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by Shawn Hessinger on March 7, 2010
HP coupons for your favorite Hewlett-Packard items are just a keystroke away.
Founded by William Hewlett and David Packard in a garage in 1939 with an investment of just $538, Hewlett-Packard has gr...
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by jeff goldman on January 17, 2010
Clear has announced two new VoIP-enabled WiMax modems.
"Both feature built-in ATA compatibility, which means if you have Clear Voice VoIP you can jack your phones straight in," writes Slipp...
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by jeff goldman on January 10, 2010
I was one of the first to break the news last summer of magicJack's planned USB femtocell... and this past week, YMax Corp. finally introduced the product.
"Announced this week at the Intern...
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by jeff goldman on November 21, 2009
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Rumor has it that the Google Phone, coming in 2010, may be data-only, relying entirely on VoIP for voice calling.
"Users could still make calls just like a normal phone, o...
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by jeff goldman on October 22, 2009
Bang & Olufsen this week introduced the BeoCom 5, an extremely stylish two-line combined VoIP-and-landline phone.
"The dual-line DECT phone works both as a twin landline handset and as a V...
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by jeff goldman on September 30, 2009
The Verizon Hub is no more.
"Verizon Wireless today said that they are terminating the Verizon Hub, an innovative VOIP home phone that doubled as a Web tablet and digital photo frame... The Ve...
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by jeff goldman on August 7, 2009
Sipera Systems this week introduced its new UC-Sec 100 security appliance for small and medium sized businesses.
"Benefits include private communications across networks to devices in any locati...
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by jeff goldman on July 9, 2009
I recently published an article at Enterprise VoIP Planet reporting on magicJack's plans to release a femtocell-enabled version of its VoIP device, presumably to be called the femtoJack.
The conce...
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by jeff goldman on May 11, 2009
Star Trek fans can now purchase a $43 replica Communicator (also available here and here) that can actually be used to place VoIP calls... as long as you're willing to stay connected to your PC vi...
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by jeff goldman on April 16, 2009
Reuters' Sinead Carew reports this week that the Verizon Hub is getting an app store.
"The Verizon Hub, a new kind of home phone with some Web add-ons like weather and traffic reports, will s...
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by jeff goldman on February 1, 2009
Verizon Wireless this week introduced the verizon Hub, a touchscreen VoIP system for the home, which costs $200 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a two-year agreement.
"In an effort to rekindle som...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 12, 2008
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 t...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 25, 2008
I got a piece of hardware from UPS on Monday from a company called Jazinga. It's a Wifi-enabled router with a PBX that promises to make it possible to have a PBX up and running without an IT staff...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 2, 2008
In a recent post, I posited that it was possible to take the entire bandwidth of a copper line and instead of making it voice, make it data and run VoIP over the top of it.
That was just a theory. T...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 6, 2008
I've been spending a lot of time looking at old movies made for the bell system. One that caught my eye was this a video that showed the various parts that went into making a telephone handset: al...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 2, 2008
If you've ever tried to distribute VoIP throughout your home and you have a lot of old phones, chances are you've run into problems with either the phones not ringing or ring improperly. This ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 11, 2008
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 rad...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 10, 2008
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 ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 1, 2008
Andy Abramson responded to my post about IP phones being too big with a comment that they take a major geek to configure. I'd go a step further and say even geeks don't want to configure the d...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 5, 2008
This week, I have been contacted by two different IP PBX vendors to review their products: TalkSwitch andthirdlane. Ok, maybe this data point is meaningless, but it's not like I hear from IP PBX v...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 4, 2008
Able Planet has come up with a technology called LINX AUDIO that maximizes The intelligibility of speech, can clip distortion, and restricts electromagnetic interference. These things provide a truer,...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 8, 2008
Leo Blanco on the Mobile Technology Weblog points out that Skype is hyping some of the more "mobile" aspects of it's service in 2008. Specifically, their availability on phones from mobi...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 20, 2007
One of the benefits of using open standards is that interoperability, while not guaranteed, becomes much easier. SightSpeed and Leadtek both have products that both speak the same language: SIP for ca...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 19, 2007
While VoSKY just announced their co-branded solution with Skype, Russell Shaw questions if enterprises will even consider this solution.
While I agree with his solution, I agree for a different reaso...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 12, 2007
This isn't the first time this has happened, but rico mossesgeld on The Smart PDA, another blog in the Creative Weblogging network, has quite a find: the iPod Touch and iPhone can be given a SIP s...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 16, 2007
Earlier in the week, my present from Cubic Telecom CEO Pat Phelan arrived: Cubic Mobile. It is a Cubic Telecom-branded DP-L10 from Pirelli Broadband Solutions complete with a MAXroam SIM. It comes wi...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 25, 2007
Being a bit behind on my "to blog" list, I noticed that Linguen, the Belgium-based makers of the Sipcat IP PBX, announced a partnership of sorts with Grandstream. In short: people who buy Gr...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 6, 2007
Back when I was messing with VoIP hardware a bit more, the Linksys SPA-8000 might have been an interesting device for me to look at. It's basically a SPA-2000 times four. That is, the SPA-8000 h...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 28, 2007
I want to take a moment and respond to Garrett Smith's response to yesterday's post I made about Linksys devices not being unlockable. Garrett is right: Linksys devices can be unlocked. Howeve...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 27, 2007
According to Garrett Smith, Nuvio recently sent a letter to Linksys (Cisco) asking if they will unlock the Linksys devices that were being managed by Sunrocket. We all know by now has bit the dust. Ga...
