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The Taxing Truth About VoIP Phone Service Taxes

Voxilla Staff — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:29:33 +0000

At at one point or another, we’ve all complained about high taxes. Whether we’ve whimpered at the digits and dollar signs taken out of our paychecks, or dropped our jaws at the sales tax at the bottom of our receipts, taxes generally stir up an unsettling feeling among us all. We feel your pain. That’s [...]

OBi110 Now Available at $42, Lowest Price Ever for Powerful VoIP Adaptor

Voxilla Staff — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:18:44 +0000

If you’ve been considering a purchase of Obihai Technology’s OBi110, now is a good time to buy. The popular VoIP device, which gives users the ability to make and receive free calls over the Google Voice service with any telephone handset, is now available on Amazon at $41.99 (with free shipping in the US). This [...]

Skype Hopes to Change What You Talk About on the Phone

Voxilla Staff — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:12:56 +0000

Skype’s revenues have always depended on your willingness to change the way you talk over the phone. Now the service, recently bought by Microsoft, hopes to make money on what you actually talk about. The company has announced the launch of what it calls “Conversation Ads,” large targeted ads that appear on the screen when [...]

Megapath’s New Speed Test Plus Is a Valuable Free Tool for VoIP Users

Voxilla Staff — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:08:53 +0000

Every serious VoIP user has at one time or another tested his or her downstream and upstream bandwidth to see if there’s a problem. Sometimes (though rarely at today’s typical broadband speeds), a bottleneck large enough to affect voice conversations is pinpointed through such a test. But several other internet connectivity factors can have an [...]

VoIP Provider Callcentric Offers New Plans, Free Phone Numbers

Voxilla Staff — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:46:33 +0000

VoIP service provider CallCentric launched a redesigned web site and added several new features over the weekend. Among the changes: Callcentric customers can sign up for free incoming phone numbers that can be used for any purpose. The numbers, from more than 80 rate centers in New York state, incur no monthly or incoming per-minute [...]

Bill Simon’s Free SIP-to-XMPP Gateway Easily Puts Google Voice on Your VoIP Phone

Voxilla Staff — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:49:34 +0000

Unless you’re an adventurous VoIP tinkerer, there is no easy do-it-yourself approach to getting Google Voice to work over an IP phone’s unused line. Obihai Technologies series of Obi telephone adaptors allow you to easily use a basic analog phone with Google Voice, but some contortion is required to use an Obi with an IP [...]

FBI Asking VoIP Companies to Voluntarily Support Backdoor Access to Users’ Phone Calls

Voxilla Staff — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:18:57 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigations is working to convince Internet companies and Voice over IP service providers to go along with a proposed federal law that would require them to build back doors into their systems to facilitate government surveillance operations, reports CNET. Federal plans to broaden wiretapping laws to include internet communications companies have [...]

Android Expanding Smartphone Lead Over iOS

Voxilla Staff — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:10:17 +0000

The battle between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android for dominance of the smartphone platform appears to be slipping ever so slightly in Android’s favor. According to a study released by digital research firm comScore, Inc., Google Android now commands a majority, or 51 percent, of the smartphone market, up 3.7 percent from December. Apple’s share [...]

Liar, Liar, VoIP on Fire: At Industry’s Low-End, Highbrow Boasts Ring Hollow

Voxilla Staff — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:16:20 +0000

In the fierce fight for cheap VoIP supremacy, hyperbole reigns supreme. In one corner sits MagicJack, whose decidedly unpolished commercials have run rampant through late night television and who issues press releases describing itself as “a cloud communications leader that invented voice over IP (VoIP)”. In the other corner sits newcomer NetTALK, a “cloud technology [...]

OBi202 VoIP Adaptor Now on Amazon, Wait Well Worth It

Voxilla Staff — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:43:55 +0000

Obihai Technology has been featuring the OBi202 on the front page of the company’s main web site for several months. Now, the device, which represents a huge step up from the company’s wildly popular OBi100 and OBi110 VoIP adaptors, is finally available on Amazon for $75. Was it worth the wait? Should users of previously [...]