FAXAGE Online Fax Provider Now Has Office 2013 Support

Onlinefaxguide.com updates its FAXAGE info and pages to include Office 2013 Support, which was recently added to this value-leader in online faxing.

(PRWEB) January 08, 2013
Onlinefaxguide.com, a comprehensive online fax services comparison guide, recently updated its FAXAGE info and pages to include the addition of Microsoft Office 2013. FAXAGE, a value-leader among online fax providers, now integrates Office 2013, as well as older versions (Office 2003, 2007 and 2010) into their services and operations.
This integration is very significant because it quickly allows FAXAGE users to immediately start faxing with a system they may be already familiar with using in the work environment. Now clients, besides using regular email, website account and other API faxing mechanisms - can use the 'Internet Fax Service' feature found in Microsoft Office.
"We are excited to offer these features to our clients and potential clients," says Christian Watts of FAXAGE. "Our Microsoft Office integration capability allows us to further lower the learning curve and help our clients to become more productive more quickly."
It simply makes FAXAGE easier to use, especially for those companies or workers, who are not familiar with using an online fax service. Keep in mind, just as email has revolutionized how business is done; online or Internet fax has truly revolutionized how modern day faxing is done. It has provided another method of sending information, one which is completely portable/mobile and where workers are no longer limited to the old traditional fax machine in the office.
FAXAGE, run by EC Data Systems Inc. and located in Denver, has always been considered one of the pioneers of this new "paperless" way of faxing. The addition of Microsoft Office integration will only make this online fax service provider much more attractive to potential clients.
Onlinefaxguide.com was created in 2006 to give both individuals and companies a handy online comparison guide to all the different fax providers. For further information on FAXAGE and Online Fax Services in general, please visit our main site: http://www.onlinefaxguide.com. Or view/read our extensive interview with Christian Watts about FAXAGE here: http://www.onlinefaxguide.com/faxage_interview_christian_watts.htm All products/companies mentioned above are registered trademarks of their respective owners and companies.

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Business Licenses, LLC Reaches 250th Software Client Milestone

Business Licenses, LLC, the leading end-to-end governmental business license compliance company in the U.S., announces the milestone of reaching 250 enterprise and large business software clients subscribed to their Business License Management Systems (BLMS®) and License And Permit Online Electronic Library (LAPEL®) cloud based software tools.

Monsey, NY (PRWEB) January 08, 2013
Business Licenses, LLC, the leading end-to-end governmental business license compliance company in the U.S., announces the milestone of reaching 250 enterprise and large business software clients subscribed to their Business License Management Systems (BLMS®) and License And Permit Online Electronic Library (LAPEL®) cloud based software tools.
Business Licenses, LLC has become the preferred software and reference library provider of choice for enterprise level companies seeking to drive efficiency into their business license renewal and research efforts. Internal licensing departments for large public companies are relying on Business Licenses, LLC products more than any other in the marketplace. Leveraging its proprietary LAPEL® database of over 120,000 current licenses and permits, Business Licenses, LLC has established itself as the leading provider of virtually any type of business licensing documentation, advice, or research solution.
“Business Licenses, LLC has become the preferred software and reference library provider of choice for enterprise level companies seeking to drive efficiency into their own business license renewal and research efforts,” says Doug Starr, VP, Business Licenses, LLC. “Because we are the only provider to have solutions for any licensing issue a company may face, internal licensing departments are relying on Business Licenses, LLC products more than any other in the marketplace. I couldn’t be happier to announce that Business Licenses, LLC has reached its 250th software customer served. We constantly strive to make it as simple as possible for organizations of all sizes to find the resources and solutions that they require to ensure they meet their business license compliance requirements. This milestone confirms that the enterprise market is turning to us at a rapid pace. We look forward to continued growth for years to come as more organizations become aware of the full service offerings that we make available to them.”
Below are the Business Licenses, LLC solutions relied on by leading companies in the U.S. and Canada:
Business License Management System (BLMS®) – Business Licenses, LLC’s cloud based license management solution that enables the processing, storing, managing, and renewing of business licenses, permits, and other government certificates quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
License And Permit Online Electronic Library (LAPEL)® – Business Licenses, LLC’s unique research and reference database containing over 120,000 digitalized documents as well as business license, permit, and tax registration information for every state, county, and city in the U.S.
Business License Co-Sourcing and Outsourcing – Business Licenses, LLC’s professional and experienced staff can act as an enterprise’s licensing department - accurately and affordably identifying, acquiring, maintaining, and renewing the proper business licenses, permits, and tax registrations for your specific business.
Advisory and Research Services – Business Licenses, LLC maintains an industry leading staff of licensing professionals, including experienced attorneys and paralegals who focus exclusively on licensing, permitting, tax registration, audit, and remediation advice with an affordable, market leading fee structure.
BusinessLicenseSolutions.com, from Business Licenses, LLC offers resources, products, and services that assist enterprises with compliance efficiency and accuracy.
About Business Licenses, LLC

