Free international calling service is hard to come by, after all, commercial telephone companies or phone communication operators need to pay connection fee to receiving called party’s providers no matter the calls are made to land line, cell phone or satellite phone, and regardless of it’s a trunk, toll or VoIP calls. Lots of sites that offer free worldwide phone calls has now defunct, e.g. AllFreeCalls. Most established PC-to-Phone or VoIP operators such as MediaRing gives free calls to limited countries or destinations as promotion to attract users.
There is another opportunity for free international phone calls in from PC to phone style, by using Google Talk, and Talkster integration with GTalk2VoIP. The partnership, using ad-supported business model, allows callers from anywhere worldwide in every countries free international, long distance and group conference calls by leveraging on Google Talk. And callers able to call to more than 30 countries supported by Talkster’s network completely free, or partially free (caller portion) for anywhere else in the world.
The free international calls by dialing from GTalk instant messaging client is especially beneficial to areas with strictly regulated VoIP and telecom practices, such as India, Africa and Middle East countries such as United Arab Emirates, where using Talkster through GTalk2VoIP will let people communicate freely between mobile phones, landlines and PCs, even in countries not currently supported through Talkster’s ad supported free calling service.
To take advantage of free international calling via Google Talk via Talkster, follow these steps:
Run Google Talk desktop client. Download and install Google Talk if you haven’t.
Click on the Add button on Google Talk to add contacts into Google Talk, as the same usual way.
Type in the phone number of the person you want to call in the following format:
complete-full-phone-number@talkster.gtalk2voip.com
The complete full phone number must include country code and area code. For example, a telephone number in UK will have the following phone number assigned in GTalk: 442071234567@talkster.gtalk2voip.com, or for USA, 12125551212@talkster.gtalk2voip.com.
A confirmation instant message will be sent by Talkster for instructions together with a local Talkster call-in number on how to place the free international calls for both calling party and called party. Typically, Talkster assigns a local Talkster number for calling party (the person you want to call) in their country, which allows he or she to incur only cheap local call charge (which may be free in some countries).
To place the free international call to your friend, click on friend’s number in the Google Talk Contact List.
Click on the Call button to start the call.
Talkster will dial out to the calling phone number from Google Talk.
When the calling party answers, there is 10 seconds for caller to check to see if he’s available to talk, and to instruct the answering party to hang up and callback using the caller’s local Taskster phone number in that country.
Wait while the calling party hangs up and calls back using the Talkster local number for the caller. Ensure that the calling party knows this number, else send the phone number to him or by email or IM. If the phone number is a mobile phone number, an SMS with Talkster call-in number will be sent to the cellphone too. The call recipient or the calling party must calls back in for the international call to be connected.
Note that Talkster uses Caller ID to recognize who to connect the call to, so Caller ID must not be disabled or suppressed.
As soon as the ‘original calling party’ calls in, Talkster and GTalk2VoIP connect both caller and called party into an international call where talkers can talk as long as you want for free.
When finished talking, just end the call. Users are welcome to call as often as possible.
Currently, Talkster has local numbers in more than 30 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
Calling fixed line, landline, mobile, cell or any phone number of supported international destinations or countries from Google Talk via Talkster and GTalk2VoIP integration is always free, and no credit card, no sign-up and no registration required, no catches, no limites, and no conditions attached, and free usage is unlimited. Users can can call as often as you like and talk as long as you like.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Free PC to Phone International Calls with GoogleTalk & Talkster
Friday, September 26, 2008
Wipphone offers free calls to India
Wipphone offers free 30 minutes to call any country.
To get 30 free minutes, you need to register with Wipphone, download their voip application (softphone). Now you will be able to make free calls worth 30 minutes. Its a free Pc to phone calling service.
Wipphone also offers business voip services. To call a wIPphone user, just dial his/her 10-digit wIPphone number.
To call a mobile or landline, just dial :
00+country code+telephone number
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
You Tring provides free calls to India
Enjoy free PC to phone calls at You Tring.
Phone bills driving the daylights out of you?
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Register at You Tring
YouTring brings to its users (Tringers) an exciting 'earn-as-you-surf' plan and Tringers would be awarded free points called Trings (Ŧ) as shown below. These points can be redeemed by you to purchase any items.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Free Pc to Phone Calls ! Free VOIP Phone Calls to India, WorldWide !: Get 5$ calling credit by Tabrio : Call anywhere free
Friday, September 19, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
GOOGLE - The worlds most powerful search engine is now 10 years old
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc on September 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion(Dh550.50 billion) market value to redefine media, marketing and technology.
Perhaps Google's biggest test in the next decade will be finding a way to pursue its seemingly boundless ambitions without triggering a backlash that derails the company.
