Global by Design

I wanted to highlight a great catch made by commenter Ben to my earlier post on United’s in-flight navigation system, shown here: If you look closely at the lower right corner of the screen, the Arabic link is not correctly displayed. I certainly wasn’t looking that closely, but Ben was. As he noted, the characters [...]

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The customized Google home page known as iGoogle has been localized into a bunch of additional languages, bringing the grand total to 42. Here are the most recently added languages: – Arabic – Bulgarian – Catalian – Croatian – Icelandic – Indonesian – Latvian – Lithuanian – Malay – Serbian – Slovak – Slovenian – [...]

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So I gave in to my inner geek and purchased an iPhone. One of the things I first noticed (and love) about the Web browser is the .com button on the keypad, shown here. Of course, this little shortcut isn’t so handy if I want to visit a .org or .edu Web site. It’s also [...]

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Is just about ready for publication. You can see which companies are included in this year’s report here. This has been a particularly exciting report to write because there are some very clear trends developing. There are also a few new entrants to the Top 10 list. Here’s who made the Top 10 list last [...]

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According to Madar Research, there were more than 26 million Arabic-speaking Internet users at the end of 2005, an increase of 50% over 2004. Although overall Internet penetration in the Arab world is still less than 10% (the UAE leads, at 8.5% penetration, followed by Qatar and Bahrain), more multinationals are now taking notice. Still, [...]

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