Business Licenses, LLC is the leading end-to-end governmental business license compliance company in the U.S., offering research, advisory, outsourcing, and software to companies of all sizes looking for assistance with their licensing or permitting needs. Business Licenses, LLC offers its industry-leading Business License Management System (BLMS®) and LAPEL® the only electronic governmental license database. Located in N.Y., Business Licenses, LLC has a staff of experienced attorneys and paralegals familiar with virtually every domestic and Canadian licensing question or requirement. Business Licenses, LLC has served over 11,000 clients in the last decade, and is the most experienced software, services, outsourcing, and information provider in the business license compliance space. Business Licenses, LLC places special emphasis on providing relevant and current resources for enterprises to ensure compliance. Business License, LLC is focused on becoming the number one license compliance provider in the world.

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Award-season hopefuls stop in Palm Springs; Gere, Affleck, Field, Cooper among honorees

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Award-season hopefuls made their first stop of the new year in the middle of the desert a couple of hours east of Hollywood at the annual Palm Springs International Film Festival gala.
A blast of Golden Globe nominees and Oscar hopefuls walked the press gauntlet Saturday night, including Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Helen Hunt and John Hawkes ("The Sessions"), Ben Affleck ("Argo") and "Arbitrage" star Richard Gere, who received the night's so-called Chairman's Award.
"Great," Gere noted with more than a touch of sarcasm. "That's better than the Governors Award?" he inquired with a chuckle. "What's the pecking order of these awards? I want to know. Am I getting the best award? I'm not going in unless I'm getting the best award!"
Though the 63-year-old Gere has never received an Oscar nomination, there were previous Academy Award winners aplenty at the Palm Springs gala. Among them, Sally Field, the night's honoree for career achievement, including her hard-won role of Mary Todd in director Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."
"I still can't believe I got the role," Field replied, cracking a smile. "Did I get it."
Turning serious, Field told the black-tie audience she was proud to be part of the film and happy to still be working. "I'm very lucky. ... Next year it'll be 50 years that I've been in the business as a professional. It's been a wild ride," she said.
This upcoming week the awards season continues with the People's Choice show, two critics awards ceremonies and Thursday morning's Oscar nominations.
So how does the phrase "Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper" sound to the "Silver Linings Playbook" actor?
"That would be incredible," Cooper answered, explaining that he just may sleep through the pre-dawn nomination announcements. "Yeah, I'm sure I'll get up, but maybe I'll be asleep. I don't know."
And just three days after the Oscar nominations, it's the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards — a "much, much friendlier" show, exclaimed "Hitchcock" nominee Helen Mirren.
"And it has to do with those tables in still quite a small room," she added. "They haven't allowed it to get enormous. ... Everybody table jumps and chats. It's always slightly naughty. The hosts are always naughty. I can't wait to have Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing it. That's going to be such fun."
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Complete list of 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival honorees:
__"Argo's" Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin and Bryan Cranston received the Ensemble Performance Award.
__Bradley Cooper, the actor Desert Palm Achievement Award for "Silver Linings Playbook."
__Naomi Watts, the actress Desert Palm Achievement Award for "The Impossible."
__Helen Hunt, Spotlight Award for "The Sessions."
__Helen Mirren, International Star Award for "Hitchcock."
__Mychael Danna, the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing for "Life of Pi."
__Richard Gere, Chairman's Award for "Arbitrage."
__Robert Zemeckis, Director of the Year Award for "Flight."
__Sally Field ("Lincoln"), Career Achievement Award.
__Tom Hooper, the Sonny Bono Visionary Award for "Les Miserables.

