March 22, 2006 Yahoo Expands VoIP Service In U.S. By Laurie Sullivan Courtesy of Yahoo Inc. expanded an international service into the United States that lets people make voice over Internet (VoIP) phone calls through its software, the company said Wednesday. The Phone Out service allows customers to use their PC to call traditional or mobile phones in more than 180 countries. "Right now our voice efforts are a core component to Yahoo Messenger," said Terrell Karlsten, a Yahoo spokeswoman. "We see real opportunities in the future to incorporate our voice solutions into Yahoo's global services, from to search." Available elsewhere since December, the service lets people make calls from computers for 2 cents or less per minute to 30 countries. The Phone In service lets U.S. customers receive calls on their PC from traditional and mobile phones for $2.99 per month or $29.90 per year through the Phone In feature. Yahoo is "uniquely positioned," Karlsten said, to integrate its voice into various applications. The service meant to compete with Skype, which auction site eBay Inc. bought last year for $2.6 billion, adds to the suite of communications products in Yahoo Messenger with Voice. They include text instant messaging (IM), PC-to-PC calling, e-mail, mobile text messaging, photo sharing and video. E-mail This Story Print This Story Get the latest Messaging news, product info, and trends every week.			AXS-One, OnSite E-Discovery Partner To Combine Compliance, Document Retention, E-Discovery And Litigation Support Foldera Preps To Launch Web-application Suite Report: Demand Continues To Grow For E-mail Archiving 'Skype Killer' Products To Do Battle In Marketplace PayPal To Offer Paying By Text Message IM: Real-Time Securrity Problems For Financial Services     Messaging Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Messaging Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed Editorial and vendor perspectives The Six Flavors Of Windows Vista Microsoft plans to release a full six-pack of Vista versions, one for every taste. Which Vista will be right for you? Hope is Not Enough When It Comes To Compliance Three Ways To Authenticate E-Mail And Stop Spam Wikis In The Workplace Review: Google Desktop 3 Vendors are now talking about how collaboration can be improved by integrating video with messaging applications. They're even talking about adding live TV to mobile phones. How far do you go before it becomes a bandwidth and business productivity drain? Video is a great idea     13% Video is fine but there needs to be size limits     25% It's never used for anything really productive     38% I draw the line at live TV     25% In search of messaging products? Check out our brand new Product Finder for a directory of groupware and collaboration tools, security products, archiving solutions, and more.