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Vopium-Free VOIP Application for Smartphones

Vopium is a carrier-grade mobile telephony service designed to offer affordable and reliable international calls from any mobile handset. By using the Vopium application on their mobile to make calls from their home country, consumers and businesses alike can save up to 90% on international mobi...

Sipgate vs. Skype

VoIP provider sipgate launched in the U.S. this week, with the intention of competing directly with landline telephone services - and with Skype . "Sipgate, which has operated a successful VoIP business in Europe since 2004, launched a new free VoIP calling play in the U.S. that aims...

New Google Voice Service for Mobile devices

Google has announced a new Google Voice service that offers a number of useful features including free SMS and Voicemail services. It centralizes all your telephony needs and offers free access to SMS and voicemail inboxes, SMS Threading, SMS Archiving, Call Screening, Call Blocking, Call Re...

Skype Shares SILK for Free

Skype this week announced plans to offer royalty-free access to its SILK wideband audio codec . " SILK , which debuted to positive reviews in the 4.0 version of Skype for Windows released last month, is Skype's default audio codec for Skype-to-Skype calls," writes BetaNew...

Tough Times for Vonage

Vonage had a rough Q4 2008 - although revenue increased by 3 percent, the company's net loss increased to $41 million, and subscriber numbers decreased by 14,700. "Wait, wasn't VoIP supposed the change the world and cripple the Bells?" asks AllThingsD's Eric Savitz ....

Nokia and Skype Announce VoIP Partnership

Skype and Nokia this week announced a partnership under which Skype client software will be integrated into nokia devices , starting with the Nokia N97 in the third quarter of this year. "Nokia N97 users will be available to use 3G and WLAN to make and receive Skype-to-Skype voic...

ARCOS Internet Tablet-An Innovative Android device!

ARCHOS , the leading portable media player and internet media tablet manufacturer is working on a device that will merge ARCHOS's multimedia framework with Google's Android telephony stack. The new device will provide powerful entertainment, web, connectivity and communication features t...

BroadSoft Buys Sylantro

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5538767 BroadSoft this week acquired competitor Sylantro . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Broadsoft said it would continue to support Sylantro customers and even market and sell Sylantro's Multiplay Application Feature Server while ...

Cellity Communicator ushers in a new generation of communication applications

Cellity today announced the beta release of Addressbook 2.0 within the Cellity Communicator suite, putting contact data management in focus as the basis of all communication. Regardless of whether contact data comes from a cell phone address book or Outlook, from Twitter or a social network,...

Ribbit Intros Development Platform, $100,000 App Contest

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Nicholas Sereno Ribbit , which was purchased by BT in July, this week launched its development platform and announced a $100,000 Killer App Challenge . "Although the Mountain View, Calif. company makes useful applications like the recently-updated ...

Ooma is VOIP on Steroids

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Evgeny Terentyev VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) has been hit and miss for many people; myself included. I have tooled around with Vonage, Skype, and others, but I have not been completely sold on any current VOIP technology. I have the same concerns that ma...

Fring goes to iPhone

Following the footstep of Truphone , Fring finally releases its iPhone app on the iTunes App Store - this means that jailbreaking the iPhone is no longer needed. Unlike Truphone, Fring allows you to link up with various IM services as well as Skype and any SIP-compliant VoIP service. Whi...

UseeIsee Picture Fone

Some of you may enjoy using services like Skype and webcams for video conferences, but there are those, like our parents and grandparents, that do not have the technological know-how for video transmission. The UseeIsee Picture fone is prepared for this with the easy-to-use GXV-3000 unit...

Online Learning With Skype

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Rich Legg As a Skype user, I've been able to make long distance phone calls for only a few bucks a month. This new age phone company uses the internet to offer national and international phone service at a huge discount. Now, some classrooms are using interne...

Voice APIs Not Your Road To Riches

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderas Many companies are now offering voice APIs for their telephony infrastructure, making it possible to create so-called voice mashups. One of the first was Jaduka , another that has gotten a lot of press is Ribbit . APIs are necessary to creat...

MyGlobalTalk: Where's The Difference?

