Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Alberto Pomares I will be taking a break from my various blogs for the next week and a half-including this one. I will be on vacation with my family, visiting friends...
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Back in the early days of my industry experience, 8x8 was a company I was familiar with only insofar as I knew they had a Check Point firewall and I worked for the company that provided support for...
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Fring keeps on adding more handsets so you can IM and make VoIP calls from not only mobile phone handsets, but from the Nokia N810 as well! This screenshot was taken from the N810. The J2ME client...
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My post on GigaOM on Voice APIs brought out some interesting companies to my attention, both in the comments and privately in email. One such company is Numbr, which I knew about already and covered...
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I have never been a huge fan of push-to-talk services. It doesn't speak to me, to be quite honest. However, a lot of people like the Nextel Direct Connect service-something Sprint hasn't been...
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I have to admit, I'm actually a bit confused by the Jajah's plan to provide services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) using their new SMB Solution Suite. The press release I got in email...
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In what is a move away from just selling hardware and being able to provide a complete solution, VoIP Supply has partnered with bandwidth.com in order to be able to provide business with everything...
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SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy really didn't have to respond to the various speculation about why Dell chose SightSpeed as their partner for their video calling service. It was more of a surprise to...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderasMany companies are now offering voice APIs for their telephony infrastructure, making it possible to create so-called voice mashups. One of the first...
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I think the PR folks have added me to their email lists, as I seem to be getting a lot more emails lately. Like this one from i2Telecom, which is now offering MyGlobalTalk™, which places Internet...
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BroadSoft is running a contest to try and get you to write a voice mashup. Started on 8 July 2008, and running through 2 September 2008, the Xtended Voice Mashup Contest is about getting Web 2.0 and...
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I figured the folks at Truphone would be first with a VoIP over WiFi calling app available through the App Store. Sure enough, they are, or at least among them! I don't have an iPhone-first or...
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An interesting aggregator site called Alltop recently launched, which lists a number of high-quality VoIP sites along with their headlines. It's designed for people that do not use RSS feeds,...
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As the day for the Apple iPhone 3G approaches, I have one question: who will introduce the first voice over WiFi application for the iPhone? Now I know people have done this before to varying degrees,...
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I am getting busier, or at least have less desire to muck about with new services these days. When I do take the time to try something new, it had better work right the first time without an excessive...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderasVoIP, while many things, is designed to make communications easier. One of the challenges I face as a remote worker for a large corporation is VoIP-at...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Gretchen CarrollVoicemail is a feature that seems to come with just about every VoIP solution out there. While it's been a staple on landlines as well, the one thing...
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The folks behind HiDef Conferencing have created a plugin for Microsoft Outlook, making it easier to schedule meetings using your HiDef Conferencing. With this plugin installed, two new buttons appear...
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While Truphone used to have free calls to the PSTN until recently-but only for those who signed up at the beginning-new customers can get in on some free call action as well. Well, ok, it's only...
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The folks at SightSpeed are getting their product out there. What better way to do so by having a Dell-branded version of the application pre-loaded on Dell's newest laptops? It turns out that, as...
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