Hyperinflation

Last week Zimbabwe's central bank unveiled a 100 billion dollar banknote to cope with inflation running at 2.2m%. On Sunday July 27th the bank changed tack and announced it would be lopping off a string of zeroes on replacement notes, in what passes for economic reform in stricken Zimbabwe.

Here is five highest denomination national banknotes since 1900: http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11819514&fsrc=nw

Market for smartphone OSes

Global Market

Sambian	60%
Linux	12%
Microsoft	11%
RIM	11%
Apple	4%

USA Market

RIM	43%
Microsoft	25%
Apple	20%
Sambian	5%
Linux	3%

Nokia to buy Symbian and open-source OS code could mean competition for Google's Android platform, which Google executives have said could hit the market sometime during the second half of the year.