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So in the last few years I have become a bit of a mobile email junkie.  I think I have been doing mobile email for about 5 years now, I know I’m late to the game compared to some. I had a very interesting conversation with a “high up” from AT&T last night.  I was [...]

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I have been using GrandCentral for years and when they announced Google Voice I was elated.  I could not wait for the new features including my absolute favorites being SMS and voice mail being transcribed to text and emailed and texted to you.
Well the SMS is great but the voice transcription is dreadful.  I didn’t [...]

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Truphone one of my favorite mobile VOIP providers has announced 2 new flat rate plans.  I have been waiting for this kind of thing for over a year and maybe 2 years now.  They have a plan called TruUnlimited for Landlines at $14.40/month and it includes unlimited calls to landlines in 38 countries and unlimited [...]

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I don’t know where I saw CloudContacts, probably on Twitter but I’ve left a tab open on FireFox for 2 days now, I’ve been meaning to write about them.
Basically it’s a service where you snail mail them a stack of busines cards you want digitized.  They will put them into a database in the cloud [...]

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The folks over at Cubic Telecom have launched the newest interation of their MaxRoam sim card called V5.  It builds on all the money saving MaxRoam offered before with

70%-80% savingson your roaming bill
Global voice/data coverage on one sim
No monthly daily connection charges
Voice works in 213 countries
Data works in 137 countries

This is a huge accomplishment for [...]

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My friends over at Nimbuzz announced some exciting news yesterday.  They have finally updated their app and it now includes VOIP.
They are focused on bridging the 3G VoIP gap on the iPhone – anywhere.
Here are some highlight of the new app.
>With free Wi-Fi calls to instant messaging buddies already available, we added a full dial-pad, [...]

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One of my favorite mobile related companies, Emoze, just became a client so I’m going to write a few posts about them, this being the first.  I like them for a few reasons.  First they took the less-then-desirable, built-in Nokia email application and turned it into something quite nice.  I’m sure that wasn’t an easy [...]

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I have been a user of GrandCentral for a few years now and I’ve always been happy with the service.  It has always been adequate for me to use as my business number but it has always lacked a few features.  Well As of 2 days ago GrandCentral has been transformed and renamed Google Voice. [...]

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I recently returned from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where I interviewed Rafi Ton the CEO NewACT.  I met  Rafi because my good friend Harel Shattenstein of TalkingMobile.com set up the interview.  We decided to sit outside in the absolutely gorgeous weather and discuss NewACTs mobile application called vufone, the most interesting new app I [...]

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I wrote this last night but decided not to publish it until after Nokia announced it.
I just read on Twitter that Nokia is announcing 3 new phones in a few hours. They are the 5330 XpressMusic, 5730 XpressMusic and Nokia 5030.  I got the link from my buddy @MickyFin and you can read the post [...]

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