I think the PR folks have added me to their email lists, as I seem to be getting a lot more emails lately. Like this one from i2Telecom, which is now offering MyGlobalTalk™ , which places Internet telephony in the hands of every cellular phone user, independent of wireless carrier, handset manuf...

Sprint Selects DragonWave for Xohm WiMax Backhaul

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Edyta Pawlowska DragonWave today announced that its Horizon Compact and Horizon Duo products have been selected by Sprint for use in its Xohm WiMax network. "Sprint said it would deploy the radios in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, the thre...

Developers and APIs Aren't A Business Model

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ryan Lane Jaduka originally released their APIs for their telephony platform over a year ago , which can easily be used to integrate with other applications. Open the platform, let the masses create their own voice mashups, or so the theory went. Developers sign...

Is The Industry Up Or Down?

© Dave Raboin Nicole Schuman raises an interesting question about the state of the VoIP industry based on the numbers. If you look at the quarter-over-quarter numbers, it appears the market is slowing down. If you look at the overall Market penetration , it's going up. So which is ...

Comcast Planning More Business-Level Phone Services

Andy Abramson's post on who owns the residential and business VoIP sectors reminds me of the conversation I had with our local Comcast Business rep at the WSTA meeting I went to last week. While the cable companies clearly have a lock on the residential market-Comcast's offer is p...

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Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波

刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...

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Giving VoIP It's Own Country Code

© meyshanworld One of the things that I missed out on at eComm 2008 was the fact that Voxbone CEO Rod Ullens proposed, in his session at eComm, proposed a country code for VoIP users: 883. As part of it's proposal, Voxbone is giving away telephone numbers, called iNums, in the 883 country...

Jangl Team Joining Jajah

Back in November when Jajah and Jangl announced their partnership , I wondered aloud whether or not this might turn into something else. Turns out it did, but not exactly the way I was thinking it would. Michael Cerda, the former CEO of Jangl , posted on his blog today that him, Ben Dean...

Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype

Belkin announced in January that they were releasing a Desktop Internet Phone for Skype. It has a color screen, supports "over 500" Skype contacts, and supports SkypeIn and SkypeOut. The phone also features speed dial, call hold/release, call pickup/park, mute, redial, hold, call-tim...

Recording Skype Calls

Skype may seem to be the de-facto standard in internet telephony (yeah, I know a lot will argue that it is not but which one seem to have the bigger share?) and I must admit that I have hooked on Skype myself. My conference calls are usually done thru Skype - either Skype-to-Skype or SkypeOu...

Skype extends its reach

Skype extends its reach to the mobile phone world when it announces the JavaME-based Skype client. Current services available are " chat, group chat, presence (seeing when your contacts are online), and receiving calls from Skype users, and through SkypeIn ." Other services, howev...

Jajah bags Yahoo

Jajah is taking yet another milestone - 10 Mio users (that is downloads I guess) and integration into yahoo messenger . The Jajah guys are really pushing the already impressive success story. Yahoo's PhoneIn/PhoneOut was never a real hit but with Jajah it may only get better: The ...

How Cheap Calls Have Gotten

I remember when I was kid that making a long distance call was a big deal. Why? Because it was expensive. Want an example? Here's an AT&T ad from 1984: $10 an hour for a weekend or evening state-to-state long distance calling? You mean in-state calls are more expensive? Yes, my frien...

Equals and Voxeo Bringigng The Party Line To Facebook

The folks at Equals have come up with a neat application for Facebook: The Party Line. It is powered by Voxeo's Prophecy Platform , which provides both VoiceXML and CCXML support. This makes it possible to web-enable telephony and make IP telephony and conferencing easy to do witho...

miniTeller: Quick, Easy and Secure

- miniTeller: Quick, Easy and Secure - HouseSpin Where Owners Sell Or Buy Houses With Service From Professionals - WikiCrimes.com - Where Hearts are Feeling Criminal - Business Directory, Tradesmen, Rated People, Contractor Reviews - Jaduka Labs Free Web 2.0 Telephony Widgets - iPhone 已经...

