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| Firefox VoIP Client |
| libocannici writes Abbeynet Labs has released the first version of a Firefox VoIP extension which is a full featured SIP user agent plugin for Firefox. The Firefox extension is completely stand-alone, with all VoIP functionality built directly into it.
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| Date Published: 2006-06-21 | |
| VoIP gaining momentum in France |
| VoIP is gaining momentum in France with a large number of cell phone users keen to use Wi-Fi convergence technology to make cheap VoIP calls on their hand-held sets. Now the VoIP service providers in the country plan to take
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| Date Published: 2006-06-21 | |
| MessageLabs to Go VoIP Way |
| MessageLabs is seeing VoIP as an application which would be required to be addressed in the future with a decision as to how to do it in the 2007/2008 timeframe.
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| Date Published: 2006-06-12 | |
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| Five Steps To Doing VoIP Right |
| Networking professional John Neiberger explains how to deal with executives, users and support staff to ensure a successful IP telephony implementation.
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| Date Published: 2006-06-12 | |
| Asus P525 PDA phone with Push E-Mail, and Wi-Fi VoIP |
| The Asus P525 PDA Phone (smartphone) runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Phone Edition, is powered by a 416MHz Intel XScale processor, and is equipped with 128MB of flash ROM, 64MB of SDRAM, and a miniSD expansion slot for extra
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| Date Published: 2006-06-05 | |
| Get Ready for the VoIP Tax |
| If the Federal Communications Commission has its way, businesses and consumers alike will be paying more for their Voice over IP calling services through providers like Vonage and Skype.
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| Date Published: 2006-06-05 | |
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| Voicecom Hospital Badges |
| A hospital in the UK is introducing a communication system that is integrated into the ID badges of employees. The entire system is hands-free and voice activated.
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| Date Published: 2006-06-01 | |
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| VoIP Awareness Rises in U.K. And U.S.A |
| As per a study, awareness of VoIP is rising in US and UK. Over a period of nine months, the percentage of British adults who said that they has heard of VoIP or had made telephone calls through and internet.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-30 | |
| VoIP Is About More Than Replacing The Phone |
| For way too long, most of the attention on VoIP has focused on how its a cheaper telephone replacement option -- which a few people have pointed out is the wrong lesson to take from VoIP.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-30 | |
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| Beware of broadband speed overkill |
| Todays high-speed Internet access packages may sound tempting, but consumers should think long and hard about how much broadband they actually need before they ante up.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-17 | |
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| Foundry focuses on voice-over-Wi-Fi |
| Gets ready for next-gen wireless. Foundry Networks has put voice networking at the heart of a range of new products which rolls out in the UK today.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-16 | |
| Congress may make ISPs snoop on you |
| A prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans online activities be stored, CNET News.com has learned.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-16 | |
| Cisco Dials Up VoIP |
| The networking giants voice-over-Internet Protocol growth could mean good news for the entire business.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-11 | |
| Linksys intros EC1000 ExpressCard and OGV200 traffic optimizer |
| Filed under: Peripherals, NetworkingLinksys had some gear to announce at this years E3, and when we caught up with them last night they hooked us up with the skinny: theyve officially gone ExpressCard with the EC1000 gigabit Ethernet adapter, the followup to the PC Card PCM1000. |
| Date Published: 2006-05-11 | |
| Google Reaches into Enterprise Territory |
| News Analysis: New product announcements, including VOIP tech and a collaborative search tool, suggest that Google may challenge Microsoft for the enterprise desktop.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-11 | |
| Video: VoIP on cell phones: Read the fine print |
| Video: Nintendo shows off new console at media briefing. Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo executive vice president for sales and marketing, shows off Wii titles like the new Legend of Zelda at a pre-E3 press briefing on Wednesday.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-10 | |
| Video systems in an IT environment |
| The essentials of professional networked mediaBook review Everything is software. Increasingly, the devices we live by (whether routers and switches, or just DVD recorders and music systems) are computers running specialised embedded software.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-10 | |
| Interop still moving beyond data networks |
| With networks judged by how well they support business processes, the annual Interop networking conference in Las Vegas continued the trend of recent years, expanding its horizons beyond data networks and toward broader enterprise issues, such as the need for better application monitoring tools, network access control, and the impact of VoIP.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-09 | |
| Windows Live Messenger Offers VoIP |
| Microsoft will partner with Verizon to deliver PC to phone calling services as part of Live Messengers new features being made available in the public beta release.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-09 | |
| SIP Becomes Call Control Protocol Choice for VoIP Networks |
| SIP has become the call control protocol of choice for VoIP networks because of its open and extensible nature but the integrity of call signaling between sites is of utmost importance and SIP is susceptible to attackers if not protected.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-09 | |
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| Today in Engadget: May 4, 2006 |
| Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Features The Clicker: YouTube and fair use, a match made in heaven Ask Engadget: who likes their Bluetooth mouse?
