Just a quick one to say that we are delighted to announce a very competitive UK mobile price drop from 9.5p ex VAT to 7p ex VAT for calls to O2, 3, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone using SureVoIP.
Enjoy!
P.S. Read the latest SureVoIP reviews
Those of you on Twitter would have seen the news first, but in case you didn’t:
The first one is cool and shows you how the social media sector can pay for itself when an app is released free. Instagram allows you to takes pics and automatically upload them up to Twitter, Facebook and do fancy effects on them. The native Facebook iPhone app was clunky to use with pics.
There are also 13 guys in Instagram now all worth almost $100m (CEO got most). The general comment is that the Android release last week had a big impact on the deal and also their powerful RESTful API and OAuth 2 (just like the SureVoIP API, but we weren’t first 
).
The scary news is that the newly owned Microsoft patents are so powerful. They just bought one for SSL, you know, the thing that allows you to go to https:// for your bank and the whole web.
There’s a lot of other mobile patents in that list too. Food for thought as to what damage they can do in the future like create a Microsoft tax for many things and kill a lot of mobile innovation and there’s even some in there about VoIP!
We would like to invite you to come and join us on Stand 23 at the Granite PR Expo at the Treetops Hotel in Aberdeen on Thursday this week.
We will be launching our online store on the day and will have a variety of VoIP IP phones on display. If you have any questions about using the internet for business grade telephone calls, please drop past and get your exclusive discount code!
We look forward to meeting you at this unique and exciting exhibition for the Aberdeen business Community.
Thanks,
Gavin.
Granite Expo a world of opportunity 2011
A Celebration of SME’s across the North East
Thursday 27th October 2011
9am – 6.30pm
Hilton Treetops Hotel
Aberdeen
AB15 7AQ
Admisssion Free – All Local Businesses welcome and encouraged to visit.
Showcasing over 100 of the North-East’s top SME’s. See the full catalog for a complete listing.
Just come across this Cloud Industry Forum rains on UK Cloud Alliance’s parade:
Fifteen UK-based technology firms and service providers have come together to launch the UK Cloud Alliance in an attempt to help businesses looking to procure cloud services. However, the move has been heavily criticized by the Cloud Industry Forum.
“Apparently a rigorous process was implemented (by Star themselves we assume) to whittle down literally ‘thousands’ of would-be cloud providers and enablers into a list of just 15-17 businesses that can meet the needs of the UK SMB market according to Star’s business develepment person,” said Andy Burton, chairman of the Cloud Industry Forum.
“Unsurprisingly, the only firms making the cut were firms that don’t compete with Star, and many of who they have historically worked with on opportunities. I would love to hear from some of the hopeful companies that supposedly must have had their business plans dashed by not becoming a member of this ‘new’ organisation, but somehow I doubt that even one of these claimed ‘thousands’ will ever come forward,” he added.
