saudi arabia
Mobile

Saudi Arabian Men Now Get Text Alerts When Their Wives Leave The Country

In Saudi Arabia, if a woman leaves the country, her husband or male “guardian” will receive a text message to let him know that, even if she’s travelling with him, ho boy! His woman is on the loose.

2 October 2012

Geek Out

IKEA Photoshops Women Out Of Saudi Arabia Catalogue

IKEA prints 208 million catalogues in 43 countries every year. They are all the same, except in Saudi Arabia, where women have been Photoshopped out because their photos “show too much skin,” according to the Islamic Kingdom’s laws. And it’s not the only thing that gets altered.

24 August 2012

News

Hacker Group Claims To Have Shut Down World’s Largest Oil Company

The New York Times reports that unknown computer hackers, who call themselves “Cutting Sword of Justice”, have claimed responsibility for spreading a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco, which is owned by the Saudi Arabian government.

18 January 2012

Online

Israeli Hackers Kill Saudi And UAE Stock Markets

(Internet) war in the Middle East continues, with today’s Israeli strike against the stock exchanges of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Both financial hubs were down for hours, and those responsible say they will “move to the next level”.

22 September 2011

Science

Aussie Finds Strange Ruins In Saudi Arabia Via Google Earth

Chalk another one up for Google Earth seeing everything we can’t. Australian armchair archaeologist David Kennedy simply fired up the app and managed to rediscover the ancient ruins of structures that rival the Nazca lines in southern Peru.

3 August 2011

Geek Out

The First Image Of The World’s New Tallest Building

This is the first image of what’s going to become the tallest building in the world by the end of the decade: The one kilometre! Kingdom Tower. It will dwarf the 828m Burj Khalifa. Take a look.

27 May 2011

Computing

Netcomm Launches 42Mbps HSPA+ Router… In Saudi Arabia

Telstra’s NextG network is capable of the theoretical 42Mbps download speed, but you can only use it with one of the company’s USB mobile broadband modem. Hopefully Telstra is keeping an eye on Netcomm;’s new mobile data router, which can support the 42Mbps HSPA+, and has just launched in Saudi Arabia.

10 April 2011

Geek Out

Saudi Arabia To Be Permanent Member Of Mile-High Club

Saudi Arabia has just given the OK to start construction on the Kingdom Tower, the world’s first mile-high skyscraper. The tower will be built in the coastal city of Jeddah and is set to cost a whopping cost $US30 billion.

4 February 2011

Software

Archaeologists Find 1082 Ancient Tombs In Google Earth

While you were using Google Earth to zoom in on your house, these archaeologists used it to find places to dig. And it paid off with 1977 potential archaeological sites, including 1082 ancient stone tombs.

5 January 2011

Mobile

Has MobileMe Been Blocked In Saudi Arabia?

There are reports around the internet today that MobileMe—Apple’s paid-for membership to heaps of Mac/iOS4 services—has been blocked in Saudi Arabia. As you know, the Saudi Arabian government has had a hot temper in the last year when it comes to technology, specifically products (like BlackBerry smartphones) and services which are too secure, and keep their data on foreign servers.

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