Om Malik is reporting that the telcos are looking at creating a Skype-killer. From the article: [Incumbent local exchange carriers] are going to offer a VoIP client that will work on the incumbent...
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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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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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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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For the first time in a while, I cracked open my box of VoIP gear and broke out a couple of my IP phones. Why? Because I recently received an IP PBX from the folks at Talkswitch and I want......
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One of my friends on Twitter was talking about how Jason Calacanis was showing people the Mahalo offices. On a lark, I decided to join in and view the live video. What it turned into was something I...
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Qik is a program that you run on your Nokia N95 (or similar) device that allows you to stream live video over WiFi, 3G, or EDGE. They co-sponsored Pat Phelan's St. Patrick's Day party on...
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When video calling becomes common-particularly on your mobile phone-I'm afraid we'll see more incidents like the one depicted in this Telenor Mobil commercial (from Norway): I have to wonder...
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It's funny how there is a big push to try to get VoIP services to support E-911 when the service does not always work as advertised. Michael Cerda, the CEO of Jangl, which uses VoIP to deliver...
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Peter Zottolo, a.k.a. The SightSpeed Guy, creates another winner: the top 10 uses for your new webcam. The suggestions, some of which, of course, involve using SightSpeed in some novel way, are funny...
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VoIP Guides has an article on ENUM and how it will help propel VoIP further along. It provides a basic description of what ENUM is and why it's a good thing, but it doesn't explain why...
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Telecom journalist-cum-blogger Om Malik, the man behind GigaOm, suffered a heart attack on the 28th of December. The good news is that he made it to the hospital on his own power and is on the road to...
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Now that I've gone through 2007's VoIP-related stories, at least through the eyes of my blogging, I have a few thoughts about the year. It amazes me how my opinion of things can change so...
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We're into the home stretch, both with the year 2007 and these year in review posts. Skype FInally Updates Linux Client: Skype finally updated the released code to version 1.4 as well as a beta...
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I realize that these "top blogs" lists are highly subjective, even when they claim to base it on some statistics, which can also be highly suspect. That being said, it's nice to see that...
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Here are some highlights from Q3 2007: Sunrocket Flameout: My first post on The VoIP Weblog was about SunRocket and whether or not they were going to live. And, of course, they ended up in the dead...
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Here's some highlights from 2nd Quarter 2007: GrandCentral Goes Mobile, Get's Bought By Google: In March, I got to meet Craig Walker of GrandCentral, where he showed me their new (at the time)...
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