Turn your iPod Touch into a mobile with Vopium

After truphone, Now you can also make cheap calls and send text messages all over the world from your iPod Touch! Simply visit get.vopium.com from your iPod OR download Vopium to your PC or Mac from iTunes.

Vopium is a free application installed on your iPod Touch (2nd generation) allowing you to turn it into a mobile phone. When your iPod is connected to WiFi, you can make calls and send text messages over the internet using your normal mobile number. You do not pay any charges to your mobile operator. You only pay Vopium’s low international call rates. You can obviously also use your iPod to make national calls. Just remember that you need to acquire a Microphone adapter to make calls.

When people call or text you back, you will receive the call and text message on your regular mobile phone. Thereby you are sure to always receive the call and text, even when you are not connected to WiFi

Instant messaging, integrated with MSN, Skype, Gtalk, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Twitter, will be added soon! We are doing the final round of testing and are eager to share it with you guys.

Needless to say this new version obviously also works on your iPhone. You can read more about Vopium for iPod touch here

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Vopium now on Ovi Store, offers attractive call packages

Vopium, the award winning mobile VoIP application is now available from the Nokia Ovi Store portal following positive user feedback from a successful listing on Nokia Download. With the addition of Nokia Ovi Store to its portfolio, Vopium is now offering applications on all major application stores including BlackBerry App World, iPhone App StoreSM, Android Market and Nokia Download.

To take advantage of significantly cheaper international mobile phone calls, all Nokia phone users need to do is simply download Vopium in one click via the Ovi Store on the handset or from the web based solution on www.ovi.com. Once downloaded, users will be able to create a Vopium account and immediately start calling international numbers, saving up to 90% on their traditional operator rates.

Vopium is also running promotions on all the call packages making it cheapest ever calling solution available.

Take for example, their “Reach Out” package which offers 2000 minutes in $ 19 making it just 1 cent per minute call to 49 popular destinations in the world including USA, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Italy and other Far Eastern countries. Their other packages like “Call India” offers 2.4 cents/min call, “Call Turkey” offers 1.9 cent/min call and “Call Pakistan” offers 3.8 cents/min call. These special packages are valid till October 31st , 2009. To know more about these packages, just check out tariff details of Vopium at here.

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Vopium joins hands with Symbian Foundation

Vopium today announced that it has joined the Symbian Foundation, which, together with its ecosystem, is creating the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform. The platform is based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces.

“The Symbian Foundation welcomes Vopium into the community,” said David Wood, catalyst and futurist for Symbian. “Applications developers are crucial to creating the richest possible user experiences. We are eager to see the innovations that Vopium will bring to Symbian consumers.”

As a member of the Symbian Foundation, Vopium gains the immediate right to license the Symbian Foundation platform, royalty free and without source code fees; participate in the governance of the foundation; and take part in joint marketing and branding campaigns.

“Having been member of SPN (Symbian Partner Network) since the very early days of Vopium, I am very pleased now that we have been approved as member of the Symbian Foundation” said Tanveer Sharif, Vopium’s CEO. “We will now be able to tap right into the Symbian Foundation platform and not least be on the forefront of new OS releases and updates”

for more details visit: www.vopium.com

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eBay planning to Sell Skype

There are different rumors that eBay wants to get rid of Skype and planning to sell it. Here update is that New York Times reported:

eBay plans to unload Skype to a group of investors.Skype generates about $600 million in revenue annually and it is speculated that eBay might be able to get $2 billion for it.

The group of investors include Marc Andreessen via his new fund, Index Ventures, and Silver Lake Partners.

eBay acquired Skype in 2005 for $3.1 billion, outbidding Google and Yahoo in a deal that has come to be viewed as one of the worst technology transactions of the decade.

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Easy How To Install Truphone (free & Voip Mobile Calls)

Check out how to install Truphone App on your mobile. It is quite easy and simple. If you found any problem then post it in Comments.

Watch Video: Easy How To Install Truphone (free & Voip Mobile Calls)

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Video: Placing A Jajah Call With The Apple iPhone

This is the simple way to make call from Jajah from your iPhone.

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Make Phone Calls Using Your PS3 Console and Jajah Service

Although the original article is quite dated, we haven't posted on this here yet... so for those who didn't already know:

Similar to Skype, Jajah is a VOIP service which has modified its interface to allow gamers to make calls using the PS3 browser.

According to this report, users will be able to make “free or cheap” phone calls, though the number has to be pre-configured.

To quote: “Jajah now brings free or cheap calling into the living room and away from computers. Initiating a call with Jajah can now be done while lounging in front of the TV with no need to fire up the computer,” said Roman Scharf, a Jajah co-founder.

“This means that the whole family, regardless of interests or technological skills, can make cheap or even free calls from their normal home phone.”

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Turphone next to Vopium now available on BlackBerry App World

Truphone saves you money on international calls made from your home country, without changing the way you use your phone. It works alongside your existing domestic service provider, but reduces international call costs to 33 countries around the world.

When you dial an international number we'll ask you if you want to make the call with Truphone. Then we'll route your call over the internet, saving you money. You pay the cost of a local call in your home country plus our incredibly low worldwide rate for the international part of your call.

I want to include that Vopium was the first VoIP application that approaches Blackberry App world and their application is available there for Pearl, Curve and Storm devices. Now the race has started and Truphone took a second place to register their Blackberry clients on Blackberry App store. The cost saving for BlackBerry users is considerable (up to 90%) whether making an international call or sending an SMS. You can download the Vopium application directly from BlackBerry App World™ or check out the setup guide here

It's FREE to download, and we even give you call credit to get you started. For information on the Truphone Partner Program for BlackBerry

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Mobivox Voice-Activated Mobile Services

Mobivox Launches Portuguese Language Capability for Brazilian Market

Mobivox announced an agreement to make its voice-activated mobile services platform the engine for the VoIP-services component of a new global online e-wallet system called WorldAxxess.

Under the agreement, MTC Telecom, a custom-voice-solutions company based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, plans to use Mobivox-powered international long-distance services to quickly attract customers and build revenue for MTC’s new WorldAxxess micropayments business, via cross marketing. Both service lines are to be introduced in August.

The WorldAxxess micropayment application will allow users to make small-metered online purchases of goods or services – such as newspapers, or downloaded music or ringtones – and pay from small amounts of currency they store online. A simple, easy-to-use online debit system is convenient for users and gives retailers an appealing alternative to processing credit-card payments for small purchases.

As a complement to the micropayment system, WorldAxxess users will be able to place low-cost international calls from and to virtually anywhere. WorldAxxess will rely on Mobivox for the full range of its platform’s capabilities, including voice-activated calling, online storage of users’ address books, and network origination and termination services.

“We wanted to introduce a combination of international VoIP services and micropayments based on tremendous synergies between the two offerings,” said Jan Kling, MTC Telecom owner. “We chose Mobivox after considering partnering with other VoIP providers or building our own platform. The Mobivox platform is a turnkey solution we can get up and running rapidly. It’s very sophisticated, yet easy to use.”

Using the Mobivox│PL platform to accelerate customer acquisition for a much-in-demand application in Brazil and Europe is another example of Mobivox helping service providers and online communities quickly develop, bring to market and monetize exciting new capabilities as extensions of traditional telecom services.

“We’re really pleased to be working with MTC Telecom and helping them deploy voice services to drive the growth of their new micropayments business,” Mobivox CEO Peter Diedrich said. “We look forward to using our Mobivox│PL to help position WorldAxxess right at the forefront of the hot e-wallet trend.”

via RealWire

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Nimbuzz for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

YES, Nimbuzz for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the best Nimbuzz client “in the wild” , is now available for download.

In the last few weeks we had a lot of comments on the blog requesting the Nimbuzz application for Nokia 5800 and some of you were so enthusiastic about it that they left 3 or 4 comments :D! Thanks ! You asked, we listened, and your patience is much appreciated.

For those that have a Nokia 5800 mobile phone and still wonder why you should install Nimbuzz here are a few reasons:

• Landscape chat – so you can make use of the wide keyboard.
• Shortcut buttons so you can easily update your profile, status, or personal message
• No need for the stylus - Nimbuzz can be operated entirely with your fingers.
• Personal messages are fully displayed in the contact list for all communities.
• Chat with friends from 14 different Instant Messaging communities and Social Networks (Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Google Talk).
• Call your buddies from Nimbuzz, Skype or Gtalk using your mobile data plan or WiFi connection.
• Cheap phone calls at low rates with SkypeOut or using one of our SIP partners.

Check out Nimbuzz in action on the Nokia 5800 Youtube video.

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call India just for 1 c/min + free 100 minutes offer

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Vopium joins the iPhone VoIP app club

Last night, reader Jim Rob Jones emailed to express his displeasure over my switch to the BlackBerry, calling us “irrelevant” because I am not carrying an iPhone. Well, Jim, since I’m not willing to put up with the poor 3G connections from AT&T, I carry an iPod Touch, which does pretty much the same job and allows me to write about iPhone Platform apps. Of course, it does prevent me from yelling at my iPhone, but my doctor thinks that is a good thing. With Wi-Fi and a growing number of VoIP apps such as Skype, Nimbuzz and Truphone, I can also use it to make outbound calls. Today Vopium,a low-cost VoIP service provider, jumped in the fray and released an iPhone app.

