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JAJAH now supports calling from you Blackberry. In order to make JAJAH calls via your BlackBerry, you need to download the JAJAH Mobile for BlackBerry application. the application supports BlackBerry software version 4.3 and above.

The main advantage of using the application over the JAJAH web site is that the application can access your address book and call directly from your contacts and call log making it very easy to place a cheap JAJAH call.

To Install JAJAH Mobile for BlackBerry OTA, Open your BlackBerry browser and go to http://tiny.cc/jajahbb. the application will automatically be downloaded and installed on your BlackBerry.

How does it work:

1- Select the destination number with the International area code.

The destination number can be entered in the main screen or be selected from your contacts or call log.

2- Open the menu and click on JAJAH Call – that’s it!

Destination number in main screen                              Call from call Log, using the menu

Yesterday I attended TheMarker annual web convention, Com.vention09. when I arrived, a girl approached me and informed me that Pelephone are giving away the Palm. As I’ve been awaiting for the Palm Pre, and knowing that it will distributed via Pelephone, I got super excited and even ready to buy it! When I got to Pelephones stand I asked about it, and after taking a good look at the phone  I said; This is not the Palm Pre!

Well, it seems that Pre and Pro sound rather similar. After explaining to the sales person why this phone is not the Pre, he said, “Yes, the Pre will only be available in September”  and explained how good is the Palm Pro. Since I was there already, I played a game. I was impressed that Pelephone had such a big stand, and thought to myself that its probably due to the new technology they are marketing : High Speed GSM, which is actually HSDPA (where did they get that name!?!).

At the end of the convention, I went up to meet a friend near the Pelephone stand, One of the girls told me I can play as much as I’d like (woohoo). surprisingly enough, I had won! I was shocked, I have never won before. I went to get my prize, and found out that in order to get my prize I need to sign up to Pelephone for 36 months and pay 70 NIS per month!!!, which is 2520 NIS!!!, doesn’t sound like a prize to me!. After talking a bit with the sales guy he said the problem is that I have a different operators phone and that I need to have a Pelephone subscription in order to be legible for the prize. sounds fair enough. As Pelephone charges me for some unknown reason for the past two years, I was actually happy.  I have two numbers subscribed to Pelephone, which I haven’t been using for periods of three and five years yet they’ve been charging me 60 NIS per two months. As me being one of those costumers that don’t want to wait 2 hours on the phone, I just let them charge me 30 NIS a month. finally I thought it was worth it. I could get the phone for 30 NIS a month, and still keep my Orange number. But it seemed that the ONLY package I could get in order to receive my **FREE* phone was the  70 NIS or up packages. It was to expensive to get the free mobile phone. I would actually prefer not to win a FREE phone and get all disappointed. After this incident, I’m going to wait on the phone how ever much it takes and cancel my 2 subscriptions to Pelephone. Although it does say on the small print that you need to subscribe to Pelephone, it does make you feel stupid that they make you pay a big amount and change your subscription package to a more expensive package. Shame on Pelephon!

a crazy week of events is ahead of us.  even if you are not going to CTIA, there are allot of hi tech related events this week! (if you are going to CTIA, look below for my recommendations)  I don’t know if its because the Kinnernet camp or because the upcoming holidays. anyway, below you may find a list of upcoming events so it will be much more easier to track and not miss on something you would like to attend:

 24/3:  GarageGeeks hosting Allen Hurff from MySpace: although this event was yesterday, its worth mentioning it in the list, Allen gave a great lecture about Open Platform, Open Social and Open ID and got me thinking….

25/3 Pre-Kinnernet Get Together: a get together with the Kinnernet participants from Israel and overseas. the event will take place in Uptown (formerly Galina Beach Club), from 20:00 to 22:00 and is hosted by Genesis Partners & 013Netvision. first free drinks are free. to RSVP: http://prekinnernet2009.eventbrite.com/

26/3-28/3 The annual Kinnernet camp: Will take place at  the see of Galilee. for more info: http://2009.kinnernet.com/

29/9 COM.Vention09: The annual Internet convention of TheMarker. the convention will have two tracks; International track which will be in English and include speakers from the Kinnernet Camp, and an Israeli track, which will focus Israeli scene. For more info and registration: http://conventions.themarker.com/article.asp?rId=138

29/3 Entrepreneur  Day: The first day (out of two) of the Entrepreneur Day, by MIT forum.  You will be able to hear about new strategies for Starting Up, Using IP for converting ideas into businesses and much more. For more details: http://www.mit-forum.org.il/events/event.aspx?id=72

29/3 Post Kinnernet Party, hosted by the GarageGeeks. the event will start at 19:30 in the Geek Garage (40 Hapeled St, Holon)

30/3 Tel Aviv branch of the Startups and Societal Ventures Network. Speakers are not yet published. The events will start at 18:00 and will take place at HP Offices, Raanana: http://www.meetup.com/SSVNetworkISRAEL/calendar/9904102/?a=ce1p_grp

30/3 GarageGeeks Sessions: Creative Commons Think Alike. The garage is busy this week! for info about this session: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=65575522591

31/3 Breakfast with Jeff Pulver: The breakfast is from 8:30 to 10:30, and will is held at ZOA House – 1 Daniel Frisch Tel-Aviv

31/3 Techonomy: Right after Jeff’s breakfast and in the same place! comfortable! The event will showcase new innovative startups that are aiming to change the way we think about Web2.0. The event is free but you need to RSVP at: http://techonomy.eventbrite.com/

31/3 Yahoo! Developer Session: The session is hosted by the.co.il’s and will discuss Yahoo! Developer Network and Open Strategy. The events starts at 19:00 and is at IDC.

