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New Yahoo voice/telephone interface

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Yahoo has greatly enhanced its messaging system with a telephone interface. Yahoo Messenger with Voice lets users dial out traditional or mobile phones. For $2.99 per month or $29.90 per year, users can also get a phone number from Yahoo that lets them receive phone calls through the IM interface. Calls made to phone numbers […]

Make Internet calls from any computer with Skype on a thumb flash drive

Monday, July 10th, 2006

You gotta hand it to the free Skype Inernet telephone calling service.
They sure know how to market.
Skype and SanDisk have annunced a deal in which Skype will now come pre-loaded on the SanDisk Cruzer Micro and Cruzer Titanium lines of those little flash memory thumb drives. That means Skype users can take their personal […]

SunRocket seems much improved

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I promised an update when I reinstalled it and tonight, after a week’s worth of renewed experience with SunRocket, one of the cheapest VoIP providers around, I can give it a favorable review. I’ve used it several times a day since reinstalling it and, except for occasional lags in dialing (it sometimes takes 20 seconds […]

SunRocket running well

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

It’s been some months since my first and disappointing experiment with VoIP provider SunRocket. But after hearing from several blog readers who reported good experiences with the service over the past few weeks, I hooked my SunRocket gizmo back up and, after a couple of days, am quite pleased by the quality and reliability. Maybe […]

Skype 2.0 offers video and more

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

I’ve been so impressed with the new 2.0 version of Skype that I went ahead and signed up for a phone number and outgoing VoIP calls. I’ve done one video conference so far and it was pretty slick, though running it through a wireless home network was the reason I was getting some dropouts, methinks. […]