In sales, the person keeping you (the salesperson) from the decision maker is rather famously known as “the gatekeeper.” More often than not it’s a secretary or executive assistant. I don’t have a secretary, but I do have VoxOx, and it works great in screening annoying calls from vendors and other folks.

And now, “we’re baaack…” and what a trip it was! Already a hip and trendy place, Barcelona welcomed the new, slick VoxOx (with Universal Translator) with open arms!

If you haven’t seen the movie Network I suggest you stop everything (well, after you’ve read this), find it, watch it, and then this might make more sense to you afterward. With the help of a certain crazy-eyed fictitious network anchor named Howard Beale, we’re going to explore how texting with your cell phone carrier is an expensive proposition, and how using VoxOx can save you big. Below are actual quotes from the movie to help us along with this post.

It’s a pretty typical new year’s resolution…”This year, I’m going to learn (whatever) language”. I say it all the time. I know for me, besides learning to juggle, perfecting my French has been up there for a while, which is being VERY generous to my current level of French. Do I do it? Of course not. But not everyone has to know that…and the VoxOx Universal Translator gives us a really nice shortcut.

VoxOx is now the first service of its kind to completely integrate “on the fly” foreign language translation for two-way SMS, cross-network IM, email, and select social media channels… all from a single interface.

You may have heard VoxOx referred to as the first and only “Universal Communicator” service that integrates all popular communications channels – voice, video, chat, SMS, email, fax and file sharing – into a single interface.

But how does that work, exactly?

One of the coolest new features we’ve added to VoxOx recently is not actually in the desktop client, but on the VoxOx web site.
It’s a web-based crowd-sourcing application called UserVoice, which enables users such as yourself to provide product feature suggestions, bug reports and other important feedback on our beta service. What sets this tool [...]

I’ve always known about the great functionality of our VoxOx Personal Assistant (think Google Voice, but more robust), but I didn’t realize how great until we launched the second version of the personal assistant (PA) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month. Bottom line: this is a service that can truly really help you streamline your communications and be more efficient.

After diving into the service pretty extensively over the past few weeks, I wanted to present my list of top five ways the VoxOx PA can help you be more productive.

Mini flying helicopters, giant video game screens, multi-colored lights, thumping music and tens of thousands of people. Some sort of amusement park or arcade attraction? Nah, just another year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the biggest technology and gadget confab in the world.

If your a gadget geek at all, you know what the acronym CES stands for: Consumer Electronics Show. Held every year in Las Vegas, the show is perhaps the biggest gadget-fest in the world. It’s huge, attracting as many as 150,000 people. All the major consumer technology players, from Google to Microsoft to Sony, will [...]