Tehran Times Some 97 percent of people with higher education are internet users in Iran, according to statistics released by Information Technology Organization, Mehr reported on Tuesday. Moreover, 99 percent of people with higher education use mobiles and 93.4 percent of people use computers, the report added. The internet penetration rate ...

Sputnik- Iranian authorities have devised a way to provide Internet access to hard-to-reach areas of the country with the help of high-altitude balloons. Iranian Space Research Center Head Hassan Haddadpour declared that his organization has finished developing a high-altitude balloon capable ofcarrying the communication equipment necessary forproviding ...

The previous Iranian month (ended Feb. 19) saw entertainment move to the top of the chart, with the country's showcase cinema festival, called Fajr, leading the charge. Romance also moved to the top along with less emotional topics like national identification card causing people to check out online. In first place and peaking in search terms ...

Nearly 22 million Iranians are on social media application Telegram, 15 million of whom are active users, said the secretary of Irans Council of Cyberspace. Abolhassan Firouzabadi added that Iranians are using 112 social networks, each of which has over 10,000 users, Eghtesad News reported. Most of these networks are entertainment-oriented, which ...

Telegram Mobile Messenger application has had a meteoric rise in Iran over the past 12 months, so much so that authorities in charge of telecommunications became concerned about the sheer reach of the social media app. Reports of government shutdowns and the software being hijacked by terrorist groups like the self-styled Islamic State or Daesh ...

Up to 60 percent of the Internet content in Iran is provided by local databases, the secretary of the Steering Council of Local Search Engines said at the launch of Parsijoo [Persian Search], an Iranian search engine. Alireza Yari added, The Iranians mostly search the Internet for news, ads, games and social networks.Deputy Communications Minister ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 25 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A meeting in Tehran on ways of promoting healthy administrative strategies and countering corruption and the message the Supreme Leader sent to the meeting, which was ...

TEHRAN Only a handful of countries rival Iran for having the slowest Internet speeds. Simple online tasks can take hours, infuriating some who see the sluggishness as emblematic of a broader paralysis. The way they block bandwidth here is like a virtual dam, said Reza Mohammady, a Web designer. But now Iran is promising to change. The work has ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) As France is said to have blocked a possible nuclear deal between Iran and six major world powers in Geneva talks, French Foreign Minister has come under fire in Iran for sabotaging the talks, with many Iranian Internet users flooding his Facebookpage with critical comments. The official Facebook page of Laurent Fabius saw a large ...