By downloading applications developed by other companies, smartphone users can make calls and send texts via the Internet without adding to their minutes or messagecount.
The campaign's online animation delivers a message about how easy it can be to lose count of the amount you drink over the festive season by replacing the birds, rings, lords and ladies in The 12 Days of Christmas with alcoholic drinks.
While he also talked of multilateral cooperation and human rights, he came to Asia to deliver the message that the rapidly growing export-driven economies can no longer count on the U.S. consumer to keep them afloat.
The Obama administration is trying to send the message to these countries -- but not necessarily their leaders -- that they can count on American loyalty.