I ran across a 2 year old piece from VoIP News out of Australia that suggests some industries want to ban Skype. Given the various attempts I've heard about with regards to blocking Skype, I...

The folks at Gizmo5, formerly Gizmo Project and SIPphone, give you an email address-an email address associated with your Gizmo5 instant messaging. The theory goes that you want to receive an instant...

As another bay step on their plan towards world domination, Truphone has announced availability of their new 4.0 client for Nokia S60 devices, which allows you to make calls over WiFi or 3G at much...

© twodollaI 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...

© sirmikesterA 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...

© Dave RaboinNicole Schuman raises an interesting question about the state of the VoIP industry based on the numbers. If you look at the quarter-over-quarter numbers, it appears the market is slowing...

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...

The folks at Vapps have renamed their High Speed Conferencing service Hi-Def Conferencing. To be quite honest, I'm not sure why that name was chosen in the first place. The new name is much more...

Andy Abramson's post on who owns the residential and business VoIP sectors reminds me of the conversation I had with our local Comcast Business rep at the WSTA meeting I went to last week. While...

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...

Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood, but the latest news from Nimbuzz does not excite me. Oh sure, the client does multi-IM support-including Skype, and either supports VoIP calls over the PSTN or even...

© meyshanworldOne 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...

© Unhindered by Talent 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...

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...

Back in November when Jajah and Jangl announced their partnership, I wondered aloud whether or not this might turn into something else. Turns out it did, but not exactly the way I was thinking it...

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...

Pat Phelan, the mastermind behind Cubic Telecom and MAXroam has launched a brand new service called Twitterfone. It uses speech recognition to turn your voice into tweets on your Twitter account. A...

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:...

Belkin announced in January that they were releasing a Desktop Internet Phone for Skype. It has a color screen, supports "over 500" Skype contacts, and supports SkypeIn and SkypeOut. The...