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Regulators ease key bank rule to spur credit

BASEL, Switzerland/LONDON (Reuters) - Global regulators gave banks four more years and greater flexibility on Sunday to build up cash buffers so they can use some of their reserves to help struggling economies grow.
The pull-back from a draconian earlier draft of new global bank liquidity rule to help prevent another financial crisis went further than banks had expected by allowing them a broader range of eligible assets.
Banks had complained they could not meet the January 2015 deadline to comply with the new rule on minimum holdings of easily sellable assets from the Basel Committee of banking supervisors and also supply credit to businesses and consumers.
The committee's oversight body agreed on Sunday to phase in the rule from 2015 over four years, as reported by Reuters on Thursday, and widen the range of assets banks can put in the buffer to include shares and retail mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), as well as lower rated company bonds.
The new, less liquid assets can only be included at a hefty discount to their value, but the changes are a significant move from the draft version of the rule unveiled two years ago.
The Basel Committee, drawn from nearly 30 countries representing nearly all the world's markets, hopes they will stop banks from shrinking loan books to comply with the rule.
"For the first time in regulatory history, we have a truly global minimum standard for bank liquidity," the oversight body's chairman Mervyn King told a news conference in Basel, Switzerland.
"Importantly, introducing a phased timetable for the introduction of the liquidity coverage ratio ... will ensure that the new liquidity standard will in no way hinder the ability of the global banking system to finance a recovery," said King, who is also Bank of England governor.
Sunday's amendments, endorsed unanimously, came after two years of haggling among Basel Committee members.
They surprised relieved bankers with their scope and will help kick-start the mortgage backed securities market, languishing after being tarnished by the U.S. subprime crisis which set off the 2007-09 financial crisis.
"The inclusion of good quality RMBS in the liquidity buffer is a very welcome twelfth night present," said Simon Hills, executive director of the British Bankers' Association.
"It will make a real difference to issuance volumes by improving their marketability so that banks are better able to manage their balance sheets and provide funding to the real economy," Hills said.
MARKET PRESSURE
The rule requires banks to hold enough liquid assets like government and corporate bonds to cover net outflows for up to a month to avoid taxpayers having to bail them out.
Basel Committee chairman Stefan Ingves, who also heads Sweden's central bank, said Sunday's changes mean that the average buffer at the world's top 200 banks rises from 105 to 125 percent, meaning it is well above full compliance.
But many banks elsewhere are well below full compliance, especially in some euro zone countries, and they will have to find an estimated trillion euros of assets over coming years at a time when bank profitability is being hammered.
Furthermore, liquidity held by some banks is on loan from their central bank and will have to be returned at some point. A revived mortgage-backed securities would help wean lenders off central banks.
King said regulators want to be "crystal clear" that banks in countries undergoing stress like in the euro zone could draw down their buffers below minimum levels if the local supervisor agreed.
Jim Embersit, a former Federal Reserve official and Basel Committee member and now with Ernst & Young in Washington, said many banks would move to fully comply before 2019 given market pressures and the need to change business models.
"Firms will not be eager to jump to full 100 percent implementation quickly but would be expected to meet the required milestones on their own prior to the designated deadlines," Embersit said.
LESS STRESS
The Basel Committee also agreed to ease the "stress scenario" for calculating the amount of liquid assets banks must hold, meaning the buffer would be smaller.
Under the Basel regime, the rules would run alongside separate rules governing banks' capital, intended to ensure their longer-term stability.
Banks would start complying in 2015 when they are expected to hold at least 60 percent of the total buffer, building up to 100 percent by January 2019, when Basel's separate, tougher bank capital requirements also must be met in full.
The liquidity rule is meant to avoid a repeat of the scenario in which a short-term funding freeze brought down lenders like Britain's Northern Rock early on in the 2007-09 financial crisis.
It is part of the Basel III bank capital and liquidity accord agreed by world leaders in 2010 and being phased in over six years from this month, though there are delays in the United States and European Union.
Ingves said the Basel Committee is still committed to enacting a third plank of Basel III, the net stable funding ratio to limit dependence on short-term funding, by the end of 2018.
The Basel Committee will study how the introduction of the liquidity rule affects the impact of central banks injecting liquidity into the economy in a bid to spur growth.

