Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
I don't make many phone calls, but lately I've been on the verge of migrating my contacts over to my Google Voice phone number. The big reason I want to to do this is to to completely eliminate my text messaging fees, and with the official Google Voice app for the iPhone I'm awfully close to making the complete transition.
Yesterday, VoIP service Skype took a minute to point out on their site that they had just reached a major milestone by servicing 10 million simultaneous users. On the announcement they talked about previous milestones and how it was just three years ago on October 20, 2004 that they celebrated one million simultaneous users. Three short years later and they've gained an additional 9 million users.
According to a recent article from the Associated Press, more than 25% of young adults use only a cell phone for voice communication. The ever increasing trend is that cell phones are in, and landline phones are out because people don’t see it necessary to have both.
Vonage just got more bad news. First it was the lawsuit that they faced and were then found guilty of for infringing on patents which Verizon owned. Now today their problems just got worse.
Has the Zune Phone really been confirmed? Well, as the title of this article says, not yet. But there are major hints that Microsoft has something up its sleeve. Whether it's a Zune Phone or something completely different, that's yet to be determined. Here's what we know:
