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    JAJAH Blog

  • JAJAH Gives You Voice – Now In Vietnam

    23 Oct 2009 | 10:31 am
    You asked, and we heard you. JAJAH is pleased to announce we now support services to and from Vietnam. And, you get your first call free. How to call the worldTurn any international number into a local number – JAJAH gives you a local number for each international number you currently have. So, if you are in San Francisco trying to call Hanoi, you’ll get a 415.XXX.XXXX number instead of having to dial +84.4.XXX.XXXX. And if you are in Hanoi, trying to call San Francisco, you will get a 04.XXX.XXXX number instead of +1.415.XXX.XXXX. Save these local numbers in your phone then call the…

  • JAJAH’s SIP Trunking Service Is Now Certified by Microsoft

    25 Aug 2009 | 10:16 am
    We are proud to announce that JAJAH has been certified by Microsoft to provide integrated SIP Trunking services to Microsoft customers worldwide. "The combination of JAJAH and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 gives enterprises a powerful and rich external telephony solution," said Warren Barkley, Microsoft Senior Director Unified Communications. "JAJAH is a world leader in providing innovative telecommunications solutions to enterprises and consumers worldwide. We believe that they will bring a suite of services that will be interesting and valuable to our…
 
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    VoIP News

  • Shoretel keeps best IP Telephony provider title

    Jan Harris
    4 Nov 2009 | 7:51 am
    ShoreTel Inc has been named Best IP Telephony Provider in the Nemertes PilotHouse Awards for the sixth year running. 1,393 companies participated in the 2009 awards, which rated 39 IP Telephony vendors. The Nemertes awards are based on the experiences of IP-telephony decision-makers. Shortel was selected for its low prices, wide range of features, good customer [...]

  • Ingate Systems announces new E-SBC for SIP

    Jan Harris
    2 Nov 2009 | 7:23 am
    Ingate Systems has introduced the IX78 Enterprise Session Border Controller (E-SBC) from its sister company Inertex Data AB. The IX78 E-SBC allows service providers to securely launch large-scale SIP trunk services, taking Unified Communications safely beyond the protected enterprise network The company claims that it accelerates SIP service deployment because it solves interoperability issues and NAT and [...]

  • Sipera enables secure VoIP over WiFi

    Jan Harris
    29 Oct 2009 | 10:15 am
    Sipera Systems has announced the availability of Sipera Secure Live Communications (SLiC), a solution to ensure the security of VoIP calls over WiFi. Sipera SLiC is the first security solution for enterprises using VoIP, UC, and cloud telephony on mobile devices. It provides smart-card card authentication for workers using mobile VoIP calls to access enterprise resources, [...]

  • Voxbone’s iNum supports Skype HD calls

    Jan Harris
    28 Oct 2009 | 8:04 am
    Voxbone has added support for HD calls between VoIP networks and Skype, to its iNum service. The upgrade brings in-the-room sound quality to millions more VoIP users. iNum is Voxbone’s geographically-independent number service. It is prefaced with the 883 code, which refers to the Internet in the same way that the 44 code refers to the [...]

  • Aastra launches unified communications solution for SMBs

    Jan Harris
    26 Oct 2009 | 3:18 pm
    Aastra is launching the MX-ONE Compact, a cost-effective unified communications solution, targeted small and medium businesses. The solution is designed to allow SMBs to move to pure IP and Unified Communications (UC) at their own pace. Michael Calvert, Aastra’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, said: “Now, small and medium businesses can get the [...]
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    OS-VoIP | Open Source VoIP

  • IBM Smart Market embraces Asterisk… building your IP PBX becomes childs play

    Aaron Rosenthal
    20 Oct 2009 | 2:55 pm
    Well last week marked the end of Astricon 2009 where a myriad of VoIP and Open Source companies came together to showcase new products, new solutions, and make big (and sometimes small) announcements. One of my favorites and more notable announcements was between Digium/Asterisk and IBM. You can read some specifics here, but in short IBM has brought Asterisk into its Smart Market program. IBM’s Smart Market is a marketplace for applications  designed or tweaked to operate on IBM’s hardware, specifically the IBM Smart Cube. It’s kinda like the Apple App Store, take the…

  • Writing an RFP for an Open Source IP PBX – Part2

    Aaron Rosenthal
    18 Sep 2009 | 8:40 am
    Welcome to my second installment of “Writing an RFP for an Open Source IP PBX”… But first let me apologize to my loyal readers, I have let you down… I’ve been caught up in the regular grind of the summer and have neglected OS-VoIP. There’s a lot of interesting things going on in the Open Source VoIP space and I’ve got a long list of things I want to talk about, so get ready for some action here at OS-VoIP! Ok… onto RFP’s… In my previous post, here, we went over a variety of reasons why Open Source needs to be approached and perceived…

  • An Asterisk Milestone – Shove 10,000 simultaneous calls onto a single Open Source machine!

    Aaron Rosenthal
    28 Aug 2009 | 1:54 pm
    Recently Olle E Johansson posted some details about how he managed to get 10,000 simultaneous calls out of a single Asterisk server. As far as I’m aware, this is the largest number of simultaneous calls documented on a single Asterisk based server, so congrats Olle… I hope you enjoy that bottle of wine! Now who says you can’t get more than 250 calls on a single Asterisk server??? I’ve always known that with the right setup and configuration you could get at least 2,000 calls on a single Asterisk server… but 10,000 is a remarkable milestone. It’s news like…

  • Writing an RFP for an Open Source IP PBX – Part1

    Aaron Rosenthal
    20 Mar 2009 | 9:02 am
    Most large enterprises would naturally write an RFP for something as critical as their communication systems but also these are the Fortune companies who still haven’t really caught onto the awesomeness of Open Source IP PBX systems, though sooner or later they will and there are some things they should know when writing an RFP specifically for an OS IP PBX. And even if you’re not a Fortune company, you should still write an RFP… honestly, if you’re looking to invest anything over $100K on a phone system, you’d be silly not to have an RFP. Increasingly I’ve…

  • Crossroads: Free or Commercial Asterisk?

