The online dating scene, if you didn’t already know, is a multi-billion dollar industry and has been popular for quite some time. It hasn’t hurt to have films like 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, with Megan Ryan and Tom Hanks. While the movie itself goes well beyond online dating, it makes up a core aspect of [...]

Text messaging, instant messaging, and VoIP are all pretty hot ways to communicate these days. So a few weeks back, Technopedia’s editor, Abhinav, asked me to review the Gaim and Trillian IM (Instant Messaging) clients. Both are pretty cool, are skinnable, and support a number of other clients including MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, [...]

VoIP phone service has arguably become of huge interest to the general populace, despite the problems Vonage has been having in the stock market lately. They’re the first VoIP-related company to go IPO, but they won’t be the last. Despite the popularity of VoIP service and softphone client software such as Skype, one of the [...]

Despite the current problems of Vonage, the VoIP service provider, and two class-action lawsuits, their chairman and founder, Jeffrey Citron is the half-billion dollar man. At least on paper. He put in $80+Mln before the Vonage IPO, which bought him nearly 50 mln shares at $1.71. Let’s see. I’m rounding, but since Vonage (NYSE: VG) closed [...]

Mad Money TV show host Jim Cramer (on CNBC broadcasting) is promoting Netgear Inc. (NYSE: NTGR) as the phone that could make VoIP actually work. In addition to wireless routers, Netgear makes the “Skype WiFi Phone” which allows you to make free calls to other Skype users around the world.