iCall Brings Seamless VoIP To IPhone Users

andrewmin writes "iCall, a company well known for offering free VoIP calling for Windows users, has just announced the first iPhone app that offers free phone calls over WiFi. It's also one of the first legal (in other words, non-jailbroken) VoIP apps. I don't have an iPhone, but if I did, you can be assured that I'd be on this in a second." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

iCall brings seamless GSM / VoIP hand-offs to iPhone - switch between GSM and WiFi networks with ease

There's just something about saving those relatively expensive wireless minutes by using VoIP calling technology to reach out and touch someone. VoIP solutions have already allowed iPhone users to get jiggy with internet-based telephone calls, but the latest iPhone VoIP application to hit the iPhone brings with it the ability to hand-off calls between WiFi (VoIP) and GSM networks. With iCall there's no need to manually switch over from WiFi-based VoIP calls to start using the GSM network, or v

4G Technologies Should Merge, Not Compete, Says Intel - WiMax and LTE can be unified to reduce customer confusion

4G Technologies Should Merge, Not Compete, Says Intel - WiMax and LTE can be unified to reduce customer confusion Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » Intel is known for its support of WiMax technology but sales and marketing exec Sean Maloney says that there should be more of an effort to unify this technology with LTE technology in order to reduce customer confusion. Rather than overwhelming customers with all of the different choices that are available for moving 4G forward

T-Mobile Suing Starbucks

T-Mobile is already not thrilled AT&T will replace them as the service provider of choice in Starbucks stores, now the GSM-based service provider who was early to embrace WiFi is losing revenue due to the new AT&T/Starbucks promotion of free WiFi in its stores. While the news came out around February 11th that AT&T and Starbucks would provide free WiFi service, according to these court documents T-Mobile learned of this arrangement on or around March 30th. Here are the salient

How Business Can Learn From Obama

I came across an article which shows how a small company can use the methods Obama utilized in the election to help them compete with big players in the market. Some of the examples include how a small hardware store can compete on service not price. Sadly the local hardware store near TMC was wiped away by Home Depot and they did provide superior service. Nevertheless, the ideas in the piece do make sense and it is worth a read. TrackBack (0) | Comments (1) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP Blo

Amazon Fights for First Amendment

The scary part about so much information about people being in a single place is that the government knows where to look. This is a good thing when they are investigating a suspect but when they start to investigate the reading habits of people who are not under any suspicion, it becomes troublesome. In short, Amazon was asked by the government to hand over which products were purchased by a large group of people in the hopes that one or more of these customers would testify against the selle

AT&T Considers Usage-Based Pricing as BitTorrent Solution - AT&T wants to keep P2P customers but wants them to pay for what they use

AT&T Considers Usage-Based Pricing as BitTorrent Solution - AT&T wants to keep P2P customers but wants them to pay for what they use Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » AT&T is considering a move to usage-based pricing which would allow the company to continue to let BitTorrents thrive on the site but at a price to the people who are taking up all of the network s capacity. The company says that it views BitTorrent users as a positive thing and wants to ke

Breaking- Leaked Photos: What Made Me.com Worth $10 Million?

Breaking- Leaked Photos: What Made Me.com Worth $10 Million? Tripling Apple's "accessible" market--- Look at Apple's market cap the day before they announced it, and check it again at the end of next week, after the conference. Let's see the company will sell 12.9 million iPhones this year and 45 million next year. 58 million iPhones x $30 each name license fee to Cisco.... hmmm..... Leaked photos VIA CrunchGear Posted by s

Over Logging

Over Logging We had a big storm roll through on Wednesday afternoon. About 6 hours later I lost my cable modem connection. Since the storm was long over, I'm guessing the power backup at the cable modem head end ran out. I was pretty fortunate compared to some people at work didn't have any power at home. The power was still out Friday so I borrowed a EVDO card just in case. That turned out to be unnecessary as my cable modem came backup at 4pm. Find more videos like this on www.truveo.c

Links 07/06/2008: More of Linux Everywhere; Intel Antitrust is Go; Windows Live Expo is Kaput

Links 07/06/2008: More of Linux Everywhere; Intel Antitrust is Go; Windows Live Expo is Kaput Posted in News Roundup at 3:54 pm by Roy Schestowitz GNU/Linux Linux On Mars Pico Technology Releases New Linux Driver for its 2000 and 3000 Series PC Oscilloscopes Glide OS 3.0 Transforms the 3G iPhone into a Mobile Business Computer Acer blames Microsoft for Linux move Asus the Unstoppable Innovator? Wine 1.0rc4 Released Three Opteron clusters for Japanese universities Open source tools and oper

SIP -- The Promise, The Reality and The Potential

At eComm 2008 and Spring VON I had the opportunity both to listen to presentations by, and to have personal discussions with, Brough Turner of NMS Communications. If there is one authority on telecommunications infrastructure, back office and the business side of routing calls around the world, Brough is the person. He understands the backhaul issues; he understands the business environment that can both encourage and inhibit the launch and evolution of new telecommunications services. Last w

links for 2008-06-07

Merriam-Webster’s Word Central (tags: interactive spelling SmartBoard games) Teaching with Smartboard Using the Smartboard to Teach Engaging Lessons (tags: tutorials SMARTBOARD) AllNationalAnthems.com: national anthems from around the globe Welcome to AllNatinalAnthems.com. On this website we try to collect the world’s national anthems. (tags: geography maps) 280 Slides - Create & Share Presentations Online Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with th

Friday Links: Skype Caller ID, Snom

Friday Links: Skype Caller ID, Snom June 6th, 2008 by S. Caron Sip-based Snom has launched in the UK. Read about it on VoIP News of the UK. If you are in North America and have Skype, you can now have caller ID â€" Read about it on VoIP Watch. Lucafiligheddu talks about sending SMS messages from the iPod Touch. Read it here. Posted in Eye on the Blogosphere - No Comments »

Twitter Suffers Minor Period Of Uptime

Twitter suffered a minor period of uptime last night between database failures. Everything seems back to normal now. Perhaps somebody returned that lost database to them. Please, Twitter, I beg you. Bring Blaine back. Eh, beh… [Via TechCrunch] Tags: Humor, Internet, Twitter Related posts ZYB, il backup online per il cellulare (5) WordPress 2.1 Easter Egg (8) VoIP e NAT - Il protocollo STUN, parte seconda (4) VoIP e NAT - Il protocollo STUN, parte prima (19) Un mondo senza editori (0)

iPhone AppStore to open Monday?

So reports CNET News, and it seems not unlikely, considering Steve likes to have a few zingers available during his WorldWide Developer Conference keynotes. Third-party developers have been frantically working with the recently released iPhone SDK to put together applications for Apple's approval and subsequent release through the approve AppStore, but there's no word yet on which applications may have made the cut. It's a fair bet that a significant number of those in development are designe

Intervoip offers cheapest international calls

Do you want to make Cheap international calls to India. Then don't miss this post. This is by far the cheapest international calls provider we found lately. Thanks to Murtaza, a regular reader and betamax reseller from Egypt shared a new VOIP provider InterVOIP. InterVOIP looks like another betamax product however it beats all other competitor betamax services such as voipcheap, dialnow, nonoh, voipraider etc when it comes to cheap international calls. Although if you are expecting InterVOI

The Mobivox opportunity

Jim's right that Mobivox has problems. There are two parts to Mobivox's value as I see it. First, Mobivox offered a speed dial to Voxgirl, a software agent. Voxgirl lets you dial by speaking the names of your mobile or Skype contacts. Touch speed 1, Voxgirl answers, you say "Call Jim", Voxgirl says "mobile or Skype?" and you say "mobile" and you're connected. While some smartphones offer this as a feature, Mobivox was adding special signal processors to clear up background noise, speech re

Whither Mobivox?

Received an email this evening from Mobivox with the same text as the initial post in this linked forum thread. It probably explains why all the top Mobivox CxO executives have been leaving recently. (Check out the current management team; only one CxO in sight.) Starting in July, because we’re going to be using more expensive networks to connect you to your contacts around the world, calls between Mobivox members will be charged at our regular low cost rates. You will still benefit from be

Seeking a Perfect Online Project Management Tool

For the past week, every spare moment has been dedicated to the search for my own personal Holy Grail for my entrepreneurial business … A project management tool for the freelancer who collaborates with others. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? I’ve reviewed dozens (literally) of the options currently available. From the over 60 options I’ve seen, I’ve narrowed them down to just a few and then gone searching again over and over. When I discovered Worketc.com, I started rethinking what I’d like this

Is SIP Living up to its Potential?

We all know about SIP, and it's hard to deny its impact on IP communications, especially VoIP. Well, fellow blogger Brough Turner had a very thought-provoking post the other day that takes the contrarian view about SIP. Brough's post actually ran last Friday, but it's taken me til now to get around to sharing this with you here. As you probably know, I'm not a news-hound, and there's nothing time-senstive about this post, so you're not missing anything if you're just reading about it now. I c

Calisto Pro Home Phone System Giveaway

Oh you're going to like this--in fact, I've received quite a bit of grief from those who shall not be named for giving this away. Apparently I've been in possession of the World's Coolest Phone and me offering it as a giveaway item doesn't sit well with the rabble around here. I've had quite a few electronics items lately--probably because of the approaching Father's Day--but this one is definitely fun. The Calisto Pro Series Home Phone System is made to allow you the freedom of switching betwe

[$18.99] Vupoint 2.4GHz Wireless Stereo Headphones by Tanga

$18.99 BUY IT NOW I come to you as someone who speaks with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.This product rocks, has incredible reviews and will unlock yourself from the horrible wires that currently keep you straddled to

VoIP Requirements List - What You Need to Know Before Setting Up VoIP

Would you like to make telephone calls cheaply? Read this article to find out how you can do it.

Security Issues with VoIP

We've posted an article in the Messaging and Web Security Digital Library on security issues you should keep in mind when deploying and using voice of IP (VoIP). Here's an excerpt:

VoIP Requirements List - What You Need in Order to Use VoIP

Would you like to get in touch with your friends and family members easily? Would you like to set up VoIP? Read this article to find out how you can do it.

