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TSN VoIP Reseller Program Offers Lucrative Business Opportunities to Business Entities [published on 2010-04-13] Telecom Services Network, a prestigious name in the telecom industry has revolutionized the communication industry by introducing effective and economical VoIP services, which are offered with an aim to modernize telecom and Internet businesses. PR Log (Press Release) �" Apr 13, 2010 �" Telecom Services Network, a global leader in the wholesale VoIP business, offers [...]
25 percent of phones to have WiFi by 2012 [published on 2010-03-29] Research company In-Stat predicts a quarter of all cell phones will have WiFi support by 2012: Mobile handsets with embedded Wi-Fi continued to experience growth in 2009 despite total handset shipment declines, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). While the 2009 Wi-Fi mobile handset growth rate of more than 20% was significantly slower than 2008’s early market monster [...]
VoIP News [published on 2010-03-05] Vital clues linking Attavara to underworld found … Police suspect that the laptop could also have been used to make threat calls using Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology. The calls made using this technology make the caller’s number appear as though it belongs to a foreign country. “We … U.S. phone subsidies to go [...]
New Study Calls for Cybersecurity Overhaul in U.S. [published on 2009-12-09] The U.S. government and private businesses need to overhaul the way they look at cybersecurity, with the government offering businesses new incentives to fix security problems, the Internet Security Alliance said. The alliance, in a report released Thursday, also called for permanent international cybersecurity collaboration centers, new security standards for VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) communications [...]
Next Generation IP Communications [published on 2009-10-23] San Jose, Calif., a leading global provider of wireless chipset solutions for converged communications at home, announced that DSP Group’s silicon and HD (High-Definition) Voice technologies power all 11 CAT-iq certified products of leading cordless telephone manufacturers, as listed on the DECT Forum’s CAT-iq web site (http://www.cat-iq.org/certification.aspx). DSP Group supports CAT-iq (Cordless Advanced Technology: Internet [...]

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4PSA Showcases Cloud Unified Communications at ITEXPO East 2012 [published on 2012-02-02]

4PSA announces its participation at ITEXPO East 2012, the World's Communications Conference and Expo. The event takes place on February 1-3, 2012 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida.

During this year's ITEXPO East, 4PSA's President Mike Ross will be presenting in two highly engaging panels, exploring the increase in the adoption rate for Unified Communications as a Service and the synergies between Unified Communications and Social Media. "We're always excited to attend ITEXPO. This event represents a wonderful opportunity to get together with top providers and industry experts, discuss the latest advancements in the field, and share insight", stated Mr. Ross.

4PSA will showcase its award-winning Unified Communications solution, VoipNow Cloud OnDemand. "VoipNow Cloud OnDemand has established itself as the fastest and most convenient solution for service providers who want to offer Unified Communications to a increasingly growing number of users and for companies that want to implement VoIP inside their business," Mr. Ross added.

VoipNow Cloud OnDemand is a fully-featured and flexible turn-key solution that bundles high-performance infrastructure with the company's award-winning VoipNow® Unified Communications Platform. VoipNow Cloud OnDemand instances are available in both US and Europe.

snom Introduces ONE IP PBX with Advanced Mobility Features [published on 2012-02-01]

snom released a new version of its award-winning snom ONE IP PBX, adding advanced mobility capabilities that extend standard IP PBX calling features to employee mobile devices. The new release, introduced at ITEXPO East (Booth #512) in Miami, January 31 - February 3, also features new management and security features to more easily provision and integrate a businesses cell phone cell fleet with the snom ONE IP PBX.

snom ONE IP PBX release highlights include:

"Cell phone as an extension": The snom ONE allows cell phones to act as truly integrated extensions, incorporating call transfers, conferencing, internal extension dialling and other features.
Broad SIP client support: The snom ONE now supports mobile SIP clients, running on popular platforms such as Android and the iPhone.
Enhanced management features: The web-based interface has been enhanced to make administering the system even easier and more productive.
Enhanced remote phone security: snom ONE provides WAN-based authentication for plug and play with snom 7xx and snom 8xx series phones, alleviating the need for users to enter password information and increasing simplicity and security for remote workers.
Plug and play deployment: The snom ONE is optimized for all snom phones, enabling plug-and-play deployment and provisioning for the snom 3xx, snom 8xx and newly released snom 7xx series desktop phones, as well as other endpoints, including the snom M9 DECT phone, the snom PA1 public address system and the snom MeetingPoint conference phone.
Virtual appliance: snom ONE is available as virtual appliances for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V via a .vhd file. This addresses the demand for hardware failover without dropping calls.
Enhanced Software Update Mechanism: The system can be updated easily via the web interface, alleviating the need to connect to the operating system to perform upgrades.

