Tag archive: Morocco

Racking up over one million views on YouTube in approximately two weeks, photographer Kien Lam created a time-lapse video (embedded below) comprised of 6,237 photographs documenting his year long trip around the world. Lam quit his job as a securities finance analyst at Blackrock during August 2010 and decided to spend 2011 visiting 17 different countries over a period of 343 days. To start the journey, Lam packed up his Panasonic Lumix GF-1… Read More

Pakistan yesterday lifted the ban on YouTube that had existed in the country since Friday, and which had caused a global blackout of the Google-owned video-sharing site for a couple of hours following an error.   The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority told ISPsthey no longer had to restrict access to the site. The ban had been put in place, it was said, because the site showed material offensive to Islam, which some believed to be a… Read More

A Turkish court has blocked access to Google's popular video sharing Web site YouTube because the site offers clips allegedly insulting the country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Turkish visitors attempting to visit YouTube are instead being greeted with a notice in English and Turkish saying access to the site has been banned by the order of an Ankara court issued January 17. Back in March, another Turkish court blocked… Read More

Three men have been jailed in Britain for inciting terrorist murder on the Internet.   Younis Tsouli, 23, Tariq Al-Daour, 21, and Wasemm Mughal were all found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in London. Moroccan-born Tsouli, a computer expert who worked with Al-Queda, received 10 years. Al-Daour, a British citizen born in the Arab Emirates, was given six-and-a-half years, while Mughal, who has a degree in chemistry from Leicester University,… Read More

Ubisoft yesterday announced their highly anticipated WWII squadron-based flight action game Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII had been released and was due to appear in stores this week. The title will be available for the Xbox, Xbox 360 and PC. In Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII, said Ubisoft, players will take part in some of the most famous air battles of World War II as they fly up to 38 WWII aircraft in both single player… Read More

The FBI and Microsoft announced today that Moroccan and Turkish authorities have arrested the alleged authors of the Zotob and Mytob worms, variants of which are currently high-profile online threats to Windows operating systems. Farid Essebar, ann 18 year-old Moroccan national born in Russia operating under the alias "Diabl0" was arrested Morocco, while Turkish authorities arrested Atilla Ekici, age 21, who operated under… Read More

LG's F7100 model is equipped with more upgraded functions compared to the initial Mecca indicator phone launched last year. Thus, LG Electronics is pushing to further strengthen itsregion-friendly marketing. LG Electronics has introduced to the market the Qiblah phone (model:LG-F7100) which comes complete with embedded compass, direction indication and prayer time alarm (Azan feature), usable in 500cities worldwide. LG Electronics has… Read More