We can use our smartphones to call pretty much anyone in any part of the world. However, long-distance fees can be super expensive if you’re looking for a way to contact your family members in another ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

The price of home phone service has dropped 30 percent since 1999. Surely, say the analysts, that trend line will eventually plummet all the way to zero. Surely, thanks to the Internet's ability to ...

Last month I wrote about GizmoCall, which lets you make free phone calls right from your Web browser. (You supply the headset, Gizmo supplies the VoIP.) The only catch was that the freebie calls were ...

FaceTime is one of the easiest ways to make a video call on an iPhone or Mac as long as the other people on the line also own Apple devices -- or so you might think. In fact, it turns out that ...