Ooma has been around a few years now and many of you may have heard the name -- it is a way of cutting the cable, but in this case it is the telephone cable, much the way some people do with services like Skype. In other words, it is home phone service that uses the internet. This year the
If you've ever wanted a second line on your smartphone but don't have a dual SIM phone (and let's be honest, who does?), you'll be interested in this app from Line2. Andy and Don get a demo from Peter on what the app offers. The Line2 app provides a second line by using a VoIP connection over 3G or wi-fi.
Todd talks with Eric from Invoxia about their latest office product, a stylish dock that converts iPhones and iPads into a VoIP desktop phone. Winner of a CES 2012 Showcase Engineering Award, it's really quite stunning. The NVX 610 can use Skype or a SIP telephony provider and control of the desktop phone is via an app on the iPhone which
Today Microsoft announced that it had purchased Skype for 8.5 billion dollars. Skype will be run as a separate business division with in Microsoft and its CEO Tony Bates will report directly to Steve Balmer Microsoft's CEO. For those of you that are not familiar with Skype it is a soft ware application that allows users to make voice calls
I recently installed a VOIP phone app on my iPod called “Whistle.” Whistle is gives you a free incoming phone number that can be called from other phones, along with free domestic phone calls within the U.S. Since my Sprint “Simply Everything” phone plan gives me unlimited voice calls within the U.S., I don’t really need the free voice calling
I know you’ve seen it – someone using the “Push To Talk” feature on their company phone that essentially turns it in to a sort of high-tech walkie-talkie. Would you like to be able to do something similar with your Android or iOS device? Enter a free iOS/Android app called “Heytell.” Heytell is sort of a cross between “Push To
Todd Cochrane interviewed Rick Osterlash, VP of Consumer Products for Skype at CES 2011. Skype announce several new products and partnerships either at CES or just prior to it. The first product Mr Osterlash talked about was a new version of Skype for the iPhone, which allows two-way video calling. The calls can be either phone to phone or phone