You will see a “Send a Free Text Message” box in the sidebar inside Jaxtr member home page. Just select your recipient country, enter the mobile phone number and type out a short message in the box and send the message. Your recipient will get your text message with a reply link within seconds. But there is a limitation, Jaxtr limits the length of the message to 65 characters only. So your messages have to be short.

With this new service, you can now send SMS messages to mobile phones in all most all international countries for free through the Jaxtr website. It’s fast, free and easy to use.

Basic jaxtr membership is free, and the new international SMS service is available to all jaxtr members. For more information, read Jaxtr Launches Free International SMS.

With Yakkle, you can connect with anyone on the Internet, send them a text message, speak to them with superb sound quality, and show them anything you have on your PC, like photos or documents. You can even let them control your mouse and keyboard from their computer. You can also have the person you are Yakkling with share their desktop back to you. This makes sharing information with your friends easier and better.

Yakkle allows you to collaborate with more than one other person and yet it doesn’t require you to purchase a premium service. To collaborate in a group, all you need to do is search for your online buddies in your contact list and start Yakkling. To transmit your voice to your friends, you should also have a USB Headset or a PC microphone and set of speakers.

Check out Yakkle at http://www.yakkle.com/ and start Yakkling today, it is the only free tool i know offers all these three options, IM, Voice and Screen sharing. Yakkle supported on Windows XP and Windows Vista, you can download it here. For more on how to use Yakkle, visit the Getting Started page.

Call Graph features:

• Automatic Call Recording - Call Graph can automatically record all your Skype calls without any intervention. The recording can also be stopped anytime during the call. This is the default behaviour of Call Graph but it can overridden from the settings dialog. In that case for each Skype call, Call Graph will display a notification with instructions on how to start the recording.
• Call Record Tagging and Management - Call Graph automatically tags the calls with the display name of the contact. These tags can be edited, changed by you from the search dialog. The file can be renamed or deleted from the search GUI as well. These tags are used for indexing and filing of the call graphs.
• Indexing and Search - This is one of the most useful features of Call Graph. All call graphs are tagged by default with the display name of the contact. It makes it very easy to look for a call from a particular contact. The search dialog lists all the matches in order of relevance.
• Notifications - The notifications of Call Graph are very un-intrusive. The application runs as a Windows Task Bar Icon on your machine and the notifications appear as a sliding window over the task bar. They dissapear’s by themselves after sometime and do not require any user intervention. Therefore it does not unnecessarily bug you. The notifications can themselves be disabled from the Settings Dialog.
• Automatic Updates - Call Graph supports automatic upgrades. Whenever a new version is available, generates a notification. The upgrades contain important bug fixes and new feature introductions. The installation and upgrade is done is our usual un-intrusive way and instructions are provided on how not to apply the upgrades as well.

You can download the beta version of CallGraph from here.

Targeting mobile phone manufacturers and mobile VoIP providers, SoliCall will identify the voice of the specific speaker and reduce all other background noise.

With SoliCall Mobile you will be able to customize your cell phone not just with your favorite ringtones, music and wallpapers. SoliCall Mobile offers an innovative solution, different from the ordinary solutions available on today’s mobiles. SoliCall identifies the voice of the specific speaker and reduces all other background noise.

The SDK offered by SoliCall works on Windows Mobile and can be easily integrated as part of the audio path. Ideally the SDK should be placed in the audio path between the AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) and the CODEC for better sound quality and improved customer satisfaction, reduced power consumption which will increase battery life, and lower OPEX for the operators by reducing the required bandwidth to handle phone calls.

Ribbit has been unveiling its first consumer service code-named “Amphibian” this week at the DEMO conference in California. Amphibian transforms any physical phone into a physical/virtual “dual world” phone, enabling consumers to use their current phone plans in any number of new and evolving Web environments. With Amphibian, users will be able to convert any phone for use with Web environments.

Amphibian will be the first application categorized as “voiceware” which connects traditional telephony with the internet to allow users to have two-way phone conversations through Web pages.

Amphibian allows you to manage your mobile voicemail like email on your computer and on your mobile phone. It turns your voicemail into text to make voice messages sharable, searchable, and most importantly actionable. You can receive and make mobile calls from any browser or web page such as iGoogle, Facebook, and many more.Amphibian features:

• Enhanced Visual Voicemail - Amphibian transcribes your voicemail so you an read and even search your messages. In addition, you get copies of your voicemail by email with an MP3 attachment or by text message, and you can retrieve messages online, right inside of Amphibian - using your computer or phone.
• Speech to Text - Receive text transcriptions of your voice messages anywhere you have access to a phone or computer.
• Notifications - Get notification details before you access new voicemail to help decide which message to act on first. Message notifications are sent via text to your mobile phone and by email. Notifications include the caller ID, white pages reverse lookup, time and date stamp, transcription, as well as the message length.
• Caller ID 2.0 - Amphibian will search the recent information about the caller, such as local and company news, latest blog, twitter, flickers, birthday, and other information from the internet.
• Liste-In - Send mobile calls to voicemail and then listen-in, decide if you want to rescue the call. Don’t just know who is calling but know what they are calling about before you pick-up.
• Call and Shout - Amphibian lets you take and make mobile calls through your computer. Amphibian also lets you “call out” with your Skype, MSN, Google Talk, or any other phone. If you just want to send a voice message to one or more people without calling, then record a Ribbit Shout. Shouts are received by members as new voicemail and by non-members as email messages with an MP3 attached.
• Call Routing - Drag and drop personal call routing lets you connect all your phones together. You can route calls to Skype, MSN, Google Talk, home, office, or anywhere you want. Ring all, none, or some…answer one and they all stop ringing. And you can even move a live call from one phone to another.
• Web Portability - You can put Amphibian inside iGoogle, Facebook, Netvibes, MySpace or directly on your computer desktop using Adobe AIR.

