Category: Technology

If there’s anything that is true of traveling, it is the fact that your cellular phone costs can often skyrocket to a sizeable bill. If that’s not enough, people often get disconnected if they use their local cellular service when traveling abroad, which is a nuisance.

There are some travelers who have heard about the benefits that an international SIM card can offer them, and in doing so, take advantage of a service that has been tailor-made to their needs.

Here are three reasons why you should also take advantage of this international service as well:

#1: Reduction of costs

When you travel and have to attend to calls from your family, boss, or colleagues, the costs of international roaming is anything but little. In purchasing an international prepaid SIM card, not only do you eliminate these costs, but the companies that offer them can create a plan according to the country/countries that you will visit shortly, and help you get the cheapest deals when it comes to talk time.

#2: Seamless communication

If the problem of getting disconnected as soon as you hit the ground has continued to annoy you with your local cellular service that you use for your international travel, all this can be eliminated as soon as you opt for these cheap international SIM cards that will provide you with seamless service no matter which country you travel to. You can finally get rid of the issue of not being able to get in touch with your loved ones or the professionals that you work with for good.

#3: Peace of mind

In taking advantage of these services, you not only get to enjoy the benefits of lowered costs and uninterrupted service, but you can also drop the anxiety and stress that comes with not being able to get in touch with your loved ones.

Multimedia applications of today commonly use the MPEG format, which are also known as audio/video compression formats differing in quality and size with each new version of MPEG format that is released these days.

There are two of these formats that are normally used, and are normally referred to as the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 versions, and so here is a comparison of both types of formats.

#1: Quality

Since the MPEG-2 is normally used for DVD and digital television technology, its use is compromised when it comes to multimedia network applications. This is why the MPEG-4 format has been designed for this very purpose, especially for the internet.

#2: File Size

This one is simple. Between the compression formats, the MPEG-4 format takes up very less memory in terms of the size of a file. This is because the MPEG-4 format has been designed for the internet which needs to be smaller in size so that it can be transferred over the internet. MPEG-2 does not need to work within the same limitations and is thus larger in size.

#3: Bit rate

While the bit rate for MPEG-2 files is about 4 to 9 MB/s, there is a big difference between these values and those of the MPEG-4 format which is merely a few Kilobytes per second. And yet again the reason for this is because the MPEG format has been designed for network applications that will not be able to support the bit rates of the MPEG-2 format.

Among all the other e-reader devices that are in the market today, the one that has captured the attention of most voracious readers is the Amazon Kindle 3. There are several reasons why this device is considered to be the top-notch and way ahead of its competitors.

Here is a list of benefits which validate why the Kindle 3 is so popular:

#1: One of the most basic functions that the Kindle 3 has is its text-to-speech functionality.

#2: You can access the web in wireless mode using this device.

#3: The device possesses the largest number of font sizes than any of its competitors.

#4: It is easily compatible with the Kindle app that has been developed for a variety of platforms and operating systems.

#5: You can buy your favorite e-Books and email them to Kindle 3 at no cost at all.

#6: It is much cheaper than all its competitors in the market today.

#7: Features such as longer battery life and a speaker not to mention having a larger internal memory is what gives it an edge over its competitors.

#8: There is a variety of choice when it comes to magazines, newspapers, and books.  And the best part of it all is the fact that the eBooks available are much cheaper than the variants offered by its competition.

#9: Not only does it work better in landscape mode but it also adjusts line spacing and margins much better than its competitors.

#10: But most of all, it is available in over 170 countries around the world.

There are benefits to having a travel phone especially if you are a frequent traveler abroad -regardless of whether your travel is for business or for pleasure. The truth is that if you need to stay connected with your colleagues, loved ones, family, and friends, you can continue using your old number but it might cause you to spend much, much more.

While some people might not be so concerned with their roof-high cost, there are others who are more than happy to opt for a world SIM card offered by some companies.  These SIM cards are very different from the ones you used in the United States.

The said companies can provide you with information about the countries that you will be visiting, thus, they will be able to give you the best offers when it comes to not only enjoying seamless service in almost 200 countries but also in spending a pittance by using these international prepaid SIM cards.

So where do you find these offers then?

One place where you can find companies that are more than willing to offer you the best communication services on your travel and that will help you stay connected the best way possible is over the Internet.

With the hype that surrounds social media these days, and with the various strategies that are used by several companies with great success, the question still remains: How does one measure the success of so complex a task to which the response can vary from person to person?

Of course, since the bottom line of most clients being return-on-investment (ROI), almost every marketer must ask themselves this question as sooner or later, their clients will.

And for this to be able to happen, one must not only be able to recognize but also plan out the social media success metrics based pertaining to the unique strategy that they are using for a particular project.

Let’s say that you are setting up a Twitter account for one of your clients, a quantitative approach would demand that you track the traffic that you generate and that will inevitably generate leads for your client. Along with this, one can also factor in the savings that the company has made in the areas of customer relationship management, recruitment of new staff and call center costs that might have been otherwise needed.

If one wants to measure success qualitatively, one can also track the kind of communication that this approach has had with potential customers, the quality of these Twitter followers and how this has translated into engaging with customers. Of course, these metrics can also provide feedback as well as vital market information as well.