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 www.minowireless.com

The new service MINO Wireless allows for inexpensive calling from US cell phones to international destinations (about 2 cents per minute).  This cool service uses a small JAVA program downloaded to your cell phone to trigger a callback.  This program sends a few KB’s worth of data over GPRS, which may cost a few cents depending on your mobile plan.  After the callback is triggered, your phone rings, you wait, and the call is patched through to its destination.  This is a more advanced and cheaper form of callback service than competitors callbackworld.com and enlinea.com. 

This is great for calling foreign numbers FROM the US.   However, it’s no good for Americans travelling abroad with a US cell phone, since they are still “receiving” a call, so are still charged, defeating the purpose entirely.

All seems well–Wordpress loads a simple but working version of this site on the Blackberry Browser.  Well done Berkman Center; the new blog server is fantastic.

Google Calendar has worked out pretty much all of the issues raised in my earlier post. I’m currently in Western Europe, and having no time zone issues. The newly released calendar integration with the Google Home Page http://www.google.com/ig is fantastic. In all, the service is now quite acceptable.