Facebook gains control of Facebook.ir
Facebook continues to expand their presence worldwide. The social networking giant has just won rights to Facebook.ir domain name.
Facebook.ir was previously owned by an individual named Majid Karimian who claimed to be using the domain to sell books.
Interestingly, it was a UN body that helped Facebook gaining control of the [...]

Facebook Persian edition launched
Web’s most popular social networking service Facebook has now launched Persian language support on the service.
Facebook said in a blog post:
Today we’re making the entire site available in a beta version of Persian, so Persian speakers inside of Iran and around the world can begin using it in their native language.
The timing [...]

Google now support Persian on Google Translate
US based search engine giant Google has announced that they are now supporting Persian language on their translation service.
Google Translate now enables web users to translate text from English to Persian and vice versa.
This service is available for free and works on regular text and even web pages.
The [...]

Twitter is back online with increased capacity
Twitter was down for a while earlier today. It was a planned maintenance period which was earlier delayed as they wanted to enable Iranian users to communicate with each other.
Apparently, the US State Department had advised Twitter to stay online the previous day (the scheduled time for the [...]

Facebook is apparently blocked in Iran due to polls
US based social networking giant Facebook has revealed that they have been blocked in Iran.
The company said in a statement on the new developments: “We are disappointed to learn of reports that users in Iran may not have access to Facebook.”
Market sources say that Facebook was [...]