The snom ONE IP PBX is a SIP-based, full featured IP PBX optimized to work with snom phones, offering advanced features including agent groups, conference rooms, call recording, and many other features typical in a mature SIP based communications system.

The snom ONE is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac environments and is equipped with robust web security through HTTPS and call security through TLS and SRTP. snom ONE supports mixed IPv4/IPv6 LAN and WAN environments and comes with an automatic blacklisting feature that makes it possible to expose public IP addresses. The snom ONE is also available as a turnkey system in snom ONE Plus appliances.

The snom ONE IP PBX is available in three versions: snom ONE free (downloadable), for up to 10 extensions, snom ONE yellow (for up to 20 extensions) and snom ONE blue (unlimited number of extensions and multi-tenant capabilities up to five companies). All versions offer the full feature set, including hunt and ACD groups, mailbox, auto attendant, conference rooms and paging, and are designed to take full advantage of the hardware features of snom's suite of desktop phones and endpoints. snom ONE blue also allows up to five separate corporate tenants, supporting multiple organizations to operate using a single IP PBX.

RTX Launches the DUALphone 4088 Cordless Skype Phone [published on 2012-02-01]

RTX is launching a combined SkypeT and landline phone. The new cordless phone, the DUALphone 4088, is being launched at ITEXPO in Miami.

The main benefit of the DUALphone 4088 is that it does not require the user to be physically connected to a PC to make VoIP calls. The caller can simply connect the DUALphone base station to a broadband connection and make Skype calls free of charge to other Skype users or have the choice of conventional paid-for landline calls worldwide.

At a time when the number of Skype calls is soaring, RTX says it expects the new handset to bring free and low cost calls to consumers worldwide. According to a recent report by telecom market research firm TeleGeography, cross-border Skype-to-Skype calls grew 48 percent in 2011, to 145 billion minutes.

Jesper Mailind CEO RTX commented, "Our new elegant DUALphone 4088 offers consumers a unique way to use Skype, bringing the benefits of wireless low cost or free calls to households across the globe at an affordable price-point. We believe there is a growing demand for dual phones from the existing 170 million Skype account holders. As more and more people use Skype our user-friendly and intuitive phone will be an attractive solution. It will also provide a business opportunity for resellers around the world."

The new handset has a colour TFT screen and superior sound quality through the use of high definition Audio. The phone system can switch between two separate Skype accounts and can be extended to four handsets per household. Standard features including call waiting, voicemail and a phone contact list of 200 numbers have been enhanced by software to show the Skype status of the user and all contacts. The design of DUALphone 4088 is suitable for the modern living room.

DIGITALK Introduces Integrated Mobile VoIP Client to Consumer Applications [published on 2012-02-01]

DIGITALK announces a new, fully integrated, Mobile VoIP Client on the DIGITALK Consumer Platform, enabling service providers to offer mobile dialling to their Prepaid Cards and Broadband Telephony customers over Wifi and 3G /4G networks.

The development comes in light of the continuing growth of mobile subscribers with smartphones and improved Wifi access globally, enabling calling card and residential IP service providers to exploit extensions to current services and promotions. With many users having inclusive data packages, mobile VoIP is a now a substantial opportunity for prepaid and residential IP telephony service providers to expand their service reach to mobile smartphone users.

The DIGITALK Mobile VoIP Client is SIP-compliant and supports G.729 and G.711 codecs, with optional signalling and media encryption and compression. The client will be locked to the service provider, protecting revenue loss from transient users and enhancing overall customer loyalty with new service features.

The client preserves familiar features with other DIGITALK applications such as PIN-based registration for calling cards or standard SIP user name and password registration for Broadband Telephony customers. Dialling from the phone's contact list, call history, and balance presentation all add to the ease of use of the application, further enhancing the user experience.

To simplify the introduction of the DIGITALK Mobile VoIP Client for service providers, DIGITALK supports branding of the client with the service provider's logo and colour scheme and introduction of the client to the Apple and Android App stores - enabling easy and rapid download and access to the client.

DIGITALK will be demonstrating the Mobile Client at ITEXPO 31st Jan-3rd Feb at Miami Convention Center booth 629.

