Internet phone or VoIP is an excellent service to substitute for the regular phone service. This article will help telephone users determine the benefits of VoIP and why you need to make a switch to it.

The technology can be used with anything Google provides or with any third party service, someone creates leveraging these technologies of VOIP and real time video-conferencing.

Mumblex.de provides you with a Mumble server to call your own for free for 48 hours.

What happened on December 22nd, when Skype, the number one VOIP service, crashed for 24 hours? The CIO for Skype finally comes clean on what went wrong and how they plan to avoid future problems.

Skype has released Skype 5.0 beta for Mac OS X which includes the new group video calling feature and a revamped user interface. The new version also integrates with your Mac address book allowing you to call, IM or SMS your contacts from within Skype.

Skype’s 3G VoIP iPhone has features like virtual numbers, telecommuting, personal phone numbers, Mobile PBX, private faxes, unified communication, and multiple locations through voice.

There’s not just Skype to the common man’s VoIP adventures. Check out these 3 cool VoIP applications, that we think, you haven’t heard of!

Gmail may soon allow users to make free phone calls to US and Canada using Google Chat. Google Chat could turn out to be a Skype killer for making VoIP calls.

There are seven encryptions involved in Skype’s protection and it was broken only for educational purpose. The people behind this hack are IT Cryptologists.

Fring is VoIP app that lets you make calls and send messages to Skype, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, SIP, Twitter and Facebook.

At the International Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, MagicJack demonstrated a device that will let users make VoIP calls using a GSM phone.

Google acquires VOIP expert GIPS for $68.2m after it announced a technology for Android app developers to integrate video and audio chat into their products.

Skype has withdrawn its support for Windows Mobile. Skype has pulled out both Skype Lite and Skype Mobile for Windows Mobile. This means, you cannot download the app from the Skype official site but if you already have it installed on your device it will work.

Gizmo5, the independent IM and VoIP service provider, has been acquired by Google’s Voice service. Google Voice is the telecom service for US citizens from the search-engine giant Google. With the addition of Gizmo5, Google Voice is set to become a formidable opponent of Skype and other VoIP providers.

Skype 2.1 Beta for Linux came out this week. Users of the popular VoIP application on the Linux platform had been demanding video support since like – ages. They may rejoice now as this Beta release features native video call support, among several other features.