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Broadsoft Acquires Rival Sylantro

In what could portend several acquisitions in the VoIP space, Broadsoft has acquired rival competitor Sylantro Systems, both makers of softswitches and both heavily involved in carrier infrastructure, IMS, and converged services. TMCnet's Greg Galitzine has the full details on... Full Story

Posted on December 29, 2008 8:59 AM

trixbox CE vs. Asterisk Downloads

As you may have read, Digium announced a sharp rise in Asterisk downloads for 2008 registering in a whopping 1.5 million downloads for 2008. That got me thinking just how does Asterisk & AsteriskNOW compare with Fonality's trixbox CE distro?... Full Story

Posted on December 23, 2008 6:00 AM

The State of Nortel

Rich has an excellent piece on Nortel where he talks to Nortel's President of Carrier Networks' Richard Lowe and Bruce Gustafson, Director of Marcom, Carrier Networks. With all the bad news surrounding Nortel it's interesting to get a perspective... Full Story

Posted on December 22, 2008 9:35 AM

Flash Skype Video cards = Flash Skype Client in the Near Future?

This morning I was playing with the new video e-card creation tool from Skype, which is just in time for Christmas, Hanukkah and the rest of the holidays. It's called Video cards with Skype (http://www.skypevideocards.com). Facebook fans can easily... Full Story

Posted on December 19, 2008 10:59 AM

Verizon FiOS Voice+Internet Cheaper than just FiOS Internet?

I had to do a double-take when I read the Verizon FiOS pricing plans page that shows Verizon FiOS Internet with Verizon home phone service is less expensive than FiOS Internet without Verizon home phone service. It's $5 cheaper... Full Story

Posted on December 19, 2008 10:31 AM

Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype

I was doing some Christmas shopping on Amazon when I was curious what sort of VoIP phones were available on Amazon. I came across the Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype, which I never heard of. The Belkin Desktop... Full Story

Posted on December 18, 2008 12:26 PM

CNET - Where's the ♥ love?

I love CNET, it's one of my favorite technology, electronics, and gadgets sites. But I'm just not feeling the love. You see, I wrote a quick review of the just launched GizmoCall Flash-based VoIP service this morning. A few hours... Full Story

Posted on December 16, 2008 4:29 PM

GizmoCall Another Flash VoIP Player

GizmoCall, a Flash-based, no download, cross operating system VoIP app launched on Monday. GizmoCall isn't the first to offer a Flash-based VoIP client. I believe the first Flash-based VoIP app was Flashphone, which I discovered last year. I also found... Full Story

Posted on December 16, 2008 9:50 AM

TMC & Digium Announce Educational program for Digium|Asterisk World

Some good news from my company TMC and Digium, the founder of Asterisk that I thought I'd share. If you're an Asterisk fan, you need to be at Asterisk World, which is co-located with the #1 VoIP tradeshow in the... Full Story

Posted on December 15, 2008 11:43 AM

ADTRAN Launches n-Command MSP - Remote VoIP Management Network Tool

Interesting new product from from ADTRAN whose aim is to simplify remote management of VoIP networks with their n-Command MSP. It sounds very similar to NetQoS Unified Communications Monitor 2.0 I wrote about last month, except NetQoS UC Monitor... Full Story

Posted on December 15, 2008 10:29 AM

Grandstream GXV3005 Video Phone

Grandstream just announced the GXV3005 IP video phone is coming this month. The GXV3005 features an additional FXO port and is part of the GXV3000 IP video product line series.The GXV3005 features the same design and all of the functionality... Full Story

Posted on December 11, 2008 5:32 PM

Skype 4.0 beta 3 released

Skype has been striving to improve the usability of Skype and give more prominence to other features such as video by rearranging Skype's interface in version 4.0. They also have improved conversation management. Today, Skype released Skype 4.0 beta 3... Full Story

Posted on December 11, 2008 1:28 PM

Free snom Flexor CTI for Outlook Application offers Advanced Telephony Features

snom and Camrivox today announced free VoIP telephony integration with Microsoft Outlook with snom Flexor CTI software for Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used contact manager with a market share of over 60% of email users. A... Full Story

Posted on December 11, 2008 12:01 PM

Truphone brings low-cost calling to iPhone over Wi-Fi & now 3G

Truphone is now bringing low-priced international calls to the iPhone even when not connected to Wi-Fi. In case you don't recall, Steve Jobs will only allow VoIP over Wi-Fi and not over a 3G data connection. So has Truphone enabled... Full Story

Posted on December 10, 2008 11:09 AM

Ditch Desktop IP phone to Save Money?

