Tom Keating uncovered a new release of the app Talkonaut, which was originally designed as a J2ME application that provided VoIP calling and multi-network IM capabilities. Now they have added a new...
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I'm surprised this didn't get a lot of play when I first saw it on Rich Tehrani's blog, but the U.S. Senate has passed a bill making it so VoIP providers can get equal access to the public...
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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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I want to be clear that this is an unsubstantiated rumor at this point. The only thing we have is a single blog post by Marc Robins, and the reported radio silence by the Pulvermedia team to go on....
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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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It seems like every time I turn around, there's a new way to do the same crap we've always done: connect and share our deepest thoughts, our media, and our hearts. It's a problem that goes...
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One of the many things that got lost in the blur of last week was another chapter in Jeff Pulver's FWD (formerly Free World Dialup) service: the Global Communicator Project. The idea behind this...
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Another great tool that came out of the eComm conference last week was Fonolo. If you've ever called a company that has one of these interactive voice response systems with a phone tree from hell,...
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Tuesday, I took a moment to wander around the exhibit hall at the VON.x conference in San Jose. There were surprisingly few people wandering the halls, and few people at the one presentation 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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Last week during the eComm conference, I didn't go, but I did get to talk to Irv Shapiro at IfByPhone about how they are making it dirt simple for small and medium businesses to add the power of...
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Jeff Pulver is responsible for, among other things, creating the VON trade show for the Voice over IP industry. In what is a first for me, I am going to attend the VON.x conference in San Jose this...
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Techcrunch breaks the news that Jangl now has a way to sell ads on those free calls it provides via a number of social networks. Jangle Mobile Media Solutions offers advertisers three ways to get in...
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The folks at talkswitch responded to my query about how they were different. Let me see if I can summarize the email I received: Not open source, based on a product that's been in-use since the...
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A commenter to my post highlighting the Spam Over IM on Skype problem pointed out something that I am embarrassed I didn't pick up on: it's not possible to block the spammy invites from...
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The folks at VoIP Guides have uncovered a "secret"-and I use that term loosely-that allows you to use Jaxtr to essentially make free calls over VoIP "forever"-or until Jaxtr goes...
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Pingo is a typical prepaid calling service that uses VoIP to provide inexpensive calling to their customers. While this works great for individuals, this doesn't work quite as well for businesses...
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Jaduka has announced a series of "telephony widgets" through Jaduka Labs: dukaDIAL: Call any number in the U.S. and Canada for free. dukaLINK: Create a link to allow someone in the U.S. and...
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Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal details something I've noticed happening to me a lot lately: to get my attention. I get "friend requests" and "chat messages" from these...
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