If you’ve been online today you’ve probably seen that Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5 billion. While Microsoft has been taking a beating lately due to competition in the online world from Google, Facebook and others, and in the mobile space from Apple, Google, and others, the company is still sitting on a huge pile […]
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Cius tablet makes a cameo in latest Cisco ad
Cisco has been positioning its upcoming Cius tablet as an enterprise device, but if a new TV spot from the company is anything to go by, it may soon be available to the general public as well. The ad shows a number of different people using the Cius tablet to make video calls, and not […]
Skype To Go lets you make cheap international calls, no app required
Skype is probably the most popular VoIP apps for making cheap or free voice calls. You can use Skype apps on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers or on a number of smartphone platforms to make free calls to other Skype users or relatively inexpensive calls to cellphone or landline numbers. But now Skype is making […]
Google offers free phone calls from Gmail throughout 2011 (US & Canada only)
A few months ago Google added the ability to make phone calls from your computer to a telephone number from within Gmail. Just install the voice and video chat plugin, hit the Call phone button in your chat sidebar, and dial the number you want to call (and make sure you have a mic and/or […]
Skype offering free phone calls for a month
Skype is launching a promotion today that allows users to make free calls to telephone numbers from a PC or mobile device running Skype software. If you’re in the US you get the best deal, since you can make unlimited free calls to US landline and mobile numbers for a month. But the promotion isn’t just […]
Google Voice now open to the public
Google Voice is a service that lets you give out one phone number that people can use to ring all of your phones. Only want your work phone to ring from 9 to 5? You can adjust a setting for that. Want to be able to screen calls and send some numbers direct to voicemail? […]
Skype offers new monthly plans for dirt cheap international calls
Skype lets you make free voice and video calls to other Skyper users anywhere on the planet — assuming they have Skype installed on their computer or mobile phone. But Skype also lets you make Skype-to-Phone calls using SkypeOut credits. You can either pay by the minute or purchase a monthly plan. Up until now, […]
MagicJack hack turns an Eee PC into a mobile telephone jack
The MagicJack is USB dongle that you can plug into any computer to enable free or low cost VoIP calls using a standard telephone handset. But if you don’t want to carry around a USB dongle, it turns out you can cut it open and install the components inside a netbook. And that’s exactly what […]
Acer Aspire One – Just $100 with purchase of Vonage VoIP plan
Micro Center and Vonage are offering a promotion that lets you take $250 off the price of any computer over $249 when you sign up for a Vonage phone plan. That includes the Acer Aspire One, which Mico Center carries for $349.99. Now, this is probably only a good deal if you were thinking about […]