Filed under: Internet, Windows, VoIP
AOL gives away free phone numbers with AIM Phoneline
by Jordan Running Aug 10th 2006
AOL has launched AIM Phoneline, a VoIP service announced back in May that gives anyone a free phone number that allows unlimited inbound calls for free from any standard phone. The service works through AIM Triton (which makes it Windows-only for now) and includes free caller ID and voicemail. In addition, there's an "Unlimited" service that allows unlimited outgoing calls to 30 countries for $9.95 per month. When you sign up for AIM Phoneline it will ask for your street address and then assign you a number local to your area, rather than allowing you to simply choose an area code as other services like SkypeIn and Vonage allow. When I tried to sign up I found, much to my surprise, that numbers in my area are not yet available, and there's no map or list of areas where it is available, which is a big strike against it. If you want my advice, AOL, let me choose my area code, let me pick from available numbers, and don't ask for my address. Apart from that, though, AIM Phoneline looks great.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
