Xnet’s iSoftPhone is being used as part of a launch of a new service called A1 over IP, a new telephony offering coming from Mobilkom Austria. Xnet has developed the new A1 iSoftPhone for the Mac OS X they say to deliver Carrier-Grade Voice Communications. The Xnet Mac softphone is a worthy rival to Counterpath’s … Read more
Ok, so I took the line and some journalistic license in the headline, but the news out of Vancouver from EQO is simply this. EQO has announced an IM and Mobile VOIP client for the Blackberry Bold that just came out this week. That makes me wonder if they’ll have it working on the new … Read more
VoIP News in the UK reports about a new mobile VoIP client from Vyke being released. This comes on the heals of the Wall Street Journal and Business Week stories of last week and this week. Clearly this shows that Mobile VoIP is very much alive and well and that the interest is jumping from … Read more
Wireless Intelligence, a UK mobile consultancy, has a very well written PDF file about Italian mobile operator TIM, that points out how SMS has slowed as the users are moving to Instant Messaging and Email driving more data plan sales for TIM. This supports the kind of thing we’re seeing with clients Palringo in the … Read more
I have to thank one of my readers who pointed out to me the fact that Aircell is already in the business of making VoIP work in the skies. It seems they are already marketing SIP based phones for the business aviation market selling against others with similar products. They’re also selling a voice ready … Read more
It’s hilarious that the mainstream media is saying that using Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari is “hacking” in the recent matter of my calling Laptop’s News Editor Joanna Stern via Phweet and TringMe “hacking.” If that’s hacking, I guess Apple and Adobe make hacker tools? Somehow I don’t think so. For the record, I offered … Read more
Business Week’s Olga Kharif writes a very good summary article about Mobile VoIP, which includes client Truphone. Olga’s points about Mobile VoIP and who the players are makes a nice compendium. What this means is that Mobile VoIP has gone well beyond the blogosphere and is now going to become more mainstream. Sadly, the carries … Read more
Dan York has a very lengthy post about the VoIP packet traffic that Phweet and Tringme uses. In his very knowledgeable way describes why long term the attempts to block VoIP are futile. I agree, especially since it took me, a non-hacker, using a regular application called Flash from Adobe. Instead of all this we … Read more
I’ve been a fan of GizmoProject for a very long time, and while I’m using it less and less, and other apps more, I still never forget how much innovation resides inside their team. Many people forget that Gizmo was birthed out of SipPhone, and SipPhone has a ton of standards based capabilities and relationships, … Read more
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story highlighting client Truphone and a few others in the alternative mobile Long Distance biz. Jajah, Mobivox, Gizmo project and a few others are mentioned in the well researched and thorough must read on the subject of Mobile VoIP. From my position Truphone is really much akin to being … Read more
