What's New is Old

Mark & Wes, in Oakland, CA at LJ Quinn's Light House.This episode contains a lot of fresh ground pepper and eating noises. Wes reveals why Quinn's is so important to him. Mark spends a large portion of the show speaking about cell phones in the US versus Europe, carriers, cell phone prices and different rates for calls. Can you really trust cloud computing? Google Docs? Mark invited some phone folks over to his party with interesting consequences.Sites of Interest:CDMA is popular for cellular in the US, but GSM is used almost everywhere else.United Mobile sells multi-country GSM SIM cards. The one with the 44 country code is cheaper for people to call you.Sample eBay search for cheap quad-band unlocked GSM cell phones.International call-back services can save you money when traveling.Save far more by making your own call-back service with Asterisk, among a million other things that Asterisk can do. (Email Mark for details on scripting the callback.)Wes was thinking about Magic Jack for cheap phone service