Globalization is a process driven by international trade between numerous nations and cultures, and the cultural exchange that occurs in this process has had a significant impact on the last few decades of commerce and politics. For example, imagine playing The Beatles’ Abbey Road on your smartphone—you are playing music from 1960s England on a […]

Everybody understands how a conference call works: Participants dial into a preassigned number and enter a code at the prompt. But not everyone knows exactly how useful conferencing can be, and not just in a business-oriented environment! One of the most popular uses for free conference calling is for a prayer line. Churches and synagogues […]

Making Last-Minute Changes to Your Meeting is a Breeze with FreeConference Whether you need to reschedule a meeting, invite more participants, or cancel a scheduled conference call, you can do it all quickly and easily from your FreeConference account. Reminder: Your Conference Line is Available 24/7 Did you know that you and your callers can […]

A friend of mine has five children from three different marriages who are all grown up and going to Universities or holding down jobs. Some live in Europe, some in Asia, and some live "closer to home," in North America—if you can call Toronto "close" to his retirement cabin home on a small island off […]

  With FreeConference, there are two ways of conference scheduling, either by making a ‘reservationless' call or a ‘web-scheduled’ call. Find out what the difference is, and see how each one works for you. Reservationless Call You do not have to formally schedule a call to initiate a meeting, for you can simply share your Conference Detail. Your Conference Detail […]

It’s a fact: Canada is a rapidly growing sector of the business world. According to CBC News, there are already about 200,000 technology jobs between the Toronto area and Kitchener-Waterloo alone, leading some to label the 114-kilometre stretch “Silicon Valley North”. Top earning companies are expanding exponentially in Canada, and the trend does not appear […]

Did you ever have one of those old, clunky desk phones? You know, the ones with the blocky plastic casing and the long, curly cord like a pigs tail? It may be hard to believe, but they used to be the norm. If you ever had to make a long distance call with one of […]

There are many variables students must keep in mind when planning their academic pursuits. One of these is location, and it is common for them to travel across the globe for their education. Staying in touch with family and friends was a challenge in the past, but technological advances have made this much easier in recent […]

Some time around 1930, JRR Tolkien started off the whole Lord of the Rings series by telling his children bed time stories about a little character he called "The Hobbit." He'd been dreaming up the world of the Hobbit since he was a child himself. In doing so, Tolkien pretty much invented the whole "Fantasy […]

The Borg are a highly evolved species of cybernetic organisms in the Star Trek Universe whose goal is to "Achieve perfection." They generously offer to assimilate less perfect species into their collective. Sometimes the inferior species (like humans) aren't so keen on being drones in a perfect collective. In 2013, TV Guide named the Borg […]