Few can forget Jaxtr, a company that once offered unlimited international VoIP calls between several countries (including India). Jaxtr, founded by Touraj Parang and Philip Mobin in October 2005, has since been sold to Sabeer Bhatia’s Sabse Technologies Inc. After a brief hiatus, Jaxtr has launched its latest offering – JaxtrSMS – that allows one...

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Text messages (SMS) as a means of communication have some great features – wide reach, less intrusive, personal, reliable, interactive, and personal – making them a great business tool. Not surprisingly then, sending and receiving text messages (SMS) is one of the most requested enterprise communication features. Several providers offer bulk SMS gateways and most...

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While most VoIP service providers aim to target all the customers looking for VoIP services, research in marketing suggests that it is practically a very difficult to task to connect and communicate with customers with heterogeneous needs (different preferences). Firms are much better off segmenting the market into groups of consumers with distinct needs and...

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One of the most frequent requests that I get is for more tools to send and receive text messages (SMS) for FREE. We have already covered a few ways to send free text messages (SMS) to almost all over the world. The problem with many of the web-based text messaging service is that they do...

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GV Mobile appeared to on top of the list of Google Voice apps available for the iPhone/iPod before Apple decide to boot out all the Google Voice apps from its App store. Lot has changed since then. VoiceCentral came out with Black Swan edition, a very powerful HTML5 based GV “app”. GV Dialer seems to...

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If you are a small business or a SOHO user, you probably know the importance of establishing local presence. Although a website is a great medium to connect with people across the globe, you need some local presence to meaningfully establish yourself in international markets. A contact form on your website is not enough to...

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We have already seen two great ways to push Google Voice notifications to your iPhone. But, it looks like some users were having difficulty in using the Mail2Prowl service. So, today we have another tutorial to push Google Voice notifications to your iPhone – VoiceGrowl. Step 1: Installation VoiceGrowl works exactly like Mail2Prowl that we...

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If you are convinced that you should start using VoIP on Mobile, using Google Voice on your mobiles is one way to start. If you are not aware of what we are talking about, find out the power of Google Voice/ Grandcentral accounts. With more than a few options available to use Google Voice (erstwhile...

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If you are looking for low cost or free calling solutions to India, China, Philippines, Canada, United Kingdom (UK) or Singapore, this is a must read. The troubled VoIP startup, Jaxtr, recently introduced its FreeConnect service in a bid to attract new users and increase its popularity. About FreeConnect: FreeConnect allows Jaxtr members to make...

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Although I am not big on text messaging, I know it is a lifeline for many of you. Text message or SMS is probably the fastest means of communication other than speaking directly. But if you need to connect with your entire group (e.g., to invite your friends for a party) then text messages can...

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