Archive for May, 2006

Fake News? what’s new ?

Monday, May 29th, 2006

I was reading a story in the Independent about an investigation that is taking place in USA by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) about having news stations air “fake news reports” about the success of war in Iraq, that was tailored by Bush adminstration, and corporates that have businesses in Iraq.
I am not sure why […]

Google Translates Arabic

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Google introduced the ability to translate from and to Arabic/English. I first heard about it last year, from my friend Basem, and it was until I saw it, and tested it, that I knew it is a good translation tool.
To test it, I used a text from BBC (Arabic and English News) about a recent […]

Syndroms

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

It seems that as Nader got cured from his Draft-but-not-publish syndrome, I caught it up. I discovered that my latest post was more than a month ago, and what’s worse, it was about IE7 :) Now, since then I wrote many drafts for posts, about several topics: Google Arabic translation, how excited I am about […]