Sabse acquires Mobivox Voip service

This Indian voip telephony service is on a roll. Very famous SabseBolo ( of sabse technologies -- Sabeer Bhatia) has started expanding. First Sabse technologies acquired Jaxtr voip service and now it has acquired canadian voip service Mobivox.

Sabsebolo offers conference call solutions to and this take clearly means that Sabse is expanding conferece calling service. We hope to see Sabse entering the global market with step and provide conference call solutions in other countries. It will also be a watch if it uses Mobivox free service and cheap calling service to offers cheap and free conference call solutions.

If Sabse merge Jaxtr and Mobivox and bring something interesting into the voip market, a single voip solution which offers free and cheap calls. (Mobivox started to loose customers when they stopped offering free calls and never decreased the calling rates) .

Do share your views about this latest action by Indian Voip company Sabse Technologies.

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Toshiba Satellite P505D-S8930

Instead of just a flat solid color, Toshiba used its Fusion Finish on the P505D with its sonic pattern in black onyx. It's a light pinstripe pattern on a glossy black background on the lid, with palm rests, and speaker surround above the keyboard. The speakers sound great by the way, far above the laptop's budget price tag. The keyboard is large and comfortable with a full number pad on the right end. The keys are flat like a chiclet style keyboard, but they float above the tray so you'll have to watch your cookie crumbs.

They're also somewhat slick, making it slightly unpleasant to type on. Due to the glossy nature of everything, the laptop collects a lot of fingerprints. Overall, Toshiba Satellite P505D is a nice looking package and is certainly what a majority of its cost went to. To the right of the keyboard is a set of backlit touch sensitive media controls, the power button, and an Eco mode key. This mode significantly cuts back on power usage by cutting back on display brightness and other nonessential features.

It also shows a line graph to prove the power savings. The 18.4 inch wide screen LCD display offers a 1.680x945 native resolution, which is not standard for a screen this size. In fact, we've never tested a system with this size screen carrying such a low resolution. More standard for this size are resolutions of 1.920x1.080 or 1.900x1.200. Despite the lower resolution, the screen is good for just about anything you'll do on it, with decent color performance, brightness, and dynamic range. If those are two things you're interested in, you'll want to search out a P500 series laptop that actually has them.

Features

• Toshiba Satellite P505D-S8930 : Average for category (desktop replacement)
• Video VGA : VGA and HDMI or DisplayPort
• Audio Stereo : speakers, headphone/microphone jacks Stereo speakers with subwoofer, headphone and microphone jacks
• Data : 3 USB 2.0, mini-FireWire, eSATA/USB, multi-format card reader 4 USB 2.0, SD card reader
• Expansion : ExpressCard 54
• Networking : Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, modem Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
• Optical drive : DVD burner
  

Ports for the most part are what we expect to find on a system in this price range. Only the eSATA/USB 2.0 combo port is an anomaly, but it's a good one and has Toshiba's sleep and charge feature for charging devices even when the computer's sleeping. Also, though there are spots for HDMI and DisplayPort connections on the left side, they have been plugged up.

If those are two things you're interested in, you'll want to check out another version of the P500 series that actually has them. Toshiba Satellite P505D-S8930 is a retail only fixed configuration, so what you get is what you get. However, the memory and hard drive compartments are easily accessed through the bottom of the case. This model comes with 4GB of memory, but can be expanded to 8GB total.

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Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955

Last year's Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, which cost $675 and was housed in a nearly identical case, came with a 200GB hard drive, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 1.86GHz Pentium Dual-Core T2390. Therein lies the difference : this year's L305 has a 160GB hard drive, only 2GB of RAM, and an inferior Celeron 900 processor for nearly half the cost. In essence, it has the guts of a Netbook in a 15.4 inch laptop's body (the earliest Netbooks actually used Celeron chips, before Intel release the Atom processor).

While this laptop is fine for basic e-mail, media viewing, music playing, and other simple tasks, we wouldn't recommend it for any sort of multitasking or serious mission critical computing. It's already more than a bit of a dinosaur in 2009, and it won't get any less outdated, making it a questionable investment on the other hand, Windows 7 should run fine on it (although most new Vista Basic systems are ineligible for a free upgrade), and this could be the sort of bargain a low expectations consumer is looking for.

