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AT&T Finally Bundles VoIP & Wireless Cell Phone Service

According to USA Today, AT&T is promoting their CallVantage VoIP service by bundling their cellphone service along with AT&T CallVantage, a broadband VoIP landline replacement service. AT&T Wireless users can add CallVantage for $19.99 monthly, a $5 discount.   I've... Full Story

Posted on May 1, 2007 3:23 PM

Deep Throat Shoots Verizon Patent Out of the Water

An anonymous source, let's call him/her my "Deep Throat" source emailed me with a couple of interesting links that seem to disprove Verizon's patent claims. One of the most important things in fighting patent claims is demonstrating "prior art" that... Full Story

Posted on April 19, 2007 3:33 PM

More bad news for Vonage - An Outage

On the heels of the Verizon vs. Vonage patent lawsuit, and warning it could file for bankruptcy, Vonage customers today are experiencing outages across the country. This isn't the first Vonage outage, nor will it be the last - unless... Full Story

Posted on April 19, 2007 12:50 PM

Vonage warns it could file for bankruptcy

According to the Asbury Park Press, Vonage warned that patent fights could lead to bankruptcy and the company's liquidation. Vonage lost its patent lawsuit with Verizon and as I have stated before, if this is upheld on appeal, Vonage will... Full Story

Posted on April 18, 2007 12:40 PM

FCC Displeased with U.S. Broadband Deployment Rate

According to an eWeek article, the FCC is not pleased with the rate at which broadband is being deployed in the U.S. According to eWeek, the FCC has started a Notice of Inquiry into whether broadband services are being provided... Full Story

Posted on April 18, 2007 9:48 AM

Vonage CEO resigns - Good news or Bad?

Big news from the Vonage investor call that I mentioned would be happening today. I was too busy to participate, but Jon Arnold and Garrett Smith apparently got the scoop on Vonage's CEO resigning, which was mentioned early on during... Full Story

Posted on April 12, 2007 11:00 AM

Sell Vonage stock now and become a Billionaire!

I was reading the NY Times article about Vonage and the patent litigation with Verizon, when I noticed it said this - "Vonage shares dropped more than 25 percent to reach a record low of $3 a share after Judge... Full Story

Posted on April 9, 2007 2:47 PM

Vonage Patent Update

As I predicted, Vonage was issued a stay in the Federal Court of Appeals and would not be shut down as a result of their litigation with Verizon. Vonage today stated that it views the Court of Appeals' granting of... Full Story

Posted on April 9, 2007 1:41 PM

Score one for Vonage - receives temporary stay

Vonage late yesterday secured a temporary stay from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC. in their partent litigation battle with Verizon. The stay enables Vonage to continue to sign up new customers until the Appellate... Full Story

Posted on April 7, 2007 7:52 AM

Vonage NOT Saved by VoIP, Inc.

I'm still seeing tons of reports that VoIP, Inc. has "saved" Vonage from the current patent litigation lawsuit with Verizon. This is NOT true. The information I received from Ars Technica was not accurate. I immediately updated my post with... Full Story

Posted on April 4, 2007 12:12 PM

Vonage inks deal with VoIP Inc bypassing Verizon patent claim

Update 5pm 4/3/2007 - please see the update at the bottom of this post - Vonage has performed an end-around the Verizon patent by inking a deal with VoIP, Inc., a company that claims to hold several VoIP patents. I... Full Story

Posted on April 3, 2007 9:48 AM

VoIP Patents run amok

We have all been following the various VoIP patent lawsuits. From the Rates Technology vs. Google Talk lawsuit, to Apple vs Cisco iPhone lawsuit, Verizon vs. Vonage patent infringement and many more. Well, Production Ad Absurdam has a couple of... Full Story

Posted on April 2, 2007 11:57 AM

Vonage shut down in 2 weeks?

