New Service Drops Ads into Internet Phone Calls
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Start-up service Pudding offers free international calls in exchange for targeted advertisements.
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Intelius Inc., a startup that launched online directory assistance for cell-phone numbers, has shut down the service after complaints from consumers and Verizon Wireless.
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Both Google Maps and Windows Live Local have &#8220;click to call&#8221; (not yet PPCall) embedded now in their products. And several Internet yellow pages are using it. But there&#8217;s some debate and confusion about whether it&#8217;s a truly meaningful feature. Not surprisingly, eStara (a click to call vendor), has put out a press release showing [...]
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An announcement that AT&amp;T would drop its prices for its VoIP CallVantage Service, its popular residential broadband phone service, from $34.
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New service sends color maps and directions to cell phone users.
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Parliant's PhoneValet Anywhere lets users access calls from a browser, including call history and messages.
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In an attempt to spark growth in its Net phone offer, the company reduces rates and offers new customers a month free.
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A new mobile service called Blyk will offer subscribers some free calls and text messages in return for their agreeing to accept advertising on their phones.
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Eleven days ago I wrote a blog post describing a call-in service that I'd like to use to create a podcast with my friend and fellow blogger Robert Scoble. A new service (or one that I just became aware of) comes achingly close to doing what I want. Maybe it goes all the way there, but I've not seen how to do it. First, here's how it works. 1. Call 646-495-9201 x 49763. 2. Talk. 3. Hangup. There will be a new recording here.  http://drop.io/tradesecrets  Looks good!  But there are two problems. 1. The RSS feed doesn't have an enclosure, and even if you were willing to scrape the HTML there's no pointer to an MP3 file. 2. There's no pointer to an MP3 file on the landing page, although there appears to be one if you don't look at the HTML source. Tricky. It was enough to get Mike Arrington at Techcrunch to think it was there. I have a call into Mike to discuss. A caveat, I am also in touch with the folks at BlogTalkRadio. I want this service, and we're close to having it now. drop.io doesn't go quite far enough, they clearly want to drive traffic to their site, and appear unwilling to let the MP3 out into the wild. Interesting stuff!!  Update: I did a podcast with Robert and Patrick Scoble using drop.io. I was able to download the MP3, although it pretty well hidden, and upload it to my S3 account.
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The Internet phone service providers try to win over consumers who now have a host of options when it comes to making calls.
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GATINEAU, Que. (CP) - Are Internet phone calls a new frontier or just a technological tweak for an old service? That was the question before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
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A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
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DoubleClick, the one-time darling of dot-com advertising, is on the block, The Post has learned. DoubleClick, which has seen its fortunes steadily decline since the Internet
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Service that answers questions via text messages comes in handy when you're sans the Internet, but don't ask it about the meaning of life.
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A new way of making calls directly between two phones, for free, is being trialled by Swedish company TerraNet.
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If you&#39;re like me, you&#39;ve seen lots of ads for Internet phone services but met very few people who actually use one. Dan Cistone, an Army staff sergeant based in Killeen, Texas, is living proof that those ads aren&#39;t purely hype.
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Some AOL subscribers are discovering that the company's new free service is only free if you ask for it.