Russia rulezzz! Congratulations to all fans and non-fans!
The Finnish commentator in this video sounds really cool - maybe because I know no words in Finnish. It is especially cool after the last fifth goal 
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When I came to Dubai in the beginning of 2006, there was only one telecommunication company here – Etisalat. They banned a lot of web sites on the Internet. It was enough to get banned even if a web site had a banner with a naked girl. They banned not only xxx sites, but also everything that’s not consistent with the religion.
The ban policy also had a business reason – Skype was banned too, until they released the later version of the software that had no way to be banned.
Somewhere by the end of 2006 they launched a new telecommunication company – du. After the launch it happened that we moved to the area where du was the only alternative to get Internet from. Everything was super, no bans, all just fine.
I mean everything worked fine until a few day ago when I got SMS and then e-mail from du customer support that ”dear friend, we think about your moral sentiments so we go ahead and ban all the sites you don’t want to visit”. Fy fan.
UAE Community Blog has a small test about what is banned and what is not. Playboy is banned, of course. Article about Fitna is banned on English Wikipedia – but it is available in Swedish, Russian and many other languages. Even Arabic, if I understand it right.
du has also banned some blogs I used to read – despite the fact these blogs have no ”bad” content, just probably “bad” domain name like fuckingbusiness.com. I get this nice page instead. Vivat Google Reader.
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(c) Picture from ArabianBusiness.com.
The list of the most influential Arabs in the World has been published.
It is not very clear what they actually mean by word “influence”. In the original article they say it is a kind of ability to affect thoughts and behavior of other people. Or “if one man dyed his hair green, how many others would follow? The more that did, the more powerful that man is.”
It doesn’t explain much about how to measure the influence, especially remembering how some magazines used to award the best software solutions or best small companies in the region – kind of example from here. But I hope this list is compiled by serious people with serious arguments.
The leading position in the list is kept by Prince Al-Walid bin Talal for the past four years . The World’s Most Powerful Arabs list is divided by countries and industries. There are only seven persons from Technology, and three of them are from UAE:
Mohammed Omran – the chairman of the leading mobile operator Etisalat that was the only mobile operator in the country until 2007.
Ibrahim Sharaf – the first person from UAE who will take the journey into the space by 2009.
Osman Sultan – CEO of the second mobile operator du in UAE.
Despite the fact that members of the royal family are not normally included into the list, this year you will find HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum in it. As they say, it’s only thanks to his business achievements – being CEO of Emirates Airlines, he led the company to become the most profitable airline in the world with the ambition to become also the largest airline company. As part of company growth, on the past Paris Air Show Emirates Airline made a purchase of 93 airplanes for about US$23 billion (via ArabianBusiness.com)
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