Apple & the "iPad"

"A recent Wall Street Journal article proclaimed that during his medical leave, CEO Steve Jobs has been working on that mid-sized mobile device, bigger than an iPhone but smaller than a MacBook.

And just this week, BusinessWeek reported that Apple is developing a "media pad" that would let users watch videos on a larger screen than an iPod Touch or Amazon Kindle, but on a device that's more portable than notebooks and lacks a keyboard." CNN

Mobile/GSM Providers replacing banks

I had this thought 4 or 5 years ago, thinking about an easy way that Egyptians can trust for making non-cash transactions. Where they can transfer their cash via mobile phone lines, something that they really trust and makes a lot of sense when it comes to small amount of money.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/04/15/mckenzie.kenya.mobile.money.cnn
This video describes how successful the model is in Kenya.
Vodafone Egypt started a similar, however a lot smaller, service two years ago that i don't see as successful.
Orascom Telecom should start doing so right a way in their operations in North Korea, where they started their operations their late last year. I remember reading something about them, starting a bank there too. Maybe this is what Sawiris has in mind:)

Nefertiti competes with the Mona Lisa!!!

"CT scan reveals hidden face under Nefertiti bust"

That's just the beginning!

Israel's new ultra-nationalist foreign minister has said it is not bound by a US-sponsored 2007 agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.

"The Annapolis conference, it has no validity," Avigdor Lieberman said. BBC

Business is tough!

"What we’ve worked for, for 25 years, can be gone in 25 days, basically. That’s how fast this is moving."
BOB VISTINAR, G.M. worker, on the company’s efforts to reconcile its restructuring with union contracts