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[Asterisk VoIP News | Daily News and Information] America Online is getting ready to announce a voice-over-Internet service that runs over its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Part of the deal: AIM users will get free local phone numbers so people without AIM can reach them through a conventional phone line.

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[Adotas] AOL Close to Unveiling AIM Phoneline: But USA Today reports that it will be an uphill battle for AOL considering that AIM use declined 13% to 47.6 million users from March 2005 to March 2006, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Secondly, AIM Phoneline joins a number of VoIP offerings trying to win customers, including Skype and cable companies.

[a shel of my former self] Is a free phone number enough to kill Skype?: All those kids (and others) with AIM phones will be able to dial real numbers in 30 countries outside the US, but those non-US contacts will have to dial a real number to reach their AIM-using US-based friends—and international dialing rates will apply. With Skype, a free download lets anybody talk with anybody.

[Henshall.com] Unbound Spiral: Skype Changing Social Networks: I fully expect people to leave AIM, Yahoo and MSN for Skype. Skype P2P voice calling and blogging - Stuart Henshall from: Roland Tanglao's Weblog .

[Andyabramson.blogs.com] VoIP Watch: eBay Buys Skype: Lastly it means eBay gets Zennstrom, but it also means he may have to come to the USA as a member of their Executive Committee. I mean how long can he stay out of the USA and effectively work, so now with all the cash he will have I guess he can afford a good lawyer on the Kazaa matter that needs to be put to rest once and for all too.

[Skypejournal.com] Skype Journal: Skype Changing Social Networks: Tying together Skype P2P voice calling and blogging - Stuart Henshall from Roland Tanglao's Weblog (SOURCE: Unbound Spiral - Stuart Henshall's blog: .

http://orangejack.blogspot.com [Orangejack.blogspot.com] Orangejack Blog: Skype :: aka Rob's Blog: But skype to skype calls are free.The downside is that you have to be at your computer and logged into skype...but that's no different than using other IM programs. Some friends have commented "No one calls me and I can talk for free after 9 on my cell" or "I have iChat so I'm fine." Well, I can't talk on iChat and I don't want to usually talk after 9!

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