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| Date Published: 2006-05-05 | |
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| The wrinkles in Enterprise VOIP |
| For many business users of IP-based phones, VoIP calling has still reached the ease-levels of say, the normal telephone. On a complexity scale, VoIP calling are yet to reach the levels of even mobile phones.
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| Date Published: 2006-05-01 | |
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| Soft DSPs help ubiquitous VoIP |
| We are slowly moving towards ubiquitous VoIP. Vast types of devices will have VoIP capabilities embedded in them. Soon, you may not have to spend extra on a specialist DSP
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| Date Published: 2006-04-24 | |
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| Wireless VOIP equipment grew 20% in 2005 |
| A major increase in worldwide broadband subscribers, along with the hot popularity of wireless- and VoIP-enabled equipment, is resulting in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) market growth of nearly 20% in 2005, reports In-Stat.
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| Date Published: 2006-04-24 | |
| VOIP in Seychelles |
| Cable Company Intelvision becomes the third company to offer telephone and internet services in Seychelles Intelvision offers cable, internet and telephone services
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| Date Published: 2006-04-21 | |
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| Pirelli Broadband Solutions Launches GSM/WI-FI Dual-Mode Phone |
| Pirelli Broadband Solutions Launches GSM/WI-FI Dual-Mode PhoneBuilding on its pioneering role as a VoIP over WLAN solutions provider, Pirelli introduces a new line of low-cost, consumer-oriented dual-mode phones targeting Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) applications
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| Date Published: 2006-04-21 | |
| VOIPs next market: City administrations |
| Looking for newer markets is the only way VoIP service providers can survive in a tough market. I think VoIP service providers should pay attention to government agencies.
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| Date Published: 2006-04-19 | |
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| Will coppers record prices affect VoIP, WiFI and cell phones? |
| As you can see from the chart, copper constitutes 19% of most cellphones. And since VoIP and WiFi phones have similar basic construction components, the percentage of copper in these phones most assuredly is in that same 19% range.
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| Date Published: 2006-04-18 | |
| The importance of VoIP encryption |
| Bruce Schneier writes that providing government back doors to VoIP encryption is, once again, a really bad idea.
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| Date Published: 2006-04-18 | |
| F/MC Watch: VoIP Fallout from CTIA |
| At last weeks Las Vegas conclave, pieces of the cellular/IP network convergence puzzle were coming together faster than ever.
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| Date Published: 2006-04-17 | |
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| New Law grants VoIP Providers Access to E911 Systems |
| The US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications recently passed a bill which gives all VoIP service providers access to critical Enhanced 911 (E911) infrastructure.
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| Date Published: 2006-04-10 | |
| IP PBX revenues up 10% in Q3 2005 |
| Worldwide PBX/KTS revenue totaled $2.1 bln in Q3 2005, up 7% from Q2 2005, and 17% higher than Q3 2004, according to Infonetics Research.
