Currency
When you’re sending money to fix the roof on your house in Bali, use this app to easily convert dollars into rupiah. Or choose more than 100 currencies to convert.
iTimeZone – World Clocks Calculator
Set the city you’re in and choose a city across the world, and this app will display the time in both places. A nifty feature is that you can look up past and future times as well – so you won’t be late to your meeting at the Guangzhou factory to create a prototype for your new product.
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Skype for iPhone
Free calls to your friends with Skype wherever they are from Zimbabwe to Brussels – ridiculously cheap rates if you use Skype to call a landline or mobile phone. Also send low-cost SMS messages.
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QTranslator – the ultimate translator !
For those of us who flip from English to Spanish to French to Mandarin, or try to, this is a great app, at least for basic translations.
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FlightTrack Pro – Live Flight Status Tracker by Mobiata
Of course you use Tripit, and fly frequently, and need to check flight status. Track flights by flight # or route, or even shake to track a random flight if you’re really, really bored waiting in LAX or LHR.
World Mobile News
Keep up to date with what’s happening in our interconnected world through BBC news including sections for Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East, South Asia.
CHINA DAILY（中国日报）
Read Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat” and you won’t have to ask why you need to keep up with the news from the Middle Kingdom.
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree [Revised Edition]: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
Read more from Thomas Friedman, author of “The World is Flat”, and understand globalization.
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