Features That You Should Find in a Prepaid International Calling Card
If you are living abroad or working abroad, you certainly need a way to communicate with family and friends. Using prepaid international calling card is a good choice when in terms to finding convenient way to communicate. There are lots of prepaid international phone cards […]
Gokul Gopalakris brings up an annoyance I’ve run into on more than one occasion: the inability to easily silence someone on a conference call. Anything from people whom shouldn’t be speaking to someone whom insists on joining a call while driving somewhere can be dealt with–if you can get a human involved. There has to […]
Many people don’t read through the end user license agreements (EULA) that come with, well, just about anything. Including VoIP service. Mostly, they get ignored and clicked-through.Lucky for Andy Abramson, he did. He found quite a doozy in the one for Ooma. I’ve written about Ooma before. The main issue is that Ooma seems to […]
Jangl has always been about assigning a relationship it's own telephone number. They've recently extended this concept by allowing you to call anyone by simply knowing their email address. Now they're taking it a step further by integrating a PhoneBook into Facebook, which recently opened it's API to new applications.By adding the PhoneBook application
into Facebook, […]
GrandCentral, which just recently got acquired by Google, is one of the most insanely useful services out there. It uses the power of VoIP to route calls where ever you happen to be, but all that magic is transparent to you, the user.Meanwhile, TalkPlus gives you the ability to tie multiple phone numbers to your […]
Free World Dialup, or FWD as it is now called, is Jeff Pulver’s service that he created to allow people to experiment with and utilize IP communications. Originally, it was funded out of his own pocket. Granted, the service did not generally require too much in the way of money except when he did the […]
As you may have heard recently, Jeff Pulver issued a call for VoIP companies to provide more than just the old-style telephone service. Jim Courtney over at Skype Journal wrote a lengthy piece about how Skype, along with companies that use the Skype API, have met Jeff’s challenge for innovation.Skype does run on a number […]
It seems that the VoIP providers are just as bad–or worse–than the mobile phone carriers in the United States, which generally don’t let you take your phone to a competing provider. Unlike with US mobile phones, where there are two standards, pretty much all customer premises VoIP hardware speaks SIP, the lingua franca
of VoIP. Just […]
Generally speaking, the VoIP industry has done whatever they can to replicate the telecom networks of old. Feature for feature, function for function, it works the same way with a VoIP provider as it does on a normal landline. The only difference is the price and the reliability. It’s one of the reasons this particular […]
Regular readers of this blog may wonder: who the heck is this guy writing now? Of course, instead of introducing myself as I should have when Creative Weblogging announced a new blogger was taking over, Instead, I just jumped right in and started writing.Then again, a bunch of you probably already know who I am. […]