    TylerM
    18 Mar 2009 | 10:28 am
    Editors Note: Here’s an interesting piece by Tyler Merritt which I think should generate some good discussions amongst the OS-VoIP community. I personally believe that most Asterisk vendors wouldn’t be in this business if Asterisk wasn’t free, but what I think this article addresses well is the question of “how “free” is Asterisk really for the end user?” I believe that Asterisk is at a crossroads and has been for some time.  Asterisk stands on the Path of Life for applications and ponders a fork clearly visible: Free or Commercial?  Champions of…
 
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    VoIP Watch

  • My T-Mobile UMA Experience and My CDMA Data Experience

    Andy Abramson
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:48 pm
    Traveling to Seoul Korea meant that being savvy and frugal with my mobile usage. I took along a battery of phones, but really at the end of the day ended up using my RIM Blackberries to stay connected most of the time. Sure I used the Nokia E71 with Truphone, but I wanted to put the RIM Blackberry Curve through its paces with UMA in a part of the world where broadband is like water and air. And when I say broadband, I mean blazing fast, no latency broadband, where WiFi is one of the standard ways of staying connected. The RIM Blackberry Curve with UMA via T-Mobile performed like a champ. The…

  • Traveling Lighter

    Andy Abramson
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:22 pm
    As a true road warrior I'm always keen to find tips from others like me. One of my favorite travel industry writers to read is Joe Brancatelli who besides his must read JoeSentMe.com newsletter, also authors a business travel column for Portfolio Magazine. In the most recent issue JB shares what he considers his "essentials" for staying connected on the road. Over the past month I've been in London (twice), Barcelona, Amsterdam, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and Seoul, Korea. I've used two different Macs (a 13" Mac Book Pro and my Mac Book Air), the Asus eee PC 1008 HA, a Viliv V7…

  • The Skype Suit Is Settled-Now Business Can Get On

    Andy Abramson
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:36 pm
    I'm just glad the suit is settled between ebay and Skype. Now a lot of things that have been held back can finally move forward. In many ways the settlement is a good thing. The return of the original founders means disruption will continue, and new ideas will flourish. It also means Skype as a business or brand will now have a chance to prove its worth. Om has a pretty good scorecard on the details. My take--this means that Gizmo, owned by neighbor Michael Robertson should be in the running for a company like Google to pick them up. The Google Voice, Google Talk platform could immediately…

  • T-Mobile- You Got Some Explaining To Do

    Andy Abramson
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:36 pm
    Yesterday, on Monday around 1230 PM I was in Silicon Valley and couldn't call any of my staff on their T-Mobile phones. What I was getting was "sorry, all circuits are busy." Well it seems by today, the problem I first detected had gotten much, much worse. I tried calling from my T-Mobile phone, then my iPhone on AT&T with the same result. So, I called T-Mobile and ran into customer service attitude. I mean, here I am, suggesting they have a network problem, and they're asking me to run tests on MY phone because that's there procedure. Let's face it. If I was able to call them, my phone was…

  • Ribbit Mobile Launches Today

    Andy Abramson
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:36 am
    Looks like Ribbit is chasing the GoogleVoice market with their launch of Ribbit Mobile, in beta, today. Ribbit Mobile is built on the Ribbit Platform, that BT paid over 100 million dollars for. Key point is the service is free (for now) but has a monthly value of $30.00. From the announcement the key feature that Ribbit Mobile offers vs. Google Voice is Voice Memos. Here they are going after the market that JOTT has staked out a while back, and going farther back, where both MobileWord and SpeechMachines both tried and failed. Once my account goes live, I'll have a better perspective on just…
 
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    Broadband Bob's IP Pulse

  • VoIP to the Rescue for Emergency Responders

    Story by Charlotte Wolter[BR][BR]Though VoIP has been challenged to comply with the traditional e911 system, the same cannot be said for new systems designed to provide seamless communication for first responders and emergency services, even when communication infrastructure has been widely destroyed by monstrosities such as a hurricanes.

  • Dutch Government Taps Mitel for Nationwide VoIP

    Story by Charlotte Wolter[BR][BR]Mitel Networks has been chosen by the government of The Netherlands for a[BR]six-year contract to deploy voice over IP to more than 50,000 phones in 96[BR]divisions of the government.

  • Brinksmanship at the FCC

    Story by Charlotte Wolter[BR][BR]The last-minute unanimous vote on Dec.

  • NexTone and Reef Point Morph to NextPoint

    Story by Charlotte Wolter[BR][BR]One of the most enduring companies on the VoIP scene, NexTone, has merged with and Reef Point Systems, a provider of mobile access gateways, to form NextPoint Networks.
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    FierceVoIP

  • Vonage posts 3Q loss

    Mike Dolan
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:46 am
    Vonage posted a wider third-quarter loss of $54.6 million this week and blamed it on the stock rally they had that inflated share prices and resulted in a $63 million charge. The year-ago loss was only $7.8 million. Its share price spiked in August when Google announced its Voice application and investors took that move as a vote of confidence in the VoIP market--driving up Vonage's stock. Vonage's revenue for the quarter was $221.5 million down two percent from $225.8 million a year ago. Revenue per user was up to $29.89 from $28.75. Although the company posted a net loss for…

  • Skype founders may have a deal

    Mike Dolan
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:29 am
    According to GigaOm, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype and now Joltid, are on the verge of an agreement with Silver Lake Partners and eBay that will allow the sale of Skype to go through and settle the grievances the two had with the company. Friis and Zennstrom had sued eBay and the consortium that recently purchased a 65 percent stake in the VoIP calling company for copyright infringement over the use of the underlying technology in Skype, which is currently held by another Friis-Zennstrom entity called Joltid. The founders recently filed an injunction against…

  • Cisco reports earnings, highlights IP communications

    Mike Dolan
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:26 am
    Let's set aside all the rumors and speculation about Cisco's potential mergers and acquisitions. We've got some cold hard figures to report as the company just released their first quarter financial results. Cisco, a networking solutions vendor that's incorporating more telepresence offerings into its product suite, today reported its first quarter results for the period ended October 24, 2009 with net sales of $9.0 billion (down 13 percent year over year). Cisco's GAAP net income was down almost 19 percent year over year coming in at $1.8 billion. Despite the year over year declines,…

  • Video: Cisco announces earnings

    Mike Dolan
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:22 am
    Watch the CEO of Cisco discuss the latest earnings report...

  • Video: Your life could be so much better with UC

    Mike Dolan
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:01 am
    As part of a new marketing plan, Canadian telecommunications company and unified communications provider Telus has created a viral video of sorts. Following the day-to-day activities of UC evangelist Hugo, the video shows how with UC technology workers are happier, more productive and...well can work from the park or the hot tub while still getting the job done early. Video
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    Skype Journal

  • Sold! The bullets

    Phil Wolff
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    The deal values Skype at $2.75 billion. Index is out, freeing up 2.4% of the equity. Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are in. They are contributing Joltid software for 10% of the company. They are paying $83 million for 4% of the company (a discount, since that would value the $2.08 billion). They are dropping the ugly lawsuits. eBay will keep 30%, instead of 35%. eBay still gets $1.9 billion cash. Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and other investors will own 56%, down from 65%. This values the Joltid IP at $275 million. This begs the question: Why didn't Meg Whitman buy the Joltid IP when…

  • The rumored deal devalues Skype five percent

    Phil Wolff
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:32 am
    UPDATE: MORE TO COME. The September 2009 deal valued Skype at $2.9 million. Post-deal, eBay would own 35%, Silverlake 50.6%, Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board 10.26%, Index Ventures Growth Fund 2.39%, Andreessen Horowitz 1.71%. The new deal, as described by Kara Swisher, shuffles the percentages. Skype's founders get 10% of Skype in exchange for Joltid's intellectual property. (Does that mean the company? the software? permission to use the software? putting the software in the public domain FTW?). The founders can buy another 3% for $83 million cash. So 13% to the Z/F. This means…

  • How much gold do you pay pirates?

