All the stories tagged with syria

Syria’s Internet Has Now Been Restored After 19+ Hours Of Downtime

05/08/2013, Yesterday, we reported on Syria’s Internet experiencing some serious outages according to Google data as well as other global Internet companies. It looks as though things may be getting back to some kind of normalcy in regards to the country’s Internet [...]

Syria And The Internet Divorces

05/07/2013, Syria is not exactly the shining example of being a stable country at this point in time, not to mention the fact that the Syrian electronic army recently hacked 11 Twitter accounts belonging to the Guardian. Having said that, it [...]

Syrian rebels are holding machine guns on the right and cellphones on the left

08/20/2012, In war-torn Syria, rebels are “MGexting”, that is, holding a machine gun in the right hand while the left hand is busy on a cellphone. Apparently Syrian rebels are relying heavily on SMS for their operations. As seen above, 20-year [...]

Syria bans iPhone use

12/04/2011, Apple might be working really hard to halt the sales of some Samsung Galaxy-branded devices in various countries around the world, but their efforts have not exactly paid off plenty of dividends. In fact, here is something rather ironic – [...]

Syria shuts off the Internet

06/03/2011, They say that we become better because we learn from our past mistakes, but when you take a look at what is happening throughout the Middle East lately, there has been political unrest against the ruling elite by the common [...]