Archive for May 2010
May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Green Technologies
Boy, did I pick a lousy week to leave the country for a family vacation.
What did I miss? Well, a company seems to have come out of nowhere, raised loads of money, has retired Gen. Colin Powell on its board, and made some audacious claims about reinventing the energy business. As I dug through last [...]
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May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Green Technologies
The up-to-now secretive startup Bloom Energy took the wraps off its technology this week, unveiling a fuel-cell system that the company claims can run on a variety of fuels and pay for itself in three to five years via lower energy bills.
Bloom box: A 100 kilowatt module at eBay’s facility in San Jose, CA.
Credit: Bloom Energy
The [...]
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May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: VoipToday
VOIP Today magazine (www.voiptoday.org) is privileged to conduct exclusive interview with Kamailio (OpenSER) co-founder and core developer of OpenSER and SER projects Daniel-Constantin Mierla. (Read on and head over to iTunes or DIDX podcasts to listen to Techistan’s Suzanne Bowen interview Mierla in 2009.)
Kamailio (former OpenSER) is an Open Source SIP Server released under GPL, able to [...]
Tags: amoocon, asterisk, best of open source networking, bossie, daniel constantin mierla, DIDX, didxchange, freeswitch, Germany, internet telephony, interview, ip pbx, itunes, kamailio, linuxtag, open sips, openser, SIP v2.0, techistan, voip, voip today Posted in VoipToday |
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May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Telecom
Toll free 800 service was first introduced in China about 10 years ago, with a history of inter-connectivity issues. As a result, the popularity has declined. In its place stars the new 400 se
Tags: 400, 4001, 800, call home, China, chinese, DIDX, didxchange, direct inward dialing, itw, m800, media partner, phone numbers, techistan, tollfree, virtual office Posted in Telecom |
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May 31st, 2010 |
By Michael Pearson |
Category: Mobile applications
Anyone can create an iPhone application, but not everyone knows the secrets to make money with iPhone apps. The process is strategic, intentional, and straight forward. If you have a good application idea, you’re in good shape, but your work isn’t complete.
Tags: app development, app store, iphone Apps, media creator, Mobile applications Posted in Mobile applications |
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May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Featured, Telecom
A French Mediterranean resort hotel was expanding their units and voila, voIP is not dead! A shift in clientele showed increased business traffic: retreats and tiger-team think-tank sessions…
Tags: asterisk, avoid rip and replace, case study, digium, fax, hotel, hybrid voip, JKL-5 Group, michel vaillancourt, pstn, resort, ritzy, tdm, techistan, to email pbx, tourism, voip is dead, voip is not dead Posted in Featured, Telecom |
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May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Various
A pigeon is being kept under armed guard by Indian police on charge of espionage for Pakistan.
The pigeon was found by a local resident in the Indian state of Punjab and was taken to a police station 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Amritsar, media reported on Friday.
The pigeon had a ring around [...]
Tags: * india, android, business, collaboration, facebook, fishing, friendship, hindi, iphone, kashmir, pakistan, techistan, twitter, urdu Posted in Various |
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May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Social Networking
EgyptTeam vies for $50,000 prize money and mentorship opportunities at MIT Business Plan Competition, offering a blood glucose-monitoring solution, social conversation monitoring and analyzing
Tags: Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, arab business plan, aramex, bahi emad, blood glucose monitoring, booz & co, egypt team, genomics data management, it oc, kipco, mit, Social Networking, techistan Posted in Social Networking |
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May 31st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Featured, Telecom
Not just Nepalese, but note;”fly by night” calling card operators cheat clients especially expatriates who seem to prefer calling cards to..
Tags: birthplace of Buddha, call home, calling card, due diligence, expatriates, i miss my family, international, Nepal, nepalese, phone numbers, rebtel, skype, techistan, truth Posted in Featured, Telecom |
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May 30th, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: facebook
After going though the emails from many many on different forums, I wanted to talk and understand what exactly is going on regarding the Facebook ban in Pakistan.
So I called Awab Alvi, a political writer in Pakistan, Jehan Ara the president of Pakistan Association for software houses( PASHA) and they gave me their part of [...]
Tags: * rehan allahwala, Banned, facebook, Mr.Mairaj-ul-huda, Muhammad (PBUH), pakistan Posted in facebook |
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