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Yahoo Divides Jerusalem

Yahoo uses iPhone weather application to make a political statement.
A few weeks ago, many iPhone usersnoticed that something had changed on their pre-installed weather application. The data for Jerusalem, as supplied by Yahoo, simply stopped updating. But this was no bug in the system. A new search for Jerusalem now gives users a choice between West Jerusalem in Israel and East Jerusalem located in the West Bank.
It was determined that Yahoo takes its data from the Weather Channel's own fixed location weather stations. Even for Palestinian cities in the West Bank, the nearest weather station is located in Jerusalem. Yahoo, however, has independently created the new East Jerusalem location.

Source : Honest Reporting

Published 10.06.2010

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