Tango without Skype
01 August, 2013
The latest data on telecom data services indicates that recent nine months from the date of birth Tango service got 13 million users in 212 countries and localized in 35 languages. You need just to download from www.tango.me to your Smartphone free of charge software. Eric Setton, one of the founders of Tango looks quite optimistic as the forecast is 60 billion USD. The segment of free video calls competing with paid video calls in 3G networks. Skype launched in August, 2003 got in the first year only 9 million 500 thousand users.Tango video call quality is not perfect, you can switch video camera from front to rear panel to show the picture of surrounding landscape. Users can import their profile from Facebook to Tango. The bottom-line is to introduce soon paid value added services on Tango platform.
One of Tango secrets is well designed software for P2P technology, find in a couple of seconds which port on mobile router is needed. One of the key advantages is that Tango is universal, while Apple Facetime works only with I-phone, Tango works with Apple phones, Android and Microsoft Windows phone 7. Tango software is compatible with 70 models of smartphones worldwide.
Top two countries using Tango are USA with 55 % of Users and Korea who got two million Subscribers.
Among Tango competitors are startups: Fring and Jajah.
What does Tango bring to Georgia? A new format of business cards with your name, Company name cell phone, office phone, e-mail, Skype, Tango, Viber and ICQ. In order to see and hear your Customers and Partners, to make communication interface with them convenient and transparent. To make Georgia better place to live and easier to communicate!
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Guilt by Association
“Euro parliament members want to protect Vano Merabishvili?”

Many interesting and curious events are happening in the world, even today, and many more unheard and otherwise fantastic stories are being heard. They are so outrageous that they are hard to believe. One of them is a story of state-sanctioned tortures and cold bloodied murders. One of such events took place on July 12, 2013 when Jacek Protasiewicz, Vice President of European Parliament and four other members of Europarliament, including some famous and well-known figures - Krzysztof Lisek, member of the European People’s Party, visited Vano Merabishvili, ex-MIA Minister in a Georgia prison, officially called Prison No 9, to personally familiarize himself with the dire condition in the jail and the plight of a specific inmate.
Did FBI Watch Crackdown from Its Office?
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Nine years were more than enough for Georgia’s population to get used to odd statements of President Saakashvili. Nevertheless, the latest one was something out of this world, destined to insult many Georgians. I can’t be sure of others, but I took it as an insult.
For readers of our newspaper and especially, representatives of diplomatic corps, I would like to remind these notorious words of the president. He claimed that during the bloody crackdown on the rally on the Rustaveli Avenue of Tbilisi in the night of 26 May, which resulted in killing and maiming of the scores of protestors, FBI agents were sitting in one of the offices in Tbilisi watching the event.
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Under the old system, the policy of the government, the new plans or programs they implanted came directly from the president. Or if they came from the leadership team then they needed to be repackaged so that they somehow belonged to him. There weren’t too many ideas that came from outside of the leadership team that ended up being implemented.

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Cannibalization Saga
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Say cheese for cheese!
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Open Text Books
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Banana – monkeys love it, we too!
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TORTURE, HUMILIATION AND PHYSICAL ABUSE UNDER SAAKASHVILI’S REGIME
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Funny Habits
01 August, 2013
Last week, I started giving these hints and tips to my foreign friends and the tourists and my compatriots too because I don’t want them to be overly surprised and embarrassed when they inevitably come across those habits of ours while they have to do with this culture (look for the first 10 tips in previous issue):
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