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NBC says it is conscious of violence, but isn't the 'shoot-'em-up' network

PASADENA, Calif. - NBC says it is conscious about the amount of violence it airs in the wake of real-life tragedies, but it isn't really an issue because NBC isn't the "shoot-'em-up" network.
Network entertainment President Jennifer Salke said Sunday that NBC hasn't taken any specific steps to ask show creators to tone down violence. She said it would be different if NBC was perceived as a "shoot-'em-up" network with many crime procedurals, but she said it wasn't an issue.
NBC has in development a drama based on the life of Hannibal Lecter, one of fiction's most indelible serial killers, but hasn't scheduled it for the air.
Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said a tonic for people disturbed by violence is to watch an episode of "Parenthood.

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Analysis: US irked by Google chief's NKorea plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — Google chief Eric Schmidt's plan to visit North Korea has put the Obama administration in the awkward position of opposing a champion of Internet freedom who's decided to engage with one of the most intensely censored countries.
The administration is wary for a reason. It fears that Schmidt's trip could give a boost to North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un, just when Washington is trying to pressure him.
It was only last month when North Korea launched a long-range rocket in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. While the U.S. and its allies are seeking harsher penalties against the reclusive communist government. That effort is proving difficult because of a resistance from China, a permanent member of the council. Beijing probably worries that its troublesome ally could respond to any new punishment by conducting a nuclear test.
U.S. officials are also concerned that the high-profile visit could confuse American allies in Asia and suggest a shift in U.S. policy as the administration prepares to install a new secretary of state to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama has nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004.
An imminent change of government in South Korea, a close U.S. friend, is raising questions about whether the two countries can remain in lockstep in their dealings with the North. Newly elected leader Park Geun-hye is expected to seek a more conciliatory approach toward North Korea after she takes up the presidency in February.
This helps to explain why the State Department, which has been a vigorous advocate of social media freedoms around the world, particularly last year during the Arab Spring, made clear it was displeased by the planned "private, humanitarian" visit by Schmidt and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Their trip is expected this month.
"We don't think the timing of the visit is helpful and they are well aware of our views," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday.
Richardson, a seasoned envoy and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Friday that the State Department should not be nervous. In interviews with CBS and CNN, Richardson said they had been planning to visit in December but postponed the trip at the department's request because of the presidential election that month in South Korea.
Richardson said he would raise with North Korea the matter of an American detained last month on suspicion of committing unspecified "hostile" acts against the state; the charge could draw a sentence of 10 years of hard labor. He'll also try to meet with the detainee.
He also said he was concerned about North Korea's nuclear proliferation and this was a "very important juncture" to talk and try to move the North Koreans in the "right direction."
Schmidt, Richardson said, was traveling as a private citizen. But the trip raises questions about whether Google has plans for North Korea.
Schmidt, the company's executive chairman, is a staunch advocate of global Internet access and the power of connectivity in lifting people out of poverty and political oppression. There are few countries where the obstacles are as stark. North Koreans need government permission to interact with foreigners — in person, by phone or by email. Only a tiny portion of the elite class is connected to the Internet.
U.S. law restricts American companies' dealings with North Korea, which is subject to tough penalties because of its nuclear and missile programs. Imports of North Korean goods are prohibited, but travel to North Korea, exports of U.S. goods and investment in the country are allowed, subject to some restrictions, such as on exports of luxury goods.
Richardson has been to North Korea at least a half-dozen times since 1994, including two trips to negotiate the release of detained Americans. His last visit was in 2010.
The detainee, Kenneth Bae, is the fifth American held in North Korea in the past four years. That includes two U.S. journalists who were freed in 2009 after former President Bill Clinton traveled to Pyongyang and met with then-leader Kim Jong Il. Richardson said it was doubtful he and Schmidt would meet with Kim Jong Un, but he expected to talk with officials from the foreign affairs and economic ministries and the military.
North Korea could show good will by freeing Bae. But detainees risk becoming bargaining chips for the North in its tumultuous relationship with Washington. The U.S. retains nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with a truce, not a peace treaty.
Kim Jong Un's elevation to leadership after his father's death a year ago offered some hope of better relations. But after agreeing last February to an offer of U.S. food aid in exchange for nuclear concessions, North Korea derailed the deal weeks later when it attempted to launch a satellite atop a rocket that the U.S. believes was a test of ballistic missile capabilities.
Relations were set back further by the latest launch, this time successful, which the North again insisted was for a purely peaceful space program.
In the past year, Kim has made at least stylistic changes that hint at more openness, leading some commentators to call for a fresh outreach by U.S. diplomats. That's something that the nominee for secretary of state, Kerry, might support. But there's still little sign of substantive reform.

