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Congrats to Netgear - wins Top 10 Gadgets 2007 Award

Netgear is #3 on Time Magazine's Top 10 Gadgets of 2007 for their Wi-Fi Skype phone - the Netgear SPH200W. The Netgear SPH200W sports 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, around four hours of talk time, WEP / WPA / WPA2 support, and of... Full Story

Posted on December 12, 2007 10:15 AM

Philips VOIP841 Review

I'm been testing the Philips VOIP841 for review for a few months now. Let me start by saying I constantly have various VoIP products and gadgets on my desk for testing, but they typically only stay there for a short... Full Story

Posted on December 11, 2007 9:30 AM

Skype Soap Opera

Just read a funny post on ZDNet UK about why Skype was having 10,000 page faults per second. Some Skype users reported to the Skype forums the problems to Skype, who initially said it was "by design" then later admitted... Full Story

Posted on December 6, 2007 12:26 PM

Buh Bye Payphone

RTTNews is reporting that AT&T will quit payphone business by 2008 due to competition from cell phones. According to the Federal Communications Commission, the number of pay phones nationally has dwindled to 1 million as of 2006 from 2.08 million... Full Story

Posted on December 3, 2007 1:25 PM

Skype High Quality Video Review

Skype launched their latest version of Skype last week featuring what they call "High Quality Video" - not to be confused with HD Video used on HDTVs which features display resolutions of 1280x720 (720p) or 1920x1080 (1080i or 1080p). Skype... Full Story

Posted on November 30, 2007 3:33 PM

Getting Snagged Typing While on the Phone No More!

Ok, show of hands - who hasn't been on a conference call or talking with a spouse, family or friends, and they heard you pecking away at the keyboard? [crickets in background...] Ok, even if they didn't say anything, I'm... Full Story

Posted on November 30, 2007 2:59 PM

IPEVO PoV Skype Camera

IPEVO, makers of some cool Skype products, has a funky new Skype camera out. This telescopic camera looks like it can zoom in on far away objects. Like you know, the planets, the moon, Lana Lang your next door neighbor... Full Story

Posted on November 29, 2007 1:09 PM

Qingbar GP300 Wireless Video Glasses

Video glasses haven't exactly taken off, partly because of all the wires involved. Today, I learned about the Qingbar GP300, billed as the "world's first wireless video glasses" featuring a QVGA video image (432x240) that simulates a 50" display... Full Story

Posted on November 26, 2007 10:52 AM

R2-D2 Webcam & VoIP Phone

I got my Christmas edition of the Sharper Image catalog over the Black Friday/Thanksgiving weekend and saw some cool gadgets. One of my favorites was a 8" tall Star Wars R2-D2 droid that is a roving webcam transmitting real-time video... Full Story

Posted on November 26, 2007 9:30 AM

Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - woohoo!

The multi-faceted Nokia N810 internet tablet has finally arrived on store shelves. This highly anticipated Linux-based gadget has more gadgety features than you can shake a stick at - including a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, digital audio/video playback, Bluetooth,... Full Story

Posted on November 21, 2007 10:22 AM

Spock, Kirk, E911 for VoIP and All that Jazz

TMCNet is reporting that the House passed legislation requiring Internet telephone companies to provide customers with emergency 911 calling services. According to the article, the 911 Modernization and Public Safety Act, aims to bring Internet telephony companies in compliance with... Full Story

Posted on November 14, 2007 1:06 PM

SkyStone releases new version of Skype gateway

SkyStone today released a new version of their 100% software-only Skype gateway. The Skystone Software IP Skype Gateway provides interoperability between both traditional and IP-based PBXs and Skype, employees to leverage inexpensive Skype calling rates directly from their desk phones... Full Story

Posted on November 14, 2007 9:23 AM

VoIPo3G Will Reach 250M Cell Phone Users by 2012?

