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What is Video Email?

Monday April 30, 2012

Some video conferencing tools offer video emailing as one of their features. Video email is a simple process whereby you record a video and send it through email. These video chat apps record your video calls and send them to the recipients you choose. Read more on video emails.

OpenTok - Create Your Video Conferencing Tool and Host it

Monday April 30, 2012

TokBox changed to OpenTok in 2011, and changed its focus as well. It now offers an API for anyone to quikly generate the codes for embedding chat widgets on their web site and have people come and participate in multiple-marty video chat sessions. You can have an audience of up to a thousand. Read more

Paltalk - Easier Video Conferencing

Monday April 30, 2012

Paltalk has started in 1998, and since then has made a long way full of competition. If you have been reading about the Paltalk app and service earlier than recently, then maybe you should read again, and pay attention to the timestamp on the content you read, because Paltalk has changed a lot. The multi-way video conferencing has been made easy is interesting, as have its many chat rooms and tons of users. Read more on Paltalk

Paltalk also has apps for iOS, Android and BlackBerry mobile phones. Read more on Paltalk mobile

SightSpeed Video Calling App Review

Sunday April 29, 2012

SightSpeed is one of the most popular video conferencing tools out there. Individuals can use it for personal use, but for non-paying users, the competition seems to offer better things. The app is better for commercial and business users. It was elected the best video conferencing app in 2007 by PC World. This information does not hold now, but the history does give credit to the app. Another thing that adds to its credibility is that it belongs to Logitech. Read Review

How to Choose a Video Chat App?

Sunday April 29, 2012
If you are reading this, you have probably thought about moving beyond the Skype, Yahoo! and Windows Live experience, and want to have a say on which video chat app runs on your machine. You simply want the best out there. Now, best is subjective; what's best for you might not be so for me. You have needs different from mine. So here is what you need to consider before setting on your 'best' video chat app: read more

BYOD - Pros and Cons

Saturday April 28, 2012

The flavour of BYOD that is not to bring your own device with a new VoIP service provider subscription is in fact the most known definition of BYOD. It is the use of personal device by workers to do work-related tasks. It is becoming quite popular, but there are also concerns about it. Let's see its pros and cons.

BYOD - Your Device, Their Service

Thursday April 26, 2012

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is becoming a prominent practice among companies since there are many benefits in having employees bring their own machines and devices to do work in the company. In the field of VoIP, BYOD is an old concept. Read more

Skype Call Me! Buttons

Saturday March 31, 2012

You want to become important and want everyone to call you. Or more seriously, you want your company or product to be more exposed to people and want to give them to option to call you on a click. Skype offers a nice way to do that: Call Me Buttons. Read more

Don't Miss Skype Calls

Saturday March 31, 2012

When someone calls you on your Skype account, you will not always be there to answer; or might be in a place where connection is a problem; or you are using another account. For any reason, you can have the call forwarded to another Skype account or to a real number that will ring a phone. Here's how

Skype Connect

Saturday March 31, 2012
Skype offers a business solution for businesses running IP-PBXs. This solution offers mainly three things: cheaper calls (especially to the US), better visibility to the Skype community (which is huge) through a click-to-call widget and service, and advanced account management. Read more on Skype Connect

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