WhenOnavo, the app that promises to save you money on your mobile data bill,launchedat The Next Web Conference in April, it caused quite a stir among our Internet-hungry readers. There was one thing wrong with it though – it was iPhone-only. There’s good news though, Onavo has stayed true to its word that more platforms would follow, and today it launches in beta for Android, supporting version 2.2 and above....
Smartphones have changed from status symbols into elements of luxury that no one can live without. Your friend still has a candybar monstrosity? He is for all intents and purposes asking to be shunned. But with the massive new commonness of smartphones comes new problems, often involving data. To be precise, every user wants to use more data, and every carrier wants to make a buck off of that extra usage....
Onavo‘s iPhone app, which can significantly reduce your mobile data bill by rerouting your Internet connection through the company’s own servers,launchedto acclaim at The Next WebConferenceearlier this year. Today, its first Android appgoes liveon the Market. However, due to the way that Android routes mobile data around the OS, it’s significantly more difficult to pipe it all through Onavo’s servers. So, while the startup tackles that problem, it’s launching Onavo Lite, an app designed to give a helping hand to Android users in the meantime....
Update:Bad news. The videos have been pulled from YouTube so we removed them from this post. The good news is that we’ve found a replacement and embedded it below. If the video below doesn’t work, trythis link. Ultimately, your best bet is to download the torrent – just search for “Talking Funny.” It’s not often, if ever, we get to see arguably the current kings of comedy sit down and discuss in some sincerity their chosen art....
If there were any doubts that social media was going to play a role in Canada’s upcoming federal election, they should be laid to rest thanks to the results of a recent Ipsos Reid poll.The Vancouver Sunreports the poll suggests that 21% of Canadian voters are debating politics online using social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. With all of the usage-based billing talk and copyright law changes that were a huge part of the last legislative session, it seems only logical that the social media airwaves would be filled with chatter about politics....
