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Telephony - Telephony Defined Created: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
What is telephony? Telephony is a term denoting the technology that allows people to have long distance voice communication. The term’s scope has been broadened with the advent of the differe...
What is Video Email? Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
What is Video Email?
Pal talk for Mobile Phones Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
Paltalk - free video conferencing app with multiple parties on your iPhone, Android or BlackBerry mobile phone.
OpenTok – Build Your Own Free Video Chat App Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
OpenTok was formerly TokBox. It allows you to build Your Own Free Video Chat App and Host Video Conferencing Sessions of Up to 1000 Participants on Your Web Site.
Paltalk Review Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
Paltalk is an instant messenger app that has great features like video conferencing for up to 10 persons and thousands of chat rooms, but you have to bear with its advertisements. You can also make..
SightSpeed Video Chat App Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
SightSpeed is a video chat tool for both personal and commercial use. It allows video conferencing sessions for free, along with many other features. Read its review here.
Choosing a Video Chat App Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
Video chat has become very common for communicators of all types, from individuals doing social networking to professionals finding in video conferencing a way to avoid expensive travels and save p...
BYOD at Work – The Pros and Cons Created: Saturday, April 28, 2012 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
While BYOD is much appreciated by most, it comes with many drawbacks and has to be dealt with with particular caution. In this article, we look at how people in businesses are welcoming the idea, i...
What is BYOD? Created: Thursday, April 26, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2012
BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. Companies are allowing and encouraging their staff to bring their own computers and devices in the workplace to use. In the area of VoIP, BOYD allows subscrib..
Click-to-Call Skype Button Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Skype click-to-call buttons can be used to prompt viewers to call you from your web site or from your email message. These buttons are free and can be easily customized and embedded.
Skype Call Forwarding - Don't Want to Miss Skype Call Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
I don't want to miss a Skype call, even when I am not logged on in my Skype account. What should I do? Skype call forwarding
Skype Connect - Skype’s IP-PBX Business VoIP Service Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Skype Connect is a service that Skype offers to businesses to cut to down their communication costs and to better connect them to the Skype community.
Free SIP Softphone Apps Created: Friday, September 30, 2011 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Free SIP Softphone Apps - Having a SIP account gives you a lot of freedom to communicate through VoIP. Among the benefits is the ability to make and receive free phone calls to other SIP users worl..
Apps for SIP on Android Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Here is a list of apps that allow you to use SIP on Android. They are clients that can be downloaded and installed from Google Play and configured with any free SIP service, for free VoIP calls.
What is Skype Manager? Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Skype manager is an interface that is web-based, allowing you to manage the use of Skype for your business. It offers monitoring of credit, members and other features. In this article, we briefly e..
How to Make Overseas Calls Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Which numbers to dial when making overseas calls? Let's try to understand what's in a phone number and what to do to correctly call abroad.
What is Nimbuzz? Created: Thursday, March 29, 2012 Updated: Thursday, March 29, 2012
What is Nimbuzz? Nimbuzz is a web messenger app based on VoIP that allows users to make free voice calls and chat, and cheap voice calls to any destination worldwide. It also has other features, bu..
How to Install Skype on Android Created: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Installing Skype on Android is notmally easy and straightforward if you have a listed device, but it can be a challenge otherwise. Here are three ways which you can download and install the app.
What is a Data Plan? Created: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
What is a data plan? In this article, we define a data plan and see how and who it can help, what does it cost and what are its pre-requisites. We also look at how to best use a data plan so that ..
What is IVR? Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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..
Data Calculators - Estimate Your Data Usage Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Data calculators are here to help you estimate how much data you need for your mobile and broadband data plan.
VoIP Service Provider Review - Broadvoice Review Created: Friday, January 05, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Broadvoice review - If you make a lot of international calls, Broadvoice is the company to subscribe to. It offers service plans that are specifically tailored to users that call mostly outside the..
Data Usage Monitor Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
You need to monitor how you use your bandwidth in your data plan. Here are ways you can do so if you are using Android, iPhone, iPad, Symbian (Nokia) and BlackBerry. There are numerous data usage m..
Data Usage Monitor Apps for Your iPhone and iPad Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Here are ways in which you can monitor your 3G and Wi-Fi data usage on your iPhone, iPad and iPod. There are apps that you can download from the Apple App Store or use simpler ways. This finally al..
Data Usage Monitor Apps for Android Created: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Apps for Monitoring Data Usage on Android Devices. Statistics for bandwidth consumed by each application and information on the percentage of bandwidth consumed for the month.
How Much of My Mobile Data Plan Does VoIP Consume? Created: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
How much data do I need to count for my voice calls through VoIP while estimating my mobile data usage?
Groove IP - Free Calls Within US and Canada on Your Android Created: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Use Groove IP to make your Android device a free communication center. Use Google Voice and GMail calling to make and receive free calls on your Android device using Grove IP, over a Wi-Fi connecti..
What is Speech Recognition? Created: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Updated: Monday, February 06, 2012
Speech recognition is a technology that allows spoken input into systems. You talk to your computer, phone or device and it uses what you said as input to trigger some action. The technology is bei..
Using Windows VoIP Apps on Linux Created: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, February 04, 2012
There is No Linux Version for My VoIP App. What Do I Do? If your favorite VoIP service does not have a Linux version of its client app, and you are using Linux, can you still use the service?
Which VoIP Service Makes You Save More on BlackBerry Calls? Created: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Updated: Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Which VoIP Service Makes You Save More on BlackBerry Calls? Share your experience here and see other people's.
Turn Your iPad into a Phone Created: Friday, December 30, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Turn Your iPad into a Phone - Power your iPad with VoIP and use it as a phone to make and receive free and cheap voice calls.
Free Home Camera Surveillance System Created: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Free Home Camera Surveillance System - How to build your own home camera surveillance system at home using Skype's free video calling and hardware that you already have.

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