Al-Monitor - Google took action against Iranian government accounts for coordinated activity, the tech giant announced Wednesday. The move follows similar actions by Facebook and coincides with Twitter rolling out labels for select government accounts on its platform. Google announced it terminated 16 YouTube accounts in April that were allegedly ...

Tasnim As part of measures to stem the spread of coronavirus in the country, the Iranian government released an Android app named AC19 intended to help people self-diagnose rather than going to a hospital, but that app was booted from Google's Play Store recently, a report said. The app "tries to reach a clinical decision by asking a few medical ...

MNA Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Mohammad Javad Jahromi revealed the designing of an indigenized operating system (OS) for mobile phones by students of Sharif University of Technology. This operating system is installed on the domestically-manufactured handsets. A group of students studying at Sharif University of ...

Press TV - Historian and journalist Brecht Jonkers says the unprecedented US pressure campaign against Iran and Google's targeting of Iranian alternative media without prior notice are "intrinsically linked" and politically motivated. Jonkers was asked by Press TV on Friday about possible grounds for Google to blockPress TV and Hispan TV's access ...

IRNA Senior official at Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) described Saturday the Google search engine and technology company's move to shut You Tube channels of PressTV and Hispan TV as 'media dictatorship.' Google has not only disabled the You Tube accounts of several Iranian networks but also shut some of the users' and experts' accounts,...

MNA Google has blocked the access of the Tehran-based news channels Press TV and Hispan TV to their official accounts on the technology company's platforms, including YouTube and Gmail, without prior notice. The English-language channel Press TV and the Spanish-language channel Hispan TV have been denied access to their accounts, without prior ...

Press TV - The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has condemned a coordinated move to block its channels on social media platforms, describing it as a "clear example of censorship" aimed at preventing the dissemination of truth and alternative viewpoints online. In a Saturday statement, the IRIB World Service said "stifling independent ...

Reuters - Alphabet Incs (GOOGL.O) Google said on Thursday it had identified and terminated 39 YouTube channels linked to state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. Google has also removed 39 YouTube channels and six blogs on Blogger and 13 Google+ accounts. "Our investigations on these topics are ongoing and we will continue to share our ...

IFP - Giant search engine Google changed its logo on August 7, 2018, as a tribute to renowned Iranian polymath Avicenna.Iranians take pride in Avicenna, who was a medicine and philosophy heavyweight. Currently, more than 400 titles of books authored by the eminent scientific figure are available, of which 240 titles are accessible via Google....

Al Monitor | Holly Dagres: Imagine trying to hail an Uber on a street corneronly for the Uber app on your iPhone to suddenly stop working. Thats what happened to some Iranians whenApplepulledSnapp, a popular local ride-hailing app, from itsApp Storeon Aug. 24. The US technology company purged over a dozen popular Iranian apps, including Alopeyk, an ...

Tasnim Google has added more countries, including Iran to the Google Play Developer Console, a report said. The countries of Iran, China, Cuba, Macau, Myanmar, and Sudan, which could not previously access the Google Play Store, or could not access paid services, will soon be able to use the Google Play Store, XDA-Developers reported on Saturday....

According to Fars News Agency, following relief of sanctions imposed by software companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo who had remove Irans name from their list of countries they provide services, they have added name and areal code number of Iran in their official sites. Recently, because of extra security measure, using services of major ...

[caption id="attachment_153582" align="alignright" width="183"] File photo shows the Google logo during a press announcement at Google headquarters in New York.[/caption] Iran could allow Internet giants such as Google to operate in the Islamic republic if they respect its cultural rules, Fars news agency said Sunday quoting a senior official. We ...

[caption id="attachment_151305" align="alignright" width="176"] Iranian search engine Yooz[/caption] TEHRAN, Feb. 15 (MNA) Iranian search engine Yooz capable of searching through one billion Persian websites has been launched today with support of the Ministry of Communications and IT. Addressed at www.yooz.ir, the Iranian search engine ...

By Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian authorities have restored access to Gmail a week after blocking Google's popular email service. The Islamic Republic blocked Gmail last week in response to video clips posted on YouTube of an anti-Islam film that set off deadly protests across the Muslim world. YouTube is owned by Google. The ...

Iran on Saturday slammed Google's move to remove the name of Persian Gulf from its maps section, calling it a mischievous act that will have no result except losing its users' trust in the data the company provides. The body of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula has been a point of contention between Iran and the Gulf nation states....

TEHRAN, Dec. 08 (MNA) Thousands of Iranians and social network users have joined the movement We Love Fighting Israel first launched in support for the Leaders address to a meeting of participants of International Congress on Takfirism. The Leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khamenei had told in his address to the meeting that our people love ...

A recent Microsoft feedback platform shows there's huge demand for the company's services in Iran. But despitesanctions lifting on technology products being provided to the country, the company is still not providing basic features to Iranians. Users have voted over30,000 times for the suggestion, Please give the people of Iran to access the Microsoft ...

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Turkish government has moved to impose strict controls on the Internet by monitoring the activities of online users and blocking certain keywords, a parliamentary source said on Thursday. A bill has been submitted to parliament in the latest in a string of government moves testing freedom of expression in the aspiring EU member ...