I saw this letter: “I did not see any description of the charges that will apply to individuals who call in the number. Can you explain, so I can inform future call participants accordingly.” Calls to Rondee’s basic conference calling service cost no more than any other regular long distance call your callers make from your home or office phone
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Rondee’s free conference calling service
We are pleased to announce that as of today an update to our Truphone for Android application (v3.0.2) means that we are the first to offer Wi-Fi calling for the new Nexus One device from Google. There were many questions about compatibility with the Nexus One when we announced our new Android application a couple of weeks ago so we're really proud to have found a solution so quickly. The new version of the application also introduces compatibility for the T-Mobile Pulse and is available now to download free in the Android Market. Find out more about Truphone for Android here .
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Truphone the first to offer Wi-Fi calling on Nexus One
a user recently wrote to us and said: “I have just signed up for Rondee. My question is if someone from sacramento calls the 619 # are they charge long distance?” A call from Sacramento to area code 619 is, by definition, a long-distance call.
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Calling Rondee and Long-Distance Questions
these were questions recently posted by one of our users about recurring rondee 1) If I have 15 people in my address book and have scheduled a “recurring Rondee” do all those people get conference call invitations every week. Ø They get reminders but they do not get re-invited each time! 2) In my Rondee list, I see 7 accepted invitations. Are those acceptances from this week’s invitation or last week’s
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Questions about Recurring Rondee Conference Calling
We are thrilled to announce that Truphone Local Anywhere , the one smart SIM that saves you money and keeps you local home and away, is now available . When in a Truphone country with a Truphone Local Anywhere SIM you can: Pay what locals pay for voice, text and data Add phone numbers for each Truphone country so friends there can reach you without paying for an international call (even if you are not in the country) Receive calls for free* on any of your Truphone phone numbers Pay less for international calls – from 8p/min And when you travel to one of 185 non-Truphone countries, get low cost roaming – from 25p/min in EU.
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Truphone Local Anywhere is now available!
The recent release of our new Android application, which offers VoIP calling over Wi-Fi, has generated a lot of discussion about offering VoIP calling over the 3G network. To add to this discussion, I would like to share our thoughts on this topic. Whenever we create a new Truphone application, or upgrade an existing one, we listen to your thoughts and suggestions, and add more of our own
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VoIP calling over 3G, from a Truphone perspective
I saw these questions from one of our users: “What is the maximum number of participants in a Rondee? Does voice quality degrade with large numbers of callers?” As to the first, the formal limit is 40 but you will most likely be fine up to 50
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A couple questions about Rondee Conference Calling
Things are hotting up over at CES in Las Vegas! Following our post last week about having been short listed for the Top 20 for the Mobile Apps Showdown at CES, we are delighted to discover that we are now down to the final ten! The voting closes today, but thanks to everyone who took the time to vote for their favourite VoIP application J The Apps Showdown takes place tomorrow, Saturday 8th January at 12.30pm PST at the North Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Centre, CES. Have a good weekend everyone!
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Truphone shortlisted for Top Ten Mobile Apps Showdown at CES
You guys must be aware now that PennyTel Free calls to India offer has expired, with no more free calls from pennytel. Pennytel Free calls offer was one of best free calling offer we have ever seen (considering call quality, unlimited etc etc).
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MojoCall Free International Calling From Australia, Japan, NZ, & South Africa
Every now and then, I open a book and the words leap out at me as hexagram commentary – and then ramblings like these result… Here’s Thomas Moore, in Care of the Soul , talking about faith. ‘Imagine,’ he says, ‘a trust in yourself, or another person, or in life itself, that doesn’t need to be proved or demonstrated, that is able to contain uncertainty.’ (I imagine Hexagram 61, Inner Truth, and 孚, fu, truth.) He encourages a faith that can embrace doubt rather than splitting it off. (Does that suggest a new idea about the ‘other’ of 61, line 1?) Then – ‘Also, if we don’t acknowledge the shadow side of faith, we tend to romanticize our belief and keep it in fantasy, apart from life.