The company will add iPod Touch support for its service in a couple of weeks. I will check it out then. Meanwhile, if you have an iPhone, you can sign up for their service today, and get 30 minutes of free calls and 30 text messages (SMS). Vopium also works on other handsets, such as BlackBerry and Symbian-based phones.

GigaOM.com

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Truphone goes for the U.S. market offering Cheap International Calls

During the recently ended CTIA in Las Vegas, Truphone announced that it is entering the U.S. market in a big way. More specifically, the company launched its Truphone Business offering and the Truphone Channel Partner Program in the States.

At the same time, they announced the Truphone Channel Partner Program to recruit partners to sell and distribute Truphone Business to companies throughout the U.S. As part of the program, resellers are offered generous commission plans according to a tiered structure, as well as a range of sales incentive schemes, co-marketing funds, and a wide variety of marketing support materials.

Additionally, the channel program offers sales and marketing training modules, dedicated channel managers to support partners’ sales teams in addition to secure and easy to use customer management tools to make all order entries, adds, changes, deactivations and trouble ticketing seamless and instantaneous.

There are several others VoIP providers like Vopium (beta) and skype already hit US market.[source]

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Skype Free application enables millions of iPhone and iPod touch users worldwide

Skype announced yesterday that its highly anticipated application, Skype™ for iPhone, will be available on the Apple App Store beginning today. The app also adds Skype calling and instant messaging to any second generation iPod touch with a compatible headset and microphone.

"Skype software for the iPhone has been the number one request among our users. We are delighted to deliver on this request and put Skype into the pockets of millions of people around the world who are carrying iPhone and iPod touch devices," said Scott Durchslag, Skype's Chief Operating Officer. "Skype for iPhone will open up new ways for more than 400 million Skype users to stay connected and take their Skype conversations with them. Skype for iPhone is an experience that offers the same simplicity, ease-of-use and quality our users have come to expect from Skype, combined with an elegance of design and richness so loved by Apple's many customers worldwide."

The application delivers core Skype capabilities including:

• Free Skype-to-Skype calls from any Wi-Fi zone to other Skype users worldwide
• Call landline or mobile phones at Skype's great low rates from any Wi-Fi zone
• Send/receive instant messages to/from individuals or groups via 3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS or EDGE (whichever is available)
• Receive calls to a personal online number on Skype
• See when Skype contacts are online/available to IM or talk

Skype for iPhone requires a Wi-Fi connection to make free Skype-to-Skype calls or low-cost Skype calls to mobiles and landlines. Users will not be charged by Skype for making and receiving Skype-to-Skype calls using an iPhone or iPod touch. Skype's normal low rates apply if using Skype to call landlines or mobiles.

The app uses Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS or EDGE (whichever is available) to sign into Skype, update a contact list, maintain and update presence and send/receive instant messages. Skype recommends an unlimited data usage plan for using Skype over a mobile data connection to avoid being charged by a wireless service provider for 3G, GPRS and EDGE mobile data usage. [source]

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Skype for iPhone now live in US

It's finally here, and even a few minutes early. Skype for iPhone is now available in the US iTunes store, free of charge. We've heard great thing from the folks in Japan who've been fiddling with it for the last twelve hours, and so far it's sounding pretty good for us, too, with only minor hiccups. Not sure if it's a glitch, but despite what we heard earlier, we seem to be able to dial out while on 3G and not over WiFi (at least running OS 3.0 beta). Hit up the read link for quickest route to the app store page, and let us know what you think. Betcha wish you could ditch that AT&T voice plan now, huh?

Update: We're getting reports the app is crashing for jailbroken iPhones -- and possibly non-jailbroken ones as well. We just got our first denial when dialing out over 3G via a popup notification, but it only happened once and we were back to old habits one call later. We did experience a brief period where no sound was coming through, but that might have something to do with using OS 3.0 and was remedied by restarting the phone.

Update 2: So far, it looks like dialing over 3G's only working for those with OS 3.0 beta, but unfortunately all of us in that situation are now suffering from frequent crashes and loss of audio. Things seem to be going smoothly for those running the latest non-beta firmware, but the calls only work over WiFi. That said, when using the app as intended (non-beta firmware over WiFi), audio quality was surprisingly good, far better than any third party apps we've used. [source]

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