Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), or Internet calling, makes it possible to make local or long-distance telephone voice calls over the Internet without going through a traditional landline ...

From the beginning of time, communication has been one of the most important cornerstones in our evolution as a species. And now it seems like we can’t live without a wireless connection. Wi-Fi and ...

* Internet phone service allows people to make telephone calls over a high-speed Internet connection instead of a regular phone line. Such services come in many different flavors. * Some, such as ...

A few years ago, a buzz began spreading about Internet telephony, a technology allowing telephone conversations to be made across the Internet rather than exclusively over regular phone lines. Such ...

Internet calling, messaging and social-media use dominated online activity in early 2025, according to new data from the statistical service that shows near-universal weekly internet use and broad ...

Vonage announced an Internet phone-calling application that can be downloaded for free to iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones allowing international calls through Wi-Fi or cellular networks. Vonage ...

Traditional telephone companies are likely to fight back as eBay Inc. acquires Skype Technologies SA and expands the reach of Internet phone service, experts said yesterday. Many competitors will ...

But improvements in the technology have taken hold recently, supporting innovative new services and efficiencies in the way phone calls are zipped around the world. In the surest sign of the ...

This week’s announcement that AOL will be discontinuing its dial-up internet access service on September 30 triggered a bout of nostalgia in me—an internet dinosaur who first dialed up to ARPANET in ...