DK Eyewitness Travel yesterday announced that their top 10 bestselling travel guides will now be available on the iPhone and iPod touch. You can download the travel guides from the Apple App Store and be able to use them within minutes. The areas covered are New York, London, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, Dubai, Barcelona, Cancun and Bangkok. Each travel guide application covers sights to see, places to eat and includes a currency converter, amongst other things. There are also a number of other tools which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store such as a live flight tracker and a translator. This is very handy news if you are a proud owner of an iPhone or iPod touch. If not, then it’s not so handy!
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New city for Dubai
June 23rd, 2008His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai, and vice president and prime minister of the UAE has just unveiled plans for a new super city which he is planning on building in the Dubai desert. The new city will be over 800 million square feet in size with new houses, civic buildings and tourist landmarks. The Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens will cost over US$60 billion to build and work will be starting shortly. Although I’m that when it opens, thousands of people will flock there to have a look at its decadence, is the project actually feasible? My concern is that they are building the new city in the desert and we all know that there is a serious lack of water in the desert. So, where is the water going to come from? And how environmentally friendly is a new city anyway? And how will the new city affect the old ones? There are too many unanswered questions about this project for me to get too excited about visiting it!
