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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, has launched thousands of telcoms projects in the Provinces of Khorasan Razavi, Kerman, Bushehr and Isfahan following a video conference.
Previously, the Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi green lit 28 key electronic and telecommunication projects and now the President wants to promote the national data network to its fullest incorporating satellite modules, wireless communication systems, fiber optic equipment, Omnidirectional HF antennas and pioneering cellular network technologies.

The Syrian government has approved the introduction of a third mobile phone operator.
The country will monitor the transition via a three-phase process including initial rehabilitation, investment and technical rehabilitation and the financial auction.
The governing cabinet also granted an initial approval on transforming the contracts of the two current operators in Syria with a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) system into licenses after they pay their ongoing financial obligations to public treasury.

After its users failed to meet Bahrain's registration deadline, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority disconnected over 400,000 unregistered mobile phone lines.
The TRA - in association with the nation's mobile operators, Batelco, Viva and Zain - had warned users that they must register personal details by midnight on 31st August. If they failed to do so, their service would be cut off.
An official at the Kingdom's watchdog was quoted as saying: "As per the warning of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) and with the due consent from Batelco, Zain and Viva, there will be no extension for the registration of the prepaid mobile lines."

Recent reports show that search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing are finding new ways to bring about more accurate results by integrating a software providing results based on the verbs in queries. This ideology goes all the way back to when Bill Gates predicted that the future of search will be verbs, at a private dinner which was considered one of the smartest things that he ever said according to Esther Dyson.

Dyson provides her theory about his prediction by saying, “To me, the meaning was clear: when people search, they aren't just looking for nouns or information; they are looking for action. They want to book a flight, reserve a table, buy a product, cure a hangover, take a class, fix a leak, resolve an argument, or occasionally find a person, for which Facebook is very handy. They mostly want to find something in order to do something”.

The application of such a theory would involve search engines inlcuding Google to enhance their understanding of the human language which might as well have been impossible a couple of years ago but Artificial Intelligence is doing anything but not showing progress about it.
The concept of keywords will be regenerated with search engines figuring out the meaning of online communication as opposed to today’s keywords, combinations and linking patterns to pages. It is more than just an easy tweaking in the search engine software; in fact it’s the re-study of the whole automated linguistic analysis.

The 31st August has been confirmed by Indian authorities as the deadline for RIM to give access to data from BlackBerry services in the country or risk a ban.

The Indian Department of Telecommunications contacted operators insisting that they must give access to messages from BlackBerry Messenger and emails by the end of August.

An interior security official was quoted as saying: "The onus is on service providers to ensure that they have some sort of interception mechanism in place before the deadline ends. It is binding upon them and the DoT (Department of Telecommunications), which is the nodal agency, will ensure that it is followed strictly in the interest of national security."