Update: 101 Things You Can Do With Asterisk contest

Update: 101 Things You Can Do With Asterisk contest Site Feeds, VoIP, voipsupply.com No Comments » Hey everyone! We wanted to thank everyone who has been participating in the 101 Things You Can Do with Asterisk contest.

sipgate allows iPhone Wi-Fi access to standard VoIP services

sipgate allows iPhone Wi-Fi access to standard VoIP services sipgate has announced that its free application allows iPhone users to connect to any SIP-enabled VoIP client via Wi-Fi, thus reducing the cost of calling long distance and overseas… Author

iCall VoIP on the iPhone

As it says.. a preview of the iCall application for the iPhone, a match made in heaven! This video shows using a free wi-fi connection from starbucks, receiving a phone on your regular cell number, and switching the call to VoIP (free) seamlessly.

Oops, we poured some water on our servers…

Mike Arrington points out that Twitter is telling too much to its users. Can’t agree more. Ok, everyone is complaining about Twitter’s crappy scalability, but I believe it’s too much now!   If you liked this article, please buy me a coffee! ShareThis

Tracking VoIP Quality

By Sharla Sikes We just looked into some of the VoIP analysis tools that are available based on Network World’s comparison. But how’d they come up with their results? [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

International Callback - Avail Instant Connection at Low Price

With the Call Back service, it has now become possible for people to avail connectivity at low costs. With this service, the dialer instantly gets connected to the end user. The user just has to dial a call to the service provider that provides the extension route to reach to the end user.

Great Benefits of VoIP Reseller Program

The Internet is rapidly becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. People nowadays are very crazy regarding the usage of the internet, they opt to find the solution for everything from internet. However, various new innovations are now taking place in this unique arena too such as the VoIP call termination service.

School network at home

School network at home by narutohendrix Today 05:09 PM 352 2,170 Internet Software (2 Viewing) Browsers, email clients, VoIP... the list goes on. From Firefox to FTP clients, talk about every program that connects to everything else here. IE Upgrade Problems by Sigh-clone 06-01-2008 07:33 AM 137 1,039 Security Software (1 Viewing) Protect your computer from internet nasties... firewalls, antivirus, and everything computer security related belongs here. How

Russia WiMaxed

Enforta today announced that it will expand its operating footprint in Russia by another 22 cities during June, increasing the total service territory to 55 cities. The new cities include Kemerovo, Bratsk, Angarsk, Biysk, Rubtsovsk, Prokopyevsk, Tolyatti, Novokuybyshevsk, Saratov, Dimitrovgrad, Ujno-Sakhalinsk, Astrakhan, Krasnodar, Taganrog, Shakhty, Novocherkassk, Novomoskovsk, Novotroitsk, Rybinsk, Magnitogorsk, Orsk, and Kamensk Uralskiy. They also announced that it is on schedule to laun

Amazon.com Is Unavailable

Erik Lagerway just sent a note saying that Amazon.com is offline. Http/1.1 Service Unavailable This should be a major story once we figure out why. Erik asks onhis SIPthat blog... "Wonder how their web services are doing?" Excellent question. Stay tuned TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | Greg Galitzine's VoIP Authority Blog | Permalink: Amazon.com Is Unavailable Related Entries Copyright Greg Galitzine's VoIP Authority Blog

Skype Nomad successfully completes excellent adventure in mobility

Skype Nomad successfully completes excellent adventure in mobility Site Feeds, Skype, VoIP No Comments » Howard Wolinsky here, your friendly neighborhood US Blogger for Skype, just popping in with the latest breaking news from the Skype Nomad: Thirty-three days, and 17 countries later, Rebecca Campbell, better known at her blog, Facebook and MySpace, as the Skype Nomad, finished her ’round-the-world trip and got off the boat in Tallin, Estonia., She headed over to Skype’s supreme HQ where s

Busted by twitter

Twitter and Conferences are almost made for each other - At SXSW twitter never let me down â€" always knowing where the party was, knowing what other people were up to â€" this morning it back fired. I was late for a conference call with our UK team and when I jumped onto the call and was about to drop an excuse like VOIP was Broken or Fire alarm went off they said we know why you were late… twitter. busted.

Send Your Enemy's Printer A DMCA Warning! - New study further highlights flaws in current DMCA process

Send Your Enemy's Printer A DMCA Warning! - New study further highlights flaws in current DMCA process Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » As an insider recently told me, one of several ways Comcast is considering tackling excessive consumption (aside from throttling “hogs” and 250GB caps) is to boot users who get more than four DMCA warning letters in a twelve-month period. Comcast might want to reconsider. While booting pirates is one way to ease congestion, the process cu

Links on Photography,VOIP,Word 2007 and ICO [ Spawners ]

15 Must-Know Photography Tactics : Paval tells us about 15 Tactis which can help you in shooting a good photgraph. The impressive part was the sections which he talked about :Composition,The law of Thirds,,Portraits and many more. I would recommend this article to be read by people who are really into this. Its really good to know people do analyze to this level. 7 Ways to VoIP From Your Mobile Phone Want to know how many VOIP options are there for your mobile phone ? Then you need to read th

Most popular stories for Friday, June 6, 2008

Today’s Top Posts: Show us the tech in your car, win $200 in audiobooks from Simply Audiobooks iCraw formerly known as iCall switches iPhone calls to VoIP Microsoft is totally jealous of Apple Camera with Eye-Fi card uploads thieves pictures after theft CrunchWord Puzzle! Screw the Smart Car: The Polish Fiat 126p aka Maluch is 35 years old Qik goes WinMo: Our exclusive interview This DVD turns shy boys into Romeos (or not) Super Mario Bros, Zelda make top 5 worst sequels list CrunchGear liv

Friday Open Thread - That's right, let it all out…

Friday Open Thread - That's right, let it all out… Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » It’s Friday, so take off your shoes, put up your feet, and empty your head into your comment section below. As an aside, I’m hoping to write a little something about the effectiveness of ISP network status pages and how they do/don’t impact support costs, and would like to ask our users: does your ISP network status page actually work? Is it reliable? read comment(s)

Eye-Fi Gets Free Press As Crime Fighter - Crooks steal camera, say cheese, wind up online, lose jobs…

Eye-Fi Gets Free Press As Crime Fighter - Crooks steal camera, say cheese, wind up online, lose jobs… Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » I’m not quite as enamoured by the Eye-Fi (combo SD card and Wi-Fi transmitter) as some, perhaps because I don’t find the calorie expenditure required to attach a cable to my PC all that high. But Reuters reports the card does come in handy as a crime buster. One woman had her digital camera stolen when on vacation in Florida, but the intern

FTC Escalates Intel Investigation

According to published reports, Intel Corp. has been subpoenaed by the Federal Trade Commission. This is regarded as the first step in escalating an informal inquiry to a formal antitrust investigation into its business practices. Intel has apparently been working with the FTC on an informal inquiry since 2006. Intel said so far it has provided "thousands of documents" to the FTC, and added that the subpoena will provide for documents from other sources. Intel’s formal statement regar

Amazon Outage

Amazon is out. They are down and I wasn't aware of it until I received an email from Greg Galitzine. This a huge deal and will likely reduce the company's revenues and moreover an outage of major proportions is extremely damaging for a company looking to be the cloud computing powerhouse of the future. --- This is the error message you receive: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable Update: The service came up around 3:15 PM EST. TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.ic

Boston: Liberty Hotel

Boston: Liberty Hotel Prison never looked so good Every May, Conde Nast Traveler releases its Hot List, a collection of the best new hotels, spas, restaurants, and nightspots. Check the Daily Traveler every day for a new post from this year's list. A $150 million makeover of the Charles Street Jail produced this swank 298-room hotel. The main 1851 building retains many of the architectural elements of its penal days, including the 90-foot central atrium; the bar Alibi is housed within the

Finally -- Skype CallerID for North Americans

For some time now, Skype users in Europe and other countries could send their SkypeIn number as a CallerID (Caller Line Identification - CLI) for SkypeOut calls. Yet if a North American made a SkypeOut call, usually the recipient of the call would see a non-identifying "0000123456" or something similar. This week Skype has modified this service such that Skype users can select either their SkypeIn (Online) number or mobile phone number as their CLI or CallerID to be sent with their SkypeOut ca

Amazon Outage... UK Frenzy To Blame?

According to a report on the UK’s Daily Express, customers of Amazon’s UK Web site took advantage of a pricing error. The site reported that For two hours, the entertainment giant was advertising massive discounts on several DVD box sets including a 44-disc set of hit US drama West Wing for just £17.97. Amazon customers who were lucky enough to stumble across the amazing offers went into a buying frenzy, snapping up multiple purchases of West Wing, Family Guy, Sopranos, Desperate Housewives

Cisco’s VP of green engineering on data center efficiency, virtualization, and startup opportunities

Even more than other industries, the tech world is unforgiving to large companies that can’t respond to external change. To keep up to date, Cisco last year revamped the Cisco Development Organization, a group tasked with innovation, making a number of key hires and and giving it greater leeway to act within Cisco. One of the hires was Paul Marcoux, a former American Power Conversion exec and founding member of The Green Grid, a non-profit group advancing efficiency issues in data centers an

The World Congress of Information Technology 2008, Malaysia

I had the honour of attending and speaking at the WCIT 2008 conference in Malaysia and here are some rather disjointed notes that I had while listening to the speakers. I tried to clean it up, but again, apologies for not being able to make this very professional indeed. Monday The conference center is big! And I got lost in the exhibition hall. Quite an impressive setup. So then finally managed to extricate myself from poking into the guts of various exciting electronics bits, went looki

iCall Voip Over Wifi Calling for iPhone

iCall Voip Over Wifi Calling for iPhone Apparently voice over Internet provider iCall is an approved Apple iPhone developer, and the company has announced a new version of iCall for iPhones. Talk about timing? As the world waits for official 3g iPhone announcements next week, iCall is ready to jump in and help iPhone owners make free (to US and canada) and low cost Voip phone calls on the iPhone via a Wi-fi connection. One can also receive incoming phone calls via your regular cellular