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Stirring the lake
1) I added an email address after I scheduled my Rondee but there was no “send” button. How do I know my guest was invited? * There is a button in the lower right-hand corner that says “update”. You’ll want to make sure to click this button in order to have the new invitation sent out. If you are still not sure if that worked, that refresh and look at the invitation page and see if the new person you invite to the conference call appears there (in the “not replied” section).
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Rondee inquiries
Alex Blewitt posted a pair of articles on his personal blog and on the InfoQ news site, about the “death” of JSR 294. It turns out that the obituary may have been premature, with the other Alex (Buckley, spec lead of the JSR) clarifying that the JSR was tagged as “inactive” merely for process reasons within the JCP, and that Sun had not in fact abandoned it (yet)
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Reasons Not to Mourn JSR 294
Truphone is happy to announce that our new enhanced Truphone iPhone application has just gone live in the App Store! We’ve done a lot of work in response to all of your feedback, notably installing a new speakerphone function and an easier user sign up and sign in process . We also heard that many of you weren’t aware of how much you could actually do with the Truphone app, so we’ve developed a step-by-step User Guide , taking you on a tour of all of the app’s features.
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New Truphone app for iPhone, enhanced
There’s something about writing on the Yijing – it’s not like other books, that just sit there mutely and allow themselves to be translated. I think people who’ve worked through the hexagram-by-hexagram threads over the years have had similar experiences, as the line of the day just happens to show up in their experience. There was the time I was dithering over the name of Hexagram 8, and asked Yi about maybe changing it from the name I’d been using for years.
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Getting written
Hexagram 14, Great Possession, says at line 4, 匪其彭。无咎。 - Not your (or its) peng , no mistake. Peng means power and dominance – Wu Jing Nuan translates with his usual succinctness, ‘Not his to be strong’ - and the old character shows a drum with three strokes next to it, perhaps representing the sound of the drum in the air. So what is this thing not to do, be or have, and why would we imagine that to be a mistake?
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Pounding the drum
Well… maybe not ban them exactly. Yes, the title of this post is deliberately provocative and overstates my argument, for which I apologise. Nevertheless it’s true that, in many cases, activators would be better written as Declarative Services (DS) components.
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OSGi: It’s Time to Ban Bundle Activators
Somebody just asked: “Are there any financial charges for using your site for Rondee conference calls?” We do not charge for our basic service (calls to 619-276-6333) and your carrier treats these calls just like they would treat any other call you make to this San Diego area-code. Some users, however, elect to use our premium conference calling service. Our premium service (calls to the Rondee Toll-Free conference call number) costs 5 cents per user per minute.
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Rondee Premium Toll-Free option
A little while ago our iPod touch app was nominated for a British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) Award for best Mobile App/Game. The award ceremony was held last week, and we are very excited to say that we won! We were up against some strong competition (congratulations to the other nominees) so to win is very exciting and shows that turning an iPod touch into a phone with Truphone is something that really impresses people
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We won a BIMA Award!
We believe in the importance of staying in touch with friends and family, especially during the holiday season. That’s why for 12 hours this Thanksgiving (Thursday November 26th, between midday and midnight GMT), all calls to a US landline or mobile phone made using Truphone will be completely free! It is open to all new and current Truphone users, anywhere in the world, on all Truphone applications, and you don't need to sign up to anything or change your settings to make free calls. Find out more at the Truphone website , including reminders for your calendar.
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with free calls from Truphone
On the 1st and 2nd December I will be delivering a 2-day OSGi training course near Amsterdam. This will be a pretty intense couple of days with lots of hands-on practice, which should really get you up to speed with the essentials of OSGi. Best of all, it is priced very competitively at just €900 in total.
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2-Day OSGi Training near Amsterdam, 1st-2nd Dec
Much like IDT did last year with it’s Boss Card sweepstakes, STI has launched their own sweepstakes this year right in time for the important holiday sales season, it’s called ” Connect The World Sweepstakes .” The sweepstakes offers a grand prize of $1,000 Cash and 1 year of free calling. Their are also other prizes: 2 nd Prize of an LG 225 camera phone with $20 of calling time and a third place prize of a $20 phone card as well as other calling card prizes.