Features

• Price as reviewed / Starting price : $349
• Processor : 2.2GHz Intel Celeron 900
• Memory : 2GB, DDR2 800MHz
• Hard drive : 160GB 5,400rpm
• Chipset : Mobile Intel GM45
• Graphics : Intel GMA 4500MHD
• Operating System : Windows Vista Home Basic SP1
• Dimensions (WD) : 14.3x10.6 inches
• Height : 1.5 inches
• Screen size (diagonal): 15.4 inches
• System weight / Weight with AC adapter : 5.92 / 6.78 pounds
• Category : Mainstream
  

The next question you may have is : "Why wouldn't I just buy a Netbook?" To that, we say: it depends on whether a larger screen and keyboard matter to you. Netbooks are considerably more portable, and an Atom processor doesn't make much of a computing difference compared with the Celeron 900 in Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955. However, many budget Netbooks have compromised keyboard sizes, and screens that might be too limiting for power users. Also, the L305-S5955 runs Vista as opposed to Windows XP. Take that as you will. We also find there's a sizable psychological factor : small Netbooks come with one set of expectations attached, while users expect larger laptops no matter how low powered or inexpensive to behave more or less like standard mainstream systems.

Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955 will never be confused for a Netbook from the outside, however. At 1.5 inches thick, it's one of the beefier nongaming laptops on the market. The muted blue gray exterior is prone to fingerprint smears, but the plastic feeling lid is solid. There's a full size keyboard with tapered keys, and six physical media control buttons that aren't backlit. Volume control, like with the similar Toshiba L505D-S5965, is operated via a wheel at the front of the laptop, under the touch pad.

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AirtelCallhome Holi to Diwali Offer : Calling Card to India

Its time for Diwali and the free and cheap calling to India are now in action. The first one to launch Diwali offer is AirtelCallhome. AirtelCallHome calling cards are widely used by NRI to call their loved ones in India. Specially in this festive season, the call volumes to India increase to great extent.

Voip providers bring their best deals to attract more customer. Lets now talk about AirtelCallhome festive offer named "Diwali to Holi offer":
Plan Value: $24.99
Admin fees: $6.99
Talktime: $18.00
Calling Minutes: 1353
Validity: 6 months

The good things about this offer by Airtelcallhome is the extended validity and cheap rates. The effective calling rate to India is just 1.84 cents per minute. Considering that the service is Phone to Phone (a calling card), the rate is cheap and AirtelCallhome service is surely worth trying.

The reviews about Airtelcallhome have always been mixed on this blog. Many people dont prefer Airtel but still a lot of people say that AirtelCallhome service is good and recommended.

It should be noted here that AirtelCallhome other plans like India one plan and Aapno Gujrat plan still holds, and people may opt for those.

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Rynga : Rynga.com Cheap Voip calling Rates : iPhone Mac Android

Rynga Voip Service is another launch of voip provider by the well known Betamax/DellMont Sarl. Every now and then betamax launch a new provider which offers the cheapest calls rates, free calls to many destinations. And this time the new voip provider is Rynga Voip Service. The new launch (Rynga) happens when the prices of other betamax providers increases.

The launch of Rynga: Discount voip provider, offering very low rates calls to India, free call to countries like Bangladesh (mobile and lndline), and this has come after the prices have actionvoip, smartvoip and Jumblo increased. So you should move to Rynga for making international calls, specially cheap calls to India !

Special thanks to Varsha for informing about Rynga. First lets talk about the call rates presently offered by Rynga for calling India.

Rynga is offering 1 US cent per minute to Indian mobile and 1.5 US cents to call landlines. Since most people in India carry a mobile, the deal by Rynga seems to be good option.

You can use Rynga as a PC to Phone calling service using their free softphone : Download Rynga. Use can also use Rynga SIP settings for making SIP calls:

Rynga SIP settings:

SIP port : 5060
Registrar : sip.rynga.com
Proxy server : sip.rynga.com
Outbound proxy server : leave blank
Account name : your rynga username
Password : your rynga password

Another way of using Rynga Voip is using access numbers: this way make phone to phone calls. Rynga offers access numbers in many countries. Web initiated calling method is also there. You can now also use Rynga on your iPhone, Rynga for Mac or Rynga on your Android Mobile.

Well overall Rynga service looks good, but the only problem with betamax is they increase the price anytime. Another bad thing is poor customer support. So I would advice to buy minimum credit and use the service till the price hike takes place. If you start liking Rynga service you may then continue.

Do give your feedback about Rynga Voip.

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