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Google Voice Adds Faster dialing on Android and Blackberry devices

Google has some new updates to their Google Voice mobile apps for your Android and Blackberry phone fans (sorry iPhone fans - no update today for you!).According to Google:At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster =...

Google Buys Global IP Sound

Google has an offer to buy Global IP Solutions, for $68.2 million. Global IP Solutions (GIPS) was the company that powered Skype's adaptive codec to handle packet loss, jitter, etc. until Skype decided to develop their own codec. Google Talk...

Samsung Bundles Boingo Wi-Fi With New Digital Camera

The convergence of wireless and gadgets continues. Who needs tethered cables to sync, upload/download, when you can do it wirelessly? Always hate having to plug my camera in to download pics to my PC. Well no longer!Today, Boingo Wireless, announced...

CounterPath Launches NomadicPBX, a Mobile Enterprise Convergence Application

Today, CounterPath launched its Nomadic PBX application, which seamlessly connects all employees' mobile phones via a mobile network-based service. The NomadicPBX application is a presence-based, fixed and mobile voice, and instant messaging/short message service (IM/SMS) technology mashup with enterprise-ready features....

What's Wrong with Windows Phone 7?

So everyone is gushing over how sexy the new Windows Phone 7 Series is. Microsoft has done a "reboot" of their mobile operating system and gone to an entirely new operating system. Sorry Windows Mobile fans, your old apps...

Truphone Brings Wi-Fi Calling To Nexus One

At ITEXPO I learned from Truphone's PR team that they released a new Android application updated to operate on Google's new device.Here's the news:Hot on the heels of the release of Truphone's VoIP enabled Truphone for Android application earlier this...

AT&T <strike>Grants</strike> Denies Us Mobile VoIP Freedom

The big news last week was how AT&T grants denies us mobile VoIP freedom. Just last week I wrote how AT&T had "granted" us mobile VoIP freedom by finally allowing SIP port 5060 on their 3G data network. I was...

Rich Takes xMax Wireless for a Test Drive

Rich Tehrani took xG Technology's xMax technology, a WiMAX / LTE competitor for a (literal) test drive. Rich writes: xG Technology proclaimed in 2005 that they have a revolutionary technology which allows wireless broadband using unlicensed and licensed frequencies....

Livestream Livepack Bonds Six 3G/EVDO modems for Ludicrous Wireless Internet Speed!

Livestream today is launching the world's first solution for wireless live streaming at HD quality by bonding six load-balanced 3G/EVDO modems over three carriers. Called Livepack, this unique solution enables you to have a roaming live video studio anywhere...

KIRK 2010 <strike>WiFi</strike> DECT VoIP phone

The KIRK 2010 WiFi DECT VoIP handset launched today. This is the latest edition to the Polycom KIRK Series. I wonder if Captain Kirk is aware that Polycom is trying to copy his copyrighted 'communicator'? Then again, Kirk's communicator...

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...

Calling All Bloggers! Free Blogging on TMCnet.com

This is a call out to all bloggers out there - Rich Tehrani, my boss has extended an open invitation to bloggers interested in blogging for TMCnet.com, a leading communications/telecom site according to Alexa, Quantcast, and others.Today, TMC launches its...

Mojo Mobility Charges Gadgets Wirelessly

Mojo Mobility Inc, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm, has developed a technology to simultaneously charge multiple mobile devices simply using a flat surface that doesn't even to touch the charging circuitry of  mobile phones, iPods, iPhones, and other gadgetry.While NFP (Near...

Some interesting TMCnet videos on 4G, wireless, and more

Greg Galitzine has an interesting interview with Carl Ford (formerly with VON) about the future of wireless, including 4G and the pending 4GWE (4G Wireless Evolution) event co-located with ITEXPO. Carl discusses gadgets, smart phones, the Amazon Kindle, and more...

VON Joins forces with TMC?

According to Andy Abramson's post published 20 minutes ago, Carl Ford and Scott Kargman, who were big parts of the VON brain trust has joined forces with TMC. As Andy also commented - Hath hell frozen over?This is like Mirror!...

Mobile VoIP Challenges

Today, Global IP Solutions (GIPS) announced the public availability of a whitepaper that highlights the challenges and opportunities critical for high quality when implementing mobile VoIP, called "Implementing VoIP for iPhones and Smartphones."The paper can be found at http://gipscorp.com/products/gips_in_action.php, and...

Triple Play Moving to Quintuple Play?

If you thought the "triple play" offered by cable and phone service providers was pretty cool, it's time to think again. Various providers now are looking at ways to bundle not just TV, phone and the Internet, but also...

Wireless Zune on the Way

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the new Apple iPods are not that big ... But how about this?Microsoft will reportedly introduce a wireless service for its Zune music player through which users can download music -- one of several features the company will...

IEEE standardizes 801.11r fast Wi-Fi roaming

The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between wireless access points (WAP) and which improves the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs. Traditionally, 801.11 devices can roam from one access point to another, but...

Microsoft develops Vi-Fi (Vehicle Wi-Fi). VoIP while driving baby!

A new technology developed by Microsoft in alliance with the University of Massachusetts (UMASS), and the University of Washington has resulted in a new technology called Vi-Fi (Vehicle Wi-Fi). Vi-Fi solves the problem of hopping from one Wi-Fi wireless access...

Presto! Intel Wants To Make Wires Disappear

Intel has made progress in a technology that could lead to the wireless recharging of gadgets and the end of the power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices. It says it has increased the efficiency of a technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets...

Tom writes 'iHate My iPhone Because its iDead'

Tom Cross, a TMCnet blogger, is not happy about his iDead iPhone. He's lost all his iPhone songs, contact information, favorites, vmail and everything else. AT&T couldn't even recover his voicemail password, thus he was forced to wipe all...

fring Enhances Mobile IM Client with fringAdd-ons

fring claims that since they opened their API last Monday that hundreds of apps were submitted "proving that there's an insatiable appetite in the U.S. for new mobile widgets and add-ons."  In the past week, fring has approved four...

Nokia N78 Comes to U.S.

Gadgety mobile phone lovers across the United States can now buy the newest Nokia Nseries device -  the Nokia N78, which hits American store shelves today. Featuring integrated A-GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and high-speed...

Verizon & Alltel -- Still the Most Reliable?? (Wait and See ...)

While always great on paper, tech mergers (or mergers of any kind) often have a nasty way of not working out for the best. Now this Verizon deal with Alltel has got me worried. Worried because we just switched...
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