It's been a busy couple of days in the news for all things Beepy:

- The Arab League has its eyes on a digital prize, planning to snatch up the .arab top-level domain when the internet addressing system is liberalised later this year. And speaking of that, here is a longer look at what that liberalisation means for all of us. 

- A massively multiplayer onling role-playing game studio has partnered with the Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC), publishers of The National (and therefore, Beep Beep.) The first game to be produced by the partnership will be based on Majid, the cartoon character who is something like  an Emirati Peter Pan.

Gazillion, the company ADMC has joined up with, have a ten-year exclusive deal to produce MMORPG's based on characters from the Marvel Comics universe, The National reported, so Majid could be joining forces with Spiderman and Wolverine sooner than you might have expected.

- The business model of media companies becoming mobile operators could also be closer than you think, as Keach Hagey, The National's media reporter....reports...Also in the world of mobile, Iraqi's are enjoying the region's most competitive mobile market, while the UAE slides down the rankings, Syria, Lebanon and Libya stagnate, and Qatar remains the least competitive market in the region (which is kind of like my home city, Adelaide, being the driest city in the driest continent....)

- 40 Indian IT companies will make it over for Gitex this year, five more than last year, Gulf News reports. Gitex put out a press release yesterday saying IT spending in the UAE will hit $4.7 billion by 2013, up from $3.1 billion last year. These kind of predictions are close to meaningless, but still worth mentioning.

(Pic: The Japanese politician Seiji Ohsaka posts messages to Twitter on his two mobile phones from his office in Tokyo. by Michael Caronna/Reuters)