CoolTalk

What Does CoolTalk Mean?

CoolTalk was an Internet telephony utility in the form of a plug-in for Netscape Navigator 3.0. Launched in 1996, CoolTalk included an answering machine and a shared white board.

Techopedia Explains CoolTalk

CoolTalk was among the first voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software products. Meant to be widely used among Internet users, CoolTalk was designed to run on cross-platform operating systems. Thanks to CoolTalk, statistics about VoIP users became available, contributing to the advancement of later VoIP software products.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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