Tag archive: Jajah

Just in time for the Beijing Olympics, VoIP company Jajah has launched its automated Jajah.Babel service in the UK and US, which allows English-Mandarin and Mandarin-English translation. It employs technology from IBM Research to listen to short phrases then offers a translation in a synthesized voice. But, according to ZDNet, it was barely out of the blocks when it fell at the first hurdle, suffering a lengthy outage. However,… Read More

Yahoo—still standing in the looming shadow of a Microsoft hostile takeover attempt—has struck a deal with relative newcomer Jajah to outsource the Phone In and Phone Out Internet telephony functions of its Yahoo Messenger chat and instant messaging application. Beginning in the third quarter of 2008, Jajah will be responsible for connecting called between Yahoo Messenger users, and handle both billing and customer support for… Read More

The online telecommunications industry just keeps on growing. As proof that it’s on the increase, Internet telephony company Jajah has just received a $20 million investment from the giant Deutsche Telekom, the largest telecommunications company in Europe, and owner of T-Mobile, through its T-Online Venture Fund.   Jajah was founded in 2005 with the intention of using the Internet for free or cheap calling on both landlines… Read More