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fring vs. Skype War

July 13, 2010

A war between fring and Skype is heating up. fring fired the first salvo when they put out a release claiming Skype was blocking fring. fring wrote:

For 4 years we have led mobile communication innovation, most recently with video calling on any advanced Smartphone and network.

Now that fring expanded capacity to support the huge demand for video calling for all users, Skype has blocked us from doing so.

Posted in Apple, SIP, Skype, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

Kids take photos of Earth's curvature using Balloon and Help from iPad

July 13, 2010

Oh kids these days get all the fun! I wish my science class (back in the day) offered our class a challenge to fly a cellphone with GPS & camera up into the stratosphere to take photos of the Earth's curvature. Alas, the closest I came was an egg drop contest, which was designed to teach about gravity, mass, and seat belt safety (don't ask). A firetruck ladder would drop our eggs in our homemade egg protection cases and see whose eggs survived the fall.

Posted in Apple, Digital Cameras, GPS, Gadgets, Internet, Wireless

fring Video Calling Over 3G on iPhone 4

July 9, 2010

It was just a matter of time before fring updated their iPhone app to take advantage of the iPhone 4's front-facing camera. That day has arrived! With the new fring for iPhone you get 2 way video-calling not just with other iPhone users, but also friends on their Droids or Nokia (Symbian S60) phones.

It supports video calls over 3G as well as Wi-Fi, though obviously performance over 3G isn't as good as Wi-Fi.

Multitasking support is in the new version so you can be always on and available with fring running in the background and alerting you to new video calls, voice calls or chat without proactively opening fring.

It also has a new "Social Stream" feature, which is a chronological stream of all tweets, facebook updates, chats and calls. While the social media stuff is nice to have, the video calling is the killer feature.

Posted in Apple, Mobile Phones, SIP, Skype, TMCnet, Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, VoIP, Wireless

Plantronics Savi W430 Headset Review

July 6, 2010

The Plantronics Savi W430 is an impressive headset sporting DECT wireless technology with excellent range and HD quality sound. With the convergence of the telephone and the network we say the creation of VoIP, including the phenomenal growth of Skype and SIP-based IP-PBXs and phones. Now we're seeing the convergence of the computer and the phone, resulting in 100% software-based phone solutions - also known as the "softphone". The problem with softphones is that it's still a fairly new concept to the enterprise and there just aren't a lot of headsets for the PC designed with telephony in mind.

Posted in Avaya, Cisco, Gadgets, Headsets, Reviews, SIP, Skype, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

No Facetime friends? Call 1-888-FACETIME

June 25, 2010

Even with millions of iPhone 4s being sold, you probably don't know any people who also own an iPhone 4 to test Facetime video chat with.

No worries though. You can video chat with an actual Apple representative! Just call 1-888-FACETIME (1-888-322-38463) to talk via Facetime. (last digit E = 3 not needed)

They're available from 8am to 8pm CDT.

Via Crunchgear

Posted in Apple, Mobile Phones, TMCnet, Video Conferencing, VoIP, Wireless

Apple iPhone 4 Kills Fedex Website

June 23, 2010

My co-worker and I were tracking a couple of Apple iPhone 4's when we saw this on FEDEX:

All the Apple fan boys tracking their precious iPhone 4s must have brought FEDEX's servers to its knees!

Posted in Apple, Mobile Phones, TMCnet, Wireless

Review of iOS 4

June 21, 2010

Ars has an in-depth review of Apple's iOS 4 that is worth reading. iOS 4, previously known as iPhone OS 4, is a major update to Apple's mobile operating system. The big features include multitasking, categories, opening up of thousands of APIs to third-party developers, and a spell check that doesn't proactively change what you type, but rather underlines your questionable words in red and lets you pick from a list of suggest words.

The biggest feature is the background app support.

Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Internet, Mobile Phones, Reviews, VoIP, Wireless

How to get Around Apple Store Crash to Pre-Order iPhone 4

June 15, 2010

Today is a busy day for Apple. So busy in fact, the Apple Store has crashed, thus preventing TMC from pre-ordering some new iPhone 4 phones. In addition to high-demand to pre-order iPhone 4s, Apple also refreshed its Mac mini line and it launched a free Apple Store app. According to Apple:

"The new Apple Store app makes it easy for US customers with an iPhone or iPod touch to find an Apple retail store near them and make reservations for amazing retail services including free tech support and advice at the Genius Bar, hands-on workshops, Personal Shopping appointments and personal training sessions through Apple's popular One to One program."

This is deja-vu all over again, since Apple had an outage in 2008 during the 3GS launch.

Posted in Apple, TMCnet, Wireless

CounterPath Launches VoIP App for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch

June 15, 2010

CounterPath, one of the early pioneers of SIP softphones, just launched Bria iPhone Edition for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Bria iPhone Edition works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks and is the first SIP softphone on the iPhone that supports SRTP and TLS for security. I spoke with CounterPath about this news as well as got a review copy of the app to try on my iPhone.

I should mention I've used the free, open source Siphon on the iPhone and while it works OK, it doesn't support transfer or conferencing. Even worse it has no echo cancellation, so forget about using speakerphone mode and it doesn't support Bluetooth headsets.

Posted in Apple, Asterisk, Reviews, SIP, Triple Play, VoIP, Wireless

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