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Accutone USB500 Skype Ready VoIP Headset

I just discovered an interesting new USB headset specifically designed for Skype called the Accutone USB500. On the headset's USB cord it has an in-line controller that lets you dial Skype, page up/down through Skype contacts, adjust the volume, popup the... Full Story

Posted on February 16, 2007 1:43 PM

Vringo Video Ringtones

Vringo's Jon Medved launched Vringo, a mobile application that brings "video ringtones" to mobile phones. Yeah, that's right. Video ringtones. When you call your buddy, you can send or receive video clips that will appear as your ringtone. In a... Full Story

Posted on January 31, 2007 12:32 PM

Skype for Mac 2.5 Goes Gold

Skype for Mac 2.5, as I previously mentioned back in November, has now gone into public release and can now be downloaded This from their PR rep... As you know, the beta version of this beautiful piece of software has... Full Story

Posted on January 31, 2007 10:16 AM

Skype for Business enhanced

Skype today announced a new version of Skype for Business that extends its features to make it easier for businesses of all sizes to install and manage Skype across their networks. This includes new support for the Microsoft Windows Installer... Full Story

Posted on January 25, 2007 10:54 AM

Actiontec VoSKY Skype Gateway adds FXS ports

Actiontec announced a new version of their VoSKY Skype gateway at ITEXPO, adding FXS functionality (previous model has FXO support). FXS support allows you to connects directly to PBX's FXS station posts, which enables you to to have global numbering plan. With the... Full Story

Posted on January 25, 2007 8:09 AM

Skype's free ride is over

According to TMCNet.com Skype today announced that it is offering U.S. and Canadian consumers the new Skype Unlimited Calling plan, a paid annual subscription service that allows registered users to make 12 months of unlimited SkypeOut calls to any phone... Full Story

Posted on December 13, 2006 7:31 AM

Talkster launches public beta

Talkster today announced that their closed/invite-only beta is now open the public. Talkster essentially lets you place free calls from your regular cell phone to instant messaging clients such as MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and Gizmo Project. What's nice about... Full Story

Posted on December 11, 2006 9:24 AM

Hictu! online address book with presence

We all have problems with our multiple digital address books, multiple IM/VoIP clients, which affects productivity - both professionally and personally. Checking each client to see which buddies are online or to look for a specific buddy is a pain... Full Story

Posted on December 6, 2006 12:42 PM

3J Communications' 3J-W1D Skype phone

3J Communications announced the availability of its new 3J-W1D Skype phone to the US market. The new 3J-W1D is a remote wireless Skype phone with a blue backlighted LCD display and features built-in echo and noise cancellation as well as... Full Story

Posted on November 30, 2006 8:31 AM

VoIP Gateway clones an iPod

The iPod is one of the most recognizable products due to it's smooth exterior, elegant shape, and stylish form-factor.  So what you do get when you cross an Apple iPod with a VoIP gateway? Why the Polypower VRM0-Sxx series of course!... Full Story

Posted on November 27, 2006 10:20 AM

Talkplus Skype demo

If you recall, I interviewed Jeff Black at ITEXPO back in October and discovered that Talkplus had reverse engineered Skype and built their own Skype gateway so you can dial Skype usernames. Specifically, I wrote:One final interesting thing we talked... Full Story

Posted on November 14, 2006 9:33 AM

Skype 3.0 beta released

Skype 3.0 beta was just released. If you recall, I reported back in October at ITEXPO that Skype 3.0 beta would launch in November and that the biggest new features in Skype 3.0 beta are its plugin support and the... Full Story

Posted on November 8, 2006 9:47 AM

Linksys CIT310 Phone for Yahoo Messenger

Linksys has partnered with Yahoo to offer a new dual-mode cordless phone called the Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (CIT310). Linksys sent me a review unit to check out and put through the paces. Similar to... Full Story

