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100% VoIP on the iPhone

Truphone has announced true VoIP on the iPhone over WiFi. It's unclear from the announcement what sort of application runs on the iPhone. I assume it's a Flash VoiP softphone of some sort. They also announced VoIP Facebook integration! Oh...

Skype Could Trump Facebook in Social Networking

Facebook is the most popular social networking site right now. Putting aside some of my anti-social networking views for a moment (due to tons of LinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace email invites I get), why isn't Skype the #1 social networking application?...

Another VoIP Provider Bites the Dust

Rich Tehrani has word that Packet8 is going to be picking up 12,000 VoIP subscribers from some unknown VoIP provider that is folding up shop over the next 3 months. Let the guessing game begin, who is it? Well, we...

Ixia Launches ixLoad Bulk VoIP SIP Testing Tool

I'm always getting requests for information on good VoIP testing tools. Well, I just came across some interesting news that hit the news wires about a new bulk VoIP testing tool. Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP...

Vonage vs. Sprint - Court Decision Reached

According to Reuters, a U.S. federal court has reached a decision on Sprint Nextel Corp's patent infringement lawsuit against Vonage. A Vonage spokeswoman could not provide further details on the decision and a Sprint representative was not immediately available. Trading...

GIPS Click-to-Talk Lite released

Global IP Solutions (GIPS), today announced its Click-to-Talk web-based VoIP solution, Click-to-Talk Lite, is available free to download on their GIPS developer community website. Like all click-to-talk solutions, you simply click on an icon, banner, web link, etc. and then...

snom launches snom m3 IP cordless DECT Phone

snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones, today announced the launch of its new IP DECT phone for VoIP users, the snom m3, which is now available on Amazon. Looking at the product shots, it certainly...

The Proof is NOT in the Pudding Media.com

According to the NYTimes, Pudding Media.com today announced their new service (ThePudding)which offers free calling in exchanging for eavesdropping on your phone calls and then sending you advertisements based on keyword wordspotting using speech recognition. Is it just me, or...

Atacomm VoIP Distributor Bites the Dust

Atacomm, a well-known distributor of VoIP equipment bites the dust. I was aware they were in trouble for  several weeks actually. I had several Atacomm customers/resellers ask me if I knew what was up with Atacomm since they weren't receiving...

Pizza Hut goes VoIP

Pizza franchises live or die based on their ability to answer the phones as quickly as possible. If the customer has to wait on hold too long - or worse gets a busy signal, then the customer is going to...

Top 3... make it Top 5 Common VoIP Myths

Steve Brown from Network Instruments, a relatively new blogger has a post describing common VoIP myths. He only has 3 though, so I'll add a couple which I'll continue with number 4... #4) VoIP's main purpose is to save on...

Skype + Mouse = MouseFone

Apparently converging Skype with USB mice seems to be a trend. You've got the Sony VAIO VN-CX1/B Skype mouse, the BeyondTel VM-01L optical Skype mouse, and now the Skype MouseFone ASG-143 from Sysgration. So using this device how exactly do...

Digium Wins InfoWorld ''Best of Open Source Software'' Award

I missed Digium's announcement yesterday that its popular Asterisk VoIP telephony platform had won the InfoWorld "Best of Open Source Software" Bossie Award for 2007. According to the news release, Digium is the only open source VoIP provider to make...

VoIP on the Nintendo DS Video How-To Guide

Just last week, I wrote about how pjsip's open source embedded SIP stack and media stack (written in C) was used to power VoIP on the Nintendo DS using the SvSIP client. Well, the pjsip blog now has a post...

Rich's IT Expo News Roundup

Rich has a great roundup of all the news coverage for TMC's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo tradeshow last week. Go check it out....

PIKA launches PIKA Appliance for Asterisk

PIKA Technologies Inc., today announced the release of its PIKA Appliance for Asterisk. The PIKA Appliance for Asterisk. According to PIKA, "This unit provides developers with an out-of-the-box embedded computer that allows them to deploy Asterisk with a rich set...

Web-based GUI comes to Frontrange HEAT

Users of the popular Frontrange HEAT software, a help-desk service & support CRM solution, have been clamoring for a web-based front-end interface for some time. Well, NetworkD informs me through blood, sweat, and tears they've added an HTML interface to...

Internet Telephony Expo Recap - And SIP Trunking has Arrived!

I'm back from Internet Telephony Expo and thought I'd recap the show and offer my observations. First, the show was very well attended, especially the first day. A picture, or in this case, a video, is worth a thousand words,...

VoIP on the Nintendo DS!

Using SvSIP, a homebrew application, you can get VoIP on the Nintendo DS. SvSIP is based on pjsip, an open source embedded SIP stack and media stack written in C and whose claim to fame is a very small footprint....

VoIP the greatest thing since sliced bread

Just came across a TMCNet article from September 11th that claims, "One of the greatest gifts of technological invention is VoIP telephony service." VoIP one of the greatest gifts of technological invention? Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. Right up...

Trixbox training session resounding success

I happened to walk by the trixbox training session and was surprised to see it was still well attended considering it was at 2:20pm with less than 2 hours to go before IT EXPO officially ends. Kudos to the...

Fonality Picked The Overall IT Expo Best of Show Winner

In addition to blogging, reviewing VoIP products, and managing TMC's IT department, I'm one of the judges for Best of Show at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. I should mention that TMC has created several categories that exhibitors can apply...

Selecting an open source VoIP solution for the SMB Market session

Just got out of moderating a session about selecting an open source VoIP solution for the SMB market. It was very well attended and the debate pretty lively. Here's who was in the IT Expo session: Chris Vuillaume, VP BusDev/Channel...

Gary Hermansen leaves Global IP Sound

Gary Hermansen, CEO of Global IP Sound (GIPS), has left the organization. Jon Arnold told me the news at the IT Expo Bloggers Dinner last night while we were discussing GIPS. I mentioned to Jon how I had a fairly heated...

Skype on the Apple iPod touch

In my previous Apple iPod touch post I forgot to mention that since the Apple iPod touch supports the same Safari browser as the iPhone, this enables you to run AJAX applications over its built-in Wi-Fi wireless connection. Thus, you can...
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