    Phil Wolff
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:21 am
    They came for fortune but were keelhauled and made to walk the plank. Now Skype's founders are back in a small fast ship, ready to sink her if they don't get paid. Do you fight to defend the S.S. Skype? Can you bribe the scoundrels and trust them to leave? Or do you bend, take them on as partners, and suffer them so you can put back to sea? What do the two sides bring to the parley The Captain Z and Mister Friis wield barristers and silver. They sued Skype over the software license, swearing oaths were broken, blood is due, and Skype should be dry-docked until treasure is paid. They sued the…

  • A busy week ahead

    Phil Wolff
    2 Nov 2009 | 5:21 am
    My calendar's full and to do list is overflowing. Monday's full moon brings the Social Web Camp at Sun Microsystems in Santa Clara with members of the W3C's Social Web Incubator group, Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco's Moscone (#e2conf), ApacheCon in my home town of Oakland, VoiceCon (#voicecon) in San Francisco (Skype will be on a Thursday cloud communications panel and exhibiting), and this week's Yi-Tan community call is about High Performance Organizations. Tuesday starts with a DataPortability Project Steering Meeting, and the ninth Internet Identity Workshop starts (#iiw), the group…

  • Cool demo: Google Wave + Skype + Asterisk + Ibook

    Phil Wolff
    28 Oct 2009 | 8:49 am
    He's in a wave. Adds a gadget. Passes a Skype name to a gadget. Browser-to-Skype call starts. They talk. As each person talks for a bit, their bit is encoded and linked-to. So you have a play-by-play record of a call. Inside a Google wave. Under the covers: Jason Goecke said "it is a Google Wave Gadget with his PhoneFromHere.com IAX2 Java softphone as the client. Then, the IAX2 Java phone connects to Asterisk with Skype for Asterisk installed. Then, there is a server-side element, Ibook, that is breaking apart utterances into individual files. So that as each person speaks, it captures…
 
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    Skype Blogs

  • We've settled with Joltid

    Josh Silverman
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    I have some very exciting news to share with you today. In the past couple of days, we and eBay have reached a settlement with Joltid regarding our dispute with them. This has extremely positive implications for us on three critical fronts: We will now have ownership of the software previously licensed from Joltid, so we’ll be in control of our technology future. All litigation against eBay, Skype and the investor group ends, so we’ll be free to concentrate all of our efforts on building the world’s greatest communications software. Joltid and Skype founders Niklas…

  • Get the magic of Skype on your mobile

    Peter Parkes
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:10 am
    A sneak peek at the ad – if you’re reading this post in an RSS reader, click through to skype.com/magic to see it in all its glory. You may remember that we announced our partnership with CNN back in September - well, the second of our ads has now started appearing. It’s the perfect way to introduce friends and family to the world of Skype on mobile phones. Just point them to skype.com/magic to find out more. You can also follow @skypemobile on Twitter to catch up on all of the latest news from our mobile team. See you there

  • New! Use Skype to call Inmarsat satellite phones

    Peter Parkes
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:37 am
    Great news for those of you who make calls to Inmarsat satellite phones - you can now call them using Skype. Take advantage of our super-low rates: from just €1.80/$2.62/£1.64 per minute. If you have loved ones stationed on ships or oil platforms, Skype can make it just that little bit easier to stay in touch. By making calls more affordable, you can spend that little bit longer catching up, sharing news and telling bedtime stories. You can even call satellite phones from your mobile phone using a Skype To Go number - meaning that you can say goodnight to your partner while you're doing…

  • How the Internet makes intimacy possible

    Peter Parkes
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:22 am
    Just watched this great video about intimacy in online conversations - Stefana Broadbent finds that on mobiles, 80% of a typical person's calls are made to 4 or 5 people; on Skype, they're to just two people. She also talks about the way that video calls connect families; how else do you have dinner with your family back in Sao Paulo when you're in Italy? Well worth watching

  • Why does Net Neutrality matter?

    Peter Parkes
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:46 am
    Jessie Dylan (related) gathered up some of the Internet's pioneers – no idea how Skype's Chris Libertelli sneaked in there – and produced this video. It has to be one of the best overviews of why Net Neutrality matters. Just think - without an open Internet, the millions of hours of free voice and video conversations which have already happened today between people using Skype, simply might not have been possible at all.
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    SMITH ON VOIP

  • Video call your relatives (for free)

    Garrett Smith
    4 Nov 2009 | 6:29 pm
    If you’re like most you’ve got family spread across the country. Or even across the world. Distance often makes it difficult to stay in touch. Let alone enjoy some quality “face time” with loved ones. Heck, with many still hampered financially seeing everyone during over the holiday’s is no sure thing. Flights aren’t getting any cheaper. But for every problem there’s a solution. For those who find themselves far away from “home” it’s video calling. The next best thing to being there. And today video calling got a whole lot cheaper…

  • New Polycom 335 brings HD voice to SMB’s

    Garrett Smith
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:12 pm
    One of the biggest hurdles confronting the HD voice movement is no longer. (more…) Get more Free VoIP information like this at Smith On VoIP. New Polycom 335 brings HD voice to SMB’s          

  • From potential to promise: high definition calling today and tomorrow

    Garrett Smith
    27 Oct 2009 | 10:07 pm
    Call it wideband telephony. Call it HD Voice. I doesn’t matter what you call it. It’s here and it’s here to stay. But where did wideband telephony first emerge? Where are we really at with HD calling today? And most importantly, what does the future for High Definition calling hold for us? And with Phone.com’s recent announcement of the first ever Hosted HD voice phone network, I thought who better to talk about the past, present and future of wideband telephony than their EVP and CTO Alon Cohen. And I mean that because Alon’s no slouch. He co-founder VocalTec…

  • Aastra debuts color touchscreen VoIP phone

    Garrett Smith
    26 Oct 2009 | 7:57 pm
    Move over snom 870. The Aastra 6739i is here. Earlier today at the BroadSoft Connections executive conference Aastra formally announced the 6739i, a SIP based color touch screen. The latest desktop VoIP phone to hit the market touting a color touch screen. (more…) Get more Free VoIP information like this at Smith On VoIP. Aastra debuts color touchscreen VoIP phone          

  • Providers should look into 8×8’s new patent

    Garrett Smith
    21 Oct 2009 | 5:19 pm
    Earlier today leading VoIP provider 8×8 (Packet8) announced that they had been award a new patent. Typically when I see news like this I pass. But when I read through the release, I became much more interested. I became interested in 8×8’s new patent because it could potential impact other VoIP providers and VoIP equipment manufacturers in a major way. I say this because the patent touches upon a commonly used method for setting-up VoIP phones and adapters fro use with their service - auto-provisioning. (more…) Get more Free VoIP information like this at Smith On VoIP.
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    Asterisk VoIP News

  • VoIP sales top $20 billion in first half; more growth to come

    Dal
    30 Oct 2009 | 12:25 pm
    Maybe there is something to this idea that, in a recession, Voice over IP service is an affordable alternative to traditional telephone service. In the first half of 2009, VoIP services brought in nearly $21 billion in revenue, with both residential and business services looking healthy and poised for even more growth for the second half of the year, according to a report by market research firm Infonetics Research. Residential voice services still brings in the majority of revenue, with the number of subscribers growing 14 percent from the end of 2008 through the first half of ‘09. On…

  • Cisco's India revenues inch closer to $1 billion dollar mark

    Dal
    30 Oct 2009 | 12:21 pm
    As Cisco, the world’s largest computer networking equipment maker, approaches around $1 billion in revenues from India, the company is hoping that increased government spending on technology will keep the momentum going.  Cisco has already won three contracts awarded by State Electricity Boards (SEBs) for computerization, each being worth around Rs 200-500 crore. These projects are part of the government’s bigger agenda for computerisation of the power sector by investing nearly Rs 10,000 crore. "Government and PSUs were the top revenue earners for us, replacing IT…

  • U.S. Plan Proposed to Free Up TV Spectrum For Wireless Broadband Usage

    Dal
    29 Oct 2009 | 12:10 pm
    The US Federal Communications Commission is considering a plan that would reclaim some precious airwaves from the country's television broadcasters and reinvent them as wireless broadband. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FCC intends to release the plan on Friday as part of an effort to ensure that there's enough wireless bandwidth for the America of the future. "The record is very clear that we're facing a looming spectrum gap," said Blair Levin, who oversees the plan, part of a wider push to expand US broadband. The plan would involve the FCC buying spectrum back from TV…

  • Asterisk PBX 1.6.1.8 Available for Download

    Dal
    27 Oct 2009 | 2:56 pm
    The Asterisk Development Team has announced the releases of Asterisk 1.6.1.8. This release is available for immediate download athttp://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/The release of 1.6.1.8 resolves an issue where an ACL check is not present for verifying SIP INVITEs. For more information about the details of this vulnerability, please read the security advisory AST-2009-007, which wasreleased at the same time as this announcement.The Asterisk 1.6.1 series is the only fully released version which contains this vulnerability. Releases from previous branches (1.6.0, 1.4, 1.2) are…

  • Aastra Releases 6739i Color Touch Screen IP Phone with Gigabit Ethernet

    Dal
    27 Oct 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Aastra launches the Aastra 6739i, its most advanced desk phone to date. The company unveiled the new color touch screen phone today to hundreds of telecom resellers and service providers at the BroadSoft Connections executive conference. In an increasingly competitive business climate, executives need access to the highest quality communication technology available to facilitate personal communications and collaboration. The feature-packed Aastra 6739i is a market-leading touch screen business desk phone, delivering high quality enterprise communications with advanced features, such as…
 
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    VoIP news - Google News

  • SuperNet Launches IDT - VoIP Simplified - NewsBlaze

    Google Inc.
    SuperNet Launches IDT - VoIP SimplifiedNewsBlaze6 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperNet of Ohio Inc., headquartered in Loveland, announces the launch of its sophisticated VoIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol) service SuperNet of Ohio Launches New Hosted VoIP Service for SMBsTMCnetall 8 news articles »

  • Blabbelon Introduces a Game Changer in VoIP - Reuters

    Google Inc.
    MMOMFG (blog)Blabbelon Introduces a Game Changer in VoIPReutersVoIP chat service uses Skype`s SILK audio codec to offer gamers, consumers and businesses free, no-download, low-bandwidth, super wideband audio-quality Blabbelon launches free voice chat for online gamersVentureBeatBlabbelon offers free service for MMO voice chatMMOMFG (blog)Blabbelon uses Skype, P2T to connect gamersTelephonyOnlineReutersall 19 news articles »

  • One Voice Means Your LTE Calls Will One Day Be VoIP - GigaOm (blog)

    Google Inc.
    IntoMobile (blog)One Voice Means Your LTE Calls Will One Day Be VoIPGigaOm (blog)For those adopting the standard, LTE mobile calls would become VoIP calls. The standard is necessary to ensure you can call people on 3G networks from a 4G Dispelling LTE MythsWireless WeekMajor operators back IMS for voice over LTEFierceBroadbandWirelessVerizon, AT&T, others rally on IMS approach to voice over LTEFierceWirelessTeleGeographyall 87 news articles »

  • Comstor Singapore Picks #1 VoIP Enabler for Risk-free, Quick & Easy UC Deployment - TMCnet

    Google Inc.
    Comstor Singapore Picks #1 VoIP Enabler for Risk-free, Quick & Easy UC DeploymentTMCnetLooking to take advantage of the many benefits offered by Unified Communications, or “UC,” a Westcon Group (News and more »

  • Research and Markets: Mobile VoIP - Plenty Of Talking The Talk, But Can It ... - Reuters

    Google Inc.
    Research and Markets: Mobile VoIP - Plenty Of Talking The Talk, But Can It ReutersMobile VoIP is often perceived as a threat to mobile network operators, eating into their voice revenues and reducing them to mere "dumb pipes" It has also and more »
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    The PhoneBoy Blog

  • Let it Ra1n, Let it Sn0w on my iPhone

    PhoneBoy
    4 Nov 2009 | 6:39 pm
    Ok, I was suckered into something I said I wouldn’t do: I actually jaikbroke and unlocked my iPhone. George Hotz, a.k.a. geohot make it so easy with blackra1n. It was a super easy process to do, and if you do a restore, your iPhone is back to its Steve Jobs approved state. For the most part, I don’t want a jailbroken phone. However, Apple (or is it AT&T?) doesn’t permit the iPhone to be unlocked in the United States. I don’t need that often, but it is handy when I am traveling, which I have done quite a bit lately. One other thing I can certainly use is the ability…

  • Not Following The Crowd

    PhoneBoy
    1 Nov 2009 | 1:06 am
    Image via Wikipedia Much has been made over Twitter’s new “lists” feature they have been rolling out over the past several weeks. Instead of the tyranny of Twitter’s own “suggested user list,” users can feel free to create their own, add whomever they want, and share the list with others. A nice feature long overdue, if you ask me. Of course, all we’re doing is trading one tyrant for another. Instead of relying on Twitter’s opinion about who to follow, you rely on someone else’s. That’s ok, if you agree with who they want to follow.

