cellity Communicator is mobile software that allows you send free text messages and make cheap calls to foreign countries, not everyone is-particularly in the United States. cellity decided the best...
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I remember when I was kid that making a long distance call was a big deal. Why? Because it was expensive. Want an example? Here's an AT&T ad from 1984: $10 an hour for a weekend or evening...
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© Mrs. W.Chances are, if you've use a service like Vonage, voip.com, or Skype, you've seen that they provide local telephone numbers nationwide. Ever wonder how they do that? It boils down to...
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While I've recently covered the Vapps HighSpeed Conferencing service, which takes full advantage of Skype's wideband codecs for fantastic audio quality, Vapps has also updated their...
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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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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!...
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Trixbox has evolved quite a bit from it's formerly Asterisk@Home, open-source roots. While it's still the open-source PBX Asterisk at it's core, there are two editions: a...
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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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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...
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I swear this comes up at least once a year. Despite the fact that encryption is widely available in VoIP, it's not used all that often. Because of that, people get all upset because "someone...
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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...
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France-based Thomson commissioned the folks at EliumStudio to design a Cordless DECT VoIP Phone. It is quite an innovative looking handset with some unique features. The phone sports an Internet...
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I don't normally read Valleywag, the National Enquirer of the tech industry, but Pat Phelan gets credit for tweeting about this story that suggests that Ooma may be on it's way out. Ooma is a...
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I've always been impressed at the ambition of Grandstream's IP telephones. However, I always found myself wanting more in terms of overall product stability and build quality from these two...
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Jajah recently announced that they are working on a native iPhone application to use their service. Specifically, you will be able to use Jajah to make voice over IP calls using WiFi instead of GSM....
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When we communicate with other people, be it over a regular analog telephone, a call over IP, or a mobile phone, there is one thing fundamentally in common with all these methods: it requires...
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Garrett Smith, one of the guys behind the success of VoIP Supply, has launched a side project called Mobile VoIP Review where users can rate, write reviews, and discuss voice over IP providers that...
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I have to wonder if this is a Barney partnership or if there's something else going on here. What I'm reading in my email as well as on the Fring blog is that Fring has teamed up with Boingo...
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