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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Our recent article covering Anveo telephony solutions for consumers generated lot of interest. As I mentioned in my last post, Anveo’s strength lies in its ability to use the visual IVR call flow platform to offer robust solutions tailored for both consumers and enterprise customers. This post details some of the features that are geared...

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One of the most common complaints against Google Voice is that it does not provide SIP support and consequently one cannot use Google Voice without losing local plan minutes. We have provided a work around to enable SIP support in Google Voice, however, that is not the most elegant method. Today, we review an app–Talkatone–that...

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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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Most VoIP providers take a cookie cutter approach to developing their offerings. Other than some minor differences, they all look and feel the same. Given this, I was pleasantly surprised to see Anveo, a VoIP provider packed with many cool features that will surely appeal to both retail and enterprise consumers. There are so many...

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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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Don’t we all love it when VoIP providers drop their call rates to various international destinations? For our readers from India and Philippines, we have some great news today. Read on to find out how to make cheap calls to India and FREE calls to Philippines. Cheap Calls to India Localphone, one of our trusted...

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