I was trying to figure out why this particular announcement was news. In fact, this was discussed on Friday's Squawk Box call about 23 minutes in. Who cares what backend services platform...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ryan LaneJaduka originally released their APIs for their telephony platform over a year ago, which can easily be used to integrate with other applications. Open the...

Every once in a while, I have to exercise my responsibilities as one of Creative Weblogging's "network bloggers" (i.e. I blog on a series of CW's tech-related blogs). This time,...

Peter Csathy, the CEO of SightSpeed, posted this picture on his blog today along with the following message: "While others don't even have multi-party video chat, we decided to up the ante to...

Last week while I was in Ottawa, I had lunch with Alec Saunders. While I certainly hear from Alec on a regular basis thanks to his Squawk Box calls, I rarely get one-on-one time with Alec-especially...

This might be old news by now, but the folks at Vonage have a website with their ads along with user-submitted ones called Vonageland! Here's one of the ads Vonage produced: The site also has a...

The folks at Gizmo5, formerly Gizmo Project and SIPphone, give you an email address-an email address associated with your Gizmo5 instant messaging. The theory goes that you want to receive an instant...

The folks at Vapps have renamed their High Speed Conferencing service Hi-Def Conferencing. To be quite honest, I'm not sure why that name was chosen in the first place. The new name is much more...

Andy Abramson's post on who owns the residential and business VoIP sectors reminds me of the conversation I had with our local Comcast Business rep at the WSTA meeting I went to last week. While...

Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood, but the latest news from Nimbuzz does not excite me. Oh sure, the client does multi-IM support-including Skype, and either supports VoIP calls over the PSTN or even...

Back in November when Jajah and Jangl announced their partnership, I wondered aloud whether or not this might turn into something else. Turns out it did, but not exactly the way I was thinking it...

I was wondering where Truphone got the money to buy SIM4Travel, now it's clear: they raised another 16.5 Million UK Pounds (or $32.7 Million US Dollars) from both current and new investors!...

Apparently the folks on CrunchGear follow Pat Phelan on Twitter like I do. Pat reported that Ooma-the VoIP service the blogosphere universally hates-is alive and well. From his Twitter: got a nice...

Truphone, known more for enabling WiFi calling and SMS on Nokia handsets than being a traditional wireless carrier, is now going to be just that. Truphone recently announced they have acquired the...

I want to be clear that this is an unsubstantiated rumor at this point. The only thing we have is a single blog post by Marc Robins, and the reported radio silence by the Pulvermedia team to go on....

It seems like every time I turn around, there's a new way to do the same crap we've always done: connect and share our deepest thoughts, our media, and our hearts. It's a problem that goes...

Techcrunch breaks the news that Jangl now has a way to sell ads on those free calls it provides via a number of social networks. Jangle Mobile Media Solutions offers advertisers three ways to get in...

The folks at VoIP Guides have uncovered a "secret"-and I use that term loosely-that allows you to use Jaxtr to essentially make free calls over VoIP "forever"-or until Jaxtr goes...

Jaduka has announced a series of "telephony widgets" through Jaduka Labs: dukaDIAL: Call any number in the U.S. and Canada for free. dukaLINK: Create a link to allow someone in the U.S. and...