- January 10th, 2006 | VoIP Providers
The convenience and cost-savings represented by VoIP are attracting more and more subscribers to sign up with local VoIP providers in the Philippines. While many of the new subcribers are home-based, call centers are also signing up with Philippine-based VoIP providers to merge their voice and data systems.
Reports from some companies in the Philippines [...]
- January 10th, 2006 | General
VoIP is a new technology that is literally sweeping the world and breaking down barriers. For years we have been limited by the amount of money paid per minute for local and international calls. New VoIP services, which route calls via the internet, offer free local calls and massively reduced call charges on [...]
- January 10th, 2006 | VoIP Providers
Comcast have announced that they have added 202,000 subscribers to their VoIP service in 2005. Comcast’s chairman and CEO Brian Roberts indicated that Comcast are on track to attract a further 1,000,000 subscribers to it’s Comcast Digital Voice service.
This news follows a very strong year of VoIP growth in the United States and internationally, [...]
- January 9th, 2006 | Wireless
Sheraton hotels will start offering internet access for visitors via a partnership with Yahoo. Pilots are already running at Sheraton hotels (Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina and the Sheraton Boston). The Wi-Fi service is currently offered in the lobby and other communal areas in the trial.
Sheraton and Yahoo will be working on [...]
- January 9th, 2006 | Instant Messengers
Several visitors to CES have reported seeing an as yet unreleased version of Google Talk with buddy icons. Apparently there are very few differences between the current public version and the unreleased version of Google Talk. Tipsters hinted that a version of Google Talk with AIM integration will be released soon, following Google’s [...]