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That was fast. From Engadget: It took two long years for India to (allegedly) tap BlackBerry traffic, but Saudi Arabia may not have to wait nearly as long; the Wall Street Journal reports that RIM has all but agreed to set up a local server in the country. While we’ve no details yet on what the deal Continue reading Blackberry services is back So it wasn’t just the “Blackberry Messenger” that will be banned in Saudi Arabia. According to this the CITC has expressed concerns about the BIS for a year and asked the local carriers (STC, Mobily and Zain) to “look into” the concerns and provide an alternative for 3 months! The three months end next Friday August Continue reading Just like that, Blackberry services banned in Saudi Arabia by CITC Looks like the CITC/MCIT has decided to ban the Blackberry messenger, the only feature used by a lot of people in Saudi Arabia.
Here’s the piece on Reuters: Saudi telcos ordered to freeze Blackberry Messenger and Saudi Telecom confirms Blackberry Messenger ban-TV. There you go, STC confirmed it as well. Saudi media fails again in covering it, Continue reading Blackberry Messenger is banned in Saudi Arabia (STC Confirms) A major step forward, Saudi Arabia re-enforces it’s ban on smoking in airports by forcing a 200SR (about $50) fine on anyone smoking in a Saudi airport! It’s about time, so many people are already smoking in the airports including airport employees! From Arab News: Although the Kingdom passed anti-smoking regulations in August 2003, the habit is growing Continue reading Smokefree Saudi Arabia: Smoking banned at Saudi airports! Update: according to AlArabiya a fire in Mobily’s headquarters caused the network to be down. Started at about 4 pm Saudi time. Right now 3G data is not working in most parts of Riyadh. We hope that Mobily fix Continue reading Mobily network is down again – Update: Fire in Mobily HQ caused it This is tragic. From Arab News: DAMMAM: A private van driver faces charges of criminal negligence following the death on Sunday of a five-year-old girl who was left unattended for five hours in the vehicle in the full glare of the sun outside the International Indian School in Dammam’s Al-Raka district. The kindergartener, Fida Haris, started attending Continue reading 5 year old child died stranded in a van in Dammam Published on yesterday’s Arab News: JEDDAH: Seven commercials about the harms of smoking are being screened on television as part of an anti-smoking campaign that has recently been launched targeting Saudi youth. Flyers are also being distributed on the harms of smoking and lectures are being delivered on the subject as part of the campaign. “The idea came to Continue reading Anti-smoking campaign targets Saudi youth Via Zsafwan: The Ministry of Health decided to fully implement the smoking ban in the Kingdom’s restaurants starting Wednesday, a ministry official said. Just what are we doing here in Saudi Arabia? WE SIGNED AN ANTI SMOKING PACT IN 2005! Nothing changed: Major coffee shop Dunkin Donuts allow smoking (except one branch, but people are smoking in Continue reading Jordan to ban smoking in restaurants – What are we doing? Sha-heiah “شهية” or “appetite” is a name of a Saudi company for food (ltd). I really wanted to link to the official website of Sha-heiah “شهية” but the only thing I found was this email: dunkindonuts.ksa@gmail.com. The link to the company’s site titled: “شركة شهية المحدودة للأطعمة” actually takes you Dunkin’ Donuts’ official website. Again with Continue reading Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robins prepare for IPO in Saudi Arabia It’s raining heavily in Riyadh at the moment and everyone twitter has agreed to use the following twitter hashtag #RiyadhRain. Since the old media has failed covering this. ArabCrunch is the first to report about this. Keep an eye on RiyadhRain for updates as well. I also made @RiyadhRain and curating some of the tweets as best as Continue reading Riyadh Rain news on Twitter with #RiyadhRain (Update) |
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