A full 97% of new phone systems installed in North America in 2007 will be VoIP or a hybrid of VoIP and circuit-switched systems, predicts Jeff Snyder, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. In fact, the market shows a clear decline in the number of traditional voice switches sold in North […]
Your StanaPhone can now receive incoming FAX. The StanaFAX Beta is free
to use and does not require any setup. Your StanaPhone automatically recognizes
incoming fax and sends it to the email address on your account as a PDF attachment. VoIP website LivePhone said if StanaFAX comes out of beta successfully it will help to […]
Some of the providers listed on Live Phone will give you free calling minutes to evaluate their service. Others will give you free minutes each month. The offers are getting scarce so you must look for them, but they are still available as we write this article (April 18, 2005) - examine […]
Although it is not a totally free offering, Live Phone added Net2Phone to the list of software for VoIP. Net2Phone’s CommCenter claims to offer Pc-to-fax capability along with social networking. You can see the specifics on this product on the Net2Phone page.
What Adobe buying Macromedia *could* mean for VoIP by ZDNet’s Russell Shaw — As we report today, desktop publisher Adobe Systems is buying multimedia platforms and software developer Macromedia for $3.4 billion.I believe this combination could have interesting potential for the development of VoIP applications.”Why,” you ask.Well, I am thinking about Macromedia Breeze,an online […]
The California Public Utilities Commission has become the latest state agency to abandon regulation efforts for VoIP services and equipment. The agency has reportedly voted to withdraw from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals its appeal of an FCC ruling made last November that prohibited states from regulating Internet phone services. […]
Intel is hoping that WiMax, also known as the IEEE 802.16 Air Interface Standard, will augment the WiFi standard championed via its Centrino technology. Unlike today’s WiFi, which is short range and generally used to create ad hoc networks in homes, offices and coffee shops, WiFi has a much longer range. Backers of WiMax say […]
IP telephony firm Skype today claimed that its software has been downloaded by over 100 million computer users. To mark the occasion the company has launched two premium services. The LivePhone Skype page is here.
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