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Ever dream of throwing your cell phone out the window? You might want to change your mind when you hear how VoIP technology is changing cell phone usage with numerous mobile VoIP programs.

The iPhone made mobile VoIP calls on your cell phone popular and opened the flood gates for VoIP developers to develop great programs for cell phones.

M- I- C-, K- E- Y, M- O- U- S- E, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, I can hear it now, the Mickey Mouse club singing over WiFi signals and into the mobile phones of pampered kids and parents everywhere.

Verizon Wireless and The Walt Disney Co. are teaming up to offer Verizon customers a new downloadable application designed to entice and enhance the Disney experience.  Verizon users who choose the beefed up version of the application will reap a multitude of benefits including,

OMG, Mobile phones, Wifi technology and VoIP are changing how we communicate and even how we date. The modern dating scene has changed and the dramatic increase in text messaging may be changing it even more.

The other day I was at my Mom and Dad’s and after hours of CNN was delighted to find Oprah was on and believe it or not she has incorporated VoIP for her viewers to dial in with questions or comments via Skype. Her production group must have an agreement with Skype because also listed on her website is a beautiful picture of Skype’s handheld phone of course featuring WiFi zone so you can call anywhwere without a PC by using a fabulous WiFi signal. Contacting other Skype users is free as is calling the Oprah show.

Well known VoIP service providers, FreedomVOICE are now teaming up with iPhone to create yet another iPhone application.

“Newber Beta is the first moveable number that utilizes iPhone’s own location awareness,” explained Eric Thomas, founder and CEO of FreedomVOICE. “Just touch the keypad once or twice and Newber calls are automatically moved to the nearest landline. It’s that easy.”

WiFi has created a hotbed of development for companies like Microsoft and Apple and it seems like they aren't missing the beat with VoIP technologies either.

Apple's iPhone has made it easier for developers to target VoIP customers and develop applications that merge products like a phone and ipod. Truphone available for free download at the itunes store enables VoIP calls. According to business week magazine the number of WiFi VoIP phones sold globally is expected to grow 33% by 2011.

Most parents sent their kids back to school yesterday, as the new semester began. It is a bitter sweet moment, in which parents could finally get their lives back on track without constant interruption from theirs kids! At the same time, they might be wondering about how their first day in school is going, would their kids be on their best behavior, or do they have friends to have lunch with?