Business Week Online (registration required) has a very detailed account on the possibility of Microsoft becoming a telephony powerhouse. I’ve already played with a hacked version of Windows Messenger 4.7 and Webley Systems voice over IP capabilities for over a year, and while the product is not yet in commercial release, the capabilities of always … Read more
I don’t spend enough time writing about SKYPE, what I call the ICQ for VoIP. Muniwireless.com has a good summary of what having SKYPE on a PDA can mean. I’ve played with other VoIP clients on my HP iPaq and, even with the 400 mhz processor, the voice quality still is lacking. Until more powerful … Read more
Fortune Technology Editor Daniel Roth has really captured the essence of SKYPE in a recent article that ran late in January. While you may need to register or be a Fortune subscriber, the general thought I have is that there is much more to SKYPE than a free voice chat coming. What we don’t know … Read more
I actually have held off on writing about Firefly despite having had an account and actually tried it when I first started this blog back in December. The reason I held off is I have been pretty much focusing on SIP as the protocol that I’ve been covering. Rather than being accused of being narrow … Read more
Audio (and video) conferencing will get a huge shot in the arm with VoIP. Earlier in the week Raindance and Level3 made nice and annouced a VoIP based conferencing system. Now, it seems a UK company with expertise is jumping in. Like most conferencing, this one uses an ASP model, and is marketed through the … Read more
Well, you could have seen this coming. The Justice Department and the FBI are now moving aggressively on the ability to tap VoIP calls. While some will consider this an invasion of privacy, it is all about Homeland Security and criminal investigation. Basically, the average person, who is not breaking any laws has nothing to … Read more