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IfByPhone: The Voice Of The Web For SMBs

Last week during the eComm conference, I didn't go, but I did get to talk to Irv shapiro at IfByPhone about how they are making it dirt simple for small and medium businesses to add the power of voice to their website. So simple, in fact, if you can code an HTML form, you can use IfByPh...

Introducing... Sprint/T-Mobile? T-Mobile/Sprint? T-Mobisprex?

A Merrill Lynch analyst yesterday floated a rumor that T-Mobile USA owner Deutsche Telekom may consider buying the beleaguered Sprint "to block a price war in the mobile phone industry," according to The Kansas City Star's David Hayes . There are, of course, a number of...

Jaduka Announces Free Telephony Widgets

Jaduka has announced a series of "telephony widgets" through Jaduka Labs : dukaDIAL : Call any number in the U.S. and Canada for free. dukaLINK : Create a link to allow someone in the U.S. and Canada for free while keeping your number private dukaBUZZ : Allow U.S. and Canada vi...

IP PBX Vendors Ratchet Up Their Marketing

This week, I have been contacted by two different IP PBX vendors to review their products: TalkSwitch and thirdlane . Ok, maybe this data point is meaningless, but it's not like I hear from IP PBX vendors every day asking my opinion. Maybe this little trade show called VON.x on the 17...

Nokia Intros Super-Flexible Nanotech Morph Concept Phone

Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge today introduced Morph , a prototype for a flexible mobile phone that makes use of nanotechnology, at the Museum of Modern Art 's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit. What exactly is it? According to Digital Trends' Geoff ...

We Experiment with Skype as a Business Tool

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. - Alexander Graham Bell Skype is Internet telephony software. The software is free to download and allows free telephone calls, video calls, and conferences to other Skype users. It can be used to m...

eComm 2008 Organizer Lee Dryburgh on The Squawk Box

eComm2008 was the subject of this past Friday's Squawk Box call/podcast , which is recorded using iotum's Free Conference Call application on Facebook . Conference organizer Lee Dryburgh was the special guest and he explained a lot of the rationale for the conference. Lee picked up t...

Will the Stagnant Telecom Industry Wake Up on Time?

Admittedly, the U.S. telco industry is having a hard time catching up with the more advanced countries like Japan and South Korea. There are so many factors to blame - complacency, lack of radical innovation, government policies, etc. Lee S Dryburgh, the organizer of Emerging Communications (...

High Definition Audio? Priceless!

After mucking about with the various VoIP tools, I have realized that a Skype-to-Skype, under ideal conditions, is righteous . While I realized I panned the whole concept of HD VoIP a while ago , no other tool comes close to sounding as good as Skype. There's something to be said for it. T...

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Garmin's nüvifone: Best iPhone Challenger to Date?

Garmin today announced the nüvifone (why the pretentious umlaut, garmin , why, why, oh why...), a swanky touchscreen handset that combines a phone, Web browser and GPS navigator in a single device. Not ones to settle for anything resembling humility, Garmin's PR folks say the nüvifon...

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Jajah Partnering With CallWave on Advanced Internet Telephony Solutions

I'm trying to wrap my head around this one. As I'm writing this, all I've got is a press release from Jajah announcing this partnership with CallWave . What is really being exchanged in this partnership? Let's start with what they say:

The Year In VoIP: Q3 2007

Here are some highlights from Q3 2007: Sunrocket Flameout : My first post on The VoIP Weblog was about SunRocket and whether or not they were going to live . And, of course, they ended up in the dead pool . Even after their service got subsumed by TeleBlend, SunRocket's web site lives on...

Immersive Education Showcased at Harvard

This month Harvard held a conference devoted to immersive education - learning in virtual "worlds" such as Second Life. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that demonstrations included "face-to-face" classroom interaction using life-like avatars and course field trips t...

Unified Communications Sales To Soar

In-Stat and Wainhouse Research say that unified communications products and services will account for $48.7B in sales by 2012. Unified communications include presence, instant messaging, IP telephony , audio conferencing, web conferencing, mobility services and video conferencing. The predi...