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STI Launches A Sweepstakes To Help Boost Sales
A user asked: “It sounds like you have a very good service here. But I am puzzled as to how you make money – what’s in it for you?” It is true that we do not charge for our core service: Rondee Free Conference Calling. However, some percentage of our users do sign-up for our premium service (Rondee Toll-Free) which is a paid service at five cents per minute per user. In addition, we will be releasing new premium features in the future such as call transcription.
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Rondee Free conference calling versus Rondee toll-free
Exciting news! Truphone has just been shortlisted as one of the finalists for a 2009 World Communication Award, to be awarded on November 25! The awards are designed to “recognise the companies and individuals responsible for the innovations, achievements and great new services that are helping to build tomorrows industry” (description from the World Communications Award website ). Truphone has been nominated in the category of ‘Best Change-Maker’, among some quite well-known companies, so we are all crossing our fingers that the judges decide that our great range of applications is the most ‘change-making’. We think they are!
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Truphone shortlisted for World Communication Award
Interesting article published in USA Today, talking about Roger Flessing, a man who recently used Truphone to make a Wi-Fi call while on an American Airlines flight to Seattle. The article raises the issue of whether Wi-Fi calls should be allowed on flights, considering Federal regulators in the USA currently prohibit in-flight cellphone use. A recent New York Times article approaches the subject from a slightly different angle, saying that although it seems many people are against the use of mobile phones on planes, when it occurs many do not notice, and thus very few complaints are recorded
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Should Wi-Fi calls be allowed during flights?
Access number based VOIP services were popular a while back but then Iowa Access number services faced legal hassles forcing most VOIP access number services to go out of business. If you remember, Our friend Pat Phelan’s allfreecalls.net and yak4ever both of which had to be shut down when they ran into legal issues with telecom service providers over termination fees. However, it seems there are more VOIP providers ready to gamble with this strategy and the good thing is they are offering free international calls to india and many other countries.
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freecall2india.com offers free international calls to india
One of the meanings of Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, is being ‘covered over’, like a young animal whose mother hides it in the undergrowth. This means you can’t see as far as you’d like to, something which people tend to find frustrating – and yet the image of the young creature in the undergrowth, to say nothing of the sheltering mountain above the stream, implies that this ignorance is somehow protective. As a child of the Enlightenment (the 18th century Western one, I mean), I find it very hard to wrap my mind round the idea of being kept in the dark for my own good
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Not Knowing and Protection
For the last month and a half I have been almost completely incommunicado, only emerging occasionally to ask strange questions on the #eclipse IRC channel. I have been working on a project that was due to be announced at JavaOne, so now JavaOne is here I can finally talk about what I’ve been doing! In late April, I was asked (through a friend of a friend ) if I could help Sun Microsystems to improve their JavaFX tooling for Eclipse. Sun has had an Eclipse plug-in for JavaFX development for a quite a while at Project Kenai , their forge site, but it only had basic editing and launching capabilities, and was nowhere near as usable as the JavaFX tooling in NetBeans
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Announcing Sun’s JavaFX Plug-in 1.2 for Eclipse
This week at EclipseCon I have had the pleasure of meeting Alex Buckley, Sun’s Java language supremo and spec lead for JSR 294 . For those of you who do not memorise JSR numbers, 294 was originally known as “superpackages”, was killed off for a while, and is now back in the form of enhancements to the Java language to support modularity. As an OSGi supporter I have no problem in principle with JSR 294, indeed it may make the use of OSGi easier, especially for beginners learning the Java language
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Using Sun’s Jigsaw May Get You Fired
On 3rd December 2008, Sun announced that JSR 277 was — to all intents and purposes — dead, and that work on modularity would proceed under the new banner of “Project Jigsaw”. Furthermore, they promised to work entirely in the open and to co-operate with the OSGi Alliance in developing Jigsaw. This sounds great for those of us in the OSGi camp, and it could be a great opportunity to take OSGi to the next level, including modularisation of the Java runtime libraries and deeper integration with the Java language itself, the javac compiler and surrounding tools.
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Hope, Fear, and Project Jigsaw
A major upgrade is being performed on Phone Card Depot this week to ensure that transactions remain safe and secure. Since we are committed to providing our customers with instant access to prepaid calling cards, it was tough to decide to take the site offline for 7 days.
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Free Calling Card while Phone Card Depot Upgrades