Federal District Judge Claude Hilton has told Vonage to stop using Verizon patents, and has just two weeks to comply with the judge's order. As far as I can tell, without access to these patent rights, Vonage will be forced... Full Story

Posted on March 23, 2007 4:04 PM

VoIP Avoids State Regulation

A U.S. appeals court today upheld a decision that exempted VoIP telephone companies such as Vonage, Sunrocket, Packet8, and others from many state regulations and oversight. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit backed a 2004 decision by... Full Story

Posted on March 21, 2007 3:39 PM

Vonage freefall video in 60 seconds

Russ over at the MEP Report. creators of comedy videos and weekly comedy podcasts, writes me and says, "As a purveyor of all things VOIP, I thought you might enjoy this video we put together documenting Vonage's freefall -- in... Full Story

Posted on March 14, 2007 11:03 AM

magicJack - New VoIP Player launches

magicJack, a new VoIP service provider, allows cheap phone calls from a computer using a USB device that connects on one end to your PC and your home analog phone on the other.  It has an interesting pricing model that... Full Story

Posted on March 8, 2007 7:49 PM

Vonage to pay $58 million to Verizon over patent dispute

BREAKING! Vonage has been ordered by a Virginia court to pay $58 million to Verizon Communications for infringing on three of the company's patents.  Vonage has vowed to appeal the decision. In addition to monetary compensation, Verizon is also asking... Full Story

Posted on March 8, 2007 5:38 PM

New VoIP Call Recording Software for Mac OS X

Tomorrow, Arcosoft will release VONaLink SoloRecord, a new VoIP call recording software program for Mac OS X. VONaLink SoloRecord for Mac OS X works with any VoIP phone system utilizing the SIP standard to record calls and to provide screen... Full Story

Posted on February 12, 2007 10:31 AM

D-Link DI-102 Broadband Internet VoIP Accelerator

Long-time fans of the VoIP & Gadgets blog, may recalled my 2005 post titled, Mysterious QoS Device, where I discovered with some help from a tipster that Linksys and D-Link were using Ubicom's StreamEngine Net Accelerator to perform Qos techniques... Full Story

Posted on February 12, 2007 10:02 AM

Vonage-gram for Valentine's Day

This Valentine's Day, Vonage is enabling their customers the ability to surprise their loved ones with a poem and personalized “Vonage-gram” message. Vonage-grams give customers the ability to send a special recorded message (powered by Audible.com) as a memorable and... Full Story

Posted on February 8, 2007 12:00 PM

V-Global Communications Dialer uses PSTN-to-VoIP-to-PSTN

I just came across a VoIP product that is somewhat similar to the PhoneGnome product, called the V-Global Dialer from V-Global Communications. The V-Global Dialer offers a programable, least-cost call router that sends long distance calls over a standard phone... Full Story

Posted on January 29, 2007 4:38 PM

Vonage partners with Earthlink and becomes an ISP

Vonage has decided to move from their low-margin, high turnover business (VoIP) to another low-margin, high turnover business (ISPs) when they announced today that they are partnering with EarthLink's municipal wireless Internet networks. Essentially, with this partnership, Vonage is now... Full Story

Posted on January 8, 2007 6:02 PM

Zoom VoIP Freedom web-based SIP chooser utility

One of the pains of most current ATA devices is that you lock you into a specific vendor by password-protecting the firmware. So even though the ATA is SIP-based, you can only use it with the VoIP provider you initially... Full Story

Posted on December 11, 2006 5:27 PM

VONaLink softphone uses SIP to capture CallerID

I just wrote about Arcosoft's VoIP call recording software this week and now just a few days later they launched another interesting product called VONaLink ScreenPop. ScreenPop works with any VoIP phone system based on the SIP standard, such as... Full Story

Posted on November 15, 2006 4:46 PM

VoIP Call Recording using Port Mirroring

Remember my VoIP call recording round-up of various VoIP call recording solutions? Well, it's time to update that post with a new solution I found from Arcosoft Inc. Arcosoft today announced the release of VONaLink TeamRecord, which works with any... Full Story

Posted on November 13, 2006 10:45 AM