The battle for your address book: Will souped up contact apps monetize the data explosion?
[Editor's Note: Below, MobileBeat advisory board member Jason Devitt explains why we should care about new innovative address books. Not only are they key to a much better user experience, but they may greatly impact the way we pay to use our phones. He also... Continue Reading
Jajah holds strong, dials up $2.8M to expand VoIP services
Jajah, a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) communication service, has taken in $2.75 million of an anticipated $5 million fourth round of funding, peHUB reports. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company provides service to millions of users, much like competitors mig33 and Jaxtr. Last April it… Continue Reading
Yoomba latest in wave of VoIP closures
Yoomba, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based company that let users send and receive phone calls and instant messages through their email programs, has shut its doors, reports VentureWire — continuing the trend of VoIP consolidations and failures that has emptied a once crowded space (including still… Continue Reading
Cellity to beef up your contacts with Addressbook2.0
Mobile application developer Cellity aims to take your contacts to a whole new level on Dec. 16, when it publicly launches its Addressbook 2.0 for any phone that supports Java — not just smartphones. The application draws data from your email, social networks, standard contacts… Continue Reading
In Beijing this summer? Use Jajah’s mobile Chinese-English translation service
Jajah, the Internet telephone company, today introduced a nifty English-Chinese translation service — perfect for English speaking tourists in China.
Called JAJAH.Babel, the service allows anyone in China to use their mobile phone to call a local number, speak in English and immediately let someone hear… Continue Reading
Jaxtr raises $10 million to expand cheap international calls
Jaxtr now has a buck for every one of its users. The company has raised $10 million in a second round of financing to expand its cheap overseas internet calling business.
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company uses a voice-over-internet-protocol service to knock the costs out of… Continue Reading
Internet calling service Jaxtr growing
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Jaxtr, a Silicon Valley company that offers Internet calling, is crowing about its growth rate. Five million people have used the service since it launched, up from half a million users in July, it says.
To be clear, this is not the same as its monthly… Continue Reading
Jangl and Jajah, once rival web-calling companies, join forces
Online telephone services Jajah and Jangl have joined forces to overcome the large odds against them in the cut-throat, low-cost world of telephone calls.
Under their accord, the two sides will exploit Jajah’s wider infrastructure and Jangl’s growing user base on Web sites. The deal heralds… Continue Reading
Roundup: Ebay stamps Jajah, iPhone a $1B ecosystem?, Verizon-Google spat, more
Here’s the latest action:
–Jajah gets shut out of eBay
–German cell-phone software vendor buys iPhone game maker
–Verizon secretly pressuring FCC Chairman to renege on wireless opening?
–Facebook advertisers are “selling shovels to other miners”
–Ballmer: Ads to make up quarter of Microsoft business
–Research firm Gartner predicts continuing chip-industry… Continue Reading
Jajah releases free 1-800 number button
Jahah, the Internet telephone company, has introduced a new service that lets people call you from email for free with a one-click calling button.
This latest could be highly viral, especially for small businesses wanting the equivalent of a free 1-800 number.
The USAToday just wrote a… Continue Reading
Lypp, offering free conference calls
Lypp is a free group calling service that works with your existing landline or cellphone number, and launches a private testing version tomorrow.
It’s a nifty service. Free conference calls. So what’s the catch, you ask?
Nothing to start off with, except for a limited number of… Continue Reading
Jajah stays scrappy on VoIP, mobilizes Indian masses
Jajah, as we’ve mentioned several times, remains among the edgiest of the new Internet telephone companies.
Today, the company seeks to mobilize users in India, offering them free calls if they get five other people to register for the service. Some 100 million Indians have both… Continue Reading
Roundup: Free calls via texting, Mr. Wong takes on Delicious, Facebook’s growth and more
Here’s the latest action:
Free mobile calls, via texting — An Ottawa company called bOK is using VOIP to give Canadians free mobile calls, using SMS. Here’s how it works: You send a text message with your contact’s phone number to bOK, and, just like better-known JaJah,… Continue Reading
Jajah offers way to avoid iPhone long distance charges
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Jajah, the Internet telephone company, has created a version of its service especially for the iPhone, and claims to the easiest way to avoid paying the punishing surcharge for iPhone international calls.
AT&T charges $4 a month just for the right to make international calls. Then,… Continue Reading
Deutsche Telekom invests in Jajah, the VoIP company
Jajah continues to be the VoIP company with chutzpah.
It has just scored a major backer: Deutsche Telekom, which on a revenue basis may be the largest telecommunications company in the world. It’s a big ally for Jajah, the small Mountain View upstart that is barely… Continue Reading
Jajah gets $20M, and Intel patent to take on Skype
Jajah, the Internet telephone company living up to its “scrappy” reputation, has just pulled in $20 million from the venture capital arm of giant chip maker Intel and others.
This is a big endorsement for the young company, which goes up against a multitude of competitors…. Continue Reading
Jajah brings free calls to Germany and Austria
We’ve called Jajah, the Mountain View Internet phone upstart both quirky and scrappy.
It remains so. It has just cut some deals that will let people call for free to anyone with a landline, even if those people aren’t registered with Jajah. For now, Jajah… Continue Reading
Roundup of best Silicon Valley news: YouTube, FON, Ning & more
Catching up:
YouTube is making $7.5 million a month –Everyone has been guessing whether YouTube is profitable, given the high costs it faces hosting all its videos. This guy says YouTube is doing $7.5 million a month in ads, and is profitable.
FON, the company that wants to… Continue Reading
Jajah grabs attention with free mobile calls
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Jajah, a Mountain View VoIP start-up that began offering free phone calls in June, has gone one better. It is now allows free calls from your mobile phone.
It just launched the service at DEMO.
Jajah is a scrappy, quirky company. It can, without warning, cut off… Continue Reading