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Few weeks back, Skype finally launched Skype application on Iphone. When the long awaited software was released, it was a huge joy for Iphone and Ipod touch users. Hour by hour, it was patiently anticipated by users across the globe, from Japan to New York.

As an Iphone user, I use Fring and wifi combo to connect to Skype network. It connects pretty good to skype, however, it's difficult to get connected on the first try. On top of that, it also produces few second delay on the call.

Skype is well known for its service bringing people across the world to talk freely with each other just using their computer and high speed internet connection. For the most part, it is a free service and Skype has beeen a very popular voip application for the last few years among the 'Computer generations'. They also have prepaid service, SkypeOut, for user to call non-skype users for few cents per min.

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?

The idea of combining voip service with wifi has been around for the last 3-4 years. What does it mean ? It means you can be at the beach, sipping a pina colada and make long distance or international phone calls with relatively inexpensive rates using WiFi (wireless fidelity) devices such as a laptop or cellphone, whenever you are in wifi hotspots. Ideally, that is.

A while ago, Toucan Global gave us a few Snap Communicators for a test drive. First of all, what is a Snap Communicator? It's a simple phone-like device which plugs into a usb port and voila, you are connected to other defined snap users. Up to 8 snap users can be assigned for every unit.

The most popular news this last Friday was the launch of the most awaited iPhone 2.0 software that forced people to stand in queue for hours in order to get the exciting free software update. Now for all those who are done with their new updations, it’s time to celebrate the new cool iPhone 2.0 with this great piece of news.

On the 15 March 2007 the Betamax group lauched yet another VoIP service at www.justvoip.com. This is now the 13th VoIP service they have launched in the past 2 years. In essence the websites are all identical, with the exception of the logos and to a minor extent the rates.

One would think that 12 services from one company are enough, but it seems they feel the obligation to launch new sevice every few months now in the faint hope of attracting new users or to encourage users from one of their other services to swop and deposit a further €10.

With over 1500 VoIP providers worldwide we thought it was about time that we have a look at the popularity of these VoIP services and identify the most successfull (at least according to Alexa.com). Most succesfull in this case means the sites with the most traffic and not the most financially viable.

From our VoIP directory of 1500 VoIP providers from around the world we identified the 80 most visited sites and ranked them according the the data from Alexa.com. We only considered pure VoIP services and not cable companies or triple play offerings.

A few weeks ago we published an article on the growing growing perceived credit card scam regarding the Betamax group of companies' VoIP services.

Betamax have contacted us and have provided the following email to contact them with your complaints:

myvoipprovider@betamax.com

Should your credit card be compromosed in any way please dispute the charges with your card provider or bank and cancel the card immeditely. Most likely you will have the following description your your card statement:

- BETAMAX VOIP CREDIT COLOGNE -