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Make free mobile calls with JAJAH Mobile Web

make free mobile calls with jajah mobile webToday Jajah announced JAJAH Mobile Web, a service made especially for smartphones like the Blackberry, Treo, and Windows Mobile devices. Like Jajah's service that allows for the ability to make free local and international calls with a regular phone, Jajah's mobile service aims to do the same for mobile users. Any device that has internet access with a browser can make free or low-cost calls with a click. As long as you are a Jajah user, you can call other members for no cost, or call for a small fee to non-members. Web consumers can access the service directly from their browsers by visiting mobile.jajah.com. The Mobile Web service then ties into user's address books where calls can be placed. Simply enter the phone number of the individual or scroll down on your address book, and Jajah will make the call. Jajah has a Flickr photo tour so you can better understand the process involved. You can also check out the JAJAH Mobile Web video tour after the jump. Mobile providers watch out!

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Call for free with Futurephone

Futurephone Have you heard about Futurephone? It sounds sketchy to me, but everything I've read so far makes it sound like it's legit. Futurephone is a service that allows you to make free international calls on a regular phone. It works by channeling you through an access number in Iowa, of all random places. You call the access number, and then dial the international number you're trying to call, and voila! Free international phone call! (Caveat: calling international mobile phones doesn't work yet.)

Unfortunately, I don't know anybody in another country whom I can call. So I haven't personally tried it. I'm still not exactly clear on how it works, or why it's not illegal in some way or another. On the other hand, I'm always a proponent of free services and Sticking It To The Man™, so I figured Futurephone deserved a mention.

[Via Pogue's Posts]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, VoIP, P2P

Free worldwide calling from Skype?

skype free worldwide callingSkype, that wild Instant Messenger and Voip tool, has apparently applied for a trademark that could be a move towards free calling to any phone, worldwide.

Russell Shaw talks about how this patent could include free outbound calling to anywhere in the world, and not only from Skype user to Skype user. This new feature could mean that any Skype user could call any phone anywhere.

Some great news for Skype users for sure, but some really scary news for telecommunications companies worldwide.

[via ZDNet]

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