VOXOX Blog

It’s that time again – when the best and brightest soccer talent on the PLANET duke it out for global bragging rights…. it’s the World Cup! Get ready to wave your nation’s flag and wear your nation’s colors. And while you’re at it, why not show your World Cup pride through Voxox?  There are so many ways to do this, but we’ll just go with my favorites:

1) Update your global status to let everything know your team scored

When your team scores you have about a second to react before the moment is gone. Just imagine yourself trying to post your “WE OWN YOU BRAZIL” on your Facebook, Twitter, AIM, etc.  By the time you’re done, the other team may have scored, and that’s just embarrassing. With Voxox, you can update all your networks with one click. Just go to the status bar, bang out your best heckle and enter. Takes 2 seconds and your friends know who’s boss.

2) Use the Universal Translator to gloat to your friends in their language

Talking smack about other teams is fun, but what about talking international smack?  Not so fun when the other person doesn’t understand what you’re saying. Well, luckily we have just the thing – with the Voxox Universal Translator feature, you just type your...er... feelings… in the Voxox chat window

Topics: Voxox

Did you know that Mother’s Day boasts the most   long-distance calls of the year, while Father’s Day  holds the record for the most  collect calls?  Poor Dad!! Don’t make him pay for it this year – use Voxox to tell him how special he is without spending a fortune, or needing him to spend it on you.


With Voxox, you have incredibly cheap calling rates for more than 200 regions worldwide, including:

• $.01 per minute in 20+ countries... (U.S., Canada, U.K., Spain, Singapore, China, more!) 

• $.02 per minute in 30+ countries... (Greece, Argentina, Italy, South Korea, Japan, more!)

• $.02 to $.05 per minute in 50+ countries... (India, Russia, South Africa, Chile, Indonesia, more!)

Plus, when you sign up for Voxox, we give you some initial pocket change so that you can make a few calls on us! For example, when signing up within the U.S. or Canada, you get a $1 credit**, and at $.01 per minute that gives you more than an hour and a half to fill Dad's head with things that’ll make him go awwwww. 

Topics: Voxox

What’s cool about Voxox is its flexibility. That’s because we strive to make things as convenient for you as possible. Take Voxox voicemail, for example. When someone calls your Voxox number and leaves a voicemail, the messages stored within Voxox are accessible not one, not two, not three, but FOUR different ways! You can access them via: 

(1) Phone call -- by calling into the Voxox service from any phone (and dialing *YourCode#)

(2) SMS -- by receiving a text link to your mobile phone

(3) Email -- by receiving an mp3 file sent to your email address

(4) Voxox desktop client -- by checking the Messages icon in the Apps tab

Pretty handy for those of us who are always on the go… isn’t that everyone these days?  Check out the below instructions on how to set all this up! 

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox

Alright Voxox loyalists, let's explore reasons why you should get your friends on Voxox, starting with some Voxox-to-Voxox features! You probably know that you can call your Voxox buddies for free and you can video chat with them... but did you know that you can embed images and clickable videos into your chat conversations? 

All you do is you paste a URL for the video or graphic you want to send into the area where you type your text chats. Hit enter, and the URL will appear as either a clickable video or an image within your chat thread. Check it out:

Topics: Voxox

Topics: Company Announcements, Voxox

CrunchGear referred to the Voxox team as a “group of voice networking ninjas,” and leading this “ninja pack” is a highly technical CTO who routinely thinks out of the box – his name is Kevin Hertz.

It's Kevin’s birthday today, and what better birthday present can a guy get than to have his hard work and dedication acknowledged?   

Late last week, the third annual  San Diego Business Journal IT Executive of the Year Awards event recognized the most outstanding Information Technology executives who work in San Diego County, and for the second year in a row, Kevin was selected as one of the finalists. Nominees were submitted by their fellow co-workers, which just goes to show how much we all think of Kevin around here.

Topics: Voxox

Most moms “get” technology these days. While they prefer a good old fashioned greeting card, they’re just happy to hear from their babies, any way that communication comes. A lot of moms, young and old, are now up to date with the Internet – my mom is almost 75 and uses email regularly.

Sending mom a link to Voxox will give her even more access to keep in touch with you on a regular basis. When she sees all the possible ways you can send her your love, it will make her day. So, why not start with Mother’s Day? 

Here are five ways you can wish her a Happy Mother’s Day via Voxox:

1.    Call her on-the-cheap

My mom’s in Canada and she thinks I spend big bucks on phone bills (makes her love me even more). What she doesn’t know is that it costs 1 penny per minute to call Canada from Voxox!   Plus, when you sign up for Voxox in the U.S. or Canada, the first $1 worth of Voxox credit is on us*, so you can call a bunch of places worldwide for super cheap. 

Topics: Voxox, VoIP, SMS

By now you probably know that when you sign up for Voxox, you get your very own free phone number right along with it. Now most of us love this because with Voxox’s Internet-based number, you can receive free phone calls from anywhere in the world; make dirt cheap international calls and even cheaper domestic calls (1 cent per minute in U.S./Canada);  and do two-way worldwide texting and fax.

However, some folks would rather not give out a new phone number to people, and we here at Voxox are cool with that. So, our trusted tech guys gave it some thought and found a way for you to keep your existing cell phone number and still be able to use some of the cool Voxox perks. It works by forwarding your cell phone to Voxox through a special set of instructions (provided below). Doing so will enable you to:

• Screen the call through the Voxox Personal Assistant, which will ask the caller’s name

• Send the caller to voicemail, and let you Eavesdrop™ on the message as its being left – you can pick up at any time, just like those retro answering machines from the 90s!

• Record the call on-demand (*1 to start/stop recording), transfer the call to another phone (*2), and start a conference call with up to 20 people! (press *3 to add friends to your call)

• Use Voxox voicemail, which lets you access your phone messages both via phone and online – this one’s good for folks who misplace their cell phone regularly and need to access their voicemails

Sold yet? Check out the instructions below, and remember, this is for Voxox power users!

Topics: Voxox

Faxing used to be the best way to get a document to someone in a hurry (bypassing snail mail) but you still had to have a fax machine and a phone number.  Now there are many fax options available online that allow you to send and receive from your computer; however, most of them take advantage of the fact that you would normally pay for a phone line and they charge accordingly -- anywhere from $5.95 per month to $19.95 per month, plus per minute charges.

Then, in walks Voxox. From your Voxox account, receiving faxes is FREE and you pay Voxox's cheap per minute rates for the use of outbound faxing. For example, U.S. and Canada per minute rates are only 1 cent per minute, so, it will cost you something like half a penny to fax one page within the U.S. and Canada. How cool is that?

And, let’s not forget that it's Earth Day today. We can contribute to saving trees if we simply reduce the amount of paper used by regular faxes.  With Voxox you can stop “printing” on your end, plugging into a machine, sending over a phone line, and having it “printed” on the other end. 

Topics: Communication, Voxox

Topics: Voxox