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Did You Hear That? Eavesdropping on Free Calls!

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Sep 30, 2014

Yes, the government can listen to your phone conversations. They can record them too. But unless you’re saying something really interesting to some really interesting people, they probably aren’t. Call it “national security insurance.”

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

Why Talk When You Can Text?

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Sep 25, 2014

My sister (I may have mentioned her before) loves to communicate. As a teenager in the 1970s, she would talk on the phone for hours. Literally. She is a great communicator and has always been extremely social. She makes friends easily and is always the last one to leave the party.

So I was surprised at how difficult it was to get her to text. She just didn’t recognize the necessity. It wasn’t a cost issue. There are great apps, like Voxox, that let you text for free. Why would this extreme extrovert want to limit her communication options?

 

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

Keep The Fire Burning: Mobile Apps and Your LDR

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Sep 18, 2014

Here are some words you never want to hear when you’re in a college relationship and it’s time to register for the next semester: “Babe, I’m going to an out-of-state school this semester.”

First, there’s the distinct feeling that you just swallowed a huge rock. Then, your panicked response: “You’re going to school … out of state? What about us?

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Topics: Voice Communication, iPhone, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, Android

Which Voxox Feature Are You -- Free Texting?

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Sep 11, 2014

Time for a pop quiz

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

The Future of Free Calls

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Sep 04, 2014

Meet George Jetson. In 1962 America met the Jetsons, the first show to air in color on ABC. It was set in 2062, 100 years into the future. The greatest thing about looking back at futuristic TV shows and movies is seeing what was once fantasy becoming today’s real technology.

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

Send a Free Fax, Save the Planet

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Aug 28, 2014

The fax machine is alive and well. Just look around. Notice the scarcity of trees? Okay, you probably don’t live in a forest and aren’t watching the destruction of over ten million trees daily, but it’s happening around the world. About 35 percent of cut trees are used for making paper. Here in the United States, we are the top consumers, with each American using an average of over one-third ton of paper each year.1

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

Lower Rates and Free Calls: Brother can you spare 100 minutes?

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Aug 21, 2014

In October of 2012, Solenne San Jose received a bit of a shock.

Solenne, who lives near the Bordeaux wine country in France, had terminated her service contract with Telecom Bouygues to change to a different provider. She was told by her old carrier that she would be required to pay a cancellation fee on the following month’s bill.

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

Conference Bridge: Improving Your Business Communication

Posted by Aimee Eucce on Aug 20, 2014

Gathering your workforce into a boardroom can sometimes be an impossible task, and initiating conference calls with multiple parties can become tediously marred by bad conference calling service. It is vitally important to have a reliable conference bridge with high definition call quality. This is why Voxox created Conference Bridge our state-of-the-art conference-calling platform that enables up to 250 different callers on one a single conference line.  

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Topics: Voxox, Conference Bridge, Business

14 Outrageous OTT Communications and Mobile Stats

Posted by Erica Berry on Aug 19, 2014

What’s the one thing you spend the most time with every day? If you answered your smartphone, then you’re in the majority. In fact, a recent IDC study shows 79% of people have their smartphones with them 22 hours a day!

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, Cost Savings, OTT

Great Moments in VoIP History: How “call for free” came to be

Posted by Ian LeWinter on Aug 14, 2014

My stepfather, Bob, is 89 years old. To get your brain around what it means to be 89, consider this: As a young adult, he was one of the brave soldiers who landed in the D-Day invasion at Normandy.

He is literally a part of history. He’s also an “early adopter.” Which is why he was the first person — way back in the 1990s — from whom I’d ever heard the term “VoIP.”

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Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android