Farewell, 2008. It’s been an interesting year filled with new ideas and services, mergers and closings. Some companies faced the brink and fought back while others succumbed to the pressures of a poor financial time. We saw VoIP services on mobile phones pop up, and Google added Click to Call to their Google Talk.
I wonder [...]
Korea has set a VoIP over WiBRO standard. Check out VoIP Watch for all the details.
Smith on VoIP has an interview with Fonolo’s CEO about the near future of VoIP.
Is an Apple/Skype partnership in the cards? Read TMCnet for the latest.
The International CES Show is coming next month. It’s planned for January 8-11 in Las Vegas.
Among the exhibitors is ClearOne , which will be showcasing its ClearOne’s New MAX IP Response Point, the first conference phone for Microsoft Response Point VoIP phone system.
“CES continues to be an important marketing venue for ClearOne and our suite [...]
USA Today has caught wind of an interesting movement on college campuses across the country to save money while actually increasing accessibility of professors. It seems that colleges are choosing to forgo traditional office landlines for mobile phones or VoIP lines.
Crazy right? But it’s also so practical. Professors that are more available make learning easier [...]
What impact with the BroadSoft-Sylantro merger have on end users? Not much says one analyst interviewed by VoIP-News’s Robert Poe. The analyst reveals that the merger, which was announced yesterday, really didn’t come as a surprise since both companies had been dropping big hints for some time.
According to the article:
The December 29 announcement of BroadSoft [...]
Are you going to the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo East 2009, planned for Feb. 2-4, 2009, at the Miami Beach Conference Center in Miami?
The IP Communications trade show is put on by TMC and drew more than 7,000 buyers and sellers last year.
Among those showing at this event will be MERA Systems, which plans [...]
The December 29 announcement of BroadSoft Inc.’s acquisition of Sylantro Systems Corp. hardly came as a surprise. Both companies had been letting hints slip for several months that something was i…
The Call feature on Google Talk has issues. I swear.
First of all, it dials when you don’t mean it too — and then finding the button to stop it is akin to the search for the Holy Grail.
Secondly, it has no regard for whether or not the person on the other end can actually talk [...]
Lompoc, California, is planning a test of their reverse-911 calling in early January. The city has the system in place so that it can call residents in the event of an emergency.
However, if your primary phone is a cell phone or VoIP phone, then you need to make sure that you register the phone with [...]
Sylantro Systems Corporation is being acquired by BroadSoft. Both companies are VoIP application providers.
“Sylantro has been a strong competitor of BroadSoft for 10 years. This acquisition further advances our market and innovative leadership position,” said Michael Tessler, president and CEO of BroadSoft. “Sylantro’s solutions, talent and customers complement BroadSoft’s business and enhance our ability to [...]