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Recently, reports in the press stated that experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had drafted a secret paper, saying that Iran had the necessary expertise required to build a functional atomic bomb. Within a few hours after the report surfaced, officials from the United Nations nuclear watchdog pu... |
23 September 2009
03:51 GMT |
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The team behind one of Softpedia’s favorite freeware apps, Dropbox, has updated its blog with a rather interesting story on how people can use the cross-platform software to their advantage. As some of you may know, Dropbox is an online backup and sharing solution for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux that comes in b... |
7 August 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Almost at the same time as Google added support for the Persian language in its Google Translate service, Facebook also launched a version of its site in Persian. The social networking website was already working on Persian language support, but decided to step up its efforts and release it sooner than previously pla... |
19 June 2009
04:25 GMT |
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With the Iran protests still going and social media platforms getting a lot of attention in the process Google has decided to add the Persian (Farsi) language to its Google Translate service. The company rushed the Persian language support because of the unfolding events in Iran so there may still be problems with th... |
19 June 2009
03:40 GMT |
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As reported yesterday, Twitter delayed a scheduled maintenance downtime to keep its service available to those protesters in Iran who have used the micro-blogging site to stay informed about the aftermath of the elections held this Friday. The maintenance was undertaken as planned earlier today and in fact took about... |
17 June 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Twitter has been buzzing with messages regarding the recent Iranian elections and the topic is still among the most highly discussed today. In fact, the subject is of such importance that Twitter rescheduled a planned downtime that was to take place for maintenance purposes. The 90-minute maintenance was scheduled fo... |
16 June 2009
03:26 GMT |
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According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traces of undeclared and illegal man-made uranium have been found in a small teaching reactor in Damascus, Syria. This is the second time when off-the-books uranium is found in the Middle Eastern nation, with previous traces identifi... |
8 June 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Iran announced on Tuesday that it had sent its first home-made satellite into orbit, aboard a delivery system that was also developed in the Middle-Eastern nation. The move was not well-received by leaders of the Western world, who already had tense relations with the Tehran regime, on account of the country's n... |
4 February 2009
08:51 GMT |
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After their recent Kavoshgar-2 rocket mission proved to be a success, as reported by the state media, the Iranian space experts plan for the following similar missions, Kavoshgar-3 and Kavoshgar-4, to carry animals into space prior to switching to manned missions. What kind of animals they are thinking about has not ... |
5 December 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The major concern of the Western countries related to the Iranian nuclear intentions were further fueled by today's launch of a "Kavosh 2" rocket, as reported by the national media. This is the latest in a series of evidence associated to the degree of advancement in their nuclear technology. Although the Irania... |
26 November 2008
09:43 GMT |
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The 14th of March will come hammering down a huge decision from the Iranian Government, that to shut the Internet down as a whole. Being ranked fourth in the top of press freedom infringing, after Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, Iran won't have any type of online covering of the elections day. The governm... |
4 March 2008
15:16 GMT |
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Exactly a week ago, the state-run Iranian television published a brief news report which stated that Iran had officially opened its first space center and launched its first rocket into space. Not much has been said about the rocket, except that it carried a payload consisting of some scientific instruments to measur... |
11 February 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Iran had a field day on Monday after reporting that it had successfully launched into space its first rocket, thus becoming one of the 11 countries in the world to have capabilities of launching satellites into space. The launch hasn't been confirmed yet by the international community, but could be one of those ... |
4 February 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Not long ago, I have talked about the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center (IHPCRC) having built an AMD Opteron based supercomputer. Having a high performance computer may not look like a criminal act, but, when applied to this specific country, it conflicts with U.S. antiterrorism trade restrictions th... |
12 December 2007
04:15 GMT |
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An Iranian computer research center in Tehran claims to have built a supercomputer out of AMD's Opteron processors. This is alleged to be the Middle Eastern country's most powerful supercomputer. Many people would rush to congratulate the Iranians for the new technological achievement but there is a big "bu... |
7 December 2007
04:36 GMT |
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The move by Yahoo and Microsoft comes after the U.S. administration has increased economic pressure on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, which began about two weeks ago.A Yahoo spokeswoman told the Register, a British web site covering the online world that "Yahoo! continually reviews its business operations to ... |
9 November 2007
11:11 GMT |
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After countries such as Thailand or Turkey, Iran also restricted the access to Google, but it didn't provide any reason for this action. However, the country's officials said for AFP that they will deny the access to several resources because they were flagged as offensive. In case you didn't know, Ira... |
17 September 2007
09:24 GMT |
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Now, prayers will really have some space to pray. Just one problem with this masterpiece of hand-made craftwork: who's gonna bring it out and beat it? The huge carpet is a magnificent testimony of devotion and richness. Iranian authorities have unveiled the world's largest hand-woven rug at Tehran's op... |
3 August 2007
03:35 GMT |
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The most famous mummies are the ancient Egyptian ones, which are the result of human manipulation. But nature, too, can deliver mummies in some special conditions like extreme cold, dryness, and a naturally occurring mix of chemicals that can impede the decomposition processes. Low temperatures have preserved some In... |
4 July 2007
02:51 GMT |
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With all the war based video games out there, whether they are third-person/first-person shooters or real-time-strategy games, gamers totally forget that there are other ideologies out there, saying more than just killing nazies and commies. An article on The Taliya news shows how an RTS countering the "West's ... |
4 May 2007
18:36 GMT |
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Mobile phones are being manufactured in quite a few countries, with most phone companies opening factories in quite a few locations. Sony Ericsson, for example, has announced some time ago that it will begin to produce low-cost color screen and music phones in India, while Nokia has recently announced that it has cho... |
7 April 2007
03:06 GMT |
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In October last year, I was telling you about a movie that was bound to change the face of cinematography as we knew it. Now, in the light of recent events, I guess it's safe to say that '300', the recreation of the epic battle of the Spartans and the Persians, will probably change more things than tho... |
14 March 2007
06:50 GMT |
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