Pingo – new way to make cheap calls via your iPhone to anywhere in the world
I’ve been using a great new service to make very inexpensive international calls from my iPhone. You can make calls from any phone. I’ve written about this before. Check this out. Pingo.com is the cheapest way to make international. A native iPhone app uses your iPhone contact database — very cool! Pingo EZ Dial also work on Andriod and Blackberry.
You can find all the rates here, e.g. 2cents p/m to call to UK landlines from the US.Do you know of another cheaper way to make international calls from your iPhone?
Why Atlanta is a great place for the US HQ of a South African IT company
Yes, I know, most IT companies want to be in the Valley, that is, Silicon Valley. I would however suggest you seriously consider Atlanta as an alternative. If you are definitely the next Google, then yes, you have to be in the Valley. Ask Vinny and Yola :-). Most IT companies, however, don’t have to be in the Valley.Here are a few reasons to set up your US HQ in Atlanta:
- Atlanta has one of the best airports in the world with direct flights (on Delta) to Jo’burg.
- Very low cost of living compared to most large US city, especially San Francisco.
- Great time zone overlap with South Africa.
- Great IT community: Techlinks, TAG, GATech, and atdc.
- HQ for many Fortune 500 companies including: Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, and Aflac.
This presentation by the Metro Atlanta Chamber gives many more reasons to consider Atlanta as your US HQ.Lance Weatherby had this to say about Atlanta replacing Silicon Valley.I’ve lived in Atlanta (actually in Kennesaw, a town North of Atlanta) for almost 12 years since moving to Atlanta in 1998.
Read MoreiPad is the new Apple killer device…
It’s official it’s the Apple iPad. See Engadget’s live blogging. Here’s a picture one of this first official pictures:
Apple iPad
Apple iPad
When Google Runs your life OR maybe not
A recent Forbes article on Google is a very interesting read. Here is an extract:
Your day begins with a wake-up call from your Google Android phone. As you run to the shower, you hit Google News and check headlines, then Gmail. Your first appointment of the day has been moved to a new location; Google Maps will direct you there. Quickly update your expense report–including the printout of that sales presentation using, say, Google Template–and shoot them to the back office in India (in Hindi, if you prefer, with Google Translate). Your boss wants to discuss your group’s contributions to some marketing documents? Lean on Google Groups. You’re not even out the door yet. You have the rest of the day to search for work-critical information on the Web while you’re at the office–to say nothing of snatching a few moments to download a game, check stock prices, organize your medical records, share photos and pick a restaurant and movie for the evening. How convenient. And a little creepy, perhaps.
Here is the full Dec 10, 2009 Forbes article.
If you don’t like this then you can decide to opted-out of Google and go and live in the Google Opt-out Village. Sounds like fun 🙂
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
Read MoreThe network IS the computer!
Sun Computer’s vision is: “The Network is the Computer“, well I think this is finally starting to take shape in the form of cloud computing. Bandwidth, even at speeds approaching 30MBps, is still orders of magnitude slower than main memory. However, I love the netbook-type (or webbook) computer that a company called, Litl, recently launched. The machine is a thing of beauty and follows in Apple’s design footsteps. Simple UI, easy to use, and does what it’s made for very well! I think it looks a litl 🙂 like the OLPC laptop.
Here is a Youtube video by the CEO, John Chuang.
I think that litl has a head start on Google. Google’s own Web operating system is called, Google Chrome OS, and with GCO on a netbook the netbook will immediately launch the Google Chrome browser with all your data stored in the cloud. Very similar to the litl’s approach to software.
Here are some other write ups on litl: ABC Technology&Science, Engadget, and Wired.
Very interesting stuff. Would you buy a litl netbook? At $699, it’s a bit pricey for me.
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