India Calling Cards

We had blogged about the size zero facebook announcement and the fact that this would be useful in penetrating Indian markets which have a high mobile userbase. This is exactly what has happened with this latest announcement by Reliance Communications. RCom has announced that Facebook Zero shall be available to all its mobile subscribers for free! That means there will be no data charges charged to he users to access this site and go through ones facebook updates.

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RCom Gets You Facebook Access For Free!

Let’s start this piece by saying it is meant to be constructive and that people who live in glass houses should never throw stones. Unlike many writers, I am also the CEO of a media company which means I get involved in lots of product launches myself – sometimes they are from my company TMC and sometimes they are with partners or even vendors in the industry who use our services to help them launch. Over the years, I have failed in some of my launches – and I feel what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and in an effort to utilize my collective experience to help others, I figured I would write about some of the areas where Google and Microsoft have tried to change telecom and failed

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Google and Microsoft Telecom Failures: Lessons Learned

When it comes to enabling technology, Google’s new mantra is its better to be needed than liked I first met the company called Global IP Sound around 2002 at TMC’s ITEXPO and Pulvermedia’s VON expos. What differentiated the company tome at first was the company’s ability to power wireless VoIP calls over PDAs – specifically Compaq iPAQs via a low-bandwidth codec. As you can imagine, at the time, the codec needed to not only be low-bandwidth due to the slow wireless connections but also had to be super-optimized because processors in PDAs at the time were not powerful.

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Google Buys GIPS – Here’s Why

Many phone cards impose hidden fees that cause minutes to disappear so, in many cases, users will get less minutes than they expect when the card is used. In most cases these fees are disclosed in the fine print but many consumers do not pay attention to the fine print when making a purchase. We have listed five common hidden fees below.

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5 Common Phone Card Rip-Offs

3G Auction is now 32 days old and 176 rounds of bidding has been completed. Everyone is now contemplating the end of auction, however, there seems to be no end in sight to the frenzied bidding for third-generation (3G) mobile airwaves even as the Government’s kitty from the auction has now swelled to whooping 65000 crore rupees. 3G Auction Update at end of Day 32 (176 Rounds) Bids for pan-India 3G mobile licenses has reached Rs161.64bn (US$3.54bn), more than double the base price of Rs35bn.

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Telecom Tuesday: 3G Auction crosses 65000 crore

Featuring push-to-talk capabilities, the Motorola i890 is the newest in the lineup of Motorola ’s iDEN phones. Though being an entry-level device, it appeals to Sprint Nextel’s budget-conscious customers with its slick design, solid construction and some useful features. Measuring 3.9″ high by 1.9″ wide by 0.66″ deep and weighing 4.2 ounces, the i890 is a slim flip phone

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Motorola i890 – A Well-built Push-to-Talk Nextel Phone

Sparked by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices, global shipments of cell phone motion sensors, such as accelerometers, compasses, gyroscopes and pressure sensors, are expected to see a fivefold increase by 2014, a recent research by iSuppli Corp. reveals. According to the industry analyst firm, driven by growing consumer demand for smartphones and feature phones with support for motion command and navigation applications, motion sensor adoption is set to reach 2.2 billion units in 2014, up from 435.9 million in 2009.

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Motion Sensors to Prevail over Cell Phone Market

It struck me to write about the issue on sensitivity of the internet telephony, once while I was chatting with my NRI friend, who narrated to me as to how they had to pay heavy landline or mobile bills for international calls made to their near and dear ones situated in India. The transcript goes like this, “ I am one among millions of NRIs in gulf with medium pay, of course, and I get good salary compared to others.

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Internet Telephony ban – Security Related Issue or Hidden Agenda?

Aircel the 36 million  subscriber base strong telco has tied up with and ibibo.com to introduce Social Gaming to Mobile Customers in India. One of Ibibo’s online games called the “Great Indian Parking wars” is now made available on the Aircel Pocket Internet. Aircel plans to soon expand the catalogue of games in the future

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Aircel Brings Ibibo’s Social Games To Its Users

Posted by Pablo Chavez, Director of Public Policy We began the Google Policy Fellowship 3 years ago to match students with advocacy organizations working on policy issues fundamental to the future of the Internet and its users. We’ve been impressed by incredible pool of talent the program has attracted.

