Vonage Redraws Borders for Unlimited International Calls

On August 20, 2009

Vonage Redraws Borders for Unlimited International Calls

Unlimited domestic phone calls are nearly a standard feature for landline plans these days. Now, Vonage Holdings, which helped pioneer that feature with its Internet phone service, is expanding it to most international calls as well. CEO Marc Lefar said Wednesday that Vonage will include unlimited calls to more than 60 countries in a new standard plan that costs $25 per month.
On August 20, 2009

How to Triple Your Reading Speed in 20 Minutes

Yep, you read that right: triple your reading speed. In 20 minutes. And am I also selling a bridge, you may ask? Not so fast, my doubting friends. I'm actually riffing off a post written by Tim Ferriss (yes, he of The 4-Hour Workweek fame) about his PX Project. It's a 3-hour cognitive experiment that produced an average increase in reading speed of 386%. Writes Ferriss, "It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. One page every 6 seconds. By comparison, the average reading speed in the US is 200-300 wpm (1/2 to 1 page per minute), with the top...
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Greentech Abroad: Australia’s 20 Percent and a Million Electric Cars For Germany

Major moves toward clean energy are taking place in other developed countries as governments find ways to navigate between today's recession and worries of future global warming. In Australia, lawmakers have just passed plans to generate 20 percent of all electricity from renewable sources by 2020, while Germany aims to have a million electric cars by the same date. Australia has been grappling with the opposing demands of environmentalists and its own powerful coal industry for over a year, and reacted much as the United States has, with compromises aimed at industry. Cap and trade, although passed, has already been delayed until 2011 and only holds a weak target of reducing emissions to 5 percent below 2000 levels by 2020....
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GameStop Sales Wind Down on Recession, Delayed Releases

GameStop, the world's largest video game and entertainments software retailer, posted disappointing fiscal second-quarter results on Thursday and lowered its full-year earnings forecast, citing fewer hit video games and cautious consumers. Shares tumbled in morning trading. GameStop said it earned $38.7 million, or 23 cents per share, for the period ended Aug. 1.


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Ontario, Home to Major Automakers, Invests in Homegrown Electric Cars

The city of Windsor, Ontario is a short tunnel ride from downtown Detroit, and the province of Ontario is home to a major automobile industry. A 2006 survey pointed out that Ontario actually builds more cars than Michigan does. According to the survey, the province builds 2.5 million cars and trucks every year, has 125,000 workers on assembly lines and another 250,000 “associated with the auto sector generally.” Canada has not, however,  been central to the accelerating push to electrify the transportation fleet, but—as President Obama did with his recently announced $2.4 billion in stimulus money for battery manufacturing—the provincial government (which has also had to bailout local automakers, just like the U.S.) is seeking to jump-start the local EV industry. According to Sandra...


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The Single Most Important Thing Your Headline Must Do

Imagine you’re going through your RSS reader and skimming the headlines as you sip your coffee, thinking about the busy day ahead. You have an early presentation, lunch with Sue, a meeting at 2:30 and a call at 3:10. You promised the wife you’d pick up chicken for supper and then there’s that new DVD [...]


On August 20, 2009

June Premium Traffic Drops “Only” 21.3 Percent

It is absolutely absurd when people start getting optimistic over a 20+ percent drop in traffic, but that's exactly what we're seeing with the latest IATA premium traffic monitor from June. Premium traffic was down 21.3 percent, and that's good.


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