Posted on November 8, 2006 8:00 AM

Broadcom PC-less Skype Wi-Fi phone

Broadcom today announced that the Broadcom Wi-Fi phone now supports Skype software. Similar to other Pc-less Skype phones, you will be able to scroll through your contacts, see presence info, make free Skype-to-Skype calls, as well as SkypeIn and SkypeOut... Full Story

Posted on November 7, 2006 7:25 AM

TalkPlus Voice 2.0 app launches

TalkPlus, Inc. today is launching their unique mobile phone service that leverages VoIP, identity management, scheduling/contact rules, and other advanced business/personal processes that make your mobile experience more productive while enabling privacy controls. In fact, as I told Jeff Black,... Full Story

Posted on October 30, 2006 8:00 AM

Rimax Mystic VoIP MP3 player

The Rimax Mystic is a new MP3 / MP4 and video player that also doubles as a VoIP phone using it's built-in microphone. You connect it to your PC via USB and the Mystic becomes a VoIP phone. Technically it's... Full Story

Posted on October 27, 2006 10:26 AM

EQO VoIP / IM client now supports Windows Mobile and Blackberry mobile phones

Remember my in-depth overview of EQO Communications and their mobile-to-VoIP (Skype), mobile-to-IM (GoogleTalk, AOL, Skype, etc.) and mobile-to-social communities software?Well, I had word last week that tomorrow EQO Communications will announce support for RIM Blackberry and Windows Mobile powered devices. ... Full Story

Posted on October 23, 2006 8:06 AM

Skype Journal comments on ITEXPO

Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal was at ITEXPO and he has some interesting comments. For one he comments on there not being a lot of Skype-related products at the show when he states:It was bizarre for me, all VoIP... Full Story

Posted on October 19, 2006 5:43 PM

Free phone calls to 40 countries using VoIP

Two interesting calling promotions being offered by Raketu. First, their "Try Dialout For Free" promotion allows users to try RakOut (Raketu’s dialout service) to call locations in more than 40 countries for free. This mirrors Skype's free SkypeOut promotion until... Full Story

Posted on October 17, 2006 11:16 AM

Skype v2.6 released and Skype 3.0 beta coming soon

Lots of Skype news coming out of Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. First, Skype v2.6 beta was released today. It has the following new features:- Click to call ordinary phone numbers on any website (optional install)- Find and join Skypecasts... Full Story

Posted on October 11, 2006 2:53 PM

Skype combo devices - what's the point?

Seems like every day there's some newfandangled Skype device that combines Skype along with some combination of a speakerphone, a mouse, a keypad, an LCD, a toaster, a blender, etc. etc.Remember the Sony Skype device I wrote about? Let me... Full Story

Posted on October 3, 2006 8:47 AM

FOX News reviews the Sony Mylo

FOX News reviews the Sony Mylo (technically an AP writer) which supports WiFi, Skype, IM, WiFi, Opera browser, music, photos and MPEG-4 video file support, and more. check it out... Full Story

Posted on September 22, 2006 1:16 PM

Adobe Flash goes VoIP

Om broke the news about Adobe’s secret VoIP start-up project. I knew about Adobe’s top-secret VoIP plans since June of this year. I interviewed Adobe's <[edit] name withheld per request> back in June and got some interesting insights into Adobe’s... Full Story

Posted on September 22, 2006 10:05 AM

VoIP over EVDO from PeerMe

Found an interesting company that can do VoIP over EVDO, a popular high-speed data network used by Sprint, Verizon, and other mobile carriers. PeerMe, today launched its free service designed to allow users of Sprint EVDO mobile phones to make... Full Story

Posted on September 14, 2006 10:53 AM

Skype for Mac 2.0 has video!

Just received word that Skype for Mac 2.0 beta now has video. Mac users have been clamoring for this video feature that PC users have been enjoying for some time. So Mac users, rejoice!... Full Story

Posted on September 13, 2006 7:23 AM