According to the Disruptive Analysis report there will be over 250m VoIP Users Over 3G Mobile Networks by 2012. Call me a cynic, but this seems overly optimistic for 250 million users to be making VoIP over 3G calls. 6... Full Story

Posted on November 13, 2007 4:05 PM

Skype Outage Explained

Just received this email from a Skype PR representative explaining the outage I discovered over the weekend. They say it was minor, and I will say it was a short outage. But there were some peeved users. I read a... Full Story

Posted on November 13, 2007 10:11 AM

Skype WiFi phones Outage

BREAKING! Something has happened with the Skype service that prevents all brands of WiFi and dual-mode (WiFi & PSTN) phones from signing into Skype. This problem seems to have started sometime on Saturday and continued until late Sunday (possibly as... Full Story

Posted on November 12, 2007 9:38 AM

Skype SIP Gateway (PE) 1.0 Released

You recall my SIP to Skype gateway breaks Skype's Great Wall of VoIP, right? You don't? Well, let me refresh your memory. I wrote: As most techies know, Skype uses a proprietary protocol and does not support inbound SIP calls.... Full Story

Posted on October 30, 2007 2:48 PM

SightSpeed offers High Quality Video Conferencing for the SMB

Ironic that I just blogged about Logitech and Skype offering high quality video conferencing and I was skeptical it would work - except in the SMB - and now I just got a release saying SightSpeed can save SMBs thousands... Full Story

Posted on October 30, 2007 11:22 AM

Skype and Logitech offer High Quality Video Conferencing

Skype and Logitech have teamed up to offer high quality videoconferencing. Skype 3.6 will be required and will increase the resolution from 320 x 240 to 640 x 480 (VGA). High Quality Video will also require Logitech QuickCam software, version... Full Story

Posted on October 30, 2007 10:51 AM

3 Skypephone arrives

The 3 Skypephone has finally arrived, but only for our friends across the pond - the Brits. Although Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and Sweden are planned sometime later in the year. What, no U.S.? Of... Full Story

Posted on October 29, 2007 2:57 PM

Jajah native SIP client for EM-ONE phone

Jajah just announced a very cool pre-installed VoIP client for the EM-ONE α device for the Japanese mobile carrier EMOBILE which was co-developed with Sharp and Microsoft. Their software uses the data channel (HSDPA) to deliver voice services for... Full Story

Posted on October 25, 2007 5:37 PM

Propel PBM improves QoS for VoIP, Skype, Online Gaming and more

Propel Software Corporation today debuted Propel PBM, a "personal QoS software" at DEMOfall 07. The Propel PBM (Personal Bandwidth Manager) application provides personal bandwidth management on your PC by automatically optimizing and prioritizing network access for time-sensitive applications. By prioritizing... Full Story

Posted on October 24, 2007 1:54 PM

Vapps offers Wideband Conferencing using Skype or PSTN

Today, Vapps will be relaunching their free conferencing service (HighSpeed Conferencing) as a flat-rate monthly service with unlimited usage. When I asked Ben Lilienthal CEO, Vapps "why the change?", Ben explained that they have gone from using a narrowband codec... Full Story

Posted on October 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Skype Surpasses 10 million simultaneous users

In addition to the exciting Skype & Myspace news, Skype is celebrating surpassing the 10 million simultaneous users globally connected online to each other for the first time. Three years ago, on October 20, 2004, Skype had 1 million simultaneous... Full Story

Posted on October 17, 2007 2:01 PM

Myspace goes VoIP

TMC co-worker, Greg Galitzine, is reporting that Reuters stated Myspace will announce a partnership with Skype tomorrow. This is great news for Skype/eBay, but like I said before, I still think Skype itself could be a Facebook and MySpace social... Full Story

Posted on October 16, 2007 9:04 PM

iBasis Pingo Business gives SMBs freedom of choice

iBasis today introduced Pingo Business, an on-demand VoIP service targeting SMBs to offer low cost calling for up to 999 employees. The most interesting aspects are that employees can use their own fixed-line and mobile phones and administrators can set... Full Story

Posted on October 10, 2007 2:14 PM