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by jeff goldman on December 24, 2008
VoIP Planet's Adam Stone today posted an excellent look back at the year in VoIP.
Among his highlights: Ingate Systems' release of new SIP security products, Nortel's acquisition of open s...
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by James Koopmann on August 8, 2008
If you are like most, you are probably slightly confused about the services available for VoIP. Should you use Skype, Live Messenger, Freshtel, Pennytel, iiNet, TPG, etc. Should you be using ISP-based...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 24, 2008
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 and enjoying my time away from the usual day-to-d...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 11, 2008
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, whic...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 7, 2008
VoIP, 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 least in the way it was meant to be used.
My cha...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 6, 2008
Voicemail 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 that VoIP companies bring to the table is send...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 22, 2008
My pal Alec Saunders got a major score for his Free Conference Call service on Facebook: a call with William Shatner!
This coming Thursday from 6:30PM to 8PM PDT, Allan Hunkin will spend 45 minutes i...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 9, 2008
Marcelo Rodriguez over at RingFree took issue with a number of other product announcements that use a phrase similar to "True VoIP for the iPhone."
Like Marcelo, I think people are hung up ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 27, 2008
I have to admit, this is a pretty ingenious idea to bringing faster Internet access to the masses: take that 4Khz voice channel and turn it into data. That's the suggestion that Brian Boyko over a...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 26, 2008
A commenter on my last post thought there are three ways a Vonage-like service might continue to survive: rock-bottom prices, kick-ass customer service, and call quality. Any company that can excel at...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 24, 2008
I realize it's been several days since I've posted here. Part of the reason was that my son was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday. As such, I've been spending a lot of time at the hospit...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 16, 2008
I remember reading Doug Mohney back in the days of Boardwarch, but have not been keeping up with him since then. But the VoIP Princess Carolyn Schuk brought to light some very relevant opinions from D...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 13, 2008
One of the things that I missed out on at eComm 2008 was the fact that Voxbone CEO Rod Ullens proposed, in his session at eComm, proposed a country code for VoIP users: 883.
As part of it's prop...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 12, 2008
While I was hunting around on the Bell System Memorial site the other day, I ran across this audio file that demonstrates how long it took in the 1940s to connect a call from Los Angeles to Murphy, Id...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 11, 2008
I ran across this video from 1982 where Jane Barbe and John Doyle-Mama and Papa time respectively-were interviewed. Why were they called that? Watch the video and see:
I miss the POPCORN service-so...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 7, 2008
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 br...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 24, 2008
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 two choi...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 14, 2008
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 8, 2008
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 7, 2008
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 speaking...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 28, 2008
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 to give it ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 26, 2008
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 n...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 19, 2008
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 Monda...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 3, 2008
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 w...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 18, 2008
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 cal...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 14, 2008
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 10, 2008
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 carrier...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 4, 2008
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 1, 2008
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 qui...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 31, 2007
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 ...