Watch the presentation video below and get an exciting glimpse of Amphibian.
For more information about Amphibian, please visit http://www.ribbit.com.

CallWave launched Virtual Voicemail, a premium mobile communications services on the CallWave Mobile Platform. CallWave Virtual Voicemail allows users to access to their mobile phone voicemail messages as text in their cellphone, email, or on the web.

No more playing phone tag. No more missing calls in meetings. No more scrolling through endless messages. CallWave frees up the way you communicate and interact with your mobile worlds and devices. We give you the control to receive, respond, and save messages when and how you want.

There are 3 packages of CallWave Virtual Voicemail: Mobile Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses, all of which include their popular Vtxt voicemail-to-text feature and work with users’ existing mobile phone, number, and wireless service provider.To use CallWave Virtual Voicemail, you need to switch your voicemail service to CallWave. When someone calls your mobile number and you don’t answer, they get your CallWave voicemail. You will then get a summarized text transcription of their message on your mobile phone, in your email and in your message portal. You can also listen to their message on your mobile phone, in your email and in your message portal. You can reply via text and call back features and delete the message in your message portal.

CallWave Virtual Voicemail features:

• Read Voicemail – CallWave can transcribe voice messages into text. Users can opt to receive a summarized text message on their cellphone and access full transcriptions and audio via email or website.
• Manage Messages– An online account allows users an unlimited, permanent archive to store, share and search essential communications, including calls, contacts, voicemails and faxes.
• Screen Mobile Calls Just Like an Answering Machine – This is one of the best features of Callwave. Users can screen mobile calls, in real-time, just like an answering machine. Users can listen to the caller’s voicemail as it is being left via their handset or desktop and choose to take the call or let it go to voicemail.
• Unified Voicemail – Users can access their voicemail from a desktop application, website or smartphone.

Virtual Voicemail works with any mobile phone, service provider and computer nationwide. For more information on CallWave Virtual Voicemail service,

visit the CallWave Virtual VoiceMail Tour here.

With our Vtxt voicemail-to-text service, you’ll receive the “gist” of your mobile phone voicemail right on your handset in a text message. A full transcription and audio file of the voicemail will also be available in your email and in your PhonePage.

Features include:

• Read the gist of a mobile voicemail on your mobile phone.
• Listen to messages in your email, on your mobile phone or your PhonePage.
• Manage and reply to voice and text messages from a personal web page.
• Search a permanent archive of voice and text messages.
• No change in phone number, device, or service provider is required.

You can listen to your voicemail the old-fashioned way on your handset, or you can read the Vtxt gist or check it on your PhonePage or in your email. PhonePage, a personalized web portal, offers a permanent, searchable archive of voice and text messages where you can reply to callers by text or voice from the PhonePage portal. PhonePage also automatically creates a contact book based on the calls received.

For more, check out the CallWave website and sign up. It’s free during beta so give it a try today. Check out CallWave free SMS Text Messaging service too.

• Auto redial
• Device Indicators
• Edit chat messages
• Message history loading granulated
• Private Telephone Numbers
• Send contacts inside chat - you can send a contact information via chatting features
• Visual indicators for Audio In / Audio Out in options
• Show examples of notifications / alerts in options
• Added Latvian localization - Intars Students
• In-Client Hardware store button
• Languages updated

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At this moment, Yahoo web based messenger will include basic functionality and integration with MSN Messenger. This mean user able to add MSN / Live messenger contact list. As a result of the deal signed last year between Microsoft and Yahoo! to allow interoperability between their respective messaging networks. Yahoo’s web messenger will saves all your conversations and makes the history searchable from the same interface. Meanwhile, Yahoo claim that VOIP features will be added in the near future.

As for now, you can enjoyed watching the video preview that Yahoo! prepared to learn about this new online web messenger, and of course, sign in and try it out if you already have a Yahoo! ID.

I’m not really a fan of Yahoo! Messenger but this definitely a good news for Yahoo IM users.

Octopz collaboration tools become more interactive and useful for multiple branches conferencing services. The ideal of online collaboration services is to give business company a very visual, creative group and allows for collaboration of rich media as well.

So, Octopz online collaboration services is easy to use because no software or application installation is required. You can even use Octopz to create multiple rooms and add multiple users for different projects and different clients to work online upto four other participants at the same time.

i believe octopz services allowing users to mark-up the video, graphics, or photos makes it easy to see exactly what changes your client wants to be made without any confusion. But this collaboration tools is currently offer on 99US per months which the price is pretty expensive. I suggested you can try out for 14 days trials first or view the Octopz tour first. Then decide whether this collaboration tools is worth for value.

Here is summary of Octopz features : -

• View and mark up files including documents (proposals, briefs, presentations, project plans, scripts) and digital media (photos, video, sound, animation).
• Collaborate with clients, vendors or colleagues at the same time or asynchronously.
• On-Screen Annotation: Markup files and add personalized time-stamped comments.
• Rich media markup including videos, audio, animations, Flash files, and 360º panoramas.
• Online Whiteboard
• Text Messaging / VoIP Services /Web Conferencing