Digium Introduces World’s First Phones Designed for Asterisk [published on 2012-02-01]

Digium introduces a new family of high-definition IP phones. They are the first that are engineered to fully leverage the power of Asterisk, the world’s most widely adopted open source communications software, and Switchvox, Digium’s award-winning unified communications system. With Digium technology on both the server and the phone, users will benefit from the best possible performance, unprecedented integration and a uniquely customizable phone system.

Asterisk has always been about flexibility, allowing integrators and developers to create highly customized solutions. Likewise, Digium phones include an app engine with a simple yet powerful JavaScript API that lets programmers create custom apps that run on the phones. They aren’t simply XML pages; Digium phone apps can interface directly with core phone features.

Digium has leveraged this unique programming interface of the phones to create a suite of productivity applications that work with both Asterisk and Switchvox. Switchvox includes a unique web interface called Switchboard that gives each system user control of their personal communications environment. Digium has extended the capabilities of the Switchboard to the phone, putting advanced features like presence management, searchable contact directory, queue monitoring, recording and voicemail control, all at the user’s fingertips.

The Digium phones include the following models:

D40�"An entry-level HD IP phone with 2-line keys. This is Digium’s best value phone, designed for any employee in the company.
D50�"A mid-level HD IP phone with 4-line keys and 10 rapid dial/busy lamp field keys with an easy to print paper label strip for the user’s most important contacts. This model is perfect for users who spend a lot of time on the phone.
D70�"An executive-level HD IP phone with 6-line keys and 10 rapid dial/BLF keys and real-time status information displayed on an additional LCD screen, allowing users to quickly navigate through up to 100 of their most important contacts. Designed for administrators or executives, the D70 offers top-of-the-line features.

Digium plans to have general availability of these new phones in April 2012. The MSRP for these models is as follows: D70 - $279, D50 - $179 and the D40 - $129.

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Three in UK Simplifies PrePaid on for Unlocked iPhone Users [published on 2012-02-04] I needed to pick up a local SIM for a friend visiting the UK in a month or so, and the carrier of choice for me when it comes to a single country SIM in the UK is usually 3. Their plain language approach and, now a new 15 pound a month plan for voice--300 minutes, text-3000 and all you can eat data for 30 days, is just plain, dumb, simple. Buy the pack at a 3 shop, dial 444 on your iPhone, wait five minutes and your connected. Honestly, this is the type of plan AT&T needs to offer...
Deskphone or Tablet? You Decide [published on 2012-02-02] Yesterday the Medill Reports Ben Shamisso penned a piece regarding the war of attrititon between the legacy deskphone and their looming replacements-smartphones and tablets. In the story both CounterPath's SVP Todd Carothers and I were quoted. My view is centered around the concept of utility. People will simply get more use out of a tablet based communications hub than the standard desk phones. It one of the reasons why Cloud TC and Panasonic both are making desk phones based upon the Android OS. An iPad in a Gorrilla stand makes for a very good desk phone already. So will Android...
Read Martin Geddes Latest Post-Your Job My Be At Stake If You Don't [published on 2012-01-27] If you haven't read pal Martin Geddes latest post on the Future of Communications entitled Peak Telecom, you are missing something that is likely either something you have likely said, thought, heard someone say in private or really wished you had. It's a stunningly brilliant piece of writing that leads you to wonder, "what is Martin going to say next" as you read through it. This post is every bit as important as Alec Saunders 2005 post entitled The Voice 2.0 Manifesto in my opinion as far as laying things out or the famed Pulver Purple Minutes post. It is...
Video Conferencing Is Heating Up, The Established Will Be Challenged [published on 2012-01-27] Image via CrunchBase Just as we're seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there's also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I'm a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white glove video conferncing services, operating exchanges or hosting bridging services. Yesterday pal Larry Lisser, who is known in the telecom industry as the person to go to to revive sales, penned a post supportive of disruptive Silicon Valley startup, Vidtel (a Comunicano client) who are...
Why I'm Excited About Next Week's IT Expo [published on 2012-01-26] There's one reason I'm excited about IT Expo. It's called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is perhaps the most relevant example of what is really happening in the telecom and tech world today at the twice annual confernence. For the past four StartUpCamp they have had standing room only crowds, and key speakers iincluding startup luminaries and legends Craig Walker (GrandCentral), Bob Metcalf (father of Ethernet, 3COM), Jamie Siminoff (Simulscribe, Unsubscibe) and Jeff Bonforte (Gizmo, Yahoo Voice, Xobni). This year will have Sir Terry Matthews (NewBridge Networks, Mitel) as the keynote offering a neat perspective from years of experience nurturing and...