TowleTech v.106

Zaha Hadid's designs for a new Cultural Centre and Opera House in Dubai are out of this world, in an extraterrestrial sort of way. Browser quotient? Test reveals that people with the highest IQs use Firefox on a Mac PPC, and those with the lowest use Firefox on Windows 98. All eyes are on Apple this coming week as the company prepares to introduce the second coming of its iPhone, rumored to have 3G, GPS, and unknown innovative capabilities, as well as a relaunch of its .Mac service. Augu

Step into the Blackberry Owners Lounge

We all love the exclusivity of private lounges at airports or even the comfort of a good lounge chair and now Research in Motion (those BlackBerry folks) have introduced me to the BlackBerry Owners Lounge. It's the place to get all the latest news and information about my BlackBerry, find new applications and accessories or even download a few games (you know what they say about all work and no play). Seems like they've taken the "membership has its privileges" line and put in on a new plac

iCall for iPhone: Switch to VoIP Mid-Call

A VoIP company called iCall has developed a program for the iPhone that enables seamless switching of calls from GSM to WiFi. Meaning: iCall will prompt you to switch your phone calls, mid-call, to WiFi so you don’t waste your minutes. Meaning: It’s Free! Though the desktop version of iCall is only available for Windows (Mac Support is on the way) this will probably be one of the more useful VoIP clients for the iPhone. People who are familiar with T-Mobile’s use of UMA and HotSpot@Home tech

Impressed by Broadband Resilience

I lost my home telephone service this week. The dial tone just went leaving a vague electrical noise on the line. So I swapped out the handset, tried dialling without the broadband filter, checked the visible wiring etc. and all seemed fine. But what struck me as weird throughout this was the fact that my broadband service was working well. I had a connection with a good speed as normal so figured that there could not be any problem with the actual wiring. (I had done a quick check to be sur

The Metered Internet: Where Has all the Bandwidth Gone?

. . . Long time passing. A basic premise of the metered Internet plans Time Warner and other ISPs are cooking up is that there is simply too much bandwidth being used up by too few people. You know, the YouTube users and the downloaders. In order to be able to maintain - and presumably enhance - the network to accommodate such over usage, someone needs to pay for all that loss of bandwidth. As much as I vehemently disagree with the plan on a number of levels, I did at first take this root conc

Tech Overload For Rich Tehrani

You may hear less from me than usual over the next week as I have a new Laptop -- a Dell M1530, a new desktop from Dell and a new HTC XV6800 (my old one had an unfortunate encounter with a toilet. ) I find that technology makes me productive. This is likely no surprise as I write about this topic so often. Tech allows me to communicate and work anywhere and everywhere. Admittedly I am a super-power user and I upgrade often. This comes with a price tag of lower productivity that will hopefully

MadPilot’s new(ish) phone number

Now that I’ve relocated back into my home office, I’ve decided to revert back to my old VoIP number: +61-8-6424-8234. Although Skype was doing a perfectly good job at taking and making phone calls, the NetGear SPH101 Skype phone wasn’t really up to the task (the battery life isn’t that great and the call quality can leave a little to be desired) and I’ve got a perfectly good VoIP phone sitting here, which has much better voice clarity. (Oh, it it means my business cards will be correct now too

Managed VoIP Service - Improvise Your Voice Over Services

With the introduction of VoIP, connectivity has diversified a lot. Management of Voice Over IP is done with the managed switch partitioning solution whereby it becomes possible for service providers to effectively offer optimum services to all users.

Common Disadvantages of VoIP

As with all modern technologies, VoIP has its own disadvantages. Here are some to consider before signing up for a VoIP service.

Matt and Daily Asterisk News Reaches 2000 Posts!

Matt Riddell hard at work! He has sneaked pass the 2000th post related to Asterisk, VoIP. I have been reading him since Sinapps days!. Good work Matt, Give us more!. Tags: Asterisk, Daily Asterisk News, SineappsCopyright © 2005-2008 SnapVoip, Published by snapvoip.blogspot.com. Proper link backs are needed for republishing.

HTC Unveils Windows Mobile 6.1 Equipped Touch Pro

It's official; HTC today unveiled its latest Windows Mobile 6.1 equipped business device, the Touch Pro. Calling its unique 3D touch interface TouchFLO 3D, this new unit boasts desktop-like browsing and a 5-row sliding QWERTY keyboard to handle typing duties for individuals not entirely comfortable with entering data though the touch screen interface virtual keyboard. The TouchFLO 3D system does, however, offer one-touch scrolling through tasks like messaging, calendar appointments, making

iSkoot Receives Award for Best Mobile Technology

iSkoot has been selected as winner in the category of Mobile Technology for the 2008 MITX Technology Awards. The MITX Technology Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements. Honorees for this year's awards were announced last night in a ceremony at The Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. iSkoot is the first and

T-Mobile Offers Attractive New Family Plan

Small business owners are always looking for smart ways to keep costs down while achieving useful practicality.  Whether it’s running a business from your home office to avoid renting an office or completing administrative tasks sometimes best outsourced to a hired hands, business owners seek balance in profitability and efficiently running their businesses. Additionally, US cellular service providers over the last few months have been rolling out “unlimited plans” that offer an unlimited buc

Whitepages.com Acquiring Snapvine, Focuses On Community Development

WhitePages.com is acquiring Snapvine, a service that allows people to associate audio files with various resources like social networks, photos, text, and blogs. Snapvine enables facilitates voice blogs, similar to podcasting, but perhaps with a little greater ease. WhitePages states on their blog that they’ll use Snapvine’s technology to provide their users with free, private voicemail boxes. In addition, WhitePages will roll out other features such as email and SMS services. I think this si

U2 Manager: Crazy ISP Hippies Should Pay Us - Likens ISPs to 'shoplifters' who have ignored the poor RIAA's plight…

U2 Manager: Crazy ISP Hippies Should Pay Us - Likens ISPs to 'shoplifters' who have ignored the poor RIAA's plight… Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » U2’s long-time manager Paul McGuinness blames Silicon Valley’s “hippy values” (see his post at the band’s website) for the collapse of the music industry, and has long argued that ISPs and all technology companies should pay the music industry. McGuinnes argues that ISPs and companies like Google have “built multi-billion doll

Verizon To Finally Boost FiOSTV HD Channels - 25 new HD channels to show up starting in July…

Verizon To Finally Boost FiOSTV HD Channels - 25 new HD channels to show up starting in July… Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » Good news for those FiOSTV customers who’ve been itching for additional HD channels. Verizon today issued a press release stating they’ll be adding “more than” 25HD channels this summer, and should have more than 150HD channels by the end of the year. Users in our forums have posted the precise channel lineup for those interested. According to Veri

BlackBerry Pearl 8120 now available on Rogers Wireless

Here's one more "we told ya' it's coming" news. The WiFi-enabled BlackBerry Pearl 8120 is now available on Rogers Wireless. You probably already know everything about the Pearl, so I won't waste your time there. However, you may not know it's compatible with Rogers' UMA VoIP network, meaning you'll be able to use it for low-cost international phone calls, while in a hotspot. Kinda cool feature, though you may want to opt for the GPS-equipped Pearl (8130), which on the other hand can help you o

BBtv: iPhone Hacks with Xeni.

Xeni checks in with the authors of the forthcoming O'Reilly HOWTO book "iPhone Hacks" (David Jurick, Adam and Damien Stolarz) for a demonstration of how to unlock and jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch. The authors promise to teach you how to coax more out of these devices: little-known features, performance tweaks, and tips on great web-based apps to install -- video game emulators, IM and VoIP apps, and media players that can handle a wider range of filetypes. Link to Boing Boing tv epis

Welsh TV over IP: Yeah, But Why?

As someone who has a Welsh name and not a little Welsh genetic heritage, I'm a big fan of expanding the provision of material in Welsh. But spending lots of dosh on yet another TV over IP platform ain't the way to do that: Welsh-language broadcaster S4C (hardly rolling in it, thanks to digital TV launches and falling audiences in the multichannel era) has teamed with VC house Wesley Clover to invest £9.5 in Inuk, an Abercynon-based TV-over-broadband operator. Inuk packages channels under its F

NASCAR Goes VoIP

NASCAR Goes VoIP June 4th, 2008 by S. Caron NASCAR is hot. VoIP is hot. No wonder a NASCAR team recently purchased a VoIP system from VoIP Supply, right? It’s really interesting to see how many industries are beginning to embrace the cutting edge technology. Whereas it once was a cheap way for college kids to call friends across the country with bad reception, it’s now as clear as a traditional phone call â€" just a lot cheaper. According to TMC: The NASCAR racing team reportedly purchased a

HTC Touch Pro

The HTC Touch Pro may be the ultimate Blackberry killer. I know the term "killer" is used very often but let's look at this situation carefully... People who type a lot benefit from a keyboard. Sure, an on-screen keyboard works but it is not ideal. I beleive one of the reasons the Blackberry does well is because it has a great keyboard and the OS is very stable. Getting back to HTC, the Touch Pro gives you HSPA, WiFi, 640x480 resolution, Windows Mobile 6.1, a 3.2 megapixel camera and more. In

YouMail Visual Voicemail App on Your Smartphone

I began using YouMail on a regular basis when the company offered visual voicemail, which utilizes speech-to-text technology and delivers my voicemail in an SMS on my mobile or email. It’s quite handy for those times you can’t get to the phone or are on the other line, and even though the speech-to-text technology still leaves a bit to be desired, it works well enough for me to remain hopeful for future releases. And as useful as this particular feature is, there was still no visual voicemai

Poll results: Do hiring managers consider your resume’s Objectives statement?

