‘So you’ve heard that you can make long-distance phone calls for pennies instead of dollars. And you’ve heard that it has to do with something called voice over Internet protocol, also known as VoIP.
You’re correct.
VoIP is a technology that routes calls over the Internet for a fraction of what you’re paying now. All you need […]
‘So you heard you can make long- distance phone calls for pennies instead of dollars. And you heard it has to do with something called VoIP.
You’re right.
VoIP, or voice-over Internet Protocol, is a technology that routes calls over the Internet for a fraction of what you’re paying now. All you need is a high-speed Web […]
‘EBay Inc. has agreed to buy internet phone-calling phenomenon Skype for up to US$4.1 billion, tapping a hot source of growth and putting it into rising competition with rivals from Google to local phone company.
EBay said it will pay US$1.3 billion in cash and US$1.3 billion in stock for explosively growing Skype, which will allow […]
‘One of the pioneers of internet telephony this week reached a milestone. Vonage Holdings, a New Jersey-based start-up, announced that, less than two-and-a-half years after it launched its consumer services, it had signed up its millionth paying customer. Jeffrey Citron, Vonage’s chief executive, talked of its having created “a tidal wave of change” in a […]
‘Microsoft is preparing to enable computer users to make a normal phone call from their PC.
The computer giant has increased its presence in the fast-growing internet phone sector by purchasing leading player Teleo for an undisclosed sum.
Microsoft and rivals AOL, Google and Yahoo all currently allow phone calls between computers, but not yet to a […]
‘Voice over Internet Protocol has the potential to be a disruptive technology, according to James M. Prendergast, executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group.
“The idea that you can get a phone number and take your laptop and a phone that you plug into a jack and take your phone wherever […]
‘According to the Radicati Group, there will be 867 million instant messaging accounts in use by the end of this year, growing to over a billion by 2009. It’s likely that a good number of those accounts will have direct access to VoIP within the same timeframe, which could profoundly alter both the IM and […]