Remember Vonage? It was once the future. CheapĀ “landline” calls from home, only over the Internet. Don’t laugh. That was less than 10…
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Remember Vonage? It was once the future. CheapĀ “landline” calls from home, only over the Internet. Don’t laugh. That was less than 10…
Read MoreVonage is expanding its reach yet again. This time the VoIP provider will offer a long distance calling card aimed at people who want convenient pre-paid international calling without hidden fees or even a physical card. This helps it move beyond land line phones.…
Read MoreVonage today released an application for Facebook on iPhone and Android that provides free voice calls between Facebook friends over Wi-Fi or a 3G wireless network. With past struggles to stay viable as a VoIP provider, this app might give Vonage a new lease on life.…
Read MoreJive Software today launched what it hopes will become a Facebook-style social networking platform for businesses, complete with an activity stream, an open API and an application store. But whether Jive's new offering can make social networking more palatable to business users remains to be seen.…
Read MoreRumors were circulating earlier in the day, but now AT&T (s att) has made official its plans to allow Internet calling services…
Read MoreVonage today announced a line of apps for the iPhone, iPod touch and BlackBerry. Once a pioneer of VoIP, the company has fallen out of favor over the past few years and the release of its apps, collectively dubbed Vonage Mobile, is being viewed as a chance for Vonage to regain its luster. Unfortunately, it's too little, too late.…
Read MoreIf you watch TV, then you probably can’t erase the memory of Vonage (s vg) commercials from your brain, no matter how…
Read MoreWeb workers do pretty much everything else online, so why not use Internet phone service, too? Besides our natural technology addiction, there…
Read More[qi:gigaom_icon_voip] Vonage (s vg), a VoIP services provider, is making its first move to mobile by developing smartphone applications, the New Jersey-based…
Read MoreAmongst all the burning wrecks of the voice over IP startup scene, is it possible that a $40 device hawked on late-night…
Read MoreKevin told us about the Sharp Mebius NJ when word first came out about this cool notebook with an optical screen for…
Read MoreWe’re no rating agency here at GigaOM, but Om and I got together this week to figure out our coverage priorities for…
Read MoreThe great thing about using Apple (s aapl) computers (loaded with OS X of course), is that some of the tasks that…
Read MoreUpdate: If shabby treatment of its customers and draconian policies are any indication, then Comcast (s CMCSA) has been behaving like a…
Read More[qi:090] Five years after it launched Voicewing by rebranding DeltaThree, Verizon (s VZ) is shutting down the VoIP service that never managed…
Read MoreFor the past few days, the VoIP community has been indulging in a bit of soul-searching. The debate: Is VoIP dead? To…
Read MoreA study by Keynote Systems shows that AT&T voice is most reliable while Comcast digital has the best quality. Other independent VoIP providers are pretty average on both counts it seems.…
Read MoreChuck Klosterman once wrote that the phrase “comparing apples to oranges” to reference the contrast of two different things was dumb because…
Read MoreFormer AT&T (NYSE: T) Chief Marketing Officer Marc Lefar has been named as the new CEO of struggling Voip phone provider Vonage, replacing i……
Read MoreI received an emailed press release from Comcast this morning about their plans to work with Vonage to address “the reasonable network…
Read MoreUpdated: AT&T has stopped selling AT&T Callvantage to new customers, reports DSL Reports. AT&T, long before it merged with SBC had made…
Read MoreDespite all the troubles with VoIP service providers such as SunRocket and Vonage, VoIP as a technology seems to be doing quite…
Read MoreVoIP has some major advantages over traditional landline phones. First, typically you can call phones in the US and Canada for one monthly flat rate. Also, international calls can be made very cheaply. Included services with your flat rate service include: call waiting, call forwarding, online enabled voice mail, CallerID, and many more. Whereas conventional phone companies charge you individually for each of these services, VoIP providers give them to you for one flat rate. Where do you begin if you'd like to use your broadband connection to lower your phone bill dramatically? Lets walk through some of the options.…
Read MoreAfter a really rough 2007, Vonage (VG), the independent voice-over-IP service provider, seems to be having a better 2008. This morning the…
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