Last week, I opened up a discussion by asking if you use the Objectives statement on your resume. Apparently, this was a topic a lot of you feel strongly about because 172 posted your reasons for or against the resume element. Many said they use it to let the potential employer know what they are interested in, while some use it as shorthand for a cover letter in case the cover letter gets misplaced in the chain of interview steps. TechRepublic member karen said, “I put my career goals in my o

Time Warner Cable Testing 40GB Download Cap

Time Warner Cable will beginning testing a broadband service cap of 40GB/month in Beaumont, Texas. The first thing I want to say is that this would end up costing me roughly $40 more per month then what I am paying now. I would not consider myself to be a heavy user, I probably download roughly 3GB per day though, which, in my opinion, would be considered some one who uses it more than the average joe but not nearly as heavy as the user who has bittorrent running 24/7. I pay $45 per month and

Looking For A VoIP Application For Your S60?

VoIP must be the feature each and everyone of us is looking forward to use more extensively in the future. With the advent of Skype, and recently Skype for Mobile, I have been looking more and more into the different offerings, and trying them. It is of high personal interest for me, as I know next year I will be traveling and looking for a cheap and convenient way to keep in touch. When I began my search, I was startled by how many applications are out there, until I found 3 very nice post

Emerging/Missional Computing Taboos: My Kit

I’ve noticed that a lot of emerging church types like to talk about their Macs. Ever notice none of them talk about their PCs unless it’s in an apologetic tone with the notation that they’re misfits or just too old or something… otherwise they would be using a Mac. So I figured I’d break taboo. I am no fan of Windows, and I do not own a Mac. Oh, yes. Purist language coming… those who argue against Microsoft product on moral grounds should really go the whole way and instead of defaulting to M

VoIP Phone Service - Manifesting Itself As a Giant Means of Telephony

The VoIP phone service has diversified a long since its launch. This system of telephony allows the users to make video calls to people anywhere in the globe. The service has several advantages and brings to limelight features that can only be found with the IP telephony.

VoIP Tools in Network Management

By Sharla Sikes Despite VoIP’s obvious benefits for small and medium businesses, it’s not a “set it and forget it” solution for communications. Incorporating analysis tools for VoIP into your network... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sipgate releases Real VOIP App for the iPhone

Sipgate Inc, a San Francisco-based company has just launched their free native application for the iPhone which allows iPhone users to make and receive VOIP calls over Wi-Fi using any SIP-based VoIP-service similar to Fring that was released a couple of months back an Israeli startup. More details and screenshots of the native iPhone app available after the jump.

sipgate Releases Free iPhone VoIP App in Beta

sipgate Releases Free iPhone VoIP App in Beta sipgate Inc. announced on Wednesday the immediate availability of a free (Beta) application for the iPhone that allows customers to natively use any VoIP service which uses the industry standard SIP protocol. Users, with some limitations, can use their iPhones to make and receive calls over a Wi-Fi connection with a variety of VoIP providers. Author

CSR BlueVox2 Mono Bluetooth Headset

CSR recently released a BlueVox2 mono headset solution that costs only $5. BlueVox2 features extremely low power consumption and zero cost noise reduction. CSR's design features AuriStream for superior voice quality, simultaneous connection of multiple devices, and support for Bluetooth version 2.1+EDR. BlueVox2 also presents headset manufacturers with the opportunity to design the smallest Bluetooth headsets through an ultra small 4.5×5.5mm BGA package option. CSR is currently sampling BlueVox

Digerati Platinum, A New Addition To ATSI Communications Global Product Line.

SAN ANTONIO, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Jun 4, 2008 - ATSI Communications, Inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Digerati Networks, Inc., has partnered with a top tier European carrier to offer a VoIP service with global coverage that meets specific service level standards required by specialized operators. The new "Digerati Platinum" service with worldwide coverage was developed specifically for service providers directly serving the consumer or enterprise market. Ruben Caraveo, Sr.

Accedian Networksâ„¢ Introduces Real-Time Ethernet SLA Automation

I just got word that Accedian Networks will be annoucing the industry's first Ethernet SLA EMS at NXTcomm (June 17-19th), offering complete SLA lifecycle automation from provisioning to service assurance and online web reporting. This new product is already in trials at leading US and European service providers and wireless operators. They will be demonstrating the system with its revolutionary, per-second, live SLA reporting at the show (booth SL1209). Accedian Networksâ„¢ Introduces Real-Time

fring for S60, Windows Mobile get updates

Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile smartphone users will be getting an updated version of fring, courtesy of an updated download link from fring’s official web site. The update for S60 brings better sound quality and more stability as it is now on version 3.35. Smartphones powered by Symbian 9.2 will get speakerphone suppot, as well as file transfer for Yahoo! IM and mobile Skype. WinMo devices, meanwhile, will experience auto-roaming between 3G and WiFi, and now have the option to directly m

Top 5 Posts of This Blog

Would have anyone ever thought that the most popular posts of this blog are about the Nokia N95? Here are the top 5 popular posts:   1) Download Maps for Your Nokia N95 2) iPhone VS Nokia N95 3) Nokia N95 vs Nokia N95 8GB 4) Home Page 5) Push Email for Nokia N95   Special mention to my post about GrandCentral Invitations, ranked # 9. If you thought this blog is popular because of VoIP, you are wrong If you liked this article, please buy me a coffee! Technorati Tags: luca filighedd

Tom Howe on Fierce VoIP

Congratulations to my friend Thomas Howe on being added as a regular contributor to Fierce VoIP. Tom is one of the most widely respected people I know and he's surely someone we should all listen to. Here's a link to his first article, a thoughtful piece that's well worth appreciating. Howe: Congratulate Failure By Thomas Howe The recent demise of Jangl is an excellent sign for the overall health of the Telco 2.0 marketplace, and although difficult for their investors and employees, portends g

Rogers Wireless launches BlackBerry 8120 Pearl

Rogers Wireless adds the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 to their list of available devices, giving customers another option for an all-business all-the-time kind of device that’s been very important to a lot of people as of late. The BlackBerry 8120 has been on sale in other parts of the world and is now available for Rogers’ Canadian network. The Pearl 8120 is compatible with Rogers’ UMA VoIP network, which should make it an ideal handset for you who occassionally do VoIP calls just because you c

Altair ALT2150 Mobile WiMAX Processor

Altair Semiconductor (Altair) recently released the ALT2150 mobile WiMAX baseband processor to leading handheld device and module manufacturers. The ALT2150 is the world's smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor. It implements full WiMAX Forum(tm) Wave-2 physical (PHY) Layer and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality, and offers substantial performance enhancements beyond this profile. The ALT2150 is the first in a family of chipsets from Altair designed to achieve excellent

Report shows Europe Leads the Booming Consumer VoIP Market

Research and Markets latest VoIP Market Report is out. I didn't see any surprise, but some interesting facts about the market overall. The global consumer VoIP market grew from approximately 16 million in 2005 to over 50 million in 2006. In-Stat forecasts that by 2011, 38% of broadband households worldwide will subscribe to VoIP services. Consumer VoIP revenue will grow from $15 billion to nearly $44 billion over the next five years. This report examines the worldwide market for consumer VoIP

Tactical Gamer University - Basic Air, Fixed-Wing

Marine, Liquid, and TGU present PR Basic Air, Fixed-Wing! *** Sign-ups will end on Saturday, June 7, 2008 *** All of the following details are subject to change: DATE AND TIME: Sunday, June 8th at 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time 3:00 PM Mountain Time 4:00 PM Central Time 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Attendees will be required to be in the TGU Teamspeak Channel 15 minutes before the module. To get Teamspeak Information, visit this link. Anyone who is not present 10 minutes before the

Challenger Mobile Expands Presence and Focus in Asia/Pacific

Challenger Mobile announces the opening of the company's new offices in Singapore. The announcement follows on the heels of the recent hiring of two key Challenger Mobile executives and a commitment to a significant Asian marketing partnership. According to Gartner Inc., while worldwide sales of mobile phones increased by 13.6 percent from Q1 2007 to Q1 2008, sales in the Asia/Pacific region increased by 26.6 percent, nearly twice the worldwide growth rates, over the same period. Most Asian

Acrobat.com: Eye Candy Online Office Suite

Acrobat.com: Eye Candy Online Office Suite 4 June, 2008 Posted by SolSie As Tips, WebApp (0) Comment Adobe has started its online web-based software services anchored at Acrobat.com. While other services from Google Docs and Office Live Workspace have become more popular with their head start. It is time for Adobe, known as the document specialist to move to online based. Adobe free services allow user to create, manage, collaborate Adobe documents in a cloud computing environmen

T-Mobile Adds New Wrinkle To Unlimited Voice Offer - Existing unlimited users can sign up family members at half-price….

