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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It's not often I haer the word mashup and profitable in the same sentence, but the winners of the Telephony Mashup Challenge look to be just that. The challenge was hosted by Sylantro and The...
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The folks at iotum have went and improved their Free Conference Calling service on Facebook. The big thing they added to the conferencing itself are things that are fairly common on conference calls:...
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Tom Keating over at TMCnet has a source that tells him that Pizza Hut, the world's largest pizza chain, is adding VoIP to their secret sauce. When you call your local Pizza Hut, you'll instead...
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Click-to-call is nothing new, certainly. But now you can get it worldwide. For free. Well, to the person that clicks on the button, anyway. Jajah has launched their new click-to-call buttons. It's...
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This iPhone was used to make a completely IP-based call at the DEMO conference. Who did it? None other than the guys at Truphone. This isn't in usable form yet. This was a "proof of...
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I frequently get sent press releases from companies with all kinds of names. Some names are descriptive, others are not. Given the amount of stuff I have to sift through for my blogging, if your...
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The folks at Jangl keep expanding their partnerships with other social networking sites. This time they've netted themselves a front-age relationship with Tagged. Check the screenshot below:...
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I've had a month or so to let this post by Andy Abramson ruminate in my head. The cliff notes version of Andy's post is that T-Mobile in the US is poised to do a major VoIP play. They've...
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The phone pictured to the left, the Linksys SPA-942, runs for around $149. It's quite a nice IP phone, at least for the price point. I have the cheaper SPA-941, which lacks Power over Ethernet and...
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Now where have I heard this idea before? Oh yeah, Jangl, several months ago. Foonz gives you the ability to call a group of your friends from your mobile, but with a twist. It's a bit like the...
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The folks at iotum are putting the finishing touches on their Free Conference Calling application for Facebook. You can now invite your US/Canada-based Facebook peeps to a free conference call using...
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Fring is one of the more interesting mobile VoIP applications I've seen. It manages to use the regular IM capabilities of a number of IM networks-including Skype. It also uses their voice...
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Last night, I got an SMS email from the folks at PhoneGnome with warning of a likely outage. The contents of this email are posted after the jump. The reason? One of their main data center providers...
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Pat Phelan is one of those guys whom you just have to admire. Being a former chef, he's not your typical telecom guy. Many of his projects have been about one thing: getting people talking for as...
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Truphone has been busy improving their VoIP-based mobile service. Three new items of note from the folks who connect people over their mobile handsets using VoIP and also make cheese on a dairy farm:...
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It's funny to hear about this from a blog of the CEO of one of Jaxtr's competitors, Jangl, but Michael Cerda breaks the news anyway. Good news for the VoIP industry that more money is flowing...
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I always like hearing stories of people doing well. Clearly when you're growing your business at 783%, like the folks at VoIP Supply are doing, things are going very well. It can't continue to...
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When I think of using VoIP on a mobile phone, I think of the portion of the call originating from the handset going over an IP connection, usually over WiFi. I can and do make VoIP calls with the...
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