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 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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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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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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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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From hardware PBXes like Jazinga, we move to a PBX that runs on Windows. 3CX sent me a press release about version 6.0 of their Windows-based PBX. They made a big deal out of adding 10 features in 20...
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I am excited to see my friend Alec Saunders launch his latest baby: Calliflower. They have taken the Free Conference Calling application on Facebook, which has more than 200,000 users, and brought it...
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The folks at SightSpeed continue to quietly amaze. As I mentioned last week, SightSpeed was going to announce 9-way video conferencing, and they did exactly that for their SightSpeed Business...
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Rom Feria over on Tech Without Wires finds an interesting application for the iPhone by a company called A company called iCall. He describes it as similar to the TMobile's Hotspot@Home service....
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Pat Phelan, the mastermind behind Cubic Telecom and MAXroam has launched a brand new service called Twitterfone. It uses speech recognition to turn your voice into tweets on your Twitter account. A...
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The folks at Equals have come up with a neat application for Facebook: The Party Line. It is powered by Voxeo's Prophecy Platform, which provides both VoiceXML and CCXML support. This makes it...
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Rather than wait for iPhones to start shipping with application support, the folks at Fring have decided to release an iPhone version of their IM and VoIP client. This means, for the moment, you must...
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Tom Keating uncovered a new release of the app Talkonaut, which was originally designed as a J2ME application that provided VoIP calling and multi-network IM capabilities. Now they have added a new...
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Another great tool that came out of the eComm conference last week was Fonolo. If you've ever called a company that has one of these interactive voice response systems with a phone tree from hell,...
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I have been using the Free Conference Call application on Facebook, powered by iotum. Until you've actually used this powerful application, you won't know what you're missing! It also...
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The folks at Fring have managed to get a new version for S60 devices and UIQ fairly close to each other. Both versions sport the same new features, which include: File transfers from your handset...
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If you like to know exactly what your VoIP is doing-i.e. you want access to the source code-you might like this list of 50 different applications that do VoIP, but are open source. There are some I...
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A while ago, I had tried out a service called Pinger, which allows you to send voice messages to anyone within the U.S.. You basically dial a number, say or dial who you want to send a voice message...
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Someone asked for a replacement for the now defunct PrivatePhone. The folks at FreeConferenceCall have a service called SimpleVoiceBox that can do just that: provide a voice mail drop box. The nice...
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