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10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Smartphone

1. Match Paint Colors
Want to paint your walls the same color of green as your throw pillows? What about making your wainscoting the same color blue as yesterday afternoon's sky? With BEHR's ColorSmart mobile app, you can match the perfect paint color. The app is available for iOS and Android devices.
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Studies show that the majority of adults in the United States own cellphones. As of September, 2012, the Pew Research Center found that 45% of American adults have smartphones.
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With everything a smartphone can do, those statistics aren't so surprising. Mobile devices keep you connected at all times, whether it's by phone, texting, email or social media. And there seems to be an app for just about everything. But what about all the ways your smartphone can help with non-digital tasks?
We've rounded up 10 handy and little-known ways to use your smartphone in the physical world -- matching paint color, starting your car from your kitchen, checking your heart rate and more.
What kind of real-world tasks do you complete with mobile devices? Let us know in the comments.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, pengpeng.

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Iran building software to control networking sites

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's police chief says the Islamic Republic is developing new software to control social networking sites.
Gen. Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam was quoted in Iranian newspapers Saturday as saying the new software will prevent Iranians from being exposed to malicious content online while allowing users to enjoy the benefits of the Internet. He did not say when the software would be introduced.
Moghadam also did not specify which social networking sites would be affected, but both Facebook and Twitter are popular in Iran.
Iranians currently have access to most of the Internet, although authorities block some sites affiliated with the opposition, as well as those that are seen as promoting dissent or considered morally corrupt.
Iran created a government agency last year to oversee Internet usage in the country.

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Can the Government Really Ban Twitter Parody Accounts?

