Gizmo5 a service to be discontinued. Existing Gizmo5 users log in to learn more about options: call credit refunds, credit balance transfers, possibility to keep international DID phone numbers

What’s happening at PTC (Pacific Telecommunications Council Conference) scheduled Jan. 16-19, 2011?
Jan. 19, 2011: What do big companies Google and Facebook want of Subterranean cables? Build more. Sell cheaper. Najam Ahmad, Facebook networking director, and Vijay Gill, Google senior manager of engineering and architecture, shared challenges of managing Earths’s largest global networks, who are required to handle more and [...]

A managing editor of Techistan, gave advice at an ITEXPO open source roundtable around 2005: “Don’t try to beat your competitor … For the first, buy them. Don’t waste energy … in awe or jealo

Central Number is a phone number and web space where you can unify and manage your telephony communications.
Characteristics:
• List the phone numbers you want to manage with Central Number so when they call to your new phone number all your phones will ring or the ones you defined.
• Make and receive phone calls from any [...]

Google on Tuesday said it will acquire Global IP Solutions Holding, which makes processing software for voice and video over IP, for $68.2 million. The deal means that Google will own the voice and video conferencing engine behind its competitors’ instant messaging systems.
The search giant said it will use Global IP Solutions (GIPS) for real-time [...]

Rebtel is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event Mar. 21-23, 2010 in Palm Desert . These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
By 2013, mobile VoIP applications will generate annual revenues of $32.2 billion, driven by more than 278 [...]

It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&T’s signal is weak, like indoors. It can turn an iPod Touch into a full-blown cellphone.
And it can ruin the sleep of cellphone executives everywhere.
Line2 gives your iPhone a second phone number — a second phone line, complete with its own contacts list, voice mail, and so [...]

Google Contacts needs to get better. Google and Gmail devotees regularly deal with duplicate contacts, sync abnormalities, over-stuffed contact groups, and other problems. Here are our best methods for fixing those annoyances yourself until Google does for real.
Let’s be clear: We love how Google Contacts functions as a centralized database of email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, mailing [...]