VoIP

iBasis | January 10, 2011 | Press Release IP-Interconnect Enables Panama’s Second-Largest Carrier to Bring High Quality, Low Cost International Calling to Customers BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iBasis, a KPN company, today …

Wall Street Journal | January 6, 2011 | Lorreta Chao Not long after Mark Zuckerberg paid visits to some of China’s biggest tech companies, another tech tycoon, Skype and Kazaa …

TeleGeography | January 7, 2011 China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has attempted to clear up confusion over VoIP services in the country by issuing a statement that …

Wall Street Journal | Jason Dean and Owen Fletcher | January 3, 2011 Is China’s government going after Skype? Media reports over the past week have raised that prospect in …

PC Mag | Sara Yin | December 30, 2010 Skype may soon join Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube on China’s Internet blacklist. Today, The People’s Daily, a Communist Party-run newspaper, declared …

San Jose based Cisco Systems sometimes jokingly gets referred to as the “plumber of the internet” but with the firm having recently shipped its 30 millionth IP Phone and its new line of video phones and tablets set to take the world by storm, Cisco is proving that no matter how dumb the pipe, there’s nothing dumb about this plumber.

Never mind face-time, Skype has done an about-face when it comes to its plans to charge for VoIP based calls over 3G, deciding to let the unwashed masses have their fill for free.

Never mind face-time, Skype has done an about-face when it comes to its plans to charge for VoIP based calls over 3G, deciding to let the unwashed masses have their fill for free.

Last week, Fring’s activation of mobile-data video calling on the iPhone annoyed Skype so much that the firm decided to remove itself from the service altogether. We’ve therefore compiled a list of the five top mobile apps that will let you use your Skype account on your mobile device.

VoIP continues to gain traction with carriers and push into mainstream, with Jajah announcing Thursday it was launching its IP-based long distance call service with Telefónica Europe across Europe under O2’s banner.

For many, going to the doctor for that regular health check-up is something we delay as other daily life activities take priority. For others, black marks start to accumulate on our appointment cards as we postpone those visits to avoid coming face to face with our fears.

With all the apps and functions today’s phones can perform, we often tend to forget that their main purpose and basic function is to make actual phone calls.