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7 stories to read this weekend [published on 2012-02-04] What a week! Most of the world was obsessing over the mother of all IPOs -- Facebook. So no surprise, I had to include some good writing on the subject. I have already started looking beyond the social internet and got some good pointers for that.
Toys meet tech: augmented reality to play out at Toy Fair [published on 2012-02-03] Does your kid want to play with unicorns? You might want to check out the goods at next week's Toy Fair in New York, where toy makers will show off the latest-and-greatest augmented reality technology that animates once-static games, books, and toys.
Skin Scan wants to fight cancer using iPhones and big data [published on 2012-02-03] Romanian startup Skin Scan is selling an iPhone app that lets consumers take pictures of questionable moles and get back information on its threat level. However, the company has much grander goals than helping consumers figure out whether to see a doctor.
As CDMA dies in Latin America, 3G drives a data boom [published on 2012-02-03] Mobile data is picking up momentum in Latin America as the number of 3G connections in the region doubled in 2011. Operators in Latin and South America are shutting down their CDMA networks, replacing them with UMTS systems, resulting in a huge surge in data adoption.
Nokia Hello: communicate via NFC with people you hate to speak with [published on 2012-02-03] A Nokia research project called Nokia Hello leverages wireless technology with Near Field Communications (NFC) chips to help people "speak" to each other. I figured it would be a good solution when speaking to someone in a non-native language (it is), but Nokia suggests another use.

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Contingency Response Communications System Uses, VoIP, Wireless Internet to Connect Agencies [published on 2009-06-19] DevMar Associates are now a distributor for AAR’s Contingency Response Communications System. The communications system is intended to provide local, state and federal agencies with an interoperable communications solution that is simple and yet bridges the gap between agencies, command and control. “AAR is looking forward to working with Dennis DuVal and his team at DevMar [...]
Friday Links: VoIP Tracing, Video Calling, Google Voice [published on 2009-06-19] VoIP News of the UK says that Ofcom wants reverse VoIP tracing for emergency calls in the UK. Smith on VoIP says that niche applications are driving the adoption of video calling. Network World says that Google has grabbed 1 million phone numbers for Google Voice. Whoa.
New Headsets Work for Wireless, Wired and Softphones [published on 2009-06-19] There are two new Unified Communications solution products being released by GN Netcom. The new products are the Jabra GO(TM) 6400 and PRO(TM) 9400 Series, which are the first Bluetooth and DECT headset solutions that feaure a touch screen base. They are scheduled for release in September. “We are dedicated to working with today’s industry leading [...]
TCM Mobile To Release Dual Band VoIP Phone [published on 2009-06-18] There is a new handset coming from TCM Mobile that will work on both the TCM Mobile Cellular VoIP Network and on traditional GSM cellular networks. The dual band phone is scheduled for release in two to three months. “While our new handset is scheduled for release in two to three months, we can currently take [...]
Taridium Releases ipbx iPhone Interface [published on 2009-06-18] Taridium has released an ipbx iPhone interface for its enterprise PBX solution. The iPhone interface compatible with Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S. “One of the big advantages of the Taridium ipbx iPhone interface is that users can now access internal PBX extensions directly from their mobile phone with a single click — it [...]

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How to Unblock VoIP in UAE and Middle East [published on 2012-02-02]

Enough is Enough. Today, we talk about the most amazing way to unblock VoIP in the middle east (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and other countries). This is so awesome, I bet you never knew this. If...

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Download MobileVOIP app for all Betamax Services [published on 2012-02-01]

VOIP has already made it's way into mobile phones and its becoming extremely popular. Based on current growth rate, Mobile VoIP would overtake traditional PC to Phone VoIP by next year. Its about...

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How to make Cheap calls from Oman [published on 2012-01-30]

Do you live in Oman and make international calls? Don't miss this post or you will regret later. We found a great new way to make cheap calls from Oman. Oman is one of those countries with very...

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Free Calls to China during CNY 2012 [published on 2012-01-23]

Chinese new year is in full swing in china and other chinese dominated countries like singapore (where i live), Hong Kong, Malaysia, USA etc. Today, we are giving you another reason to call your...

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Freephoo Mobile VoiP App launched in India [published on 2012-01-18]

Indian users are often deprived of good things of VOIP. With some VOIP Providers not offering their apps for users in India, freephoo is looking to break into this hungry market. Freephoo, a swedish...

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