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VoIP On The Market

VoIP evolves both technically and commercially. Keep updated on how VoIP is doing in the market, and know the trends. How popular VoIP is becoming and how it can benefit your business. Also see find out how you can make money using VoIP.

Microsoft Gets Skype – What This Means For Us

Microsoft Gets Skype – What This Means For Us?This acquisition is a big event in the VoIP industry and in the communications industry at large, and may allow Microsoft to step in front of Google and Apple in the communications race. But what will this mean for us consumers and how will it change the communications industry landscape? Let’s...

What is Cloud Computing?

What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a new concept that has become famous due to its strangeness and audacity. Put simply, cloud computing provides resources from remote sources that you would otherwise have on your own machine or premises. One important feature of cloud computing is that while you are accessing resources and services...

Is VoIP Always Cheap? In What Cases Can VoIP be More Expensive?

Is VoIP Always Cheap? In What Cases Can VoIP be More Expensive? Share with us your ideas on the cases and scenarios where using VoIP for communication is not cheaper than using the traditional phone system.

Is VoIP Always Cheaper?

Is VoIP Always Cheaper? Is communicating through VoIP always cheaper than other traditional phone methods? Most of the time yes, but not always. Here are some scenarios where VoIP might not be the cheaper option.

Cheapest Phone Call Services of 2010

You are I are looking for ways to cut down our communication costs and make cheaper phone calls, and we are hundreds of millions to do that. Phone calls are much cheaper now due to VoIP and this has earned the VoIP industry the title of the best performing industry of the last decade. So, in 2010, which VoIP services offer cheapest calls?...

Google’s Mobile Phone Nexus One

Google's new mobile phone Nexus One seems to be only one step in one of Google's walks to conquer the mobile market. Because the logical 'next' of Google is the anticipated massive VoIP service that will cut down communication costs.

Major VoIP Developments of 2009

Major VoIP Developments of 2009 - VoIP rocked in 2009 and it did for the decade. However, at the beginning of the year, some analysts and bloggers saw that VoIP was in agony and some even declared it dead. Little did they know that the industry would top the decade's best-performing industries list

VoIP Best Industry of the Decade 2000-2009

VoIP Best Industry of the Decade 2000-2009 - Have your say. A market research made by IBISWorld, one of America's most trusted independent source of industry and market research, named the Voice over IP (VoIP) Industry best-performing industry of the past decade (2000-2009). Have your say on this.

VoIP Best Industry of the Decade 2000-2009

VoIP Best Industry of the Decade 2000-2009 - A market research made by IBISWorld, one of America's most trusted independent source of industry and market research, named the Voice over IP (VoIP) Industry best-performing industry of the past decade (2000-2009). This means that the VoIP industry has known the greatest growth of all industries, including the search engine industry – imagine the no…

Your Ideas on Communication Gifts

Share your ideas for communication gifts

Using Voice on Facebook

Using Voice on Faceboook - Many of you prefer voice communication, because it is easier to talk than type, and then it is altogether a different experience to hear the voice of the person you are talking to, with the different intonations. But how can one communicate using voice on Facebook?

Using Voice on Facebook

Using Voice on Faceboook - Many of you prefer voice communication, because it is easier to talk than type, and then it is altogether a different experience to hear the voice of the person you are talking to, with the different intonations. But how can one communicate using voice on Facebook?

Facebook VoIP - How Best Can You Use Voice on Facebook?

Facebook VoIP - Many of you like to talk on facebook, that is communicate using voice. How to do that? Share your views on how best you can talk on Facebook. Should there be Voice over IP, or simply sharing phone and IM contacts?

Ways of Making Calls Without Paying Anything

Phone calls are not free as such yet. For your regular use, a paid subscription is normally required, but there are people, whose communication needs are not that bulky, for whom free services work just fine. Now, one way of calling unlimitedly anywhere for free is to use software-based services over the Internet and make sure that the callee is using the same service as the caller, a condition w…

How To Save Money On Phone Calls

Here are ways you can save a lot of money by cutting down your communication costs with VoIP. This article shows you ways to make free or very cheap local and international phone calls with IP telephony.

The Effects Of The US Economic Slowdown On VoIP

What will be the effects of the economic crisis in the US on the VoIP industry? It May Be An Opportunity For The VoIP Industry. Here is how.

What VoIP Saw In 2007

What VoIP Saw In 2007

VoIP Gift Ideas

VoIP Gifts Ideas - What gift are you offering for this holiday? If you are having a difficult choice, a VoIP gift can be original and very interesting, and can be offered to anyone in need of communication.

Why Do Companies Want VoIP?

The top reasons why companies want to adopt VoIP.

What Make Companies Hesitate To Adopt VoIP

The hurdles that some companies need to cross before feeling easy with VoIP and adopting it. A survey.

Internet Phone Survival Tips

Internet phone technology can save you money if you know how to work around the traps.

10 Things That Make Your Business Good for VoIP

VoIP is great in all stages of a business company, even at its birth. That would be VoIP plans close to residential ones. But when it comes to business VoIP plans, where important investment and major changes are implied, anytime isn't the right to swing the company on VoIP. But you cannot really objectively tell when exactly a company is ready, for it might be a matter of appreciation, means an…

Free PC Calls Make Paid Calls More Expensive

Free PC Calls Make Paid Calls More Expensive - Internet-based VoIP service providers have to raise the prices of paid international calls due to the free PC calls they offer.

What are Calling Cards?

What are Calling Cards? Glossary.

Calling Cards vs. VoIP Service

Calling Cards vs. VoIP Service. Both calling cards and VoIP offer cheap local and international calls. On the whole, VoIP is a better option, with all its elaborateness and sophistication and features and stuff, but there are situations in which a simple calling card is better. Anyhow, the providers behind the calling card service use VoIP...

Are All Free Calls Really Free?

Are All Free Calls Really Free? - As a phone user, you need to understand the implications of such terms as ‘free calls’, when they are really free and when they are not, and where you can get them from. A free call is a call offered by a phone service provider (either a landline, GSM or VoIP phone service) for no charge. The charge here is what...

Share Your Views on The Acquisition of Skype by Microsoft

Microsoft Acquires Skype. What do you think of this acquisition? Do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing for us consumers and for the communications industry at large? What do you think will happen in the future?

Statistics of Internet Calls – How Are People Using Internet Calls in The US?

Statistics of Internet Calls – How Are People Using Internet Calls in The US? Making Internet phone calls, through VoIP technology, is the new techie buzzword, and the VoIP industry has even been named the most successful industry of the decade. Pew Internet has done a research on Internet phone calls in the US on a sample of above 2000 people....

IVR - Interactive Voice Response

What is IVR? IVR stands for Interactive Voice Response is an interesting technology that allows users to interact with a system without the intervention of staff in between. To understand it better, take the example of a database query system and an external customer. Normally, you would have a member of the personnel to take the call of the...

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