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What is ROFL? Some things are best defined by what they are not. ROFL is not the traditional chat acronym "Rolling on the Floor Laughing". Instead ROFL is a social entertainment love story. Voxox is not just another pretty telecomm company. We're here to play! You may have seen our curious tweets this month and you may be hoping that we'll tell you what's going on! We're just here to tease and entice. 

Ratbane Rhinoceros of ROFL: A Rhinoceros and an Octopus Find Love, a Voxox original social entertainment series is almost here and he really wants your help. February marks month one of this exciting blend of advertising, social marketing and entertainment. 

When was the last time you had a service provider tell you the issue you are experiencing is not their fault and you need to call the other guy?  

Consider this... six months ago you opened your first business, and everything is going well. You arrive on Monday morning, pick up your first phone call of the day and the person sounds choppy and gargled. You're able to get what you need from the customer, but you know your next task is to call your VoIP provider and see what they can do about the previous call. You spend the next hour talking to the customer support agent, running tests, and calling back and forth. Right when you think you’re getting somewhere, the support agent tells you the problem is with your internet service provider and there is nothing they can do to help. You are dumbfounded. You just wasted an hour and now you need to call the internet service provider. You call, but you're nervous and you’re wondering how many people you are going to have to talk to before this gets fixed...which is not a good feeling. You’re stuck on the phone, you still have a problem, and you’re not able to give your business the attention that is needed. What do you do?

Finding innovative ways to save money and boost revenue are essential for any growing business today. While cutting corners isn’t always fun, setting up your first hosted phone system definitely is! A hosted phone system takes the best features of a sophisticated PBX on-premise phone setup and supercharges it with awesome new VoIP features that old traditional systems only dream about.  And because the sytem works via the Internet, it does you the favor of zapping all of those servers and switchboards and cables into oblivion. What you are left with is a super streamlined and friendly ‘in the cloud’ infrastructure that places all of the equipment off-site, except the actual phones.

Spring is in the air, and it's time to start planning your 2014 vacation. In our parent’s day, vacations consisted of travel bingo, dozens of books on your chosen destination, and those giant folded maps that always seemed to get ruined on day one. Today all of that same information can be accessed via your mobile device.  Now anyone can travel like a pro; all it takes is a little time to download, install, and go! These are the 7 travel apps that will turn you into a travel pro within minutes.

Running your own business comes with a lot of responsibility, but your phone doesn’t have to add to the stress. If you’re like most busy entrepreneurs, you have trouble keeping your professional and personal phone lines separate and are desperately seeking a solution -- read on to find out how a virtual PBX service can solve your headache and give you a professional edge.

Let’s say you own a mobile car wash business and are always on-the-go washing and detailing cars while their owners are stuck in their cubicles. You’re in the middle of hosing down a Bentley when your phone starts to buzz. Your hands are wet and you can’t reach it in time. There goes another potential client to your voicemail.  For a larger business this wouldn’t be a problem, but if you have one mobile device for both personal and business calls, you may end up with a confusing personal and business image -- i.e., “Hi, this is Bob’s Mobile Car Wash. Please leave a message,” may not help with your dating scene.

Although man’s desire to communicate – or chat – has not changed, the way that we do it certainly has. Cave painters of old are now the meme’rs and bloggers of today. Long gone are hand-written notes carried on horseback and sealed with an ironclad secure silk ribbon and wax combo, for today we can chat and instant message with our betrothed … or the pizza guy, the cutie you met at the bar or a co-worker!   

Given how practical, addictively fun and sexy they are, you don’t have to be Theodore Twombly in the movie Her to fall in love with your mobile phone today!  Especially now that Voxox gives you unlimited FREE international calls to anyone around the world when calling from your Voxox account to another Voxox user, anytime you want, right at the tips of your fingers.  In fact, all it takes is two minutes to install the Android or iOS Voxox app to start enjoying the benefit of never paying for out-of-network or international calls again. Then once your mobile phone is all setup, you can install the Windows or Mac desktop app and enjoy all the same benefits there! If you need to call a non-Voxox user no problem; Voxox has the lowest rates in the industry! Check out the rates here.

To stay competitive, today’s businesses require more than just independent phone and data lines to cut deals, make sales and stay connected to their growing mobile workforces.  They need systems that are less old-school and a lot more geek-chic … systems that deliver the power of VoIP in all its glory to meet the demands of each department in the organization.  What they need is SIP Trunking!

Happy New Year from all of us at Voxox! A new year, means new technology trends. Following are eight technologies that are primed and ready to change the way you go about your daily life in 2014.