I've always admired Pat Phelan, right, from afar. Quite literally, because he's in Cork, Ireland and I'm up in the Seattle area of Washington state in the US. Yesterday, the next phase in...
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Jim Courtney of Skype Journal and I did some testing earlier this week with Skype's new High Quality Video feature. We also compared them to SightSpeed, whom is known for having excellent video...
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One of my biggest problems with any system that virtualizes your mobile telephone identity with different telephone numbers is that the telephone numbers aren't really telephone numbers. Sure, you...
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This mass hysteria about being able to make WAV files of VoIP conversations, while only recently brought into the forefront with a tool called SIPtap, is completely unwarranted. In short: if someone...
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Fring, an application I've written about before, has introduced something that isn't VoIP related, but is scary all the same: now folks can see exactly where you are thanks to the handy, dandy...
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It's the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, which usually mean getting together with your family to stuff your face with turkey. Or if you're a vegetarian, maybe you'll eat tofu instead?...
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Yesterday, I did a call with Jim Courtney from Skype Journal. The intent was to eventually test this with the Logitech Pro 9000 that Skype's PR folks sent me. However, I had called him from my...
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Find the Right Solution. You know that your company will benefit from upgrading to a VoIP solution, but you also know how time consuming researching and comparing vendors can be. Our handy...
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This particular press release isn't a surprise to me, given my past conversations with SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy. Distance learning is a clear application of video over IP, yet we don't see...
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When I read the press release for Jajah Direct-provided after the jump-my immediate thought was: hey, that sounds an awful lot like the way Jangl works: associate a phone number with a relationship...
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My buddy Alec Saunders at iotum has an interesting giveaway: use iotum's Free Conference Call application on Facebook and participate in a conference call for 5+ minutes between now an 26 November...
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The problem with being a little upstart company like Cubic Telecom is that the big boys can simply cut off your blood supply if they're not happy with what you're doing. Yak4Ever is a calling...
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Earlier in the week, my present from Cubic Telecom CEO Pat Phelan arrived: Cubic Mobile. It is a Cubic Telecom-branded DP-L10 from Pirelli Broadband Solutions complete with a MAXroam SIM. It comes...
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I have to admit, this caught me off-guard. But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Jangl has focused on enabling telephony within social networks, or anywhere else for that matter....
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A little birdie told me some interesting news about Numbr, a service I've previously written about. While I can't really go into the details, I can say they are looking at bringing their...
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Being a curious lad, I decided to give the video-enabled Skype on Linux a try. The problem is, most of my native Linux machines aren't exactly current machines. I did the next best thing: ran...
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MAXroam, the GSM SIM that doesn't know you're traveling, now offers free inbound telephone numbers in more countries than when they first launched. No matter what country the telephone number...
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Skype has just released a beta version of their Linux client that supports what a number of people have been asking for-video! Good news for those folks who use Linux all the time, whom are quite a...
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