T-Mobile Adds New Wrinkle To Unlimited Voice Offer - Existing unlimited users can sign up family members at half-price…. Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » Back in February, wireless carriers went a little crazy trying to one up each other by offering unlimited SMS/MMS/voice plans (while quietly taking their wireless broadband offerings in the opposite direction). T-Mobile today threw another “unlimited” offer into the mix, letting users on their unlimited voice plan sign up

Verizon May Expand FiOS Deployment Targets - Won't be selling off more rural networks — for now…

Verizon May Expand FiOS Deployment Targets - Won't be selling off more rural networks â€" for now… Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » Verizon’s orginal goal was to spend $24 billion to deploy FiOS to 18 million homes by the end of 2010, but the company may be expanding those projections. With 25% of their revenues now coming from FiOS and landline customers continuing to jump overboard, the company is hinting that they’ll be announcing further expansion later this year. Verizo

Special Forces Smart Noise Cancellation Ear Buds with built-In GPS

June 5, 2008 With more than half the world carrying a mobile phone and some of the best brains in the world focussed on differentiating the next generation of mobile services and functionality, it was interesting to see Silynx’s C4OPS GenNext headset system displayed for the first time at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida recently. Most of the functionality does not translate readily to non-combat environments, but what it can do is simply amazing... Tags: Silynx Re

Verizon In Talks To Buy Alltel - $27 billion dollar deal looms…

Verizon In Talks To Buy Alltel - $27 billion dollar deal looms… Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » CNBC reports that Verizon is in deep negotiations to acquire Alltel for around $27 billion, which I’m fairly sure Verizon has in their petty cash drawer. According to CNBC, Verizon has been eyeing the acquisition for a while, but thought Alltel’s valuation was too high when two private investment firms nabbed the company last year. With a 10% growth in Alltel’s Ebitda, Verizon

Tensilica and SPIRIT DSP Form Strategic Partnership and Deliver Mobile Multimedia Audio and Voice for Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine

Regular readers know that I've been following SPIRIT DSP for quite some time now. Just lately I find myself immersed in the world of wireless radio communications in a number of different forms. And I'm involved in some actual product R&D for products that use a variety of chips, boards and circuits from manufacturers. Given the advances in mobile devices and the increasing incorporation of audio, I think this is a bigger story that it might seem at first glance. Worth noting this relationsh

Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation

It should come as no surprise: Incumbents are beginning to act like incumbents. But while the cable companies are the first ones to jump on the tiered broadband bandwagon, they won’t be the last. Their argument for limiting bandwidth and data transfers based on price sounds like a good idea, especially as a way to get bargain hunters to buy. In the long run, however, tiered broadband is a terrible idea that will bring the innovation inspired by flat-rate broadband to a screeching halt. Flat-r

Wednesday Links: Vonage, Fax over IP

Wednesday Links: Vonage, Fax over IP June 4th, 2008 by S. Caron What could a company want with a memory stick that turns any PC into a VoIP phone? What could they want with it so much that they would spend $6.5 billion to get it? Interesting stuff. Read about it here. Faxing over IP stinks, says the VoIP Weblog. Does it really? Apparently Vonage refused to comment about reliability in a recent news story. Odd. Read about it here. Posted in Eye on the Blogosphere - No Comments »

Vonage Talk

I have begun using Vonage Talk at home after reading about it in detail. I have always found it necessary to have a “home phone” and this represents one more reason to keep my Vonage line active. Vonage Talk gives you software to run on your computer that connects to your Vonage line. It also acts as an Instant Messaging client in case you wanted to run everything through the software. It rings when your phone rings and allows you the ability to make and receive calls via the software. This is

Enea, CEVA Announce OSE ck RTOS for CEVA-X, CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP

Enea (Nordic Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA), a world leading provider of network software and services and CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, announced the availability of the Enea OSE ck real-time operating system for two CEVA DSP architectures: the CEVA-TeakLite-III and the CEVA-X. These two low-power, high-performance DSP architectures, together with Enea OSE ck, provide an ideal platform for a broad ra

3CX IP PBX Passes Tests for Interoperability With Linksys IP Phones

3CX, developer of the 3CX Phone System for Windows has announced that interoperability testing with Linksys IP telephones has been completed successfully. The tested integration offers a cost effective VoIP Telephony solution that is well suited for the small and medium business market. "3CX Phone System for Windows' interoperability with Linksys IP telephones portfolio conforms to our strategy of offering a SIP-based IP PBX that works with the world's leading IP phones," said Nick Galea, CEO

Canada's fight for Net Neutrality

Shortly after I founded the Net Neutrality advocacy site Neutrality.ca in January 2007, TheTyee, published an article saying that Canada was sleeping through the war to 'save the internet'. Writer Bryan Zandberg cited the lack of signatures on my petition (a 'paltry' 217 at the time) as evidence of Canadians' disengagement with the issue. Today, the same petition, which is now run by the rock-star professor Michael Geist, has collected over 14,000 signatures. Clearly something has changed. We

sipgate Opens iPhone to Third-Party VoIP Services

sipgate announces the immediate availability of a free application for the iPhone, which, for the first time allows consumers to natively use any VoIP service which uses the industry standard SIP. Consumers can now use their iPhones to make and receive VoIP calls from their devices over a Wi-Fi Internet connection using a wide variety of VoIP providers. The VoIP-enabling software is available from sipgate's website. With the sipgate service, users can dial any number without using minutes fro

WhitePages to Acquire Snapvine, After Turning Down Jangl

After passing on the acquisition of the now defunct Jangl, WhitePages.com has agreed to purchase Snapvine’s VoIP service. As with many other VoIP services that have gained traction in the past two years, Snapvine spent a great deal of resources on integration with social networks, effectively giving users a way to connect via phone calls without needing to dole out their personal information. Snapvine’s widget on MySpace was largely successful, and helped the company gain enough attention to

sipgate Opens Up iPhone to Third-Party VoIP Services

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 4, 2008 - sipgate Inc. (www.sipgate.com) today announces the immediate availability of a free application for the iPhone, which, for the first time allows consumers to natively use any VoIP service which uses the industry standard SIP. Consumers can now use their iPhones to make and receive VoIP calls from their devices over a Wi-Fi Internet connection using a wide variety of VoIP providers. The VoIP-enabling software is available from sipgate’s website www.sipgate.com.

Acrobat. Work. Together. Anywhere.

By all accounts, Adobe’s plunge into Web-based software looks to be destined for success.  The company, which has ruled the PDF and image world with Acrobat and Photoshop respectively, now allows registered users to create, manage and share documents they create with Adobe’s suite of programs.  Here are several of the new online features available at Acrobat.com.BUZZWORD: Acquired by Adobe in 2007, the Web-based Word processor could be a powerful Word killer.  Similar to Google Docs (formerly W

More VoIP for the iPhone has us asking, can you hear me now?

Section: iPhone + Communications, Carriers, iPhone, VoIP, iPhone SDK & Apps Surely you remember Fring, the free third party VoIP application for your jailbroken iPhone. Well, now there is a new voice in the game: sipgate. Sipgate is free like Fring, but requires a SIP account after you use your 111 free minutes. However, sipgate does provide support for third party VoIP services other than itself. It is still in beta and currently only works over wi-fi, but that should be expected as EDGE da

101 Things You Can Do With Asterisk Contest

Over the last nine years Asterisk has emerged as world’s leading open source telephony engine and tool kit, however most people simply know it as an open source phone system. In order to promote greater visibility as to the myriad of things that people can (and have) done with Asterisk, VoIP Supply has partnered with Digium to launch the “101 Things You Can Do With Asterisk Contest”. Here are the pertinent details: 1. One contributor (at random) to the list of 101 things, will win a $1,50

How Deep Your Knowledge in Asterisk is?

If you are an Asterisk expert you now have an easy way to get a $1500 bonus to buy stuff at VOIP Supply. Just post a comment to this blog post, listing one ore more ways to use Asterisk. If you are lucky enough, your name can be the winner of the contest, an initiative sponsored by guys at VOIP Supply and Digium. Why not? Check it out. If you liked this article, please buy me a coffee! Technorati Tags: asterisk, digium, luca filigheddu, voipsupply ShareThis

Bulgarian NGO asks the worldwide Internet community to bring their top priorities during the coming IGF meeting

This is a press-release from ISOC-Bulgaria; as ISOC.bg website is going through changes, I prefer to publish it here, and at the ISOC’s site there will be a link to this article. Internet Society Bulgaria being an active participant at the WSIS and IGF , expresses their views for the coming IGF in Hyderabad, India. Need for new participants The IGF has a tendency of slowly shifting from a place of a discussion about the way the world accesses information resources, into a place where only to

VoIPInsider: "101 Things You Can Do With Asterisk Contest"

Garrett Smith and the team at VoIP Supply have partnered with Digium to have a little bit of fun with a new contest: "101 Things You Can Do With Asterisk Contest". They started out looking for 101 unique things you could do with Asterisk and the idea that when they got 101 submissions they would pick one random winner for a $1500 VoIP Supply shopping spree. However, they discovered there are a lot of people out there with ideas for what you can do with Asterisk. They put up their blog post a

configuring dataone router UT300R2U with VOIP

Hi, I have taken the BSNL broadband connection and have been provided with the UT300R2U modem. I am able to connect the VOIP modem to the dataOne modem and the connect to the internet from the VOIP modem. But when I try to connect the phone line to the VOIP, I do not get a dial tone. Please can someone help me on how to configure the dataOne modem? The BSNL person said he has no idea about VOIP. The VOIP modem is Sipura model SPA - 2100. Thanks.

Voice Changer for Asterisk

Ever want to disguise your voice while making a prank phone call? Sure, if you're one of the Jerky Boys you can pretend to have an Indian accent and all, but if you're just not that talented then what you need is the Asterisk Voice Changer! It allows you to change the pitch of your voice, or the voice of the called party in realtime, when making phone calls. Ah, the beauty of VoIP with the flexibility of Asterisk. Gotta love it! The application, VoiceChangeDial, functions as a Dial() repl

Still Thinking About Umair and O'Reilly On Network Effects

It'll probably take me a couple days to read/analyze this but here is Umair's follow up to his "Microsoft vs Google Endgame" post a few weeks ago.  (he responds to my comments) I'm currently reading this and also thinking about some more random tidbits on network effects I picked up from reading O'Reilly.  In my previous post on the subject, one of the things I said was that the value of the platform and/or data had to be assessed while you're thinking about these questions.  I like how O'Rei

Snowflake's tiny mic has big ideas

Last week, it was a tiny speaker, this week... a tiny microphone. If your laptop didn't come with a built-in mic and you want to get chatty over Skype or another VOIP/IM service, or your desktop mic is too big and bulky and you're looking to downsize, or you're a podcaster looking for an inexpensive but good-quality piece of audio equipment that takes up very little space, the Snowflake mic could be for you. It can be clipped to your laptop (or I guess, to your clothing) and retracts for sto

VoIP Reseller Program - A Link Between Service Provider and End-Users

A VoIP reseller sells services and products to the end-users after availing them from established VoIP providers or wholesalers. There are two types of VoIP reseller programs - virtual and premium.

A-Z Call Termination - Enjoy Hassle-Free Communication All the Time

The a-z call termination services are gaining importance in big and not-so-big business houses. As a matter of fact, these services offer inherent benefits such as enhancement in organizational productivity and internal operations at cheap rates.