  • The Dangers of Social Networking

    PhoneBoy
    1 Nov 2009 | 12:15 am
    This past week, I’ve been on the Check Point Security Tour up in Western Canada talking about the Dangers of Social Networking. The basis of the presentation was actually something I gave to Check Point employees in Redwood City back in August on the benefits of social networking. I added the “dangers” part after I  was asked to present in this tour This topic seem quite timely as this past week, several of my followers on Twitter got bit by the latest attempt at hacking Twitter accounts. At least three of my followers sent me direct messages on Twitter that were a little…

  • T-Mobile USA’s New Plans Show You What The Handset Subsidy Costs

    PhoneBoy
    26 Oct 2009 | 9:46 am
    T-Mobile USA’s new rate plans were announced today: Even More and Even More Plus. The Even More plans look like a rather traditional plan with a subsidized handset and 2-year contract with unlimited voice starting at $59.99/mo, unlimited text for $10/mo, and unlimited data for either $10 or $30/mo depending on whether or not you have a smartphone. That’s not an unreasonable deal. What’s more interesting to me is the Even More Plus plan. The unlimited voice part of that plan is $49.99/mo. Unlimited text is another $10/mo and unlimited data is another $20/mo. The handsets on…

  • PhoneBoy’s Travel Toolbox

    PhoneBoy
    20 Oct 2009 | 6:02 am
    Since I’ve joined Check Point Software, I’ve done a fair bit of traveling–moreso than I’ve done in quite some time. Since I am ending up more random places, and have had the joy of going through airport security in Tel Aviv on two occasions so far (which makes the TSA experience seem relatively painless by comparison), it has forced me to refine my travel toolbox–things that come with me on every trip I make. Lighter traveling makes for easier traveling, and the following items have earned a more or less permanent place in my travel bag. The Apple iPhone: As much…
 
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  • Twitter lists, I am not bothered

    Pat Phelan
    1 Nov 2009 | 2:58 am
    Lists, Lists and Lists It appears to have set the world on fire, me? I am not bothered Maybe its just me but I really don’t understand the excitement over lists, I have the feature and played with it a few times and that’s it. Scoble makes a lot of sense, Chris Brogan makes no sense and Todd Zeigler is of the opinion that the more lists you on on the more important you are, I have just added him to my “people that make no sense list” This is just going to be another circle jerk in my opinion, can you hear it now? How many followers do you have? Well you beat me, How…

  • Donal Óg Cusack out of the closet and into the clover

    Pat Phelan
    21 Oct 2009 | 4:10 pm
    As a sports addict who would support any type of game I could not help but hear the story of Donal Óg Cusack over the last few weeks. Donal is the goalkeeper for the Cork Hurling team if you didn’t already know that and has just told the world that he is gay, I admire his decision 100% and fair play to him. It stops there though. In what I see as an incredible cynical move Donal timed this announcement with the launch of his book “Come what may” and thus ended Cork’s worst kept secret, I mean in fairness lads the dogs on the street knew Donal was gay (not that it mattered a jot to…

  • Free money here

    Pat Phelan
    13 Oct 2009 | 11:45 am
    I have a friend whom I haven’t heard from for a while, a fantastically decent chap, we soldiered together when neither of us had a bean between us. His business is gone slow and he has been looking for other “opportunities” I should add that he has zero internet and computing experience. He has been hanging out with these “nice folk” and now these “lovely people” are going to help him get rich or should I say help him to get them rich. These fantastically talented human beings are going to make him rich beyond his wildest dreams in fact one of them…

  • UPC Broadband, wonderful service unless you want to work at the weekends.

    Pat Phelan
    11 Oct 2009 | 9:52 am
    I switched to UPC Broadband a few weeks ago and was at first thrilled with their service, 17 megs downstream out of a possible 20 megs, always on, no download limits but it has now become possibly the worst broadband service I have ever used. I again have no connectivity for the last two hours and yesterday no connectivity for 3 hours (just back up 8hrs downtime) I am now on almost first name terms with their customer service team who appear to have the knowledge of gnats regarding broadband. 3 weeks in a row I can now almost guarantee it will be down again next Sunday as the company appears…

  • MAXroam goes Dutch, Spanish and WiFi

    Pat Phelan
    1 Oct 2009 | 7:47 am
    These multiple releases are now part of our strategy moving forward with lots more to come next qtr. We are delighted to announce a number of new partnerships today. MAXroam Spain is now open for business in conjunction with our partner Dr Sim a fantasic company which helps Spaniards reduce their mobile bills. A special word of thanks here to my friend Loic as I first met Dr Sim at Le Web last December. (Highly recommended event) One item that is constantly requested by our users is WiFi deals, we examined a number of options provided by global companies and went with Trustive. They have been…
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  • Telio - Still Going Strong

    Jon Arnold
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:19 pm
    Telio is far from a household name in North America, but if you follow the residential VoIP market - or VoIP in general - they should be on your radar. I've been following them for years, and if this is news, here's what you need to know. They went public about the same time as Vonage, but let's just say the companies have gone in different directions. You can get a taste of this from my earlier posts, such as this one. Since this comparison post from 2006, the song has basically remained the same, and Telio keeps making money.So, who is Telio? Well, if you do a Google search, you'll discover…

  • Next Stop - San Fran - Cisco Collaboration Summit

    Jon Arnold
    5 Nov 2009 | 12:45 pm
    It's been a busy few weeks travel-wise, and my last stop is finally coming up. Next week, I'll be in San Francisco, attending Cisco's 2009 Collaboration Summit.Not much more to say, but I feel lucky to be part of this group, and collaboration is definitely of interest to me these days. Cisco has been active in this space all year, even if you put the Tandberg story aside. Am sure that will be one of the topics of discussion, but I'm particularly interested in how they'll be going to market with scaled down collaboration solutions that will have broader market appeal. As I saw on my…

  • October Media Roundup

    Jon Arnold
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:11 pm
    Not a lot to report for media coverage last month, but for good reason. October was my busiest month travel-wise in ages, plus I had two new projects underway that kept me pretty focused. Plus, planning for the next Smart Grid Summit is in full swing. For regular readers, you'll know that this is becoming an important focus for me, and I'm regularly posting content to our Smart Grid portal, but not normally citing any of that here. With that said, here's where I turned up otherwise last month. First, a mainstream business citing:- Business Week - "Vonage: Smartphone Apps for International…

  • Reminder - Media Gateway 2.0 Webinar Tomorrow

    Jon Arnold
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:24 am
    Just a last call for tomorrow's webinar I'm doing with TelcoBridges. Basically, I've completed a White Paper for them on what I can Media Gateway 2.0, and we're sharing the highlights on the call. There's still time to register, so join us if you're interested. All the pertinent details are outlined in my earlier blog post, so I'll steer you there for next steps.

