News Briefs – Tues Oct 10, 2006

VoIP.com Affiliate Program
VoIP.com is now offering an Affiliate and Outside Sales Agent program. It has weekly payouts and competitive affiliate rates based on volume. This includes Internet promotion, whereby you promote their services on your website. [VoIP.com via PR Web] So if you don’t want to be a full-fledged VoIP provider but want to dabble, [...]


Top 10 Reasons To Use VoIP

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about why I should use VoIP because there’s no point being a VoIP evangelist and not knowing why! So I got to thinking about it and came up with this list of 10 reasons why you should use VoIP. I think it’s handy to have an answer [...]

Woize For OS X: Beta

Woize, a soft phone similar to Skype and Gizmo (among others), are making a beta version available for Mac OS X in Q4 2006. Woize for Mac OS X will be SIP based, Woize – Woize calls will be free while calls to landlines and cell phones will be charged a low fee [...]

The Cloud Offer Hot-spot WiFi Access For Skype Calls

Just recently we covered the new wifi handset from SMC, and it seems like they’ve been busy.  Today they announced a deal with pan-Euro wifi hot-spot provider The Cloud forming the “first mobile roaming Skype service on WiFi handsets with access to over 8,500 public WiFi hotspots across Europe.”
Users will pay £6.99 per month for [...]

VoIP Wiretapping Is For Real: Ready Your Tinfoil Hats!

Remember the big hoopla around the NSA and wire-tapping in the USA? Well that was for landline and cell phone calls, although there were alegations that the government had given permission for them to also tap VoIP calls. But between encrypted calls and firewalls many commentators thought that government agencies would be unable [...]