Why VoSKY Won't Cut It In The Enterprise

While VoSKY just announced their co-branded solution with Skype , Russell Shaw questions if enterprises will even consider this solution . While I agree with his solution, I agree for a different reason. I think any IT professional would be absolutely insane to rely on Windows XP in a...

How-to: run vista on your Eee PC

- How-to: run vista on your Eee PC - MSN 中国首页改版，正式推出签名服务 - TOP10: Mac OS X 实用小工具推荐 - Open source telephony gives customers control, consultant says Thomas Howe is a telecommunications developer and consultant who is passionate about the role of open source software in the telephony indu...

诺记N82开箱视频

已经正式发布的N82究竟啥样子，真机是啥样子，我们在最早传闻这款机器上市时就开始关注，后然竟然忘记给大家带来它的开箱照，罪过罪过，不过还好今天看到了来自Biskero.org的开箱视频，转发过来，希望还不了解这款智能新机的朋友对其有些印象。 Nokia N82 ：具有Quad GSM, UMTS, HSDPA网络支持，500万像素,20倍数字变焦镜头，Real Xenon闪光，30fps视频录制，2.4寸QVGA(240x320)屏幕，内置100MB内存，支持micro SD卡，蓝牙、WiFi、GPS、FM,TV-OUT等等。尺寸大小为112 x 50.2 x 17.3 mm，重量12...

Skype Co-Brands VoSKY Exchange for Businesses Worldwide

If you have a conventional or IP PBX and want to add the benefits and features of Skype, VoSKY has the solution for you. VoSKY, a wholly owned subsidiary of Actiontec Electronics, has actually made several products that tie Skype into a PBX or your home telephones . Their latest products, ...

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SIP, RFC4733, RFC2833, and You

Chances are, if you've used a regular landline phone, you've made a call into a system where you have to press keys on your numeric keypad in order to reach your intended party (e.g. dialing an extension, trying to get your account balance at your bank). Touch tones, or dual-tone multifre...

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Jangl Now Supports SMS

One of my biggest problems with any system that virtualizes your mobile telephone identity with different telephone numbers is that the telephone numbers aren't really telephone numbers. Sure, you can receive calls through that number. Making calls appear as that number involves eith...

Jajah Direct: First Visible Sign of Jajah And Jangl Cooperation

When I read the press release for Jajah Direct -provided after the jump-my immediate thought was: hey, that sounds an awful lot like the way Jangl works: associate a phone number with a relationship between two phone numbers. They did say more announcements were coming , I just wasn't exp...

Win An iPod Touch Just For Joining A Conference Call

Yes, it's true! Just participate for at least five minutes in a conference call arranged through the Free Conference Call application on Facebook between now and 26 November 2007, and you'll be entered into a draw where you can win an apple ipod touch 8gb! The draw is being spo...

Disruptive Analysis: VoIP over 3G will Eclipse VoIP over Wi-Fi

London-based Disruptive Analysis this week published a report, " VoIPo3G Business Models ," stating that mobile VoIP is rapidly going to eclipse VoIP over Wi-Fi. The expectation is that "VoIPo3G" users will reach 250 million by the end of the 2012. And the research firm ...

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Jangl and Jajah Bringing Voice 2.0 To The Masses

I have to admit, this caught me off-guard. But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Jangl has focused on enabling telephony within social networks, or anywhere else for that matter. While not collecting revenue directly from end users, Jangl has been profitable thanks to partn...

Google Announces Android

Google today announced the creation of the Open Handset Alliance , an organization currently made up of 34 companies, and the Android open platform for mobile devices. "This partnership will help unleash the potential of mobile technology for billions of users around the world. A fres...

FCC Says VoIP Carriers Must Offer Local Number Portability

On Wednesday, the folks at the Federal Communications Commission clarified the rules with regards to local number portability, i.e. the ability to transfer your number between telephony providers in the US. While many internet telephony service providers have offered the ability to bring...

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Senate Committee Approves Community Broadband Act of 2007

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee this week approved the Community Broadband Act of 2007 , which forbids states to tell local governments they can't provide community broadband access. "The bill would reverse laws on the books in Pennsylvania and 13 other...

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