VoIP Solutions - A Means to Expand Business

The VoIP solution has made it possible for people to expand their business and meet the communication need of the user. The charges are very nominal and there are no extra fee for the services.

IP PBX Solutions - Useful Features of Wireless Telephony

The IP PBX is a solution whereby it is possible for the user to connect wirelessly to people all around the globe. The system enables the users to go for a number of extensions. It has features that are very impressive and beneficial to the user.

Skype is an Internet Sensation That Crashed Once

Skype is one of the most popular communication programs used by people on the Internet. People with Skype accounts can call one another and talk with each other verbally with computer microphones. Phone calls from standard landlines can even be received and handled through a Skype account.

Make Life Easier With Long Distance Calls on the Internet

Using the Internet to place your long distance calls has become the most recent popular method of calling friends and family. A new form of telecommunication, voice over IP, is a new method that allows users to place long distance telephone calls through their computer, often at drastically discounted, if not free, prices.

Shots from Nortel's INNUA Conference

The INNUA conderence is for Nortel users and includes another group, Insight 100 Inc. the user group which focuses on the SL-100 which is now the CS2100. Blogged via wireless handheld TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP Blog - Tehrani.com | Permalink: Shots from Nortel's INNUA Conference Related Entries Copyright VoIP Blog - Tehrani.com

Mike Zafirovski Kicks off INNUA

It is Tuesday morning and the Nortel user conference has kicked off. Mike Z has taken the stage, talking about how the company has evolved these last years and what the future holds. Blogged via wireless handheld TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP Blog - Tehrani.com | Permalink: Mike Zafirovski Kicks off INNUA Related Entries Copyright VoIP Blog - Tehrani.com

ASC to Exhibit Sophisticated Quality Monitoring and VoIP Recording Solutions at CommunicAsia 2008

ASC to Exhibit Sophisticated Quality Monitoring and VoIP Recording Solutions at CommunicAsia 2008 Introduction of INSPIRATIONpro 8.0 and EVOip 8.0 Demonstrates Continued Focus on Asian Pacific Market Hoesbach/Germany, June 3, 2008 - ASC (www.asctelecom.com), a leading global provider of innovative solutions to record, analyze and evaluate communications, today announced it will exhibit new versions of its quality monitoring solution, INSPIRATIONpro 8.0, and its VoIP recording solution, EVOip

Sipflanker - Locate SIP (VoIP) Device Web Interfaces

SIP devices are getting to be very common now, especially with open source bundled OS offerings like Trixbox making it easy to setup your own digital or IP-PBX. Along with the frequent installations, many (if not most) VoIP devices have available a Web GUI for their configuration, management, and report generation. These Web GUIs are often... Read the full post at darknet.org.uk

Cisco EoL / EoS Batch #41

Hey there folks, pay attention to Cisco EoL / EoS Batch #41 as some really popular platforms are affected. That being said, I don’t think anyone is still using ancient Catalyst software or Token Ring! Don’t forget, most EoL / EoS announcements include a list of product migration options. If you need help deciding what product is best for you, send me a message with the Slaptijack contact form. Cisco Catalyst OS Release 5.x for the Catalyst 6000/6500, Catalyst 5000/5500 & Catalyst 4000/4500 Se

Secret Messages in VoIP Calls?

Secret Messages in VoIP Calls? June 2nd, 2008 by S. Caron This is all a little spy-movie-esk for me. Have you ever had a fuzzy VoIP call? Well, it might not be just a bad connection. It could be someone intercepting your call and inserting secret messages into the packet. No, not kidding. According to New Science Tech: Wojciech Mazurczyk and Krzysztof Szczypiorski, information scientists at the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland, revealed last week that they are developing a

fring for Symbian S60, Windows Mobile updated

The company behind the popular mobile VoIP client fring announced updates for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile versions of their application. First comes the S60, which in version 3.35 is more stable than ever and also brings all round better sound quality. Speakerphone support is added for devices running on top of Symbian 9.2 (S60 3.1), and file transfer is now enabled for Yahoo! IM and Skype. As for the Windows Mobile version (3.24), it now supports auto-roaming between 3G and WiFi, and also

Craigslist Blocks VoIP

Craigslist.org does have a problem with spam. In its attempts to defeat spam, though, it also now seems to be blocking attempts by legitimate VoIP number users to authenticate the ads they want to place on Craigslist, reports Cory Andrews of VoIP Insider. Craiglist apparently uses a telephone verification process that places an automated outbound call to a user placing a classified ad in certain categories. The problem is that Craigslist is categorically blocking legitimate VoIP and Pre-paid c

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #344 | 080603 | Audacity, XTuple, Cisco Nexus, zBoost, VoIP Hacks & World Business Forum4

Listen! (Size 5.1 MBs, Running Time 10m54s) This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines: the recent release of Audacity 1.3.5; new services for XTuple an open source ERP solution; introduction to Cisco's 'new brain' for your network called Nexus (NX-OS); pointer to zBoost YX300 & YX510 devices which aims to help you expand your cell phone coverage; and two links to PC World articles on VoIP hacks (Link#1 and L

Time Warner Trial Set to Debut Thursday

As reported back in January, Time Warner Cable is making good on its promise to introduce tiered pricing in the southern Texas community of Beaumont. The company is rolling out its consumption pricing trial in Beaumont this coming Thursday, with those who go over a preset bandwidth limit to be charged $1 per gigabyte. Current company pricing will range from $30 a month for a 768 kbps (five-gigabyte monthly cap) to $55 a month for 15 mbps (40-gigabyte cap). Time Warner said the trial is t

E-Ten Announces Four New Pocket PC Phones

E-TEN Information Systems has kicked off Computex 2008 with the launch of four new Pocket PC Phones and in the process earned itself a prestigious Best Choice of Computex Award. The new handsets and the company’s complete lineup of industry defining Glofiish Pocket PC Phones will be on show at the E-TEN booth between June 3 - 7. E-TEN was awarded the Best Choice of Computex accolade for its new Glofiish DX900 â€" the world’s first dual-SIM & dual standby Windows Mobile handset to support HSDP

E-TEN Announces Four Glofiish PDA Phones at Computex 2008

E-TEN has been awarded the Best Choice of Computex Award 2008 for its new Glofiish DX900 - the first dual-SIM Windows Mobile handset to support HSDPA and EDGE. The DX900 is being showcased at the E-TEN booth along with three more industry-leading Pocket PC Phones - the Glofiish V900 that support mobile TV, the Glofiish X900 for consumers who demand the best, and the great value Glofiish X610. The new handsets and the company’s complete lineup of industry defining Glofiish Pocket PC Phones will

Is Craigslist blocking VoIP, Prepaid phone numbers in anti-spam effort?

Is Craigslist really blocking phone numbers from VoIP service providers or pre-paid cell phones as an anti-spam measure? Last night over on the VoIPinsider blog, Cory Andrews wrote that Craigslist is apparently blocking VoIP or prepaid cellular numbers as part of their anti-spam measures. Now I'm a huge fan of Craigslist and we've sold lots of items (including, now, our house) via Craigslist. But we've also seen the spam out there and personally been contacted in response to one of our ads by a

Will E-TEN Glofiish PDA phones steal the Computex 2008 show? Four new handsets

E-TEN are showing of four mobile PDA phones at Computex 2008 between June 3rd and June 7th which is great news for Glofiish lovers. E-TEN have just been awarded the Best Choice of Computex Award 2008 for their brand new Glofiish DX900, which is the first dual SIM Windows mobile phone to support EDGE and HSDPA. The E-TEN Glofiish DX900 is being showcased at the Computex 2008 Show where they will also be showing many other products at their booth, but let us talk about the four Pocket PC Phones

Adobe Finally enters the Online Application Market

Though a bit late - but Adobe seems to be in a state of "Better Late than Never" and has rolled out an online website at Acrobat. This website basically allows you to convert pdf and even store them online. The other features are as listed below: Buzzword: Well, it's Adobe's version of the online word processor same like Google Docs or Zoho.ConnectNow: It's a very cool web conferencing tool that lets you share your desktop with others, chat, talk over a VoIP connection, or share files and mark

Craigslist bans VoIP, Prepaid

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Craigslist has pulled an interesting maneuver.  In an attempt to control spam on the site, a few months ago they implemented a telephone verification process for certain categories of ads.  Place an ad in one of the categories in question, and a few moments later you would receive an automated phone call asking you to verify that you had in fact placed the ad.  All well and good, except for the fact that the televerification system won’t dial a VoIP or a pre

Headed to Telx CBX 2008

Later this week I will be a video reporter at the Telx CBX (customer business exchange) event in New York. I always like the CBX events and am looking forward to meeting with the companies in the carrier hotel space (many lease space in the Telx interconnection facilities throughout the US) who come to network and exchange ideas and do business with one another. I reached out to Telx to get a quick quote on why you should be at the show and Tesh Durvasula, Chief Marketing Officer of Telx had

Why Microsoft Needs to Worry About Firefox

Mozilla's Firefox is on schedule to break 20% share next month and this is very bad news for Microsoft. If we are to play out what the next 5-10 years will look like in the world of technology, one of the knowns is that SaaS will become a bigger market and as such less companies will care about the OS and the applications on local machines. Knowing what we know now, we can expect most new computers to have Intel and AMD chips but from there, the OS is becoming less important. Soon enough we c

Mr Operator: It’s a question of frustration

Mr Operator is back with an update on his first post published yesterday. - - - - - I make no apology for couching my opening piece in a tone likely to elicit either mirth or derision, depending on your point of view. Call it the result of an upbringing on Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. Ewan is indeed correct when he paints the picture as one of frustration, not sadism. I take absolutely no pleasure in informing intelligent, diligent people that they have laboured in vain for a year on some

Is Twitter a security risk?

