With the RingCentral App for iPhone version 2.1, you can make VoIP calls over Wi-Fi directly from your iPad or iPod Touch. Downloading the App is free for all RingCentral subscribers, and you don’t have to use carrier minutes for these devices. Simply use your iPad or iPod Touch to make calls using WiFi or [...]

Even though your customers are more likely than ever to find you through an online search, they’re still likely to pick up the phone and call you before buying from you. So, it’s essential that they can find your phone number easily on a number of internet locations. Of course, you’ll need to start with [...]

Since 2002, when the first smartphone BlackBerry was released, users have been well-known for being fiercely loyal to these handheld devices. Hence, the development of the affectionately given, colloquial term – the “Crackberry”. Eight years since its introduction, BlackBerry is still a favorite for millions worldwide, and since the launch of its app marketplace, it [...]

Receiving comments from happy customers makes our day. We get lots of great feedback from business owners who consider RingCentral to be a key component of their success. So, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers and share just a few of their amazing messages that we’ve received recently. Do [...]

                Choosing the right phone system is vital to the success of a small business. When you consider that for most business owners the phone continues to be a primary means of communicating with prospects, existing customers, and suppliers, simply using a home-based landline or personal cell phone [...]

Continuing our Non-Traditional Workspace series on Mashable  which highlights incredibly inspired and unique workspaces, we wanted to bring to you the story of a self-proclaimed “geek” who successfully manages his computer and network repair business while working onsite with customers. Spending much time on the road and in his clients’ server rooms, Erik Andre Herrera, one of three [...]

Cell phones connected to Wifi will be the final destination for VoIP in the home.
This is the second part of our discussion of The Future of VoIP.

A fascinating survey conducted by RingCentral shows an emerging trend in the way America’s small businesses are operating. Here’s the scoop. When I first started writing for RingCentral, one of the ideas thrown around in our early brainstorming sessions was to open up the data that customers were supplying the company in order to help [...]

1) Spies OK, that’s a bit exotic, but the earliest adopters of sending voice packets as data were intelligence agencies that were both testing it as a communication modality and also to send messages that could not be easily tapped. And now the NSA is openly adopting VoIP as part of their organizational efficiencies. 2) [...]

by John Sung Kim, founder of Five9 Many have speculated on the future of VoIP in so many ways. The reality is, there are actually 5 distinct and separate markets for voice over the net: – Consumer Free VoIP – Consumer Home VoIP – Small Business VoIP – Large Business VoIP – Telco VoIP This [...]

How Pam saves her job on the hit show ‘The Office’ by not buying a VOIP phone system. Punch-key PBXs (the traditional office phone system with those old RJ-11 phone jacks) have officially crossed over into comedic territory. I mean to say, most business people know now a VoIP-based phone system allows offices to be [...]

Google Voice is a neat addition to the world of online telephony. It offers a wide range of features that have, before now, either been out-of-reach for the home telephone, or difficult to implement. The ability to listen in on a screened call or record calls are neat features that might not have daily applications, [...]

Who invented the telephone is one of those questions that’s not easy to answer. There were actually lots of people working on the problem. Alexander Graham Bell may have been the first to actually get one to work, or he might not have been. What is clear is that he was the first guy to [...]