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The 2010 class of Google Policy Fellows

I am a huge fan of any paradigm-changing technology and OnStar – the GM invented service which integrates a car’s computer and a remote call center is certainly one of these achievements. The service does lots of different things like provide turn-by-turn navigation but perhaps the crowning achievement of the service is the ability to connect to the call center when the vehicle’s sensors indicate there has been a collision. A few days ago, a couple was forced into their car at gunpoint near Chicago and a thief forced them to drive to a Currency Exchange to cash a check.

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OnStar Saves Woman’s Life

Government today suspended the environmental clearance given to the mine of Anil Agarwal Foundation in North Goa, making it the second setback for the company after the construction work of Vedanta University proposed along Konark-Puri coast in Orissa was put on hold last week. The decision came following the National Environment Appellate Authority’s (NEEA) decision yesterday to stay the ‘green nod’ given to the mine of Sesa Goa located at Pirna village and Nadora in Bardez Taluk in North Goa.

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Govt suspends ‘green nod’ to firm for Goa mining

It is no secret that I have been hearing great things about the future of the optical market. Check out this post for optimistic interviews regarding the space with Hunter Newby of Allied Fiber and Jim Theodoras of Adva Optical Networking . Between the need for faster enterprise and consumer broadband connections and the need for more backhaul capacity to satisfy the needs of an ever-growing number of 3G and eventually 4G devices, the need for speed is real and consumers and businesses are paying for it.

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LIGHTWAVE One Optical Event New to ITEXPO in LA This Fall

Well if you thought the auction of 3G would bring in cheap and super fast internet browsing in the years to come then you can be very disappointed. This is because the manner in which 3G auctions is played out the only person benefitting from the spectrum auction would be the government that will laugh its way to the bank. The 3G auction has reached unexpected overall numbers and bidding still continues in over 7 circles which have excessive bids.

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3G To Be Very Expensive Sirji!

The Google vs Microsoft battle is an old one. While Google rules the web Microsoft has ruled the desktop office software business for many a years. Since last 5 years though Google has made strides in what one calls cloud based office productivity products

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Cloudy Times Ahead: MS Office 2010 Takes To The Clouds Against Google

It’s finally happening, after looking into the concerns of Advertisers and Broadcasters, the IBF (Indian Broadcasting Foundation) is finally on its way to establish BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) in an effort to break the monopoly enjoyed by TAM and aMap. Since long it has become a matter of concern for various Advertisers and Broadcasters the way TRPs rule this hot industry. The main concern is the authenticity of the data which comes from merely 10,000 odd urban homes where TAM/aMAP meters are installed.

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Media Monday: Can Govt break the TRP monopoly?

We are on the start of yet another week – Its Monday and time to share our some of the buzzing and popular articles of the week. Here they are: Popular posts of the week w00t ! Google Apps Customers will soon support nearly all Google services Android beats Apple iphone sales for the first time ! Reliance & Ambani Brothers – Past, Present & Future… Where Are The Telco’s Going With The Price War, Uninor Trumps Everyone With Unlimited Talk Plan Yay ! No student can fail till class VIII – now enjoy vacations tension-free ! 65% softwares used in India are Pirated worth $2 billion ! WTF ! Commonwealth Games Costs rise to 30,000 crore from estimated 1899 crore… 7 Rules for Excellent Customer Service – He won’t complain, He just won’t come back! Why service at Indian Retail stores is so bad… Top 25 Popular travel destinations in India [TripAdvisor] Related posts: Weekly Recap – Top 10 Popular posts of the week Last week we featured quite a few interesting posts as well as some “Top Lists”, if you have missed them… Popular posts of week [Weekly wrap-up] Yeah, its a little late in the day to do this weekly wrap-up, but better late than never Here…

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Popular posts of the week [Weekly Recap]

On the evening of May 10, 2010, the second #140conf LA Meetup took place at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, CA. To get a sense of the evening, please look at the following blog posts: From our speakers : Simon Mainwaring: 140conf LA meet-up: Social media inspiring social change Krupali Tejura: Incredible Twitter, Incredible People And our guests : Greg Pincus: Taking Social Media Offline Chris Foley: 140Conf LA Meetup | A Night to Remember Ashley Smith: #140conf LA Meetup at The Comedy Store – VIDEO – - – Tags: 140conf , social media , LA , Jeff Keni Pulver

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Recap: #140conf LA Meetup #2 (May 10, 2010)

If you are a limit card customer and your account/card is still active, then please note below mentioned changes. Message marked in underline, indicates changes in existing tariffs. 1) In Derivatives segment, Options brokerage will be charged @ Rs 15/- P er lot executed .

