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Number Portability Redux
Back in 2006, I griped about my number portability problems. In that post, I wrote: I never thought that in 2006 I would have number portability problems. Hasn't number portability regulations evolved to the point where it is no longer...
Is T.38 Fax Dead?
Who says T.38 real-time fax is dead? According to Google quite a few. Well, according to AudioCodes' Alan Percy, you people are wrong! Wrong I say! Not that T.38 doesn't have its share of issues of course. I just read...
ITExpo Prizes - including a Mustang Convertible!
I knew we were going to raffle a car at ITEXPO since we discussed which car to raffle a few months ago, but I didn't know what the final choice was. At last year's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo we...
TMC's Greg Galitzine Interviews Dialogic's Jeff Dworkin
Greg has a podcast interview with Jeff Dworkin from Dialogic. I still remember the very first Dialogic telephony card I reviewed in CTI Magazine back in 1996. Ah the memories... I can't believe I've been in telecom for over 12...
Internet Telephony Expo Draws More Countries
Last year (2007) just about a week before ITEXPO, we had 64 countries represented. This year, also just 1 week away from Internet Telephony Expo we have 74 countries represented, about a 15.6% increase. If the number of countries registered...
XO Communications Announces Bandwidth Pricing for Phone Calls
XO Communications tomorrow will announce bandwidth-based pricing offering for converged IP services. Instead of paying per minute for voice calls like both traditional TDM and even current VoIP offerings do, XO will be completely bandwidth-based pricing. Considering that voice is...
University of Cambridge claims largest IP telephony system
Score one for Cisco. They now claim that the University of Cambridge has become one of the largest if not the largest IP telephony system in the education sector. Cisco and BT announced the deployment in a multi-million pound deal...
Vonage Blocking Ex-customer's Phone Number
Add this to the list of number portability problems. I received a tip that Vonage is blocking access to a phone number formerly maintained by Vonage. A disgruntled ex-Vonage customer emailed me to explain his dilemma. The ex-Vonage customer's number...
IPEVO Solo Skype Desktop Phone now with Wi-Fi
The IPEVO Solo Skype Desktop Phone now no longer needs a wired Ethernet connection. At CES, IPEVO announced the new Wi-Fi Dongle bringing wireless capability to the IPEVO Solo, enabling users to choose the best spot for their Skype calls,...
Sony PSP Skype Headset
As expected, Sony launched Skype on the PSP at CES. Sony PSP users can now use Skype after installing a software update scheduled for release in late January. Here's the microphone module: Although Skype is the leading consumer-based VoIP software,...
D2 Technologies mCUE mobile convergence softphone launches
D2 Technologies today released at CES what they claim is the industry’s first embedded mobile convergence software solution for dual-mode phones. D2’s mCUE mobile convergence software solution combines a communications user interface with the company’s vPort MP VoIP software platform...
SightSpeed Light Flash Video Conferencing & Chat
There has been a lot of hype behind Flash VoIP, including Adobe's formerly top-secret Flash VoIP project, which Om Malik (get well soon) and I broke the story back in 2006. Other players have come along in that time, including...
trixbox CE 2.4 Released
trixbox CE 2.4 was recently released and features some major improvements. trixbox CE 2.4 features CentOS 5.1 as the base operating system and Asterisk 1.4 as the engine. These are two major improvements over prior releases. Fonality's Kerry Garrison writes,...
Asterisk Security Vulnerability in SIP Channel Driver
On December 26th, Grey VoIP reported a security hole in Asterisk - an Asterisk SIP Channel Driver BYE Message Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow a remote user to send a specially crafted BYE message using the...
GIPS Lands 51.com
After some recent bad news, including their competitor Spirit DSP landing China's Huawei Technologies, GIPS has landed a heavyweight to license their technology. Today, Global IP Solutions (GIPS), was been selected by '51.com' to power its instant messaging with voice...
Skype on Sony PSP
Rejoice! Skype on the Sony PSP may be unveiled this week at CES. Sony's CES page seemed to "leak" the details (click the PSP controller graphic on their site). The Sony PSP doesn't have cellular data connectivity so you'll need...
GPS + Google Android = Wi-Fi Army
Wi2P Entertainment is developing a gaming application called Wi-Fi Army that combines GPS tracking, WiFi, cellphone, and a cellphone camera that allows you to play a game of "GPS laser tag" against other players. They claim to have used Android's...
Skype Journal's VoIP Predictions
Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal has an interesting list of predictions for 2008. He didn't a nice even 10 or even an even dozen, not even 20. Nope, he did a whopping 37 predictions. Granted some are more humorous...
Creative InPerson Wi-Fi Videophone
Creative leaked the Creative InPerson Wi-Fi videophone via their FCC filing. It features H.264 video with SIP support, high video quality (up to VGA resolution and 2 Mbps bit-rate) and claims to perform well under low light. It features a...
Digium reaches 1 million download milestone
Digium, today announced the one millionth download of Asterisk in 2007. Digium's PR rep emailed me to say they have now completed its 24th consecutive quarter of growth and profitability this year. When I heard that number - 24 quarters,...
Flashphone adds SIP Call Me Button
Flashphone, which I reviewed here, has created a CallMe widget which allows you to put CallMe button on your site and then use your own SIP account to connect it to your PSTN number. It can also make a SIP...
Launch of VoIP on iPod touch now official
We all know iPod Touch Mods is hard at work to hack the iPod touch to enable SIP-based VoIP, right? Well, it'll be a Happy New Year with the official release on January 1st, 2008. SIP-VoIP for the iPod touch...
Ribbit Launches
Ribbit is a development platform launching today, which enables developers to integrate communications solutions into their web applications. A proprietary softswitch (the Ribbit SmartSwitch) mediates communication across protocols, networks and devices. That includes MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger (soon)...
Vonage Outage
Pal Dan Conner & big Vonage aficionado, who runs the Vonage Forums tipped me off to a major Vonage outage. Boy, Skype outages recently and now this. Hope this is just a minor outage. VoIP doesn't need a black eye...
Microsoft OCS 2007 Training
I've written about the complexities of deploying OCS 2007 in the past. Because I wrote an extensive review of OCS 2007, I've had several of my readers ask if TMC provides OCS 2007 training and a couple of readers...