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| Date Published: 2006-04-10 | |
| VOIP Cell Phones Coming Soon |
| Associated Press reports on the latest cell phones with WiFi support demoed at this years CTIA Wireless 2006 conference. |
| Date Published: 2006-04-10 | |
| BenQ-Siemens Announces Six New Handsets |
| BenQ Mobiles just announced six new phones at CeBIT 06, including the P51 smartphone at left. It runs Windows Mobile 5.0 OS, has a 2.83 QVGA TFT color touchscreen (240x320 pixels), Bluetooth, WLAN (so you can make VoIP calls), Push email (like the Blackberry), a 1.3 megapixel camera, USB and an integrated GPS receiver. |
| Date Published: 2006-03-09 | |
| VoIP coming to Palm OS |
| VoIP will soon be a reality for the Palm OS. It will be called MobiVoIP.
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| Date Published: 2006-03-09 | |
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| Voip System-On-Chip from TI |
| Texas Instruments Incorporated announced its latest Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system on a chip, the TNETV1061The latest Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system on a chip, the TNETV1061, providing advanced VoIP and data routing features for the rapidly growing VoIP market.
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| Date Published: 2006-03-08 | |
| Analysts: The time for VoIP is now |
| VoIP has great potential for enabling communications in an emergency, saving billions and dollars and enabling telework in federal government.
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| Date Published: 2006-03-08 | |
| Will Presence Click This Time Around? |
| Weve been hearing about the wonders of presence for ages, but it never really seems to go anywhere. The basic idea is that communications between people would be much easier if you knew a little bit about their state when you wanted to contact them. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-23 | |
| Combination of VoIP and Wi-Fi adopted at Rhode Island Hospital |
| Doctors and nurses at Rhode Island Hospital are making use of Wi-Fi and VoIP system that allows them to access patient data, test results, consult expert sources and order procedures at bedside. Wi-Fi connects the Vocera units around the necks... |
| Date Published: 2006-01-23 | |
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| Network Neutrality And Natural Monopolies |
| In the last few months, the telcos have become especially bold in asserting their rights to do away with network neutrality, and create special tiers of service, where providers have to pay them to reach internet users |
| Date Published: 2006-01-19 | |
| NTC receives fewer applications for VoIP service providers |
| National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has officially received only two applications for becoming VoIP service providers. Rules require that VoIP provider must have a capitalization of ten million pesos while resellers need a five million peso performance bond. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-19 | |
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| Long distance wedding through VoIP |
| Two Indonesians in their 50 s tied nuptial knot through VoIP. They exchanged their wedding vows in a ceremony by making use of VoIP technology. Interestingly the groom Wiriadi Sutrisno lives in America while the bride Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi lives... |
| Date Published: 2006-01-16 | |
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| Will VoIP carriers drop the ball on new TI tool? |
| My colleague Marguerite Reardon reports that today, Texas Instruments will announce software that will enable VoIP carriers to better manage devices sitting at customers offices and homes.This software will be called Piqua. Sounds like a diagnostic trouble-shooter. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-16 | |
| New 10 Gigabit Switches Enable Application Acceleration |
| Two New ServerIronGT 10 Gigabit Switches Enable Application Acceleration, Enhanced Security and Integrated SSL Acceleration Two new ultra-high-performance ServerIron Layer 4-7 switches with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) to enable scalable acceleration and delivery of emerging Web and VoIP applications for business-critical content, commerce, and communication services. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-18 | |
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| Patent Firm Sues Google for Voice Services |
| Rates Technology, which holds patents for the process by which most Internet phone calls are made, confirms that it is suing Google over its Web-based phone calling system. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-11 | |
| FAQ: The new annoy law explained |
| Q: Your CNET News.com column referenced the text of a bill that President Bush signed last week, but I cant find the word annoy in it. What gives?Figuring out exactly what Congress did takes a few minutes. But its not too difficult.First, go to the text of the legislation and search for Sec. 113. Note how Sec. 113. amends existing law by changing the definitions in 47 U.S.C. 223(h)(1).Before the new law took effect last Thursday, 47 U.S.C. 223 explicitly said it does not include an interactive computer service. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-11 | |
