It’s Skype’s fifth birthday and TMCNet is honoring the occasion with a cake that Seuss would love. Read their birthday post here.
Birthday or not, VoIP Watch is wondering if Skype’s day has come and gone, thanks to poor un-Web 2.0 decisionmaking. The latest example? The elimination of SkypeCasts. Read it here.
Skype Journal on the other [...]
Imagine if wireless devices could move seamlessly between Wi-Fi connection points without a hiccup? It might seem like a dream, but a new standard just developed and approved by IEEE could make it possible.
Oh, wouldn’t that be great?
The original standard was only intended to be used with a single access point. It’s about four years [...]
Fun businesses can reap the rewards of VoIP too.
There’s a cool toy store in Massachusetts that has gotten hooked up with VoIP to solve their communications issues. Magic Beans owners Sheri and Eli Gurock chose Ayava’s IP Office from All Business Communications. The solution is intended for small businesses.
The best part? There is a whole [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about cable companies’ efforts to provide voice services to SMBs (small- to medium-sized businesses). In reality, while providers are trying hard to achieve this goa…
Healthcare providers seem to be embracing VoIP left and right.
Carolinas HealthCare System is using VoIP to handle patient calls. The system is using a Nortel VoIP setup for it’s virtual call center. There are 1,000 trained medical professionals fielding more than 600,000 calls each month.
According to Triangle Business Journal:
“We pride ourselves on delivering personalized patient [...]
Everybody wants to be green these days. Manufacurers, bottlers, everyone. Even companies and VoIP providers. But that can pose challenges for SMBs. For one, in getting the service to work, and two in establishing it. Everyone also wants to be cost-effective and, well, effective too.
Perhaps that’s why NetworkWorld interviewed Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance.
According [...]
The problem with softphones is that they require software specific to operating system and machine to be installed on a PC before you can use it. Not so with browser-based phones. Browser-based phones need only be compatible with a browser.
Browser-based applications can bring cheap international calls to both PCs and Macs.
To read more about their [...]
According to an inside source, there really is going to be a Google phone - of some kind. This may just mean that the Android phones coming out from people like HTC are going to have Google logo on them. Or does it mean that Google will somehow sell hardware - like a rebranded HTC?
Who [...]
One major issue complicating Web-based telephony has been software. Users have typically had to download programs known as softphones to make calls through their PCs using headsets or the built-in mic…
Vyke is running a beta trial on its Symbian client for Symbian phones. The standalone VoIP client would allow users to make VoIP calls from their mobile phones. Read about it on VoIP News of the UK.
Andy Abramson has the scoop on Aircell — you know, the company doing WiFI in the skies for American [...]