Earthlink’s free VoIP with Vling Beta

Om Malik | Monday, July 11, 2005 | 10:56 AM PT | 6 comments

vlingGizmo Project, the SIP-based Skype competitor is creating a lot of buzz. Yahoo is making (VoIP) noise with Dialpad, and soon Microsoft will have something in the market as well. Perhaps that is why it is opportune time for Earthlink to throw it hat in the ring with its new PC2PC softphone client, Vling. Vling lets you make calls and send instant text messages using your computer to anyone else using Vling and has enhanced CD-quality sound, instant text messaging, and a cool, easy-to-use interface. The best part is that you can call any SIP address, not just numbers. Bad news is you can’t call regular phones just yet but you can only use it with other Vling users, SIPphone, and Free World Dialup. The really bad news - only for PC. (Grrrr!) I will try it out tonight and let you know. If you are too impatient, then download it here.

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May 22nd, 2006
7:14 AM PT

Stewart Konigsberg…

I’m not aware of any mp3 sources for the lectures…

May 22nd, 2006
7:30 AM PT
Red Buttons said:

Red Buttons…

Are there any mp3 sources for these lectures? It’d be great to be able to listen to them off-line…

May 22nd, 2006
7:35 AM PT
Dr. Joyce said:

Dr. Joyce…

How to download Real Audio streams and convert Real Audio to MP3…

May 22nd, 2006
7:35 AM PT

Stewart Konigsberg…

had a similar problem a while back where i wanted to split large mp3s (live sets) into parts, while there are quite a number of apps out there that can do it, i found most of them to be bloated or they required you to buy it, so i ended up writing my o…

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July 11th, 2005
12:19 PM PT
morris said:

is Vling replaces xten for Earthlink’s free pc2pc calls or just an added service.since XTEN is much advance softphone+ video what’s the deal here.

July 11th, 2005
2:11 PM PT
Om Malik said:

I think this is purely a new client they have thrown into the market. my guess is that they will eventually add xten features in this client.

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