One of my biggest problems with any system that virtualizes your mobile telephone identity with different telephone numbers is that the telephone numbers aren't really telephone numbers. Sure, you...
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This particular press release isn't a surprise to me, given my past conversations with SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy. Distance learning is a clear application of video over IP, yet we don't see...
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When I read the press release for Jajah Direct-provided after the jump-my immediate thought was: hey, that sounds an awful lot like the way Jangl works: associate a phone number with a relationship...
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I have to admit, this caught me off-guard. But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Jangl has focused on enabling telephony within social networks, or anywhere else for that matter....
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A little birdie told me some interesting news about Numbr, a service I've previously written about. While I can't really go into the details, I can say they are looking at bringing their...
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MAXroam, the GSM SIM that doesn't know you're traveling, now offers free inbound telephone numbers in more countries than when they first launched. No matter what country the telephone number...
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As I said before, VoIP is about video and voice over the net. The folks behind VoIPSupply have taken it a step further and launched a site for IP-enabled surveillance: IPCameraSupply.com. Now this...
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I was tipped off about United Mobile from an Andy Abramson post. Hadn't heard of them before, but it looks like they are very similar to MaxRoam, a service I had written about before. united...
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If you're a small business, you've undoubtedly had to think about telephones in the office. Maybe you're doing Centrex (or the local equivalent). Maybe you've gone completely to...
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I wish I had posted about this sooner, given the terrible wildfires raging in Southern California right now. Unfortunately, life and the day job get in the way sometimes. :( Anyway, many of the folks...
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Voxalot has been a service that many do-it-yourself VoIP folks really like. In addition to giving you a Voxalot (not PSTN) number for life, they made it really easy to easily use multiple Internet...
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It's been a while since I've written about Yak4ever/AllFreeCalls, Pat Phelan's scheme to "end the rip off" of expensive long distance calls to 48 countries. The service is...
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While not the first company to offer video on their dialtone-over-IP service, I do believe BroadVoice is the first to give the hardware away-with a three year service agreement. BroadVoice's Ojo...
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Truphone, which we've covered quite a bit on the VoIP Weblog, provides the ability for you to make cheap or free wifi calls from your compatible Nokia Nseries or Eseries handset at rates far more...
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One of the many, many problems I have with Ooma is that random strangers could be using your landline to make local calls. That, for a number of reasons, just doesn't sit well with me....
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Mobivox is something I played with a long time ago. The basic idea behind it is fairly simple: You call a telephone number, which then allows you to make calls by simply speaking the person's...
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Jangl's approach of partnering with online social communities continues to gain traction. By going directly to the social networks and becoming a direct part of their experience, they can't be...
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Pat Phelan is a class act. In the process of launching Cubic Telecom's new MaxRoam service, they made several errors with regards to pricing. These were, according to Pat, technical errors likely...
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