In a recent article on CIO (a magazine aimed at business professionals), a recent article discussed the topic of using your mobile phone abroad and ways to keep expenses down while communicating whilst ‘on the road’. The problem lies in that most Americans don’t have a clue on how to communicate while abroad without breaking…
Welcome Rudy Maxa listeners. Over the weekend of June 12-13, I will appear on Rudy’s show to talk about my recommendations for must-have gadgets for your summer travels. I’ve broken the list out to categories, based on how I like to travel and things I want to have in my travel bag. First: A Good…
This week at DemoSpring 2010, Rebtel, a veteran in the VoIP world, launched an innovative VoIP application on the Android platform. Rebtel is a Sweden-based company that is dedicated to providing very low-cost calls to more than 50 countries world wide. In essence, Rebtel offers super cheap calls to third-world countries, aimed squarely at ex-pats…
Truphone, a very useful and effective mobile calling service I’ve written about many times before, is announcing the availability of their Truphone Anywhere service in Australia. The new partnership and availability down under is via a partnership with Optus, a Australian mobile network operator. Truphone Anywhere is a unique service where a person can buy…
Truphone is a mobile-focused telephony company that operates on pretty much every mobile platform. In other words, Truphone lets you make very inexpensive calls on your mobile by using the Internet to route the calls. Over Thanksgiving, the UK based company offered free calling and had a great response. To carry on the holiday cheer,…
This week has seen the debut of a much anticipated native iPhone/iPod Touch Skype client. We have had the ability to send IM’s on Skype and even make Skype calls, however having a native Skype client on the platform creates a new level of usability and function. I loaded the application as soon as it…
According to a story from TechRadar, users aren’t fully realizing the capabilities of their mobile phones. As it turns out, many folks don’t realize that the smartphone in their pocket is more than a phone – it’s a portable computer that you can easily customize with applications that suite your life. Skype commissioned a survey…
Frequent travelers know that using your mobile handset can be expensive when you’re traveling abroad. For example, take you’re AT&T handset over to Europe, and you may pay $1-2 per minutes for even local calls and high rates for data as well. To combat these high calling prices, some travelers carry an unlocked GSM handsets…
Truphone, the internet telephony application for mobiles, has added AOL Instant Messenger to the list of IM systems it can interact with. Now, in addition to Google Talk, Skype, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo, you can chat with your AIM buddies while on Truphone on an iPod Touch or iPhone. I have written about the…
After a I interviewed Truphone’s CTO and he teased about the possibility of Truphone running a telephone app on the iPod Touch and the company announced the application’s pending released, I have finally been able to trial the service and can now post a review. First Impressions: Upon visiting the App Store and looking for…