I wrote about Acquicor in March and the company has now filled it’s purpose and bought Jazz Semiconductors for $260 Million. As a reminder, the company was formed simply to buy another company. That’s called SPAC, special purpose acquisition corporation. 
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Technorati Tags: Acquicor, Jazz Semiconductor, SPAC
Ok, I couldn’t resist anymore after this post on Techcrunch. It talks about the new app that Jajah has just released which is a kind of plugin for your mobile phone, or for my Nokia N70 at least. It simply reroutes my calls via Jajah, making international calling a lot cheaper. I already have a phone flatrate but this only applies for germany. I will have to turn it off while being in Germany and calling people in Germany. But to EU countries and the USA it costs me 69 cents per minute with Base and 15 cents per minute with Jajah. Now that’s nice.
Dear people of Jajah. It would be nice if I would be able to configure the plugin to where it applies. All of +49 should be off limits for the app because Base is just cheaper for me.
Update: Just had a chat with Frederik Hermann, who is currently at DEMO in the US and Marketing Manager for Jajah. When he called it was close to 1am his. After a short chat about the people we are both connected to on OpenBC, and general talk about Jajah, he quickly explained to me how the Jajah client behaves.
The thing is that all my worries are settled. In the main settings you can set your own international prefix, 49 for me. This means that for all numbers that are +49, the Jajah plugin will not do anything. Then there is a kind of include list in the settings. This routing table holds “+*” and “00*” as default settings, meaning that it will handle all calls (ex. those with country code from your own international settings) that look like the above. Very nice indeed. So if I would just like Jajah to handle my calls to certain numbers, I could do that.
Oh the mobile carriers will get pissed at this. But Jajah seems to be developing nicely, and have their development in Israel, who seem to be doing a nice job. As I heard now the founders are not really living in the US… mainly because they don’t live anywhere due to the amount of traveling to exotic countries Looking forward to seeing more from them. Thanks again to Frederik for taking the time late at night, from a conference none the less.
Update 2: Seem like Sarik Weber is going into a similar space. He is leaving OpenBC, having been their first employee, and is starting something in the mobile space around cheaper calls. See more here.
Update 3: Sarik Weber is starting a company called cellity, a least cost router for your mobile phone. Registered.
Technorati Tags: Base, Free Calls, Jajah, Mobility
After Lukas blogged it at Gründerszene, and the comments making sure everyone knows it’s true with some interesting links, it is now official. OpenBC will become Xing. I hope to learn a bit more about this new name soon, but for now I have to say I like it. Marketing people will surely like it because it’s a lot more brandable. And the new slogan: “Powering Relationships” is a good one. With a new site coming soon, there are probably some interesting things to come. Looking forward to seeing them managing the name change which will surely not be easy. At least they are already on the frontpage of Technorati with all the bloggers writing about it.
As of <a xhref=”http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Xing&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official” mce_href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Xing&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official”>Google define: Xing</a> this is the definition:
<I>One of the Twelve Symbols of Sovereignty, the constellation of three stars is a symbol of the cosmic universe. The universe, as personified by the Emperor, is an unending source of pardon and love.</I>
Big Name
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From time to time Cringely has some great posts and this time Beam Me Up has me thinking again. He talks about iTV and that there is an USB port on the machine. Attach an iSight camera and you can do Video Conferencing via your HDTV. Now that is cool indeed. If it’s true.
Consul’s World posted a video from Top Gear where they tested the Porsche GT. To be exact, Jeremy Clarkson tests it and he is, by far, the best car reviewer I have ever witnessed. Enjoy.
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