Jangl is continuing on their quest to partner with as many social networking sites as possible. The latest one? Plentyoffish.com, a popular dating site that bills itself as "100% Free. Put away...
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If you have a Playstation Portable (PSP)- which might not be a lot of people-now you can use it to get onto Skype and make free calls over WiFi. Supposedly, you've got to have a Sony psp slim and...
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Michael Cerda, the CEO of Jangl, writes on his blog about the right way to add advertising in calls--something Jangl, Jajah, and others are going to do in order to offset the cost of free calls. Cerda...
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Over the weekend, I saw a blog posting by Marcelo Rodriguez at RingFree that lead me to believe they were shifting away from the idea of charging for their service. Sure enough, they confirmed they...
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In theory, a terrorist in another country could make call through a VoIP provider here in the U.S.. If this were to happen and the government wanted to "spy" on the terrorist's...
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RingFree is a newly launched "application" for the iPhone that enables SIP-based calling from your iPhone. You can call people using your SIP-based IP PBX or other SIP-based provider. You...
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Hictu is a micro-blogging service similar to Twitter and Jaiku, but it also allows audio and video to be added as well. It is run by the folks at Abbeynet, an Italian VoIP/telecom operator. But now,...
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Gizmo5, a.k.a. Gizmo Project, a.k.a. SIPphone is launching a new program called Backdoor dialing. A little over 10% of all telephones in the U.S., both landlines and mobiles, are now connected via...
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EQO provides cheap calling using a piece of software on your phone to essentially call EQO's gateway, which will then route the call over VoIP, thus saving you some money. The problem is, the...
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Skype has claimed their paying users don't want interoperability with other carriers. Well I think the rest of us aren't believing that for a second! In fact, some enterprising folks have...
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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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Private Phone, a service provided by netzero, has sent notice to their members that they are disconnecting service as of 19 February 2008. The service gave you a free inbound telephone number with...
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Ribbit got a lot of coverage when it was first released, but what is it? From their website: "As Silicon Valley's first phone company, we will give developers the tools to let communication...
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This post by Phil Wolff at Skype Journal summarizes a couple of key questions I've had with regards to Skype. The answers come straight from interviews done with a couple of Skype executives by...
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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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An interesting tidbit from a report found by Tom Schouteden at the Sipcat VoIP Blog suggests that by 2012, SIP over WiFi will be dwarfed by SIP over 3G mobile phone networks. Specifically, they are...
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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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I have to admit, after reading the press release from Vonage about this V-Portal thing they just announced, I was confused. What is this V-Portal thing supposed to do anyway? The press release lists a...
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