Fear in the Dhabi twitterverse, EU regulators toughen up, and Nokia upbeat despite lack of T-Pain auto-tune app

- Do Abu Dhabi's twitterers fear public outing?

in the capital: "'The participating team is growing very fast...' said one of the local volunteers,

requesting anonymity

....'Twestival is a clear indication that media consumers are in fact the users and makers of media and this seems to be the shape of things to come in future,' said another volunteer,

responding through a tweet

." Dhabbalicious twitterers, stand proud! Fear not of man!

- Oracle's huge $7.5 billion takeover of Sun

, the open-source database project that Sun kind of owns. "The Commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world's leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world's leading open-source database company." Yet again, the EU's regulatory authorities prove to be the toughest in the world (think

and

.) "This isn't the first time European regulators have proved to be tougher on antitrust enforcement than the U.S,"

.

- The president of Nauru, a small island in the Pacific,

. To be honest, getting your first mobile network is pretty awesome, and in my opinion, political leaders should declare more impromptu public holidays or weeks of games. The

, and we will never forget him for it.

- The FT

last week (where the company

.) In interviews with the paper, Nokia execs hold down the line that they are the biggest and most important smart phone maker in the market, forget about this iPhone / BlackBerry / Android nonsense. "This is a scale game and Nokia has scale," its chief executive says, while the manager of the N-Series line up talked some WWF-style smack. "It's not about becoming number one because we already are number one....It is about becoming undisputed number one."

- But regardless of their scale or number one status, you don't see

into his new auto-tune app for the Nokia N97.

- a harbinger of a million annoying auto-tune internet memes to come...

- And speaking of habingers of doom, millions of data-guzzling

. "It's been a challenging year for us," said John Donovan, the chief technology officer of AT&T. "Overnight we're seeing a radical shift in how people are using their phones...There's just no parallel for the demand."