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Pat Phelan and Florian Seroussi, two of the co-founders of MaxRoam have saved their customers a million dollars in the past year! MaxRoam is a SIM card that you can put into your GSM phone so that when you travel you don’t get charged roaming rates. Brilliant? Absolutely.
MaxRoam launched at TechCrunch40 last year and has since made a lot of noise in the media. Conclusion? Next time you’re planning on traveling, make sure to pick up a MaxRoam SIM card and save a lot of money.
You can see the official blog post from Pat here: http://patphelan.net/maxroam-saves-its-customers-a-million-dollars/
Aydin.
Pat Phelan, Telcom Rockstar – Serial Entrepreneur, just launched a new service called TwitterFone where you can make your Twitter posts via voice. Simply brilliant! I really think that this will get a lot more people hooked on Twitter (about time!). Make sure to head over to TwitterFone!
If you like TwitterFone, you’ll also love MaxRoam. MaxRoam will let you travel around the world with your cell phone without incurring roaming charges!
Aydin.
3D Browsing is just sooo much fun. It sure beats boring old 2D browsing…. that’s why I really love www.SpaceTime.com. Basically, it is a new browser that you can download that will make your life a whole lot easier and more fun by turning all your web pages into 3D images… You’ve got to try this! Although, of course, it won’t completely replace FireFox for me, but its a start…
For the SpaceTime team, not sure how possible this is, but, can we get SpaceTime as a plugin for FireFox? Perhaps with a button that we can use to turn on and off 3D? The reason I make this request is because I know you guys listen 
The last 3 requests I made actually ended up in the product which basically makes me think you guys rock!
Aydin.
SUMMARY: MeeMix is a good alternative to Pandora.
I loved Pandora (still do). At work, it caught on like wildfire… in one week, you could see all 50 people on our floor with their headphones on and tuned into Pandora.
But then, Canadian users were not allowed to access Pandora directly 
Now, there is a great alternative for the Pandora deprived crowd. Its called MeeMix. I’ve known about MeeMix for a long time… I haven’t talked about them to too many people before since their app didn’t work all too well in the past… but, I just logged in again tonight and was pleasantly surprised to see it working well… Check it out if you like to listen to free streaming music personalized for you
Aydin.
I couldn’t resist but link to this… I’m not a die hard classical fan, but this is simply superb:
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Aydin.
hmm… Apparently gmail is experiencing delays in receiving incoming messages… The first signs of this came from dreamhost:
” Right now we are experiencing some slowdowns sending emails to Google’s GMail service. This only appears to be affecting mail being forwarded through our systems, and not sending directly through an email client using our mail servers. We believe the slowdown to be on Google’s end, however we are actively investigating the situation to see if there’s something wrong on our end causing the slowdown.”
But, it seems the problem is in more places than one…
I just sent my gmail account an email from a yahoo account… an hour later, there is still no sign of the email…
I’m not sure how widespread this issue is but a few discussions on the internet have started about this in the past couple of hours…
is anyone else having the same problem?
Aydin.
source: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/11/17/gmail-forwarding-slowness/
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Amazon has introduced a new eBook reader that will allow bibliophiles everywhere to change the way they read. This device not only has an amazing display, but also allows you to download eBooks wirelessly (using Cell Phone Networks) for about $10. Good deal.
There are a lot of skeptics out there… that’s fine… but, I remember throughout my years in school I always had back pains due to carrying around so many textbooks. This device is light and can replace all those textbooks. Imagine being able to travel anywhere with all your textbooks and books alike + have access to the internet! that’s the revolution that the Kindle is starting. Bravo Jeff Bezos!
Aydin.
Posted By: Aydin Mirzaee
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Alright, maybe my title was a bit too dramatic… but, the truth is that Google is indeed on Apple and RIM’s turf. Most cell phones out there today are closed in nature… this means that each of them has a different operating system and requires special software. In other words, if a developer designs a game for the iPhone, it won’t work on the BlackBerry or an HP pda running Windows Mobile. Google recently announced Android, which is an open source operating system + API.
You may ask, we’ve had operating systems for phones for a long time, what’s so special about Android? Well, at this point, mainly that Android is open source: this means that developers can better understand the operating system and how it works.
This is a good business case. Google has this new operating system… how can it get the world to start using it, or at least get phone manufacturers to install it on their phones… well, Google is attempting to appeal to developers as a start. Google is offering up to $10 million dollars in rewards to encourage developers to make applications for Android. If there are enough applications out there, then Android will be more attractive to end consumers and this in turn will entice phone manufacturers to install the operating system on their phones… but more importantly… we’re talking about Google here… does anyone really want the 800 pound Gorilla on their bad side?
Aydin.
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If you own one of the two phones above, you are in luck. Telus is now offering unlimited email and text messaging to those who own the next generation BlackBerry Pearl or HTC S720. When I heard the news I was excited as I though to myself: “surely, they’re not going to single out users who own a different BlackBerry model”. As you may have guessed, I thought wrong. I obviously had too much faith in Telus. I called Telus and asked them if I could sign up for the $15 unlimited Email and Text Messaging plan (called email 15) and they said that I wasn’t eligible. I have to admit, I am truly disappointed
Aydin.
Posted By: Aydin Mirzaee.
After talking to a few friends that expressed interest in helping expand this blog, I figured that it would be a good idea to recruit more bloggers. More people means more content, more opinions, better coverage, and a broader scope. So, if you are interested, go ahead and send me a message on Facebook (i.e. just search for Aydin Mirzaee on Facebook and send me a message).
Thanks,
Aydin.
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