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Social VoIP player Jangl moves into a more mature market with a new Facebook widget that allows anonymous calling between Facebook members.

The Jajah relationship with DT includes a five million dollar investment.

If you need to be online as you travel around the UK, you may want to make Wales your destination. A news account issued by Ofcom that appeared in Broadband Finder shows that Wales has more WiFi hotspots than any other country on a per million basis.

Italian Voice 2.0 company Abbeynet has signed its first big deal via BlueZebra to power directory based calling, reports GigaOm.

According to Reuters, Jajah is hooking up with T-Online, as the first step in a relationship with Deutsche Telekom AG. With their Intel backing and now this deal with one of the world’s telecom giants, Jajah is showing incredible business development acumen and clearly is leveraging their investors and allied friends.

Information Week has a story about Nokia’s Intellisync software and Cisco finding ways to team up to deliver Fixed Mobile Convergence to the Enterprise market on Nokia E-series phones. What’s clear to me is that FMC is starting to get some attention from the carriers, but what remains unclear is which carrier will really make … Read more

In 18 states where Sprint used to have local phone service, its now using the name Embarq, a spinout company. In the markets it serves the renamed legacy carrier is doing its best to stave off the incursion of the cable company’s efforts to switch customer’s to VoIP. I see the value in marketing, which … Read more

More and more we’re seeing stories hit the mainstream press about phone calls being made over WiFi. For the record, T-Mobile and Earthlink both have initiatives in that are here in the USA but carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T have both done their best to slow the migration in that direction down, while in … Read more

Cisco has taken the market proven idea of Push To Talk (PTT) and married it with VoIP. Its real value is the ability for anyone to reach anyone on their phone network the same way an intercom worked in days of old. This also means that the annoying Nextel like BEEPS can now be heard … Read more

Here’s a trick to log in to GoogleTalk on a PC with multiple accounts. And here’s some insight that leads one to believe even more that Google is getting ready to go after Skype and the PSTN market too with VoIP calls that go beyond the GTALK universe. Note the dialpad.