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Reliance Money changes option trading Limit Card tariff

Image via Wikipedia Standard Chartered is likely to hit the markets with the country’s maiden Indian Depository Receipt issue on May 25, with an offering of securities worth around $600 million. The London-headquartered bank will issue around 240-million IDRs, with each share representing 10 IDRs

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StanChart plans country’s maiden IDR on May 25

On a PC, I have become dependent on the Hootsuite Hootlet which allows me to rapidly post links to social networks immediately or at a preset time. It also automatically shrinks the URL making it oh so easy to post the page you are on to Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and other social networks you like to share on. The process is pretty easy – you just create a Bookmark – any bookmark and then rename it Hootlet and paste this Javascript code as the URL

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Hootsuite Hootlet on the iPad

Posted by Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to re-examine everything we have been collecting, and during our review we discovered that a statement made in a blog post on April 27 was incorrect. In that blog post, and in a technical note sent to data protection authorities the same day, we said that while Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, we did not collect payload data (information sent over the network).

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WiFi data collection: an update

My mother received an iPad from the family on Mother’s Day and when she opened the box I noticed there was no user manual but there was an Apple sticker. How amazing I thought that customers are accepting of being marketing vehicles for a company – and in this case accept getting a sticker instead of instructions – or headphones for that matter. This week I had my MIS team get me a Griffin Technology PowerBlock Wall Charger for the iPad as I read it was the fastest way to charge the device

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Apple Shows the Success of Sticker Marketing

Tel3Advantage offers one of the most popular preapid calling plans in North America and, as shown below, has the lowest rates to many popular destinations. The rates are even lower for the first 30 days if people sign-up using the Triple Promotion. Visit Tel3 Triple Promo for details.

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Tel3Advantage has the Lowest International Rates to Many Popular Destinations

Microsoft has just unveiled the Kin Two along with the Kin One for Verizon Wireless customers. Both targeted at the social-media-savvy youth, they share quite a number of common features such as strong integration of social network and the Zune-powered music player.

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Microsoft Kin Two – Designed for the Young, Socially-connected Crowd (Comparing with Kin One)

Vacation time is here and searching for tours, attraction, museums and vacation ideas has never been easier than with Trusted Tours and Attractions . They offer reviews and recommendations on the top tours, attractions and museums to visit in places like, Orlando, Washington DC, Phoenix, San Francisco, Tampa, Sedona, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Boston and many more

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Vacation Time Is Here Book With Book With Trusted Tours And Attractions

In regard to the responses his ad has generated so far, he resists breaking down percentages by serious inquiries versus goofs. “That’s a judgment call, right?” he asks, laughing. But he’s been impressed with the quality of quite a few contacts — although, thus far, the best of the batch are folks who weren’t listed as independents prior to the aforementioned deadline.

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CO Lt Governorship up for grabs

Pakistan Mobile is one of the costliest destinations even in 2010. Most asian countries have lowered their calling rates to increase volumes of call but Pakistan has never realised the true potential… Learn how to make FREE calls worldwide.

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Free International Calls to Pakistan Mobile

Lets discuss this betamax voip provider offered for business purposes. I am not sure if we have discussed about it before but surely CompanyCalling is a good option for businesses. A great way to cut costs on your international calls.

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CompanyCalling : International Business Voip Provider

Posted by Jen Chen, Software Engineer (cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) Melinda teaches high school in the Bay Area and recently reached out to us with a problem. Her students just finished a video history project that she wanted to share with their parents and classmates. But she was concerned about posting the videos publicly because she didn’t want the whole world to find them (frankly, neither did her students)

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More Choice for Users: Unlisted Videos