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Yahoo Mail is now available in Arabic. Users can now sign up and use the popular webmail client entirely in Arabic, something they haven't been able to do so far.Apart from the Arabic translation, Yahoo is also debuting an interesting option for the new Yahoo Mail, the entire interface can be mirrored if you... |
14 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Helal Linux 3.0 is an Ubuntu-based operating system with support for Arabic languages. It has both Unity 3D and the GNOME Shell 3.2 interface, as well as the GNOME Classic one. Hanny Sabbagh, the main developer behind the Helal Linux project, contacted us a couple of days ago in regard to his brand-new operating sys... |
3 November 2011
22:01 GMT |
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Microsoft Afkar is an online destination for users in the Middle East, and not only, to find a range of projects designed to streamline their use of Arabic. Some Softpedia readers might remember that over a year ago I told them about the Maren project from the Microsoft Innovation Lab in Cairo (CMIC). According to ... |
10 June 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Continuing their efforts to meet the needs of users worldwide, Google search results have recently been optimized by the integration of Islamic prayer times. Muslims are in the habit of praying 5 times a day depending on the position of the sun in the sky, therefore these times change throughout a year in accordance ... |
29 April 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Several studies show that because of the complexity of Arabic orthography, the right hemisphere is not involved in decoding the text in the first stages of learning to read.The Arabic script is graphically complex so it is very difficult to learn to read Arabic, compared to English, studies carried out by the Departm... |
31 August 2010
10:47 GMT |
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A tool designed to create Arabic script from Roman alphabet keyboards was downloaded in excess of 150,000 times in approximately eight months after release. The offering is set up to compensate for the lack of access to an Arabic keyboard or lack of familiarity with one, according to Microsoft, and will simplify comm... |
8 March 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Ovi Mail has just reached a new version, namely Ovi Mail 2.0, and the developing team announced the addition of a new feature with the release, namely the merger of Ovi Mail contacts and Ovi Contacts into a single list. According to them, users are now able to view, edit, delete or create contacts either from Ovi Co... |
4 March 2010
10:35 GMT |
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Yahoo is taking the first step in the integration of its services with those of Arab portal Maktoob which it acquired last summer. Yahoo Search is now live on Maktoob.com and the entire site got a Yahoo (read 'purple') make-over. There is also a dedicated Yahoo Search page that is more spartan than th... |
28 January 2010
06:46 GMT |
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It would appear that the brains of Arabic speakers do not process Literary Arabic as a mother tongue, but rather as a second language. The conclusion was drawn by experts at the University of Haifa Department of Learning Disabilities, who were led by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim. He is a scientist at the UH Edmond J. Safra Bra... |
4 November 2009
05:53 GMT |
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The Arab territory has long been ignored on the Internet, but that situation is about to change pretty soon. After Yahoo acquired Arabic portal Maktoob, Google has recently announced that it will be offering its News service in four Arab countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. With the... |
7 September 2009
03:17 GMT |
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A new solution developed and released by the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center is designed to streamline the use of Arabic with Windows-based computers. Microsoft Maren version 1.0 went live on the Microsoft Download Center on June 30, 2009 and is now up for grabs for users interested in converting Romanized Arabic/F... |
1 July 2009
07:33 GMT |
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Halle Berry gave birth to a baby girl last weekend, and almost at once, rumors started flying around as to the name she was going to pick for the little one. One early possibility was said to be "Clara Stella Berry-Aubry", but that turned out to be a false lead. The beautiful actress has named her daughter Nahla Arie... |
19 March 2008
07:18 GMT |
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The search experience has just recorded a big change for the good from Google, that paid heed to those advising it not to neglect the Arabic languages. To the rest of the English-speaking online community, it's almost inconceivable to adjust to this, but actually a fairly large portion of the world's popula... |
27 February 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Google Earth received one more improvement, but this time it wasn't so quiet as the latest release. The downloadable application that allows the users to view maps and other satellite imagery straight from the desktop is now available in Arabic, helping this segment of users access the Google product. Last week,... |
15 May 2007
05:54 GMT |
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