OnSIP, a leading provider of real-time communications services, announced on Wednesday that they are launching a free, web-based plan for new customers. Verified as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Unified Communications (UC), OnSIP is committed to helping organizations take advantage of reliable and convenient business communications solutions, and their latest offering strengthens this commitment in a number of ways.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology has significantly altered the business world. No longer are owners and their employees tied to their office desks in order to communicate or collaborate with colleagues and clients. With VoIP phone systems and mobile VoIP apps, working from home or on-the-go is rapidly becoming the norm.

Leading Internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy announced it inked an agreement to buy FreedomVoice, a key provider of cloud-based VoIP phone systems based in Encinitas, California. The deal is reportedly $42 million in cash plus up to $5 million in potential future milestone payments.

Leading cloud communications provider Vonage Holdings announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nexmo, a privately-held communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) company. The deal, which is valued at $230 million in cash and stock, aims to boost Vonage’s position and increase its capabilities in the cloud communications market.

If you want a home phone for personal calls, or if you run a very small, home-based business, you might be fully satisfied with a very low cost VoIP solution from Skype or Google. While there are many VoIP service providers that target residential and small business clients, few people actually need premium VoIP service. The telephony services offered by Skype, which is now owned by software giant Microsoft, and Google Voice are of excellent quality in general, assuming that your broadband Internet connection is fast and reliable.

Traditional landline telephone systems have been a mainstay in business communications for over a century, and are still based off of technology developed in the late 1800s. Isn’t it about time for an upgrade?

Cell phone carrier juggernauts beware, there is a new Mobile service on the block, and it is gunning for your customers. Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has been reinvented in a way that will change mobile phone services worldwide with the power of VoIP. Just as it did to traditional telecommunication services, VoIP is driving current cell phone carrier systems into obsolescence with new mobile VoIP solutions. There are two unexpected companies leading the charge for a large scale, cost saving Mobile VoIP communication solution.

Who exactly is looking at your phone data? For those using traditional cellular phones or even most smartphones, hackers find it very easy to steal more than just your calling and texting records. Everything from bank records, email, credit card numbers, and even your internet search history is available on WiFi enabled smartphones, and available to anyone with the right illegal equipment that wants to see them.

Traditional phone service providers have reason to fear FreedomPop’s latest news that the first truly free mobile phone service is scheduled to hit the market by the end of the year.

The advent of mobile devices sent tremors through the marketing and advertising world; after all, it’s easy to forget that a hand-held device with a web browser and the ability to maintain accounts and make purchases online is nothing short of amazing, and is still a relatively new technology.