WSJ: Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to announce that consumers using their free communications services — including instant messaging and computer-to-computer voice calling — will be able to communicate directly with each other for the first time.

For Tariq al-Homayed, neither television nor the internet is the real threat to printed journalism in the Arab World. The real danger, he says, “is the matter of intellectual property.”

Badria al-Bisher takes on the war of image (Arabic). The tendency to blur images of human faces on ads and billboards in the country is just ridiculous. If you tried to find out who is responsible for this, no one will be able to tell you. The ministry of commerce, the municipality, and the religious police are the three parties involved in this case, but no one exactly knows who is directly in charge for the mission of blurring.

Arab News: A girls’ school Saudi teacher lost her mind when in a fit of rage she banged the heads of two girls together for being noisy.

According to Arab News, the Anger Hour is between 5 and 6 p.m. during Ramadhan. The advice: Stay off the streets at this hour.

According to a recent survey by GulfTalent.com, 94% of recent graduates surveyed at KFUPM would like to remain in the Kingdom or return after working abroad for a few years. It’s not just this, I think that most Saudis would like to work in, or nearby, their hometowns and cities.

Check out Sister Scorpion’s menu for breakfast in Ramadhan.