{"id":124,"date":"2005-07-07T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T09:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/?p=124"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:31:09","slug":"net-this-phone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/net-this-phone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Net This Phone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using a traditional phone to make international or STD calls, then you are so out of sync with times. \u00a0It\u2019s time to grow up. \u00a0II mean, why pay money when you can do it for free!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know internet telephony has been around for donkeys\u2019 years, but those have always been dogged with poor voice clarity. \u00a0Crackling noises, time lag and loss of voice packets have made our experience far from satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>But now with the advancements in internet telephone technology, the voice clarity has improved so much that you\u2019d be forgiven if you thought it has an inbuilt dolby stereo system!!<\/p>\n<p>In this edition of onliner dot com, we take a look at the top three picks in internet phones. \u00a0All of the three that I\u2019m discussing below are free to download and use. \u00a0So, no excuses for not trying them out!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Skype<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>This is my top pick. \u00a0Skype hits the bulls _eye when it come to excellent voice clarity. \u00a0It\u2019s extremely simple \u2018point \u2013 click \u2013and \u2013talk\u2019 feature makes it a breeze to use.<\/p>\n<p>Skype to Skype calls are free. \u00a0If you want to call a real phone, then it costs a small amount. \u00a0Calls to the US are at just 90 paisa minute. \u00a0Download Skype at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">Http:\/\/www. skype. com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yahoo Messenger Phone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It scores by the sheer size of its user base. \u00a0Most of our friends already have Yahoo! Messenger. \u00a0Now, all we need to do is click on a name and press call to start talking. \u00a0Yahoo! Has improved the voice performance in its latest version. \u00a0So make sure to download the latest version.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! Messenger has a nifty choice of ring tones too, that you can set for your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Download the latest version at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.yahoo.com\/\">http:\/\/messenger. yahoo. com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gizmo Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>This one is so new that it still has the smell of fresh leather! Launched just last week, it\u2019s already becoming popular. \u00a0It does everything that skype does. \u00a0And even more!<\/p>\n<p>Gizmo project is built purely on open source technology, which means the source code is available for developer to build useful add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>Gizmo offers free voicemail so your friends can leave a message when you are not online. \u00a0You can even have free voice conferences with your friends from different countries at the same time. \u00a0Oh! And did I mention that it\u2019s all free?!<\/p>\n<p>Download Gizmo from<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmoproject.com\/\">http:\/\/www. Gizmoproject. com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using a traditional phone to make international or STD calls, then you are so out of sync with times. \u00a0It\u2019s time to grow up. \u00a0II mean, why pay money when you can do it for free! Yeah, I know internet telephony has been around for donkeys\u2019 years, but those have always been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-et-madras-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}