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A mobile aggregator is a company that businesses use when they want to engage in SMS billing. If you’re in need of a mobile aggregator, here are the ten features you want to look for:

1. Works with mobile operators in countries all around the world. The best mobile aggregators work with mobile phone companies in more than 100 different countries.
2. Reaches 90%+ of all mobile subscribers in your market. You want a company that is going to connect you with the most number of mobile phones possible.
3. Uses the most up to date messaging technologies. This can included SMS as well as MMS, WAP and others.
4. History of reliability. A good mobile aggregator receives positive reviews for consistency in their work.
5. Competitive pricing in the industry. You do get what you pay for so you don’t want to go with the cheapest mobile aggregator but you shouldn’t have to pay top dollar to get the job done either.
6. A minimum spend amount that you can handle. Some mobile aggregators will require that you spend a certain amount per month for their service. Make sure it’s an amount that makes sense for you before signing up with their plan.
7. Scalability. You want to be able to upgrade and downgrade your plans with them as your business needs change.
8. Very communicative with you. You need a company that is going to answer your questions in a prompt manner, communicating effectively with you at all times.
9. Options for customization. Some mobile aggregators allow you to customize your SMS solutions to best meet the needs of your business. Although a standard plan can work for you, the option for customization is always a plus.
10. A good brand name. One job of a mobile aggregator is to help drive attention to your brand name. It’s a good sign if they have already been successful in doing this for themselves.

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It’s the end of the year, so now’s a great time to choose a nonprofit to donate to. Here’s one to consider:

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Even though I have always admired the weapons that the military uses, I have never really had the urge to join the service.  Perhaps it is the fear of commitment, or the fact that being in the army can put you in dangerous situation each and every day, but the army wasn’t going to be for me.

But that didn’t mean that my fascination with automatic weapons went away.  No, it meant that it was going to be even more of a challenge for me to find a way to pursue my hobby without buying illegal weapons.  I could live with that since I really didn’t want to go to prison, but I was sure there was an alternative.

In fact, I found the alternative in the most unlikely place.  While out at a big box store, I happened to browse through their hunting section where I found life-like replicas of some of my favorite assault rifles.  It was at that moment that I was introduced to airsoft rifles, and I fell in love.

I bought myself an Echo1 airsoft rifle at that moment, and it has been one of my most prized possessions ever since.  I take it out to the rifle range that I made in my backyard whenever I have the chance, and you can find me out there hours on end with a big grin on my face.

Sure, it isn’t the real thing, but it is damn close, which is good enough for me.

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One of the most frustrating things about keeping up with the Jones’s when it comes to technology is that you end up with a lot of different things.  It seems that each new generation of gadget (especially digital cameras) uses something different, and therefore you seem to end up with a lot of “extras” that you never thought you would end up with.

For example, I look at the past three years of buying and upgrading my digital camera.  Now, I guess I was suckered with the latest and greatest things (you know the “more megapixels the better” mentality) and I had to have the latest and greatest.

But the one thing that I didn’t really consider was the number of memory cards that I would collect.  I guess with most of the cameras that I have purchased, they all came with a teaser card (you know a really tiny one that lets you take 3 or four pictures), and it seems that I have a little collection now.

I worry about my cell phones as well, since my newest one uses a microsdhc card.  Does that mean that I will end up with a stack of memory cards I can no longer use in my phone?

Needless to say, I wish there was something that I could do with all these old cards.  Heaven forbid I actually throw them out.

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