"You can't do some of the things that they are trying to do without eventually facing some challenges from the government and your rivals," said Danny Sullivan, who has followed Google since its inception and is now editor-in-chief of SearchEngineLand.
Google's expanding control over the flow of Internet traffic and advertising already is raising monopoly concerns.
The intensifying regulatory and political scrutiny on Google's expansion could present more roadblocks in the future.
Privacy watchdogs also have sharpened their attacks on Google's retention of potentially sensitive information about the 650 million people who use its search engine and other Internet services like YouTube, Maps and Gmail.
If the harping eventually inspires rules that restrict Google's data collection, it could make its search engine less relevant and its ad network less profitable.
To protect its interests, Google has hired lobbyists to bend the ears of lawmakers and ramped up its public relations staff to sway opinion as management gears up to conquer new frontiers.
"Google will keep pushing the envelope," predicted John Battelle, who wrote a book about the company and now runs Federated Media, a conduit for Internet publishers and advertisers. "It's one of the things that seems to make them happy."
In the latest example of its relentless expansion, Google has just released a Web browser to make its search engine and other online services even more accessible and appealing. Not every peripheral step has gone smoothly, though; several of the company's ancillary products have flopped or never lived up to the hype.
Extending Google's ubiquity to cell phones and other mobile devices sits at the top of management's agenda for the next decade.
But the lengthy to-do list also includes: making digital copies of all the world's books; establishing electronic file cabinets for people's health records; leading the alternative energy charge away from fossil fuels; selling computer programmes to businesses over the Internet; and tweaking its search engine so it can better understand requests stated in plain language, just like a human would.
Force for good
"There are people who think we are plenty full of ourselves right now, but from inside at least, it doesn't look that way," said Craig Silverstein, Google's technology director and the first employee hired by Page and Brin. "I think what keeps us humble is realising how much further we have to go."
Page and Brin, both 35 now and worth nearly $19 billion apiece, declined to be interviewed for this story. But they have never left any doubt they view Google as a force for good - a philosophy punctuated by their corporate motto: "Don't Be Evil."
"If we had a lightsaber, we would be Luke (Skywalker)," Silverstein said.
A Star Wars analogy can just as easily be used to depict Google as an imposing empire. It holds commanding leads in both the Internet search and advertising markets.
The company processes nearly two-thirds of the world's online search requests, according to the research firm comScore Inc., and sells about three-fourths of the ads tied to search requests, according to another firm, eMarketer Inc.
The dominance has enabled Google to rake in $48 billion from Internet ads since 2001. Google hasn't hoarded all of that money: the company has paid $15 billion in commissions to the Web sites that run its ads during the same period, helping to support major online destinations like AOL, Ask.com and MySpace as well as an array of bloggers.
"Google is the oxygen in this ecosystem," Battelle said. The company hopes to inhale even more Internet advertising from the biggest deal in its short history - a $3.2 billion acquisition of online marketing service DoubleClick Inc. that was completed six months ago.
Google also is trying to mine more money from its second-largest acquisition, YouTube, the Internet's leading video channel.
YouTube is expected to generate about $200 million in revenue this year, an amount that analysts believe barely scratches the video site's moneymaking potential.
Eventually, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt wants the entire company to generate $100 billion in annual revenue, which would make it roughly as big as the two largest information-technology companies - Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp. - each are now. This year, Google will surpass the $20 billion threshold for the first time.
Schmidt, 53, who became Google's CEO in 2001, seems determined to stick around to reach his goal. He, Brin and Page have made an informal pact to remain the company's brain trust through 2024, at least.
But some rivals are determined to thwart Google. TV and movie conglomerate Viacom Inc. is suing Google for $1 billion for alleged copyright infringement at YouTube, while Microsoft signalled how desperately it wants to topple Google by offering to buy Yahoo for $47.5 billion this year.
Microsoft withdrew the takeover bid in a dispute over Yahoo's value, but some analysts still think those two companies may get together if they fall farther behind Google.
The notion that Microsoft would spend so much time worrying about Google seemed inconceivable in September 1998, when Page and Brin decided to convert their research project in Stanford University's computer science graduate programme into a formal company.
Page, a University of Michigan graduate, and Brin, a University of Maryland alum, began working on a search engine - originally called BackRub - in 1996 because they believed a lot of important content wasn't being found on the Web.
At the time, the companies behind the Internet's major search engines - Yahoo, AltaVista and Excite - were increasingly focused on building multifaceted Web sites.
Internet search was considered such a low priority at the time that Page and Brin couldn't even find anyone willing to pay a couple of million dollars to buy their technology.
