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by jeff goldman on February 20, 2010
TelCentris has introduced the VoxOx Universal Translator, a new instant translation app.
"VoxOx users need only open up their VoxOx universal messaging window, pick their language and the langua...
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by jeff goldman on February 15, 2010
Online chat site ChatRoulette has attracted an enormous amount of attention in a brief period of time — and The New York Times has tracked down its 17-year-old founder in Moscow.
"The conc...
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by jeff goldman on August 7, 2009
California-based startup 3jam has launched a service that's designed to compete directly with Google Voice. So how does it compare?
"3jam has arrived at its similar competing service from a...
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by jeff goldman on April 30, 2009
Truphone this week released Truphone 3.0, a significant upgrade to the company's free mobile VoIP app for the iPhone.
"Truphone leverages Wi-Fi networks to provide free voice calls - worldwid...
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by jeff goldman on March 27, 2009
Rumor has it that Skype will be launching an iPhone app next week at CTIA Wireless 2009 in Las Vegas.
"A tipster — a very reliable one — tells me that Skype is almost ready to launch ...
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by jeff goldman on February 7, 2009
JAJAH this week introduced a new solution that turns the iPod touch into a fully functioning VoIP phone, supporting voice calling and SMS messaging over Wi-Fi.
"The company says it is considering...
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by jeff goldman on December 18, 2008
Gizmo5 this week introduced the web-based VoIP application GizmoCall.
"Unlike Skype, which requires users to download a software client to use the service, GizmoCall is Flash-based, requiring not...
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by jeff goldman on November 27, 2008
Nimbuzz this week launched a free iPhone app which supports VoIP and chat on a huge range of networks including Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, IC...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 22, 2008
Fring keeps on adding more handsets so you can IM and make VoIP calls from not only mobile phone handsets, but from the nokia N810 as well! This screenshot was taken from the N810.
The J2ME client do...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 16, 2008
Many companies are now offering voice APIs for their telephony infrastructure, making it possible to create so-called voice mashups. One of the first was Jaduka, another that has gotten a lot of press...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 11, 2008
I figured the folks at Truphone would be first with a VoIP over WiFi calling app available through the App Store. Sure enough, they are, or at least among them!
I don't have an iPhone-first or se...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 10, 2008
As the day for the Apple iPhone 3G approaches, I have one question: who will introduce the first voice over WiFi application for the iPhone? Now I know people have done this before to varying degrees,...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 3, 2008
The folks behind HiDef Conferencing have created a plugin for Microsoft Outlook, making it easier to schedule meetings using your HiDef Conferencing.
With this plugin installed, two new buttons appe...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 1, 2008
The folks at SightSpeed are getting their product out there. What better way to do so by having a Dell-branded version of the application pre-loaded on Dell's newest laptops?
It turns out that, a...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 26, 2008
From hardware PBXes like Jazinga, we move to a PBX that runs on Windows. 3CX sent me a press release about version 6.0 of their Windows-based PBX. They made a big deal out of adding 10 features in 20 ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 24, 2008
I am excited to see my friend Alec Saunders launch his latest baby: Calliflower. They have taken the Free Conference Calling application on Facebook, which has more than 200,000 users, and brought it ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 23, 2008
The folks at SightSpeed continue to quietly amaze. As I mentioned last week, SightSpeed was going to announce 9-way video conferencing, and they did exactly that for their SightSpeed Business customer...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on June 16, 2008
Rom Feria over on Tech Without Wires finds an interesting application for the iPhone by a company called
A company called iCall. He describes it as similar to the TMobile's Hotspot@Home service. F...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 6, 2008
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 n...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 22, 2008
The folks at Equals have come up with a neat application for Facebook: The Party Line. It is powered by Voxeo's Prophecy Platform, which provides both VoiceXML and CCXML support. This makes it pos...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 16, 2008
Rather than wait for iPhones to start shipping with application support, the folks at Fring have decided to release an iPhone version of their IM and VoIP client. This means, for the moment, you must ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 31, 2008
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 na...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 21, 2008
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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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 27, 2008
I have been using the Free Conference Call application on Facebook, powered by iotum. Until you've actually used this powerful application, you won't know what you're missing! It also ma...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 22, 2008
The folks at Fring have managed to get a new version for S60 devices and UIQ fairly close to each other. Both versions sport the same new features, which include:
File transfers from your handset (on...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 20, 2008
If you like to know exactly what your VoIP is doing-i.e. you want access to the source code-you might like this list of 50 different applications that do VoIP, but are open source. There are some I kn...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 11, 2008
A while ago, I had tried out a service called Pinger, which allows you to send voice messages to anyone within the U.S.. You basically dial a number, say or dial who you want to send a voice message t...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 8, 2008
Someone asked for a replacement for the now defunct PrivatePhone. The folks at FreeConferenceCall have a service called SimpleVoiceBox that can do just that: provide a voice mail drop box.
The nice t...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 7, 2008
Earlier this week, I participated in one of Alec Saunders' Squawk Box podcasts, where he invites a bunch of techies to join in and hash out the topics of the day. It's recorded using iotum&#...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 24, 2008
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 ca...
