17 December 2007

Residential voice telephony has become an unlikely hotbed for clever new products and new pricing models. For example, several VoIP providers are now promoting unlimited calling for one-time or low annual upfront payments, notably Ooma (www.ooma.com) and YMax’s MagicJack (www.magicjack.com).

29 January 2008

We were surprised recently to hear that consumers who switch to Cablevision’s Optimum Voice VoIP telephone service are charged a one-time $40 fee to keep their old telephone numbers. Posing as a prospective customer, one of our reporters recently asked a Cablevision customer representative for an explanation. The representative said that Cablevision merely is passing on charges imposed by customers’ former companies to transfer the numbers to Cablevision. In this case, the company was Verizon.

04 March 2008

Hosted voice service firm RingCentral on Tuesday said it got $12 million in a second funding round led by DAG Ventures.

The new investment comes six months after the Redwood City, California-based firm announced an identical  $12 million first funding round which was led by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.

12 May 2008

Voice Over Internet Protocol or Voip could make life easier for freelancers and out of office workers as they try to close contracts and win new business said a council member of the Internet Telephony Services Providers' Association.

Colin Duffy, who incidentally is the CEO of VoIP provider Voipfone, said that Small and Medium Businesses can compete on equal footing with bigger companies by being more flexible through VoIP services and by offering services such as having voicemals forwarded as sound files to an inbox.

26 September 2007

If small businesses are anything, they're cost conscious. And many are looking to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to help lower the monthly phone bill, often a big expense.

Switching to VoIP can be especially worthwhile if your company spends a lot on long-distance calls to far-flung employees, partners, and contacts. If you're already connected to some of these people via a local or wide area network (LAN/WAN), you might as well be making phone calls to them over the pipe that you're already paying for.

02 October 2007

The top VoIP vulnerabilities explained

18 October 2007

As VoIP business users in Dubai are being blocked. Many users are turning to VPN solutions to allow the ability to use VoIP and get around the current blocking issue. This however is an expensive and unnecessary solution with SpeedVoIP Technology. To resolve this situation, SpeedVoIP has released it's new solution for Voip Blocking called VGCP (VoiceGuard Control Protocol).

In today’s market, VoIP for business has become more and more popular and necessary than ever before.

06 November 2007

People have proven that they're willing to accept ads almost anywhere in exchange for free services, and thus, ads have popped up everywhere. But one place they haven't been common is in phone service. VoIP service JAJAH wants to change that, though, and has introduced a call advertising platform that allows customers to earn credits toward their phone calls. JAJAH users could earn enough credits to cover their entire phone call this way, says the company, and advertisers will have a new way to reach potential customers.

02 December 2007

If you’ve ever wished Skype could truly be mobile, on a dedicated mobile Skype phone that worked just like Skype on your desktop, the 3 Skypephone has arrived to make your wishes come true!

Skype, the world’s most popular Internet phone call software, having made online calling as simple and reliable as text messaging, has already gone mobile some time ago.

17 December 2007

All new companies should be lucky enough to have a launch story like this one.  Jaxtr, which only became public this March, has announced that their membership base has grown 10-fold since this summer, going from 500,000 users to hitting the 5 million mark this month.  That type of growth puts them ahead of juggernauts like Skype, believe it or not.  Jaxtr’s service can be used for calls in over 220 countries now, allowing subscribers to make and receive calls without being subjected to enormous international calling fees.