Instead, they got a $100,000 investment from one of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s co-founders, Andy Bechtolsheim, and filed incorporation papers so they could cash a cheque made out to Google Inc.
In a nod to their geeky roots as children of computer science and math professors, Page and Brin had derived the name from the mathematical term "googol" - a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Even after Google became an official company in 1998, the business continued to operate out of the founders' Stanford dorm rooms.
Like Google's stripped-down home page, the company itself had a bare-bones aesthetic. Page's room was converted into a "server farm" for the three computers that ran the search engine, which then processed about 10,000 requests per day compared with about 1.5 billion per day now.
The headquarters were in Brin's room in a neighbouring dorm hall, where the founders and Silverstein wrestled for control of another computer to bang out programming code.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Adopt a long-term investment approach
The Sensex ended in August 2008 at 14565 gaining just 209 points (1.5 per cent) over the July close of 14356. The initial rally to cross the 15000 mark faltered on the subsequent weaker GDP growth forecast and inflation hovering close to 13 per cent. The market almost consistently fell except on the last day when it gained 516 points. FIIs and Mutual Funds again turned net sellers of equities while favouring investment in debt instruments. Prevailing higher interest rates are taking these institutional investors away from equities because the macro environment is too hazy to support upward bias in equities.
In addition to the subdued economic scenario, the political situation and the nuclear deal are on shaky ground. Further, floods are wreaking havoc causing agricultural output to suffer. The positive sentiment required for investment is thus lacking.
The cumulative seasonal rainfall for the country in August is below the Long Period Average value by only 2 %. The June-September monsoon, which accounts for four-fifth of the nation’s annual rainfall should help the country’s 234 million farmers harvest a bigger crop and boost rural incomes. Going forward, agriculture will hold the key for both industry and overall growth, and also for taming inflation levels.
On the positive side, crude oil prices cooled off from US$150 to around US$110 mainly due to dwindling demand. However, there are contrary views about the trend that might prevail for prices of commodities including crude oil over the short to medium term.
The RBI is hiking interest rates to reign in inflation. Both higher interest rates and inflation bother the industry as they impact consumer demand and hurt corporate profitability. Until we see inflation easing, it would be unrealistic to expect easing of the monetary policy. Higher interest rates and inflation levels might to some extent delay expansion projects of corporates. With general elections scheduled for early 2009, more populist measures are expected to keep economic considerations at bay. Further, the US$17billion (Rs.68,000 crore) farm loan waiver and 21 percent increase in salaries paid to about 5 million government employees should certainly spur consumer demand in the ensuing festive season.
Consequently, in a not very congenial macro environment, it is suggested that emphasis be put on getting into stocks of well-run companies having reputed promoters and proven management. invest in the underlying businesses of the companies since the stock market will eventually appropriately value the business. If the business does well, the stock eventually follows. So, by adopting a long-term approach to investment, you emerge a winner regardless of short-term blips.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Sensex poised for volatile trading
Rising anxiety about the health of the global economy will cast a long shadow on Indian shares this week, while falling oil prices are unlikely to provide much comfort to nervous investors who have been grappling with volatile markets.
Although inflation has eased for two weeks in a row, it remains near 16-year highs and the new Reserve Bank of India governor, D. Subbarao, who took over on Friday has said his priority was calming price pressures.
"There are too many dark clouds hanging over the market," said stocks trader Rasesh Shah. "It will be tough going with the headwinds picking up."
Worsening prospects for the US and European economies, combined with a slowdown in China, India and Brazil, are expected to lead to a global contraction and put immense pressure on corporate earnings across the board, he said.
Information technology companies like Tata Consultancy, Infosys, Wipro and Satyam which rely on the US for most of their business could be hurt if the world's largest economy slips into a full blown recession.
Shah said the gloomy business outlook had pushed the stocks of these companies sharply lower last week, even though a weakening rupee was a big positive for the export-dependent companies.
Commodity firms will also face the heat as shrinking growth in China douse demand and pile downward pressure on prices.
Goldman Sachs last week downgraded US steel stocks to 'neutral' from 'attractive' and lowered its price forecast for the metal in the next 16 months because of slowing economic growth in China and a strengthening dollar.
Steel prices are likely to average $923 a tonne this year and $951 next year, Goldman said, 3.2 per cent and 6.1 per cent less than it previously forecast.
This will have an impact on Tata Steel, the world's sixth-largest steel producer, which now gets the bulk of its earnings from its Corus unit in Europe. Its domestic operation along with rivals Steel Authority of India and JSW Steel have been facing pressure from a government-engineered price freeze since May.
The benchmark Sensex index, which slipped 0.6 per cent last week to 14,483.83 last week, could see a slide in the near term as investors turn risk averse.