1/4 Entrepreneur Day: The second day of the Entrepreneur Day, in this day there will be a highlight on getting Investments. for more info: http://www.mit-forum.org.il/events/event.aspx?id=74

1/4 The Annual Morrison & Foerster IP Seminar: at this event you will be able to learn about he emerging marketplace for Intellectual Property. The event will take place the Hilton Hotel and is from 9:00 to 14:00. Registration: http://snurl.com/cfc79

1/4 IMA’s Knowledge Cafe: The topic is: “Cybercrime Threats: From Internet to Mobile”. the event will take place at Sun’s offices, from 13:30- 17:30. for agenda: http://www.imaworld.org/?CategoryID=520 for registration: http://www.imaworld.org/?CategoryID=521

Let me know if I forgot something.

If you are planing on going to CTIA I recommend going to:

MobileMonday @ CTIA Wireless 2009:http://www.facebook.com//event.php?eid=68414518125

The Mobile Mashup: The Glitterati After Party at CTIA hosted my MobileMonday New York: http://mashupctia09-fbnews.eventbrite.com/

Caroline’s WIP Jam: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148397450064, I attended twice and was super inspiring!

WIP Jam After Party:  http://wipjam.com/2009/03/wip-jam-after-party-at-ctia-wireless-in-vegas-april-2/

Today I had a very fun phone call, with James Body from Truphone. We had a JAJAH – Truphone call.

James used the JAJAH Buttons feature, just by clicking a link from my email. he asked to get the call to his Truphone number, and I received the call on my mobile device. By using the JAJAH Button feature, although he was the one to initiate the call, he did not need to pay for the call, and on my side it was a very cheap call. Since the call was not only a VOIP call but more of a PSTN- VOIP call, the call was very cheap and not a free call.

The sound quality  was excellent! there were no delays nor echoes during the entire call (which was somewhat long…). When James told me he is using his Truphone number, i.e. the Internet, I was very much surprised!

We did good!, hopefully in the upcoming years most communication will be VOIP which will eventually save us the cost of roaming (mostly for incoming calls).

When I was in the MWC (a.k.a 3GSM) in Barcelona, I encountered an interesting company by the same of ZYB (and also interesting name…:P )

They introduced a mobile application, that is an addition to your address book/contacts and allows you to have extra features  that are related to your contacts and mobile devices do not support. the nice thing about the application is that you can access the features just by a click, and as you where browsing your regular contact list.  they had features such as sending an instant message and getting your friend’s location. They also do contact synchronization.  out of allot of companies that I saw in the WMC,  Zyb really stood out.

When getting back to the office, I checked out Zyb. It seemed that the features they demonstrated in 3GSM where not published, so I used their contact synchronization service, and I was very much satisfied. their technology uses Sync ML and is very simple and user friendly.

You go to the Zyb site, set up your phone, get a SMS with the SyncML settings and start syncing away!

For me, their service is very good. I change mobile devices frequently, in order to test new devices, and also when going abroad. I also have 2 mobile devices, one in the car and one for every day usage. although I have a SIM card and most contacts are stored in the SIM, there are cases when not all contacts are saved on the SIM (if someone sends you a contact by SMS…).Its also very good to backup. You can also edit your contact easily on the web, with a regular keyboard, lazy  lazy me

The nice thing abut ZYB is that you can setup a device once and then sync it, so if you setup several devices, all settings are saved and you can chose what device to sync. – very comfortable

There is also an  option to re-set your device settings and resent a SMS with the SyncML settings. This was useful after breaking my SE Z610i. I got a new one and I wanted to sync my contacts, I just chose to sync that device, and set it up. a SMS was sent to my new device and I was ready to go! for some reason all my contacts where duplicated, but they had a solution for it!

Cool feature – Merge duplicated contacts: funny enough, after getting duplicated contacts I found a solution , there was a "merge duplications" option. Using this option you get all the duplicated phone numbers, or any contacts that may be duplicated (also by contact name). You can choose to merge them, on the web site with a comfortable screen and keyboard. after doing that, I synced my device again and every thing was good.

Cool feature – Internet calls: you can also make an Internet/Voip call directly from the web site, to any of your contacts using Skype, by a link. what about calling via JAJAH? well lets wait and see…also for now, the JAJAH Firefox Extension does not mark the contact number, allowing you to make a quick JAJAH Call

Needless to say that they have a privacy policy and your data is safe. you can also create a social network in the site, but I didn’t check that out (yet…). I would like to have an option to sync my Facebook events with my mobile, using SyncML…

To summarize: I recommend this service very much, very simple and user friendly. I have been using if for more than 6 month and I’m very satisfied,  and its free