In the pre-Internet days, if a U.S company wanted telephone service, one’s choice was easy—AT&T. If you’re interested, the "official" history is available on the "new" AT&T’s Web site at corp.att.com/history/history1.html.
BT, which connects seven out of ten British households, has developed its own internet-telephone service. However, the telephone giant, which has the most to lose if the new technology takes off, has been reluctant to promote it heavily....
Google on Tuesday unveiled a new landline telephone service aimed at helping consumers stay connected in the Internet cloud. The newFiber Phoneservice will be made available to a few US markets and later expanded to other cities where Google offers high-speed Internet. The new service adds a f...
The service links Internet searchers with business over the telephone. According to Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligent, Click-to-call is a vital means to leverage the power of search engines and deliver more powerful leads. In addition, the service is a cost-effective...
Google Voice is a telephone service that can unify communication channels so that several phones ring simultaneously via one single,free phone numberthat works like most other phone numbers. Upon an incoming call, you have several options to handle this communication. ...
The popularity of Google Voice among small businesses is no accident. The product gives companies first-rate VoIP telephone service at prices that are much lower than their traditional landline alternatives. Yet there are so many approaches taken by VoIP vendors that Google Voice isn’t the best...
possible field that a human being might use to gain or transmit information. Google has a strong hold on the e-mail market, the search engine is the number one website in the world,Google TVis on the way and now Google has its eyes on the Internet telephone field currently dominated by...
Google on Tuesday set out to recruit US soldiers as users of its Voice online telephone service, promising it would help military families stay connected. Google Voice employs Internet telephony technology to let users merge home, office and mobile phones into a single number. ...
And that gets to the problem. All these platforms could be mainly content agnostic, the way the telephone system is platform agnostic. However people are expecting them to insert themselves and not be content agnostic. Once that happens, they are going to be in an exceptional bind. We don’...
Internet calling is also known asVoIPorVoice over Internet Protocoland provides a cost effective way to make telephone calls using a high speed Internet connection. This helps to alleviate the exorbitant costs associated with using a conventional telephone service. ...