Grim forecast
Lehman Brothers said in a report released on Friday the Sensex could drop 10-15 per cent in the short term to 12,500-13,000 and forecast borrowing costs to remain high in the next three to six months.
However, the US research house said the fall should be used as an opportunity in the coming year to accumulate shares. Corporate earnings have been affected by higher interest rates, rising raw material costs and high yields, but margins are likely to stabilise in coming quarters in a deflationary commodity environment, it said.
Investor should consider buying shares in banks and in auto, media, consumer, telecom, real estate and pharma companies, but avoid capital goods, non-ferrous metals and cement companies, Lehman said.
Equity strategist V. Venugopal said it was too early to suggest inflation had lost momentum and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was more likely to raise interest rates again in October, when the central bank is scheduled to review policy.
Annual inflation in the week ended August 23 was at 12.34 per cent, edging down from 12.63 per cent two weeks earlier, but well above the RBI's target of seven per cent.
Venugopal said a sliding rupee and an Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) meeting this week would be closely watched.
The rupee, which has tumbled nearly 12 per cent this year to a 21-month-low of 44.7 per dollar, could weaken beyond 45 this week, he said, as refiners step up dollar purchases to buy oil.
The currency has been under pressure after India's trade deficit jumped to a monthly record of $10.8 billion in July, with oil imports soaring 69.3 per cent to $9.48 billion. The gap stood at $41.23 billion in April-July, sharply up from $27.35 billion in the year-earlier period.
The Opec meeting in Vienna this week could announce a cut in crude output to halt tumbling prices of oil - down eight per cent last week to below $107 a barrel from a recover over $147 in mid-July.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Calls to UK, Australia ...
You can make international calls where you have to pay only for the local call charges.
Go to talkster.
Getting free local Talkster numbers for you and your friends around the world is simple! It wil provide local number to you and local number to the other party also. So both of you will be charged only the local minutes.
Try it.
Steps to be followed:
The first time only, tell the name and phone number of the friend you want to call .
You are given a new Talkster phone number for each friend that is yours to use forever. Save it in the address book on your phone!
Whenever you want to talk to your friend, dial the new local Talkster number for that friend instead of the old long distance or international number.
FREE CALLS TO INDIA
Follow the Steps to get the free 60min offer to talk to india.
Go to youcall.com.
Register with youcall.com.
Enter all the information correctly mainly the Email address.
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Click on the confirmation link in the mail.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Indian Rupee eases to hit a low of 44.69 per dollar
The rupee dropped to its lowest level in more than 17 months in volatile trade on Tuesday, shrugging off heavy central bank intervention as the dollar rallied strongly against a basket of currencies. The partially convertible rupee closed at 44.38/44.39 per dollar, half a percent down from Monday's close of 44.17/18.
Dealers said a combination of capital outflows from the stock market, stop-loss positions being triggered and heavy dollar buying by oil refiners pushed the rupee down, adding the local unit could hit 45 per dollar in the next couple of days.
The rupee traded in a broad 44.14-44.56 per dollar band, and the day's trough was the rupee's lowest since March 5, 2007, when it touched 44.6950. Currency markets are closed on Wednesday for a holiday and trading resumes on Thursday.
At its low, the rupee has fallen 1.4 percent in the first two days of the month. It fell 3.1 percent in August and is down more than 11 per cent in 2008, making it one of Asia's worst-performing currencies. It rose more than 12 per cent in 2007.
"Dollar demand is huge and the supply pipeline is very thin as most exporters have sold their receivables and capital inflows have all but dried up," said J. Moses Harding, head of global markets at IndusInd Bank in Mumbai. Foreigners have sold more than $7.3 bn in local shares so far in 2008 pushing the stock market down by more than a quarter.
They bought a record $17.4 bn in 2007. A widening trade deficit added to funding concerns. The trade deficit in July was $10.8 bn, expanding from $9.8 bn in June. For April-July, the first four months of the fiscal year, the deficit widened to $41.23 bn between April-July from $27.35 bn a year earlier.
Central bank dollar sales between 44.20-44.55 ensured the rupee closed above its intraday lows. Five dealers at different banks estimated the central bank had sold between $1-$2 billion in the spot market, its biggest intervention in months.
One-month offshore non-deliverable forward contracts were quoting at 44.55/44.65, weaker than the onshore rate. In the futures market, more than 42,000 contracts were dealt with the near-month contract leading the way. It closed at 44.5450 per dollar.
Two dealers said some stop-losses bunched around the 44.40 per dollar levels helped the rupee lower. R.K. Gurumurthy, head of financial markets at ING Vysya Bank, said a clean break above 44.40 would be bullish for the dollar/rupee