I use Twitter, it’s a fun tool to keep half an eye out on some of my friends and other interesting people are doing right now. I think it’s a pretty decent communication tool. But like many tools it’s easy to over communicate. Some of the people I follow have started using Twitter mashup Brightkite and are using it to send pictures with location information to Twitter. I trust that folks like Mediaphyter are savvy enough to carefully regulate their information, but I have to wonder if the avera

Crewmember confidential: 13 secrets for stretching your travel dollar

If you haven’t been on an international trip for a while, brace yourself for sticker shock. As many of us know, the dollar is at an all-time low against most currencies and there is not much relief in sight. Should you call off that overseas vacation? No, hang on. If you are open to a little ingenuity or thriftiness, you could lessen the pain on your bank account. I guess I am getting old when I can remember such classic guidebooks as Europe on $5 a Day. Some inflation over time is inevitable

Skype Being Blocked in UAE

If you're heading to the UAE anytime soon expect to lose use of Skype and likely other VoIP type services. A report this morning in Arabian Business advises that local operators are using proxy servers and packet filtering to block the use of Skype and other PC to phone services.

SitePump - Personalized Startpage Solution with Enterprise focus

SitePump is a personalized startpage product from Ahmedabad/US based startup and is taking personalization to next level by enabling a site wide personalization experience. ‘Sitepump lets you create your personalized page where you can bring all your favorite blogs, news, music, email, bookmarks, flash widgets, web clips, weather, search engines and much more in one place. Sitepump can help businesses to retain existing users, attract new users, boost productivity and gain uniqueness with bran

Adobe Launches Acrobat.com; Email Attachments Go On Death Watch

Adobe is jumping head first into web-based software this evening, announcing the launch of several new services at Acrobat.com. The launch essentially moves Adobe’s traditional strengths of document creation and management software (Acrobat / Adobe Reader) into an online environment, allowing users to create, manage, and share Adobe documents through an account at Acrobat.com â€" for free and over the Web. At the heart of the new launch is Buzzword, the web-based word processor that Adobe acq

Adobe Launches Online Office Suite and New Flash-Enabled Acrobat 9

Back in March, we said Adobe was slowly building an online empire. Today, that news turns out to be true. Adobe is has just launched their version of an online office suite available at Acrobat.com, complete with word processor (Buzzword), web conferencing/whiteboard app (ConnectNow), online file sharing (Share), file storage, (My Files), and PDF converter. To complement this launch, Adobe has also announced a brand-new version of Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat 9, the biggest release since the initial

Adobe Launches Online Office Suite

  Adobe has just launched an online office suite which is available at Acrobat.com and contains a Word Processor(Buzzword), Web Conferencing(Connectnow), online file sharing(Share), file storage(MyFiles) and PDF converter. Not only this, Adobe has also announced the launch of Acrobat 9, the biggest release since the initial Acrobat Reader. The best thing about this new version is that Adobe has also incorporated Flash into it. Currently the online office suite is in public beta. Buzzword is t

VIVOphone Deploys Paradial RealTunnel® to Solve NAT Traversal Challenges for VoIP Services

We love the fact when someone tries to solve something when it comes to VoIP Services and the latest press release is about VIVOphone deploying Paradial RealTunnel® to Solve NAT Traversal Challenges for VoIP Services. The full press release is below for you to read: STUN, TURN, ICE and SSL tunnelling in RealTunnel® enables VIVOphone’s customers to access VIVOphone’s VoIP services from anywhere â€" even when users are located behind strict corporate firewalls and web proxies. Oslo, Norway and M

Movistar brings iPhone to Spain

And we've wondered what happened to Spain. The country was left out in all iPhone announcements during last couple of weeks. It was kinda obvious Apple will re-use its existing "partner in crime" from the UK, where Telefonica-owned O2 is the exclusive carrier of the iPhone. Now, their Spanish subsidiary, Movistar, got the same contract with Cuppertino folks. Or at least, no other carrier in the country manage to scoop the deal with Apple. Again, no exact release date was given, nor pricing i

Might Mid-Band Ethernet Make Copper Competitive With Fiber?

In a recent post, I posited that it was possible to take the entire bandwidth of a copper line and instead of making it voice, make it data and run VoIP over the top of it. That was just a theory. The folks at Hatteras Networks actually have a way to accomplish that-at better speeds than I was proposing. Their Mid-Band Ethernet solution can use up to 8 copper pairs and aggregate that into about a T3-45mb/s symmetrical. Even with a single copper pair, they can get a very reasonable 5.7 mb/s-al

Sangoma Develops New Hybrid Concept in Telephony Cards

Here's some news from Sangoma. Nice to see them continuing to kick things up with their fabulous hardware solutions. Sangoma Develops New Hybrid Concept in Telephony Cards -Sangoma FlexBRI Prototype Wins VoIP Product of the Year at Asterisk TAG Berlin- TORONTO, CANADA and BERLIN, GERMANY--(Marketwire - May 27, 2008) - Sangoma® Technologies Corporation (TSX VENTURE:STC), the premium provider of PC-based hardware and software for proprietary and open source networking and telephony solutions, to

Sonus Networks Beats Out Incumbent at Tortel Communications

Here's one of those announcements that always makes me wish I could be a fly on the wall in the incumbent provide's conference room. Don't you really want to know who the incumbent was who couldn't hang on to the account. Congrats to Sonus on continuing their well-deserved success. TORTEL COMMUNICATIONS SELECTS SONUS NETWORKS TO REPLACE LEGACY IP- NETWORK Superior Transcoding Capabilities Help Reinvent Business Enterprise Services WESTFORD, Mass., May 29, 2008 - Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:

iBAHN expands EMEA network to maintain technology lead

We don't hear a lot about what iBAHN is doing here in the states, but I watch them for trends. Here's an interesting news release about expansion in the EMEA region. iBAHN expands EMEA network to maintain technology lead London - (May 28, 2008) - iBAHN, the leading provider of digital converged services for hoteliers, today announces a major expansion to its EMEA network. The upgrade is designed to further strengthen iBAHN's proprietary worldwide network, which is already the most technically a

One More Reason To Vacation in the Bahamas

Recently the Bahamas Telecom Company (BTC) decided to migrate its existing countrywide wireline network to IP using Sonus and Calix gear. The move to IP will reduce the amount of equipment that needs managing and in addition, the Bahamian phone company expects to save over one million dollars a year in electricity as a result of this switch. Another million or more is expected to be saved in reduced upgrade and maintenance costs. In addition to replacing the existing infrastructure, the plan

Taste of Technology Small Business Series on June 10th

It's amazing how many great events are planned during Internet Week New York, and more interesting is how many of these events are being produced by friends of mine who have been great supporters of my work and visa versa. Ramon Ray is one of these people and his event on June 10th looks like a winner! As an added note, a favorite NY:MIEG panelist, Laura Forlano will be on this panel as well. You might remember Laura...she joined us at our January 2008 event all about mobile and wireless appl

Total Freeze-up?

Total Freeze-up? by tacotanker27 Today 09:33 PM 351 2,152 Internet Software (6 Viewing) Browsers, email clients, VoIP... the list goes on. From Firefox to FTP clients, talk about every program that connects to everything else here. IE Upgrade Problems by Sigh-clone Today 07:33 AM 137 1,039 Security Software (1 Viewing) Protect your computer from internet nasties... firewalls, antivirus, and everything computer security related belongs here. recovering a ke

New otimized iPhoneGnome

We have performed extensive optimization of our iPhoneGnome application for iPhone. The new version is 99.4% smaller and should load over 100 times faster! To use your iPhone to make International calls at cheap PhoneGnome rates (or even free), or to place calls to VOIP and IM users, and more, simply navigate with your iPhone Safari browser to: m.phonegnome.com Enjoy!

Cable Companies and Modem Vendors Fight Patent Troll - Patent firm seeks millions of dollars from all major cable companies

Cable Companies and Modem Vendors Fight Patent Troll - Patent firm seeks millions of dollars from all major cable companies Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » A patent troll called Rembrandt IP Management has been trying to unsettle the cable television market by filing patent infringement violations against all of the major cable companies as well as a number of network broadcasters. Those lawsuits have been consolidated and the companies are fighting back with claims that

Secret messages could be hidden in net phone calls

The next time your internet (VoIP) phone call sounds a bit fuzzy, it might not be your ISP that's to blame. Someone could be trying to squeeze a secret message between the packets of data carrying the caller's voice. New Scientist reports. "Two information scientists at the National Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland, revealed last week that they are developing a "steganographic" system for VoIP networks. Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such

VOIP

I started working with a business today that provides: VOIP Business Phones Mobile Phones Mobile Phone Accessories Broadband Internet Satellite TV and Home Security GlobalLinx is the name of the company! They also have a great opportunity to make some decent money will providing these same services to your family and friends! I suggest you take a look at the GlobalLinx Opportunity for more information. The Home Unlimited VOIP plan includes: Unlimited calls to anyone in the 50 US stat

WiMax Works on London’s Heathrow Express - Skype call works in tunnels with no problems

WiMax Works on London’s Heathrow Express - Skype call works in tunnels with no problems Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » Passengers who ride the Heathrow Express between Heathrow Airport and Paddington Station in London are now able to access full Wi-Fi service. The service maintains speeds of approximately 2 Mbps even through several miles of tunnels using WiMax technology. Initial reports indicate that the quality of the service is high including when it is used to conne

Blackberry Twice as Popular as iPhone - Until that new iPhone comes out anyway

Blackberry Twice as Popular as iPhone - Until that new iPhone comes out anyway Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » First quarter smartphone sales indicate that over twice as many people are buying the Blackberry than are purchasing the iPhone. Blackberry managed to snag over 44% of the market which is a huge leap, up a full 35% from the previous quarter. In contrast, iPhone sales dropped from 26% of the market down to 19%. Some people are saying that the introduction of bette

Google Tracks Hot Spots to Improve Mobile Apps - Geolocation service lets you find hot spots and developers find you

Google Tracks Hot Spots to Improve Mobile Apps - Geolocation service lets you find hot spots and developers find you Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » Google appears to be working on a plan to track all cell phone towers and wireless hot spots in order to allow developers working on mobile applications to be more capable of tracking a user s exact location. Geo-location services are increasingly popular on mobile phones (more than one gained attention in the Android applica