  • BroadSoft Connections - Recap on Microsoft's Blog

    Jon Arnold
    2 Nov 2009 | 2:32 pm
    Just when you thought I was done with BroadSoft Connections! Wait - there's more, but with a twist. Microsoft's Communications Sector recently started a blog called Behind 3 Screens - referring of course to the three screens they're trying to serve in our digital world - PC, TV and mobile.Anyhow, they've been on me for a while to submit a guest post, and this is my first one for their blog. If you follow my blog and/or BroadSoft, you'll know they're working closely with MSFT, especially for hosted UC. As such, they were keen to hear my thoughts about Connections, and I prepared an exclusive…
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  • Mashup Google Wave, Skype, and Asterisk = Ultimate Coolness

    5 Nov 2009 | 11:10 am
    Skype Journal wrote about one of the coolest mashups I've ever seen. Certainly one of the coolest VoIP mashups. Skype Journal explains PhoneFromHere Tim Panton's demo that he gave at Astricon where Tim mashes up Google Wave, Skype, Asterisk running Skype for Asterisk and Ibook to make Skype calls from within a browser-based Google Wave. Not only is it sans Skype client, but it has recordings (labeled by person speaking) of individual utterances, so you can quickly playback what a particular person said at a certain point in time.It's amazing to make a Skype call from a browser without running…

  • Skype Battle Nears End

    4 Nov 2009 | 7:53 am
    Gigaom reports that there is a good chance that a resolution of the lawsuit between the Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis and eBay's Skype could be announced as soon as this week.According to Gigaom, a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal dispute with Niklas and Janus which will allow eBay to sell 65 percent of Skype for around $2 billion. This means that Index Ventures and Michelangelo Volpi, former CEO of Joost are on the "outs" to buy Skype. It's important to note that Joost also uses the proprietary P2P protocol…

  • Skype Announces Open Source - Sort of...

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:41 am
    Slashdot was abuzz with the news that Skype was going open source. Not so fast my friend. Have you not forgotten Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis who now run JoltId are in a legal fight with Skype?Surely Skype wouldn't be so bold as to release their P2P 'secret sauce' while still in court litigation with JoltId. Who would want to thumb their nose at the all-powerful judge? In fact, the lawsuit reads: "A source code version of the GI Software (Global Index Software) is licensed by Joltid to Joost, allowing Joost to be the first company to successfully deliver television and…

  • Blabbelon Opens a New (VoIP) World for Gamers

    3 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    Blabbelon, the cross-platform web-based VoIP app designed for video gaming, which I tested yesterday and posted a review today released an official statement about their new offering. I thought I'd share it since it has some good info to compliment my review posted this morning: Stop Venting: Blabbelon Opens a New World for Gamers Free, one-click, push-to-talk chat service eliminates Ventrilo frustrations; No downloads, server rentals or limits on groups; Super wideband audio-quality voice chat using Skype's SILK audio codec New York, NY- November 3, 2009 - You're about to jump on a MMOG and…

  • Ribbit Mobile Launches

    3 Nov 2009 | 6:59 am
    Ribbit today announced the release of Ribbit Mobile, a free communication suite designed for mobile professionals who need to be able to easily manage all of their phone numbers, communication devices, and how & when they are contacted. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based service that lets you manage calls, messages and phones. It's hard not to compare this new offering to Google Voice. One advantage of Ribbit Mobile is that it can make calls from within your browser using their Flash-based software client. Ribbit Mobile features include voicemail transcription, smart call routing, and…
 
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  • Voxygen’s revolutionary “Caller ID” application

    Alec
    Here at eComm, the last demo of the conference is one of the most impressive.  Voxygen’s “next generation Caller ID” revolutionizes customer service by linking actions on a web site to a click to call button.  The example they showed included a customer who browsed a camera shopping website, filled in a form for a call back, and then received a call from the customer service rep.  At the call center, the representative received demographic and caller information, plus an entire history of what the customer had been browsing on the site, and up-sale tips. Result: A better…

  • eComm Day 2: the shift to value

    Alec
    Yesterday’s eComm saw an emphasis on value creation on telecom networks.  Talks ranged from Dean Bubley’s instructive and provocative discussion of LTE and how it is being held hostage by ordinary telephony, through to demonstrations of applications that embed voice into the new categories of “flow” applications.  Stuart Henshall showed how voice can be embedded into a twitter stream with his Phweet application, and Tim Panton showed a similar application with voice conversations embedded into Google Wave. Voxeo’s RJ Auburn showed how, with their platform, conversations…

  • EComm: Time to change the station

    Alec
    I’ve spent a little over a day at eComm meeting people, listening to the conversations and presentations happening and reflecting on what I’ve heard. During the panel yesterday afternoon, I noted that I spend less on voice, data, and text messaging each month than I ever have, but more money on communications over all. What has made up the difference?  Music, and applications.  The carrier’s share of wallet is in decline, although I spend as much or more money than before. When I asked whether the panelists were worried by this trend, there was no good answer. It’s time to…

  • BlackBerry Doomed?

    Alec
    Toktumi’s Peter Sisson asks Is the BlackBerry Doomed? and goes on to compare his recent experience of developing for BlackBerry with his experience as an iPhone developer.  Many of his complaints – non-standard hardware and OS versions in particular – are the same issues we ran into two years ago when we developed and delivered iotum’s Talk-Now  presence application for BlackBerry.  Ultimately we gave up on the BlackBerry, believing the return on investment of developing for the web would be higher.  And, in fact, Calliflower on iPhone is a hybrid web / native…

  • eComm Europe kickoff

    Alec
    At eComm this morning, Martin Geddes kicked off the event with a talk on what the world looks likes when the value of minutes disappears.  He cogently makes the argument that business models based on charging for minutes leak cash for corporations that buy those services – the call centers, and so on.  He then went on to show how voice could be used to augment business processes using two common technology vectors – social media and voice mail systems. He argues that telco’s need to understand their customer’s business processes in order to add value to the corporation. Bob…
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  • Skype Founders Drop Lawsuit

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    The battle over Skype has been resolved. "The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, will drop their lawsuits against [eBay] and a consortium of buyers whose bid to purchase 65 percent of Skype was announced last month, according to an announcement released by eBay before the opening of the stock markets Friday," writes the NYT's Brad Stone. "As part of the complex agreement, the founders will own a 14 percent stake in the new Skype and receive two seats on the board." "Now, Skype execs ...

  • Infonetics: VoIP Providers Earning Billions

    31 Oct 2009 | 7:44 pm
    According to a recent report from Infonetics Research, revenue from VoIP worldwide reached $20.7 billion in the last six months alone. That's billion, with a b... "Residential VoIP services remain healthy, comprising the majority of worldwide VoIP services revenue, and subscribers are up 14% from the end of 2008," says Infonetics analyst Diane Meyers. "On the business VoIP side, while managed IP PBX revenue growth has slowed in line with IP PBX shipments, we are expecting IP Centrex and hosted UC service revenue to grow 26% year-over-year ...

