Khaleeji robots, good monsters, and a plea to get rich

Do Arabic-speaking androids dream of electric kharouf? (Pic courtesy of WAM)

- In The National:

. The site is booming, and doing extra well in Abu Dhabi, which is served by a depressingly low number of targeted, city-specific  websites.

Attention smart entrepreneurs

: start an awesome portal for Abu Dhabi, covering restaurants, gig guides, cost of living, gossip, hyperlocal news, etc. Seriously, you will print money.

- Also in The National -

. Props to Egypt's

for scoring what I imagine is a pretty good deal.

- Gulf News has two great stories today, and I mean that with none of the sarcasm that often accompanies mentions of the UAE's biggest newspaper. Etisalat is employing workers for its Ajman call centre

, a situation an interior ministry official tells the paper is "an illegal practice."

- And more importantly - in fact, of an importance that cannot be understated -

FLYING. ARABIC-SPEAKING. HUMANOID. ROBOT

-

, says 360 East's Ahmad Humeid. I've yet to play with one - I think I have become

persona non grata

to Nokia's people here, and haven't yet met someone who owns one. But it certainly seems like an industrial strength piece of hardware.

- Saudi Arabian iPhone owners using Etisalat's Saudi subsidiary, Mobily,

, turning the iPhone into a mobile broadband modem. As we have reported before,

, and it is cool to see an Etisalat business taking the space so seriously. We can only hope is seeps over into the UAE.