Jangl has always been about assigning a relationship it's own telephone number. They've recently extended this concept by allowing you to call anyone by simply knowing their email address. Now...
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GrandCentral, which just recently got acquired by Google, is one of the most insanely useful services out there. It uses the power of VoIP to route calls where ever you happen to be, but all that...
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Free World Dialup, or FWD as it is now called, is Jeff Pulver's service that he created to allow people to experiment with and utilize IP communications. Originally, it was funded out of his own...
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As you may have heard recently, Jeff Pulver issued a call for VoIP companies to provide more than just the old-style telephone service. Jim Courtney over at Skype Journal wrote a lengthy piece about...
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It seems that the VoIP providers are just as bad-or worse-than the mobile phone carriers in the United States, which generally don't let you take your phone to a competing provider. Unlike with US...
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Generally speaking, the VoIP industry has done whatever they can to replicate the telecom networks of old. Feature for feature, function for function, it works the same way with a VoIP provider as it...
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Regular readers of this blog may wonder: who the heck is this guy writing now? Of course, instead of introducing myself as I should have when Creative Weblogging announced a new blogger was taking...
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Ashton Kutcher-keep your day job as an actor. After my initial negative reaction to Ooma-more negative than I've had for a product in a long time-I still think this product is dead-on-arrival,...
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I can't believe anyone is actually taking the whole idea of Ooma seriously. The more I think about how this product reportedly works, the more I simply cannot see why anyone thinks this is even...
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If there's any doubt about how I feel about Ooma, let me stay it again: it's a stupid idea. Feel free to try and change as my mind as I felt the same way about GrandCentral initially, but now...
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Truphone, a company we've covered on VoIP Weblog previously, has recently won a preliminary injunction against T-Mobile UK. T-Mobile customers in the UK were being prevented from connecting to...
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With apologies to Steely Dan, the danger of losing that number you got through your VoIP provider-or worse: ported to your VoIP provider from somewhere else-is very real, as Andy Abramson points out....
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Seeing a rumor that Sunrocket was acquired by Pluto, I decided to go peek at the Sunrocket site again. Whereas before I was unable to sign up for service, now I am. I didn't go through the signup...
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If you're a SunRocket customer looking for a new place to go after their recent demise, you may want to give VoicePulse a look. Having worked with the guys on a number of projects for Voxilla and...
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The breaking news from GigaOM this morning is that SunRocket is dead. Calls to SunRocket's Customer Service number state that they are no longer taking Sales or Customer Service calls. A former...
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I always thought the idea of prepaying for a year's worth of VoIP phone service from a relatively new company was a bad idea. It's not as bad as the "VoIP for life" deal I saw a...
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Pat Phelan, a cook-cum-Telecom Titan based in Ireland raises an interesting idea: let's make a VoIP application for phones most people can afford. He does have a point. Most mobile VoIP...
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Are they or aren't they? SunRocket, the second most popular standalone consumer VoIP Telephony provider after Vonage, has clearly had issues as of late. If you attempt to go to SunRocket's...
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