Lucky Minutes phone card and Golden Lotus overseas calling card are two of the top rated calling cards. They offer great deals at competitive prices and bundle together a number of attractive features. This brings up an interesting question. What are the pros and cons of each card? When comparing these two cards, it should be  Read More →

Calling card is a prepaid calling plan which is available in almost all the retail outlets; be it the next grocery shop, shopping mall, petrol bunk, post office to name a few. It is also available online. Online purchase is easy and advantageous too. The buyers of the calling plan will first shortlist some of the reputed service providers. Then carefully compare per minute calling rate and any special discounts or any other offers made by these... 

Some of the lessons learned from the commercials during Super Bowl 2010: Beer solves lots of problems, women hold men back from their dreams and this year, pants are optional. But there were also some highlights for the web video world. Flo TV pushed their mobile TV viewing device to hen-pecked men dragged out shopping to the game, but they also got behind will.i.am’s My Generation remix. Google had a relatively clever ad in the second... 

When it comes to the football side of Superbowl XLIV, everyone knows that today’s matchup pits the New Orleans Saints against the Indianapolis Colts. But there’s another side to the NFL game that is just as competitive and just as expensive, and that’s the advertising that takes place during the broadcast. T that battle will see Coca-Cola go up against flavored sugar-water competitor Pepsico. Except that Pepsi won&#…  Read More →

I’m writing from Phoenix, where a trip home met an abrupt end today. After one canceled flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia, I hopped over to the Valley of the Sun in hopes of a different flight home, but Mother Nature had other ideas . Since so many travelers are in a similar bind, all flights home are booked through Monday. I’ll be attempting a trip to JFK tomorrow and will mostly likely miss the first Super Bowl of my adult... 

At our GigaOM company meeting, Simon Mackie , editor of WebWorkerDaily shared his views on why every weekend he publishes and shares a collection of articles & blog posts he had read over the week. Taking a cue from him and my friend Paul Kedrosky , I am sharing a list of articles/posts which I think you should read this weekend. Rolling Stone Magazine interviews Steve Jobs : One from the archives. This interview conducted in 1994 lays... 

Rupert Murdoch knows who’s winning the war between big media and the Internet. Unsurprisingly, it’s Rupert Murdoch. “Without content, the ever-larger and flatter screens, the tablets, the e-readers and the increasingly sophisticated mobile phones would be lifeless,” he proclaimed when News Corp. posted unexpectedly strong fiscal 2010 second-quarter earnings . “Devices and platforms are proliferating but this clever technology... 

Google surprised Nexus One owners this week by releasing an update for the Android-based phone. The Nexus One has only been on the market for a month, but the update added a fair bit of functionality — notably multitouch — the lack of which has grated enthusiasts. It also addresses the 3G connectivity problems that some owners had been reporting. This week also saw…  Read More →

The web is becoming more dynamic, context-aware and personalized by the day, and the amount of information consumed by each person is increasing exponentially. But while hardware performance is improving, except when it comes to the simplest of parallel programming tasks, software infrastructure is not keeping pace. We need to develop new data processing architectures — ones that go beyond …  Read More →

The big project fails, the company begins to struggle and before you know it, the board of directors replaces the management team. Sound familiar? But crisis doesn’t have to spell the end of the company itself. Most companies and teams in turnaround situations focus on the obvious and important factors of balance sheet, cash flow and net income health. Teams also usually get to work quickly on market analysis that ultimately …  Read More →

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said Arthur C. Clarke. And that’s what Siri , a new virtual personal assistant that’s finally going live in the App Store after some sneak peeks last year, is going for. At the least it will be an excellent party trick. The Siri app (only recommended for the iPhone 3GS, as it’s rather intensive) connects your natural speech queries to web services... 

A U.S. District Court judge has thrown out a complaint by record label EMI against the founders of now-defunct music search engine Seeqpod, effectively ending a year-old case that attracted special attention because it also named as a defendant a developer who had used the company’s application programming interface (API). Earlier this week, Judge Laura Taylor Swain granted Seeqpod’s founders’ motion to dismiss the case against... 

In the hopes of another platform gold rush, today comes word that there’s already an “ AppFund ” for developers looking to make applications for the iPad and other tablets. The New York City-based AppFund doesn’t have quite the resume of the Kleiner Perkins-backed and Apple-supported iFund , but it’s jumping in at a time when tablets are top of mind. The “multimillion-dollar” fund will be led by CNET,... 

The recession that we are feeling right now has forced us cut back on our spending. Communication is one of the things in life that we spend on. You don’t need to suffer from the high rates that are being imposed by telecommunication companies. There are now prepaid phone cards available that help people get in touch with their loved ones without having to shell out a significant amount of money. Using prepaid phone cards to save money...