As we reported yesterday on KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup, Yahoo has added the ability to terminate calls into Instant Messenger, but with a twist, here in the USA. Just like what they did with British Telecom (BT) they are doing that with carriers, rather than creating their own phone company using private labeled services from … Read more
QWEST, which has over the past three years been digging into the VoIP space, evaluating suppliers and building an all IP based network announced yesterday they have deployed OneFlex for the business market. Given they are both a Regional Bell Carrier and a Nationwide long distance supplier on the telco side, and global carrier on … Read more
Uber-tech blogger Om Malik on GigaOm has found a major crack in Skype, after talking with of Popular Telephony’s Dmitry Goroshevsky. And the crack is no hack, it’s a part of the software making Skype a more than mega security risk for networks large and small. That’s why Popular Telephony has a serverless peer-to-peer technology … Read more
We’ve been saying, well I’ve been saying for months here that QoS, services and applications are what matters in VoIP. So, I’m not surprised to be hearing those words come out of people’s mouths at SuperComm and in the traditional press. So, while two of the true giants, Cisco and IBM echo those sentiments, the … Read more
Om Malik at GigaOm breaks the story about Cablevision creating a one price bundle of VoIPm cable and high speed Internet all for $90.00. Compared to what I’m paying here in San Diego with Cox, plus Vonage or Call Vantage that is a 50 percent savings and worth serious consideratiion if Cablevision is your cable … Read more
Skype has released a beta of their Linux version as of today according to reports. While this is a boon to those who prefer to not be on Windows, this certainly broadens the reach of Skype and goes deeper into the early adopter techie world. With Skype on a Lindows/Linspire PC who needs SipPhone once … Read more
Peerio’s parent company, Popular Telephony has updated their web site with what is clearly the first in a series of announcements they will be making at Supercomm 2004 this week. What is clear is that Peerio is not simply a softphone application, and that Peerio is a technology that can be embedded into devices and … Read more
Bell Canada, in what is an obvious pre-emptive strike to deter consumers from switching to newcomers to the telephony services game, can you spell VoIP Vonage or Primus, has taken a major step to keep customers talking over their lines. Today they announced the lowering of the price to $5 dollars for 1000 minutes a … Read more
For 30 Euro a month, French residents will be able to add VoIP to Tiscali ADSL service. As someone who has friends in France due to my passion for wine, I’m thrilled. Now if they only bring down the price for Wi-Fi over there…. The bottom line is Vonage has set the ball in motion … Read more
While not as far behind as Canada (one out of four) the USA rings in at fifty percent in the unsure about what VoIP is, offers and is aware they can have it according to a poll released today. The key message that is however getting through, and is no surprise, is that VoIP saves … Read more
