Fongo creates new brand-friendly skins for its app

Canadian mobile telecommunications company Fongo Inc. has launched a new program that will allow its users to create customizable skins for its app. Branded as “Fongo Faces,” the program allows users to play

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 7th, 2013 Candice So

Fongo offers to buy Wind Mobile, plans to enter wireless market

Editor's note: Story updated at 12:55 PM ET A Waterloo, Ont.-based voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) firm is offering to buy Wind Mobile for $1, it announced this morning. But whether the deal goes

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 27th, 2013 Brian Jackson

Fongo expands free calling service in Ontario

After already providing more than 500 million free calling minutes to Canadians, Waterloo, Ont.-based Fongo Inc. is expanding to be available in 32 new cities in Ontario. The free calling service that works

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 21st, 2013 Brian Jackson

Phybridge launches new VoIP-friendly switch

Network switches aren't always as glamorous as new digital media ventures or startups making spy-grade smart watches, but a small Oakville, Ont.-based firm is winning attention in the telecommunications industry for its unique

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 18th, 2013 Brian Jackson

Canadian mobile Skype alternative launches

The pitch from Fongo is Canadians no longer have a reason to complain about their smartphone bills. I'm not sure we ever really needed a reason, but the Cambridge, Ont.-based mobile telecommunications company

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 23rd, 2012 Jeff Jedras

All Hands on Tech: Nettalk Duo WiFi

The landline is dead. Now that everyone is always carrying around cell phones, having a home phone number is obsolete. Many people are cutting the cord entirely and cutting the expense of a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 23rd, 2012 Brian Jackson

Ooma offers Canadian SMBs another Internet-based phone alternative

Little known Ooma Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based vendor of HD-quality telephony services, is making Canadian small businesses an offer too good to refuse. The company's vice president of marketing Jim Gustke said

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 4th, 2012 Paolo Del Nibletto

Yet another way to avoid expensive phone bills

Stockholm-based firm Sonetel is offering businesses one more way to avoid paying expensive long distance charges on their cell phone bill, this time in the form of an Android app. Sonetel has set up

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 16th, 2012 Brian Jackson

A brief history of Skype

In 2003, I was visiting some business colleagues in the Netherlands when I heard of a new technology with a funny name: Skype.  It was like a telephone, but you plugged it into

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 21st, 2012 Rob Whent

Primus offers hosted call centre to SMBs

Small businesses who want to run a call centre but have been put off from starting one because of the high capital costs now have another option, Primus Business Services announced today.The Toronto-based

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 9th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Primus expands home phone, Internet service to Western Canada

Primus Canada today announced the expansion of its traditional home phone and high speed Internet services in British Columbia and Alberta.With today's announcement, traditional home phone services are now available at competitive prices

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 9th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Dell Voice app offers Canadians free phone calls, other features

Canadians have one more option to make long-distance calls from a cell phone without paying a hefty bill with the release of a new app, Dell Canada announced today.The Voice over Internet Protocol

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 8th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

How to choose the best ISP for your small business

It may seem as if all Internet connections are the same, but some differences--beyond price--exist between Internet service providers, and between types of connections that a single ISP offers. This guide is designed

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 21st, 2011 Eric Geier

Rural SMBs get broadband boost with satellite launch

Thousands of Canadian small and medium sized businesses located in broadband-challenged rural areas ware set to get a boost.A U.S.-built satellite launched yesterday afternoon from Kazakhstan will allow a Canada's Xplornet Communications to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 20th, 2011 Howard Solomon and Nestor Arellano