Mumbai began to miraculously drip tears, huge crowds began to gather, pray, and collect the water in vials. Sanal Edamaruku has exposed such bogus miracles before, and...
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How Mobile is Being Used in the Middle East
Outside the United States and Western Europe and parts of Asia, mobile advertisers are just beginning to find their legs. Smartphone sales are popping internationally, and that is beginning to create...
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