megyn: they ve been around since the 1800s, the late 1800s. we ve got pictures for you to prove it. 130 years, that s right, 1313 years. megyn: what other industries are we talking about that may be in danger? it s not so much industries, it s big, iconic names. for example, sears. it is not close to bankruptcy, but they re closing 120 stores this year, and that s a huge retailer in american history. megyn: yeah. american airlines is bankrupt. bankrupt. megyn: yeah. who would have thought? how about yahoo!? just ten years ago yahoo! was king of the hill, now it s a takeover target, just up for sale. how about research in motion, the blackberry people? for the last ten years, king of the hill again, dominate everything in mobile computing and communications. they are now a takeover target. megyn: really? well, they ve had some problems with their service lately. we ve had a couple of shutdowns that have really crippled yeah, but doesn t america move fast? if you look at eu
prove it. 130 years, that s right, 1313 years. megyn: what other industries are we talking about that may be in danger? it s not so much industries, it s big, iconic names. for example, sears. it is not close to bankruptcy, but they re closing 120 stores this year, and that s a huge retailer in american history. megyn: yeah. american airlines is bankrupt. bankrupt. megyn: yeah. who would have thought? how about yahoo!? just ten years ago yahoo! was king of the hill, now it s a takeover target, just up for sale. how about research in motion, the blackberry people? for the last ten years, king of the hill again, dominate everything in mobile computing and communications. they are now a takeover target. megyn: really? well, they ve had some problems with their service lately. we ve had a couple of shutdowns that have really crippled yeah, but doesn t america move fast? if you look at europe and japan, the same names that dominate today dominated three generations ago. megyn:
getting into southern somalia. the un declared a famine in two regions of southern somalia. they say nearly 3 million people are suffering from acute malnutrition. they say that this is hitting that benchmark, that nearly a third of the people could die if they don t receive food aid fast. the worst hit zain are the children. we ve seen children here hungry, desperately in need of food aid and we ve even seen children dieing here. one father told me they just came here to find help. they didn t get what they wanted, hi buried his child sarah in the ground near us yesterday morning, zain. how difficult is it, david, because of the fighting going on in somalia as well for aid agencies to operate? reporter: el shabaab controls parts of southern somalia. they kicked out the un some time ago t. world food program and the un refugee agency is asking for assistance, asking for access to those areas. they need to give them assurance they will have the corridors to bring in aid sa
there. the new devices from google and others, you ll be able to pick up, log in, give it to somebody else, log off, it erases all your information and so forth. all of a sudden, the device becomes in disposable. when you drop or lose your computer, you won t lose everything because it s stored in the cloud. you once told me mobile phones will be much more powerful than they are in ten years. that sounds difficult to imagine? think about mobile phones a decade ago and you can see it is faster than it was ten years ago. how quickly we forget the primitive world we lived in ten years ago. the future is mobile computing. the future will carry many mobile devices and they will provide many mobile services. today your phone provides who you are, where you are, where you re going, and with that and with your permission, it s possible for software and software developers to predict where you re going to go, to suggest people you should meet, to suggest activities and so
google s executive chairman eric schmidt about the great tablet battle between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistan s military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response, it is using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al qaeda or gross incompetence and the realty is probably a bit of both, it is now furiously trying to change the subject. generals angrily denounce america for entering the country. a pakistani friend put it to me this way. it is like a person caught in bed with another man s wife who is indignant that someone entered his house. the military has also once again been able to stop the civilian government. according to pakistani sources, the speech g