“Your local friend”–business idea for travellers

Use case

Many people come to the foreign countries and feel lost/confused traveling around and/or getting services. If possible,they like to go places with a local friend who will point out the best features,explain how things work and/or translate the requests into the local language. This is a service for those who do . . . →Read More:“Your local friend”–business idea for travellers

My phone company wants to be a friend

My VOIP phone company (Lingo) has just announced that they are now on MySpace. I have heard of car companies doing that,but it feels rather weird when a utility company wants to do the same.

I can see two reasons they could be doing that:

They are not doing too well and are getting . . . →Read More:My phone company wants to be a friend

Gmail + VOIP = great reference system in the Net cloud

My primary phone number is provided by Lingo –a Voice over internet provider. One of the features it has is server based voicemail with the message automatically forwarded to my email. A feature like this would (AFAIK) be very expensive from a traditional provider,but usually comes for free from most VOIP-based providers. Some . . . →Read More:Gmail + VOIP = great reference system in the Net cloud

Love calls over the IP network

I usually suck at Velentine’s day presents. This year,however,I may have just killed several birds with one stone and impressed my wife too.

It all started a couple of months ago,when I noticed ever more frequent mentions of internet telephony becoming a very big thing. I have dutifully subscribe to a couple . . . →Read More:Love calls over the IP network