January 31, 2006

By Business Digest

Vonage, the New Jersey-based Internet phone provider, said Monday that it has begun offering a 513 area code for Southwest Ohio customers.

This access to the area code will be available for customers in Cincinnati, Bethany, Hamilton, Harrison, Lebanon and Middletown.

February 2, 2006

By Peter Wilson

The urge to e-mail will be surpassed by the surge to search in 2006 as Canadians become increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of information on everything from their hard drives to the Internet to their iPods.

Call it Googlemania, that's what consultant firm Deloitte does in a list of the top 10 tech trends for 2006, released Thursday, which sees e-mail being outstripped by search functions as the most-used digital application.

February 2, 2006

By Keith Schiehl

Anyone who has surfed the Web in the last few months has been hit by a barrage of banner ads telling you to fire your phone company and join the VoIP revolution. The primary player in the revolution is Vonage, and they appear everywhere on the Web.

The first question most people ask is "What is VoIP?" (pronounced voy'p).

VoIP is short for Voice over Internet Protocol. The service uses your existing high-speed Internet connection to transmit and receive telephone calls across the Internet, using digital data packets rather than analog signals.

Now, it is time for us to get to one of the reasons for all those page views: to catch up on Vonage news as well as what you have been reading and talking about in the Vonage VoIP Forum. In the news, we'll catch up on Vonage's market share, learn about a major U.S. metro that's just received Vonage local number capability, and a big promotion for prospective Vonage subscribers in Canada. We'll also point you to Vonage Forum threads about power interruptions and router setup. 

January 28, 2006

By Chuck Chiang

National Internet phone provider Vonage has officially launched voice-over-Internet service in Central and Eastern Oregon, the company announced Friday.

Vonage is the latest provider of voice-over-Internet protocol, or VOIP, in Central Oregon's increasingly crowded telecommunications market. The technology uses high-speed Internet connections to transfer phone signals.

The launch is effective immediately within the 541 area code. The area includes Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties, and cities such as Bend, Redmond, Prineville, Hood River and The Dalles.