  • Seen that? - SIPMethod Application Server Beta Released

    31 Oct 2009 | 6:20 pm
    SIPMethod Application Server Beta Released at The VoIP Weblog This may go way over the heads of some of you, but I know we have some VoIP gurus reading this so, if you are interested in developing VoIP applications, you might want to ...

  • VoIP Gets Sexy: Introducing the BeoCom 5

    22 Oct 2009 | 5:56 pm
    Bang & Olufsen this week introduced the BeoCom 5, an extremely stylish two-line combined VoIP-and-landline phone. "The dual-line DECT phone works both as a twin landline handset and as a VoIP device, and magnetically docks either onto its charging plinth or onto a portable speakerphone (that also charges the handset)," writes SlashGear's Chris Davies. "There’s also a 2-inch LCD, aluminum scroll wheel (that doubles as a four-way D-pad with center-select) and plenty of metal and glass in the the construction." "Honestly, it’s a really cool looking phone, ...

  • Skype May Buy Gizmo5

    15 Oct 2009 | 4:08 pm
    TechCrunch's Michael Arrington this week broke the news that Skype is in negotiations to buy VoIP provider Gizmo5 for approximately $50 million. "The purchase is part of a back-up plan to ensure code base for the online VoIP provider in the event that it's lawsuit with Joltid results in the company not having access to the underlying code Skype uses to make VoIP calls," writes FierceVoIP's Mike Dolan. "Currently the code base is licensed to Skype by its original founders who now run Joltid and are ...
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  • SIP Trunking Value Statement – The Foundation to Unified Communications

    Adam Uzelac
    6 Nov 2009 | 11:28 am
     All too often, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is associated only with VoIP.  It’s understandable, as the largest SIP deployments to date were done to move voice products (long distance, call centers, IVR, etc) from a TDM-based circuit-switch, to a packet-based IP architecture.  But voice is representative of a single example of what defines a “Session” in SIP.  SIP handles multiple forms of communications.  From quasi-realtime Instant Messaging to live video communications, all leveraging packet-based communications.  The point above is very…

  • Next-Gen Ethernet Wholesale/Retail Services: Abundant Bandwidth, Abundant Choice

    Jim Poore
    2 Nov 2009 | 4:55 pm
    On November 4, 9:00am, I will be speaking at the Ethernet Expo Americas 2009 in NYC on a panel titled: Next-Gen Ethernet Wholesale & Retail Services: Abundant Bandwidth, Abundant Choice Along with Matthew Finnie, CTO, Interoute and Doug Junkins, Vice President of IP Development, NTT Americas, I will be sharing my perspectives on how abundant bandwidth and abundant choice offered by next-gen carrier Ethernet is transforming the data communications landscape, unleashing business productivity, and helping enterprises become more flexible in dealing with today’s on-demand business…

  • Interview with Ray Smith of Global Crossing at SUPERCOMM 09

    Ray Smith
    28 Oct 2009 | 1:53 pm
    If you attended the Supercomm 2009 event last week in Chicago and wasn't able to stop by room W183A during a panel on Carrier Ethernet & MPLS, take a few minutes now to listen to my interview with Joan Engebretson of Connected Planet.         Global Crossing EtherSphere™ Wide Area Network Solutions deliver flexibility and global reach. EtherSphere enables a Virtual Private LAN Service [VPLS] that provides the flexibility needed to decrease network management costs, to provide diversity, and to improve connectivity among geographically…

  • Social Media For Talk Show Hosts & Preachers – Why not CIOs?

    Kevin Courteau
    28 Oct 2009 | 6:08 am
    Imagine my surprise when our 60 something priest at our small community church mentioned both Facebook and Twitter in a recent sermon. That same week I had heard the local radio talk show host quoting in disbelief the published statistic that 69% of adults still have no clue what Twitter is. The same talk show host who only 8 weeks earlier created a Twitter account, then soon complained how Twitter was useless and good for nothing but cluttering his mobile phone with annoying text messages. Now his station is actively promoting their Twitter account encouraging all listeners to…

  • Global Policy vs Protection

    Robin Stehlik
    27 Oct 2009 | 6:35 am
    One of the things I love about working in a worldwide company like Global Crossing is I get to work with many diverse people from many cultures around the world. This lets me experience how different people work and how they approach their jobs. I’m not sure if you saw this [How People Count Cash] doing the rounds on the web in the last few weeks but this got me to thinking about how different cultures do things and in particular about security in global companies. In todays global companies many CSOs and IT policy setters think that the best approach to security is to have a…
 
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  • WiFi VoIP Instead of 3G Calling? Give Me Seamless WiFi First

    Tsahi Levent-Levi
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:02 am
    I am definitely not a gadget freak - the mobile phone I use is the corporate Nokia 6120 classic and I am happy with it (!!!), but I am a workaholic - so, at home, my laptop is always open, the VPN is always connected, and I check my corporate email account frequently. Why am I telling you that about myself? Because some people think WiFi VoIP is going to replace 3G calling. Michael Graves, for instance, thinks DECT is better than WiFi, when it comes to VoIP: In everything experiment that I’ve ever tried DECT/CATiq products soundly beat any dedicated SIP Wifi handset. While Michael…

  • How to Select the Best Chip for Your Video Coding?

    Tsahi Levent-Levi
    2 Nov 2009 | 3:27 am
    [This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] One of the most burning issues involved with designing a video telephony device is where the video codec is going to reside. The reason is that this is by far the most CPU intensive task of the whole system, especially when going up to high definition. I’d like to discuss the various options that exist today on the market, with their relative advantages and challenges. There is a wide variety of solutions that can accommodate a video codec successfully. At their very basic level, they can be…

  • VoIP’s Best Advantage? Mesh-Ups

    Tsahi Levent-Levi
    2 Nov 2009 | 1:26 am
    Just before the Jewish New Year, Houston Neal from Software Advice pinged me, asking for my opinion about a post he wrote - Seven Great Applications for IP-PBXs in the Medical Practice. In this post he outlines a few ideas on how VoIP can be used in healthcare. Specifically on how IP-PBXs can be combined with Electronic Health Records (EHR). I’ve written here before about mobile video telephony and health care, but this is a bit different. This time the idea is to mesh up one service with another. And there’s no better way to do that than using VoIP. The Internet has brought us…