With a slowing global economy, one of the cost-cutting measures desired by IT personnel appears to be the desktop phone, including desktop IP phones. That at least according to an OnRelay survey that shows 88% of cost-conscious IT Professionals would... Full Story

Posted on December 9, 2008 1:46 PM

Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta Released

Skype's Mobile team has overhauled Skype for Windows Mobile and released Beta 2.5 today. The new beta features improved sound quality, better stability and a more familiar user interface. Will have to give it a try on the XV6700 running... Full Story

Posted on December 9, 2008 1:04 PM

Fonality Launches PBXtra Unified Agent on Salesforce.com's Force.com AppExchange

Back in September I wrote about Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) and how it can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged. Apparently, this... Full Story

Posted on December 9, 2008 12:40 PM

Asterisk-based VPN in a Flash Mobile Telephony Appliance

Nerd Vittles (Ward Mundy) is the man! He just combined the popular Acer Aspire One NetBook featuring the powerful Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz) processor along with Fedora 10 and his Asterisk-based distro. Nerd just may have cooked up the perfect... Full Story

Posted on December 8, 2008 10:33 AM

CounterPath Launches Bria for Microsoft Outlook integrating VoIP with Outlook Contacts

CounterPath Corporation announced the launch of Bria for Microsoft Outlook, which integrates CounterPath's softphone technology directly into Microsoft Outlook. CounterPath also makes the popular (& free) SIP client called X-Lite.The toolbar gives users easy access to VoIP call control aling... Full Story

Posted on December 5, 2008 4:53 PM

Sangoma Launches B600 Series of Analog Voice Cards

Rich has a great interview with Sangoma's VP Sales and Marketing, Doug Vilim about their new B600 Series of Analog voice cards, which can be used in Asterisk-based systems. Apparently, Sangoma's über customizable & modular cards can be a... Full Story

Posted on December 4, 2008 11:38 AM

Truphone Transforms iPod touch into iPhone

We all know the iPod touch is basically an iPhone minus a microphone and the wireless (3G) phone capability. Well, behold Truphone for iPod touch, which adds phone capabilities using VoIP over WiFi. This isn't the first time someone... Full Story

Posted on December 3, 2008 10:17 PM

Raketu Adds VoIP Support for Google G1 Android Mobile

Raketu today released its Raketu Mobile for Google's G1 Android mobile adding VoIP support to the Android phone. Raketu already supports iPhone, Nokia, WinMobile and BlackBerry mobile phonesThe new service allows anyone with a G1 using roaming data services... Full Story

Posted on December 2, 2008 2:59 PM

Bittorrent Kills VoIP - Game Over Man!

An interesting article at the Register claims that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for P2P file transfers (instead of TCP) to get around ISP "traffic management" restrictions will cause a meltdown of the Internet. Poppycock you say?... Full Story

Posted on December 1, 2008 3:01 PM

Force Skype HQ Video Mode with any webcam

So you want Skype High Quality (HQ) video, but aren't willing to shell out for a nice dual-core processor and a high-end Logitech camera, eh? Well, no worries - Nodewave has a Force 'Skype' HQ Video app that allows... Full Story

Posted on December 1, 2008 9:32 AM

Nimbuzz VoIP app on Apple App Store

Nimbuzz is a free app that lets you call (VoIP), chat, message, and send photos, music and video on your iPhone, which was recently made available on the Apple App Store. Using a centralized contact list you can connect with... Full Story

Posted on November 30, 2008 10:42 PM