The joke has already been done, but I’ll repeat it for purposes of this post.  You want to govern a country halfway around the world? There’s an app for that. The prime minister of Norway is stuck in New York due to ash from a volcano in Iceland making the air lanes blocked. Well, the business of government must continue, so the prime minister is keeping in contact with his government and nation via his iPad.  This is the kind of thing that Steve Jobs and Apple must dream of at night. Just when a German company introduces a tablet with USB ports and a webcam, Norway comes along to prove the effectiveness of the iPad.