  • How the iPhone Changed the Game… EVERY Game

    Tsahi Levent-Levi
    29 Oct 2009 | 4:17 am
    The iPhone has been around for a while now. And while it has been a game changer to the mobile handset industry, it was also a game changer of almost EVERY other industry in town. I came to this conclusion reading Om Malik’s post about the wireless bandwidth boom, which has (of course) been driven by the iPhone: But the popularity of new 3G devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry 3G has increased the use of data, putting the backend networks under strain. And from that perspective, today’s 3G networks are like glittering skyscrapers built on a foundation of matchsticks. So what…

  • What If Microsoft Developed Twitter

    Tsahi Levent-Levi
    26 Oct 2009 | 4:01 am
    [Once in a while there comes a time to write a post unrelated to VoIP. Or anything else in this blog for that matter. The sole purpose of the post is to attract readers that might find it amusing enough to stay around a bit - or god forbid subscribe to the blog in question. Guess what? You are now reading such a post.] What if Microsoft was the company behind the service we all call Twitter? Every tweet would be a maximum of 140 characters, but would need to download a 2Mb message, containing various XML markups and a ton of security. You know - you would be able to change the font of your…
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  • Boucher, Lee Charge Ahead, Again, on USF Reform

    6 Nov 2009 | 2:47 pm
    Two House representatives have released a draft Universal Service Reform (USF) bill that would broaden the contribution base to include broadband.Rick Boucher, D-Va., and Lee Terry, R-Neb., who have collaborated before on USF reform legislation, on Friday unveiled the proposed changes. They want the FCC to adopt a competitive bidding ...(184 words)

  • FCC Wants Industry’s Input on Special Access Pricing

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:40 pm
    The FCC is opening an inquiry into special access pricing, a move the industry has expected for several weeks. On Thursday, the agency kicked off a 45-day comments process; it wants input on how to analyze the wholesale pricing, or special access, the Bells charge for allowing competitors to use ...(182 words)

  • Skype Founders, eBay Come to Terms Over Lawsuit

    6 Nov 2009 | 10:56 am
    Skype’s founders – who have been upset over eBay’s planned sale of their VoIP baby to a private investor group, and sued – have settled with the online auction giant.Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will own a 14 percent stake in Skype, with an option to invest even more. In ...(175 words)

  • Report: Smartphones To Outsell Regular Cells by 2012

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:27 am
    Prepare to see more BlackBerrys, Droids, Pres, iPhones and the like than traditional mobile phones in the very near future. In less than three years, smartphone sales will overtake the sale of standard mobile phones. That’s according to a new report from Infonetics Research."Smartphones are on track to post a ...(311 words)

  • AT&T Gets FCC’s Nod for Centennial Buy

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:11 am
    Three weeks after winning antitrust approval, ATT’s $944 million buy of Centennial Communications is now getting the FCC’s thumbs-up.Centennial has customers throughout the Midwest and the Southeast, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The companies have argued that the merger will better allow for the deployment ...(176 words)
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  • WiFi VoIP Gets Closer as FCC Seeks Public Comment on Net Neutrality Rules

    Lonnie Lazar
    22 Oct 2009 | 12:35 pm
    The Federal Communications Commission published an initial draft of proposed new rules (pdf) on Thursday that would, if approved, effectively make net neutrality the law of the land and open the door to WiFi VoIP as never before. The Draft Rules to Preserve the Free and Open Internet seek to codify non-binding policy guidelines in place [...]

  • Asterisk Makes Enterprise Inroads With Big Blue

    Lonnie Lazar
    15 Oct 2009 | 2:45 pm
    Digium and IBM announced a new partnership at Astricon Thursday that highlights both the Asterisk company’s increasing attention from the enterprise telecommunications sector as well as Big Blue’s growing appetite for SMB market share. The two companies announced the creation of an Asterisk-based phone system available now for the IBM Smart Cube platform. Smart Cube is [...]

  • Voxilla’s FreePBX in a Cloud, Step-By-Step

    Eric Chamberlain
    15 Oct 2009 | 12:30 pm
    Because of the interest in our series on VoIP and the open source Asterisk PBX using Amazon's convenient Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Voxilla released a pre-built virtual machine EC2 image using FreePBX, the popular graphical front end administration tool for Asterisk. In this post, we provide step-by-step instructions to install Voxilla's FreePBX in a Cloud.

  • FreePBX in a Cloud With a Click

    Eric Chamberlain
    15 Oct 2009 | 9:54 am
    Note: This post has been updated with a new FreePBX in a Cloud instance for Europe. Since making freely available Voxilla’s  “pre-built” Asterisk installation for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (Asterisk on the Cloud With a Click), we’ve received many requests for a version that includes a graphical administration front end for the well-regarded open-source PBX. Answering the [...]

  • Asterisk on the Cloud With a Click

    Eric Chamberlain
    15 Oct 2009 | 9:10 am
    Our two-part tutorial explaining how to use VoIP (Part 1) and Asterisk (Part 2) in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) has garnered quite a bit of attention. But due to the time required to complete the many steps needed to get up and running, some of you have asked if it is possible to create a much simpler to install "pre-built" Asterisk installation. In short, yes it is. And we've done just that for you. Please read on.
 
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  • 7 Phone Call Tracking Tools Every Online Marketer Must Know

    Elan
    3 Nov 2009 | 1:06 pm
    Given all of the web analytics tools out there, tracking online conversions is relatively easy. The big challenge for marketers is tracking offline conversions like phone calls. Since most businesses still rely on phone calls, not web form submissions, this is a critical piece of online marketing.Here Are 7 Phone Call Tracking Tools To Add To Your Online Marketing Arsenal

  • How The iPhone Voice Broadcast App Helps Teacher Save Time

    Elan
    29 Oct 2009 | 8:07 am
    In addition to classroom time, teachers spend many hours each week preparing lessons, grading assignments and communicating with parents. Since we love helping our customers save time at work, we were excited to read the following story.

  • TMC CEO Rich Tehrani Interviews Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro

    Elan
    27 Oct 2009 | 2:27 pm
    Watch the video interview below with Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro. TMC CEO Rich Tehrani and Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro discuss Ifbyphone's business at SuperComm 2009.

  • Super Excited For SUPERCOMM

    Elan
    19 Oct 2009 | 1:59 pm
    We're super excited for SUPERCOMM this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. It should be another great industry event in our own backyard.We're looking to meet telecom carriers & service providers that want to white-label and resell telephone applications to broaden their service offering, increase stickiness, and ultimately grow revenue.Will you be at the show? Use the links below to learn a little more about us, and then stop by booth 3112.

  • What’s New in Ifbyphone Version 3.1

    Dan Day
    13 Oct 2009 | 11:51 pm
    Ifbyphone’s new Version 3.1 includes a variety of new and enhanced applications and features. While many of the underlying changes in Version 3.1 are transparent to the user, they aid in report generation, reduce application load time, and position Ifbyphone to develop future enhancements more quickly than ever. This blog post highlights some of the new applications and feature enhancements.
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