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| Latency, jitter, packet loss? You need more measurements than that! |
| A large number of VoIP analysis tools rely on definitive but somewhat generic measurements- packet loss, latency and jitter, to name three.But now we are seeing tools that offer far more sophisticated measuring and evaluation capabilities.ACQUA-IP Compact VoIP-Speech Quality Test System is one of them. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-11 | |
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| Stubborn Users Stymie Carriers E911 Plans |
| In all the furore over E911 on wireline VoIP systems, weve noted several times the short deadline the FCC gave VoIP providers, while holding cellular operators to a much more lenient standard. Even after having several years to implement E911, some wireless carriers are petitioning for another extension: carriers that chose handset-based location solutions were supposed to have 95% of their customers using compliant handsets by the end of the year, but say that some people just wont upgrade. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-10 | |
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| Nokia 770 Alive and Well |
| Nokia 770, originally scoffed at by many as useless, is doing quite well. There is even an open source platform development site, maemo, that offers quite a bit. It uses wlan for connectivity and has cpu transparency so you can build apps for normal Debian (albeit with a custom set of libraries) and then run a sort of checkout for the ARM processor, and it will run on the handheld. There is ssh and VOIP coming soon. Overall it is shaping up to be pretty cool. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-09 | |
| VoIP system helps brewery cut costs |
| Wolverhampton Dudley Breweries, makers of Marston s Pedigree and owner of Pathfinder and Union Pubs are planning to utilize VoIP for telephony in their contact centers and later on extend it for covering data services. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-06 | |
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| What Om says |
| What Om says: Om (blogging from CES) on the challenge facing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) -- and the opportunity for those who solve it by thinking like those of us who are customers:The silos of VoIP are going to come and haunt the industry eventually, especially those who are banking on VoIM. But then it is a perfect opportunity for one smart entrepreneur, someone with a devotion to consumer and ease of use to build a “Trillian” or “Adium” of VoIP. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-06 | |
| VoIP SoC |
| Voice processing, broadband circuitry, high-performance host CPU, and peripherals in a single integrated system-on-a-chip. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-05 | |
| VoIP at CES: hardware is where the action is |
| Well, after several flight delays, I arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon.Based on my conversations and observations so far, the overarching VoIP-related theme seems to be one of hardware-driven partnerships to enhance existing VoIP services. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-05 | |
| VoIP in schools |
| VoIP is making its presence felt everywhere and has even managed to impress educational authorities. The Clark County School District (NV), David Douglas School District (OR), and Saugus Union School District (CA) have deployed VoIP and are reaping benefits |
| Date Published: 2006-01-05 | |
| VoIP Wi-Fi Phones |
| Certified telephone handset with color LCD display uses system-on-chip for small footprint and reduced power consumption. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-04 | |
| Top Ten New Years Resolutions And The Gadgets To Help You Keep Them |
| New year, new start. The fine people of planet Earth have made their new years resolutions with most breaking them before you even finish reading this page. Maybe all you need is the right gear to make the resolution last longer than a day. Here is a look at the top ten new years resolutions (based on Googles top match) and the gadgets that may help. Enjoy. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-04 | |
| Motorolas RSG bridges VoiP and cellular phone services |
| HouseholdMotorola just announced their newResidential Seamless Mobility Gateway (RSG) said to "break down the barrier between home and wireless phoneservice." The RSG products will include an 802.11b/g access point, four-port router, and a built-in VoiP adapterallowing them to control your home network, power standard telephones, and act as a hotspot for your mobile phone. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-04 | |
| VoIP In Asia To Nearly Double By 2009 |
| VoIP in Asia is expected to grow from $5.5 billion in 2004 to more than $10 billion by 2009, according to an In-Stat report released Tuesday. |
| Date Published: 2006-01-04 | |
