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 afloat Jajah and Broadsoft).
There was a fairly salient flaw in Yoomba’s business model — users could only call others who had downloaded the program, and its market share just wasn’t… Continue Reading
Yoomba introduces VoIP and IM directly into your email
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Yoomba, a Menlo Park-based company founded in Israel, lets you send and receive VoIP calls and instant messages from your existing e-mail service.
It’s a download but requires no sign-up — and so avoids you having to create a separate account at a service like Skype or Jajah.
There are other downloadable tools like Trillian and Adiumx and web-based services like Meebo that allow you to manage chat and IM screen names from a single page. There… Continue Reading