Arizona is entertaining a law that will make it a felony to use another person's real name to make an  Internet profile intended to "harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten," which to some sounds like a law against parody Twitter accounts. The legislation, if passed, would make Arizona one of a few states, including New York, California, Washington and Texas, to enact anti-online-impersonation laws. If these regulations seek to put a stop to fake representations online, that does sound like the end of fake celebrity baby accounts and Twitter death hoaxes. Then again, these laws have existed in these other places for years, and that hasn't stopped the faux accounts from coming in. So what then does this mean?
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What kind of stuff is the law intended to prosecute?
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The law does not say that all uses of another person's real name can be charged as a felony, but only profiles made for the more nefarious purposes fall into that territory. The legislation is  targeted at more serious forms of impersonation, like cyber bullying. Two Texas teens were arrested and charged under this law for creating a fake Facebook page to ruin a peer's reputation, for example. Or, the case of Robert Dale Esparza Jr. who created a fake profile of his son's vice principal on a porn site might fall under this law, suggests The Arizona Republic's Alia Beard Rau. Or, in one of the cases brought to court under the Texas version of this law, an Adam Limle created websites that portrayed a woman he used to date as a prostitute. (The case was eventually dropped because of a geographical loophole. Limle lived in Ohio, not Texas.)
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Okay, the harm and threat in those situation is pretty clear. How can it at all apply to something relatively harmless, like a Twitter parody account?
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The term "harm" is pretty vague, as this Texas Law blog explains, referring to that state's version of this legislation, on which Arizona based its own law. "'Harm' can be very broadly construed–one person's joke is another person's harm," writes Houston lawyer Stephanie Stradley.
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So, that could extend to parody accounts then?
Well, possibly. Stradley suggests that politicians who had parody accounts created to mock them might have a case. Some of the impersonation of Texas lawmakers has gone beyond just the jokey fake Twitter handle. Jeffwentworth.com is not the official site for Texas state senator, but rather redirects to the web site of the anti-tax advocate group Empower Texans which considers the San Antonio politician the “the most liberal Republican senator in Austin.” Wentworth told The New York Times this domain squatting amounted to "identity theft," and could be the basis for the law's usage.
The law could also possibly effect sillier parody accounts, suggest privacy advocates. "The problem with this, and other online impersonation bills, is the potential that they could be used to go after parody or social commentary activities," senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Kurt Opsahl told The Arizona Republic's Alia Beard Rau. "While this bill is written to limit 'intent to harm,' if that is construed broadly, there could be First Amendment problems."
Ok, but what about precedent? Has the law ever applied to a faux Twitter handle?
Twitter has its own parody policy that mitigates a lot of the possible damage that could ever lead to a court case. Saint Louis Cardinals manager Anthony La Russa sued Twitter in 2009 because of a made-up account, but the account was removed before the case went anywhere (And that was before these laws went into effect.)
But it's not clear that parody would ever be considered harmful enough for the law. When California's version went into effect, a first amendment lawyer suggested to SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi that jokes could go pretty far without prosecution. "You're going to have to have room for satire," he said. The account would have to look fool people, he argued. "A key question is, 'is it credibile?'" asks Simitian. "Do people who read it think it's him?" Because of our increasing skepticism of things on Twitter, unless the site has verified checkmark, it's unlikely that most people believe in a fake account for long. So, unless the imitation tweeter does something extremely harmful to someone's character, it doesn't sound like anyone would have a strong case. Alas, parody Twitter accounts, for better or worse (worse, right?) are here to stay.

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Facebook Making a Phone, Sort Of

Facebook is building a phone right in front of our faces. Maybe not a real phone, but all the apps and features you'd expect one to have.
Facebook has just added a voice message feature to its Messenger app for iOS and Android. Within the app you can now send a recording to your friends. If you've downloaded the new update you can tap the + button next to the box where you input a message, then tap Record, speak your message and then send it off.
But that's only the start of the voice capabilities Facebook is thinking about. In Canada, Facebook is testing live calls using Voice over IP (VoIP) calling similar to Skype. If you have the iPhone app and live in Canada you can tap the "i" button in the corner of the app and tap "Free Call." You can then make a free call to a Facebook friend who is using the same app. You can't call landline or cellphone numbers.
The system can work over 3G and 4G cellular networks, but it's cheaper if you use Wi-Fi. If you are on a cellular network it will eat at your data plan.
Facebook didn't make a big announcement about the services, but it's a very big move for the social networking company. While Facebook declined to comment on whether it would come to the U.S. or if they could charge for the service, it is a step into voice calling for the company. Not only could that be ultimately disruptive for cellular carriers that offer monthly calling packages, it represents an alternative revenue stream for Facebook.
This is just one of many mobile announcements Facebook has made in the past few months. It upgraded both its iPhone and Android apps to make them faster and it released is new Poke app, which destroys messages 10 seconds or less after you look at them.
In addition to its main app and its Poke app, Facebook also has a Facebook Camera app. You'll also recall that Facebook bought Instagram in April 2012.
Rumors of a Facebook branded phone have swirled around for quite a while now. The New York Times and AllThingsD both reported that the company had internal plans to build its own hardware. However, Mark Zuckerberg denied the rumor in July.
"There are a lot of things you can build in other operating systems as well that aren't really taking, that aren't really like building out a whole phone, which wouldn't make much sense for us to do," he said on an earnings call.
That make sense, but with all of its apps and voice calling features, it sure looks like Facebook is playing around with its own phone right in front of our faces.

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