Will Web Video Make NY The New Silicon Valley? - Joost headquarters lead the way to create an online video community in NY

Will Web Video Make NY The New Silicon Valley? - Joost headquarters lead the way to create an online video community in NY Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » European peer-to-peer video sharing site Joost wanted to move its headquarters to the United States and many people assumed that meant the company would be heading to California. With Silicon Valley as a tech center and Los Angeles as an entertainment city, California would seem like a natural choice for companies seeki

VOIP to become legal in India

Finally India is catching up on VOIP and things might change in the next coming months with VOIP being completely legal. Especially connectivity between PC to PSTN phone and mobile phones can be completely legal very soon. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will soon allow connectivity between PC and fixed and mobile phones. That means telephone/VOIP calls could be made from a personal computer to a fixed phone or a mobile phone. This is currently illegal, Those who do it use PSTN net

Geek News Central Welcomes AIM Call Out as a New Sponsor

Geek News Central is proud to introduce AIM Call Out as a new sponsor here at the Geek News Central website and the Geek News Central Podcast. I have been using this service now for a couple of weeks getting up to speed on it and here are the highlights of what I have found so far. First What is it: AIM Call Out is a PC to Phone-to-Phone Service that offers some pretty awesome rates to over 200 countries. They also just reduced the calling rates in the past couple of days and the rates are ev

DevDays 2008 Netherlands: Wrap-Up

DevDays 2008 Netherlands: Wrap-Up The Microsoft DevDays, held on the 22nd and 23rd of may in the Amsterdam RAI, is an annual event for professional developers. The event showcases the newest Microsoft technologies in various sessions. This year the emphasis of the Microsoft DevDays was on Silverlight ,.NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Speaker David Platt held the keynote on: Â"why Software SucksÂ". Interestingly he suggests that software is hardly ever developed with itÂ's intended use

Extending mobile presence - the need for context and device state information

I speak to a broad variety of vendors and operators about presence in a mobile context. It crops up repeatedly both for operator-centric developments like IMS and RCS, and also for independent applications like mobile VoIP and corporate unified comms. In theory, mobile phones ought to be good platforms for presence information - both rudimentary connection details (online, offline, idle etc) and some personalised state or emotional content as well ("Dean is currently thinking about lunch" and s

Of IP Communications and Broadband Reliability

I came across an interesting article in the New York Times by Randall Stross which discusses consumer VoIP services, the differences in quality between them and the general trend towards multiple services of lower reliability replacing a single service (PSTN) of extreme reliability. What is interesting is comments by Comcast regarding the reliability of the company's service as compared to Vonage. The cable company stresses that their quality is better. They go on to say, because they have co

2 million people adding life to life

Du has had 2 million people making a phone call, or sending an SMS, which is quite an achievement. Now, according to the CEO, Osman Sultan, the UAE is a mature market and neither Du nor Etisalat are afraid of competition. Bring em on. Further than that, While DU is pulling its fiber all the way to residential areas, Etisalat, a the other 90% of the telecom monopoly, now offers 1Gbps leased line packages (not Internet, Jeff). The Telco’s are getting somewhere around here.

Skype on Heathrow Express Wi-Fi sounds pretty good

Today I had a conversation with Andy Abramson via Skype. He was traveling on the Heathrow Express (the train that ferries people between Heathrow Airport and London’s Paddington Station), but what made the call very special was that he was using the train’s Wi-Fi service, accessing the network via his new Asus eee PC900, a mini mobile laptop. I was on my Mac Book Pro at home on Skype. None of us used a headset. The quality of the connection was outstanding. There was no echo, the connection was

Network Problems

I have written earlier about how I was without internet connection for a week due to the fact that I had an internet provider whose people are lacking in technical know-how and some deep thinking skills. I had to resort to eventually doing a clean installation of Vista in my computer just to prove to them that it was not an operating system issue nor a CAT5e cable issue but it was a network issue that them, and only them, could solve. Given the choice? I would have already switched to a better

Digital Domain: Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend?

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Russo's job less secure following Alcatel-Lucent shareholder vote

It looks like shareholders of struggling Alcatel-Lucent SA [ALU] are serious about replacing CEO Patricia Russo. At the company's shareholder meeting on Friday, they voted in favor of a...

This Week's Del.icio.us bookmarks

xml:base="http://nitevilla.net"> Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Scott Buffington. OpenOffice 3 Beta: Although a lot of Mac OS X verbiage, this release could be useful for all operating s

Friday Links: Jajah, Skype

Friday Links: Jajah, Skype May 30th, 2008 by S. Caron Tesco has signed a big deal with Cable and Wireless. Read about it on ITProPortal. Saunderslog is talking up Jajah. Definitely worth the lead â€" it’s insightful. Find it here. VoIP Weblog is talking about Skype, in historical perspectives. Read it here. Posted in Eye on the Blogosphere - No Comments »

Only the Lord Saves More Than Max.....

Taking a page out of my roots in hockey and the famous line in Philadelphia that went like this: "Only the Lord Saves More Than Bernie Parent" I couldn't resist the comparison to my good friend Pat Phelan's company, MaxRoam, when I read his post today about just how much money MaxRoam customers are saving. Pat estimates a million dollars plus... Who said there's no money in VoIP?

Women in VoIP: The Series

Women in VoIP: The Series Site Feeds, VoIP, voipsupply.com No Comments » I’m always reading about the lack of women in technology and science and the VoIP world in general. Stacy Higginbotham at GIGAOM does a great job covering technology in general, and brought up a great point in regards to a New York Times article about the decline of women in technology past the age of 30.

Bulkmatic to Use AT&T Voice and Internet Protocol Services

Bulkmatic to Use AT&T Voice and Internet Protocol Services May 30th, 2008 by S. Caron Bulkmatic Transport Co. will be using AT&T voice and internet protocol services. Bulkmatic does dry bulk cargo shipping and distribution. The system will use the fully managed network solution Private Network Transport, which runs on Multiprotocol Label Switching technology. The solution will enhance the usage of VoIP applications as well. “With expanded bandwidth, our company is enhancing the ease and

Torrent Woes

Torrent Woes The worst thing about pirating tons of free movies, TV shows, and musicÂ….er I mean downloading open source content like Linux distributions, is the fact that torrents have a tendency to hose your friggin connection when it comes to doing much else with it that is the slightest bit latency sensitive. Like gaming maybe? But the goombas that built this blog page (that looks more like a site advertising a couple of ambulance chasing lawyers) have some interesting insight to what the ac

Fax Over IP == Fail!

© anomalous4I remember when I went through buying and selling real estate last year. Lots and lots of faxing. I tried desperately to use Voice over IP solutions to send faxes. For the most part, they failed. I simply ended up using my landline to send and receive faxes. When I saw why Dan York kept his landline when he moved recently, I found myself nodding when he listed faxing. He also lists three other important reasons as well: DSL requires it, 911, and the reliability of various number

ShmooCon 2008 Videos Hit the Shelves

The videos from ShmooCon 2008 have hit the shelves. Go download them at: http://www.shmoocon.org/2008/videos/ Digg It EDIT: As of the time of this post, some of the videos are incorrectly named. Here is the 1-> 1: Correctly Named: 21st Century Shellcode for SolarisAdvanced Protocol Fuzzing - What We Learned when Bringing Layer2 Logic to SPIKE landBacktrack Demo - “Hacking and Stuff”Bake Not (Fried, spelling error on filename) Fired - Performing Unauthorized PhishingClosing RemarksFor

New fring Version for Smoother Chat on iPod Touch

New fring Version for Smoother Chat on iPod Touch 31 May, 2008 Posted by SolSie As Software, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone (0) Comment fring is a mobile app for Symbian, UIQ, Windows Mobile powered handhelds and iPhone/iPod Touch. fring enables users to place VoIP calls especially for international calling alternative to their carrier’s expensive per-minute charges. In addition of its VoIP, the app also offers a unified instant messaging. You can live text chat/voice chat with MS

Comcast Contractors Arrested for Animal Cruelty - Comcast just can't seem to work with people who stay out of trouble

Comcast Contractors Arrested for Animal Cruelty - Comcast just can't seem to work with people who stay out of trouble Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » Comcast subcontractors are notorious for engaging in bad (often illegal) behavior that s included everything from falling asleep at customer s homes to murder. In keeping with that ongoing tradition, three contractors have been arrested for animal cruelty after they were caught torturing a kitten (see news video). The kitten

Microsoft’s Echo Does Or Does Not Eliminate Phone Numbers?

Microsoft’s Echo Does Or Does Not Eliminate Phone Numbers? 0 Add a Comment Friday, May 30th, 2008 by Ron Schenone Thieves Switch Out ATM Card Reader, Steal Credit Card & PIN Numbers More Google Phone Rumors Google Rumors - Google Phones? - Google Office? Interesting subject since we have two different stories covering the same subject, with two different points of view. First over at ZD-Net Mary Jo Foley describes the Echo system, as per Bill Gates, a system that elimin

Fring's iPhone and iPod chat app nets two for the price of one

Good things happen to software publishers that listen to their users. Fring, an aggressively growing company that builds a chat and cheap calling application for Symbian, iPhone, and Windows Mobile platforms, heeded a swell of feedback from iPod Touch users who had been using the pre-release iPhone version for jailbroken iPhones on the voiceless iPod Touch (review). On Friday, Fring announced a new pre-release version for the iPhone that also fixes a bug found when using the application on th

Android May Launch Application Store to Compete with iPhone - Attention to Android has ramped up in recent weeks

Android May Launch Application Store to Compete with iPhone - Attention to Android has ramped up in recent weeks Site Feeds, VoIP, broadbandreports.com No Comments » The first applications for the Google Android phone platform are starting to get attention which moves Android one step further to becoming a reality in the market. The platform itself has also gained more attention after recent demos at the Google I/O conference revealed additional features for the phone and showed off a prototy