Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone I had a chance to see this in action yesterday and was very impressed. It blows away the Packet 8 phone service. Motorola promises 30 frames per second and it sure looked and sounded like that. They are reportedly close to announcing a deal with a VoIP carrier too. The … Read more
Staples to Offer AT&T CallVantage Service. That means more places to get the service that I use most of the time to make calls. More importantly, I was on a conference call with a bunch of rock and roll music production people earlier in the week. Six were in a conference room using a Polycom … Read more
After getting their start in VoIP with CallVantage, D-Link now is making Terminal Adaptors for Lingo and GloPhone.
Skype experimenting with voicemail service a long awaited and reported feature seems to be just around the corner.
Light Reading has the announcement about the FWD Communicator becoming interoperable with Skype, something we said was coming for a while.
Engadget has a photo of the new AT&T Netgear router. It’s wireless and includes CallVantage. This will be a big boost for CallVantage. Netgear has some very solid products and outstanding customer support. I have one of their Travel Routers and love it even though I tend to use my SMC Travel Router more. Now … Read more
Talking VoIP With Jeff Pulver (washingtonpost.com) The always quoteable Mr. VON himself has some interesting thoughts that he shared with the Washington Post. Jeff and I spent a lot of time talking on Tuesday night. We tended to agree on many points, including that consolidation or death to many of the small players is obvious, … Read more
Targeting the International market which wants USA based phone numbers, hardware manufacturer Belkin has rolled out a SoftPhone based service, callEverywhere with price plans as low as $9.95 and an all you can talk for $19.95. No details on who the underlying carrier is that is supplying the service, but we are starting to see … Read more
I’m a big fan of Uniden phones and use them in the house. I recently thought about buying their two line phones but wanted to wait to see what was coming out from them at CES. This announcement tells me they are getting into the VoIP business. Groundbreaking Cordless Designs and Consumer VoIP Offerings from … Read more
Dialpad Launches Unlimited Calling to the U.S. and Canada for $11.99 Per Month: DialpadUSA This is a very interesting approach, and as far as I can tell, a first for the VoIP industry. Basically, the outbound calling function is on DialPad, while the inbound calls come in over the PSTN that is part of the … Read more
