Business

Skype Reminder: Free North American Calling Ends

Don’t forget that as of midnight last night, free SkypeOut calling in North America ended. Instead, until Jan 31st, 2007, you can an entire year of unlimited SkypeOut for only US$14.95. That’s barely over a dollar a month for free long distance to landlines and mobile phones in North America. After this time, the price [...]


Orange says SMBs in England find VoIP rosy

Small companies are keen to embrace VoIP, but still aren’t seeing the real advantages of convergence. An Orange-commissioned report, which goes under the catchy title of Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK, is drawn from on-line interviews with 181 UK SMEs and asks about their current spending as well as plans for [...]

Jangl Is Gaining Traction

Jangl is a service that allows you to communicate with people without having to give out your own personal telephone numbers.  So just to go over the basics in case you’ve never heard of Jangl before, you create an account and enter your phone numbers.  Jangle then allocates you a number that routes calls to [...]

Taipei Turns To VoIP For Government Offices & Schools

Wow, could I use any more Ts in that title?  I was beginning to worry.
Taipei has officially moved over to VoIP with all the government offices and 234 schools in the city now using Voice over IP technology to make and receive phone calls.  The move means that  the city government should save approximately $12,340 [...]

Skype Still Not Ready For Business

Shortly after releasing Skype 3.0 for Windows, Skype released a Business version for Windows. After reading Ken Camp’s recent post about another VoIP blogger Jan’s experience with this new “Skype for Windows - Business version”, I’m so very glad I didn’t install the beta. I already have probably over a dozen soft VoIP clients - [...]