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Anti Voip Blocking by SpeedVoIP
2007-10-10 21:04:00
Canadian based company SpeedVoIP has been providing VoIP solutions to geographical areas being blocked from VoIP. Some areas do that to prevent people from having free or very low cost long distance telephone calls. One of such areas is Korea, where SpeedVoiP's proprietary technology called VGCP (Voice Guard at Control Protocol) has been utilized successfully while enabling high quality internet phone connectivity. Recently Speed VoIP has extended it's reach to the region of Dubai where the VoIP calls have also been blocked.
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New Mobile Internet Phone and MP3 Player Combo
2007-06-17 08:52:00
As for now it is only in Japan but there is a new gizmo combining a Skype and MSN Messenger wireless internet phone with an MP3 player compatible with both iTunes and Windows Media player. It has been released in Japan just 4 days ago.The way it communicates wirelessly is through a long range, class one Bluetooth providing a range of up to 100 meters (or around 300 feet) in open area. That is for both cords free Skype-ing MSN-ing and uploading of tunes from the Bluetooth linked computer around.The batter life of the unit is up to around 72 hours of continuous usage.
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Cisco IP Phone
2007-06-11 01:44:00
Cisco IP Phone s are still quite popular in the corporate world even though in many places folks are moving into the open voice architectures like Asterisk.Here is a couple popular Cisco Internet Phones:Cisco IP Phone 7912GThis is an entry level Cisco VoIP Phone. The navigation on this phone is accomplished via the four soft buttons placed underneath its pixel LCD display on top. It has a good sound quality and carries a small build in speaker phone. With the Menu button one can easily show info like voice mail calls tracking for incoming and outgoing calls, including incoming calls, outgoing calls and missed calls.Cisco 7936 Conference StationThis Cisco Phone as well as its predecessor the Cisco 7935 are well known in the business teleconferencing circles. It supports an external microphone as well as an external microphone kit also from Cisco. The unite sports full duplex operating allowing for a loud and clear two way conversation without distortions. The integrated keypad is h...
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Vonage Expands Its Internet Phone Service in Both Manitoba and Saskatchewa
2007-06-08 01:39:00
Vonage has expanded its services again. This time to the city of Brandon in Manitoba as well as Regina and Saskatoon in the Saskatchewan province of Canada.This no doubt, gives move internet calling options to folks living in these places. As usual, the internet phone service requires a high speed internet access.In the words of Joe Parent, vice president of marketing and business development for the Canadian branch of Vonage "I am excited that consumers in Brandon can now cut the cord with their existing phone company, and experience the freedom that Vonage phone service provides and enjoy great savings on their monthly phone bill"
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New US Court Ruling On VoIP Internet Phone Companies
2007-06-04 02:18:00
The US court ruled that US VoIP companies like Vonage or SunRocket need to pay Universal Service Fund (USF) fees. It will apply only to those Internet Phone companies that hook into the PSTN (Public Service Telephone Network - meaning the regular phones).Currently regular phone company fees of that sort are around 12 percent of their long distance income. But since VoIP traffic is not categorized that way the FCC ruled it to be around 65 percent for VoIP companies. You can also compare that to some 37 percent of revenue that cellphone providers pay there.In the words of FCC chairman Kevin Martin: "I am pleased that the court has affirmed the commission's action, which ensures that USF contribution obligations are administered in a competitively and technologically neutral manner on all phone providers, including interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers"So what does it mean to an average VoIP consumer? Well, it's estimated to add around $1.30 to monthly subsc...
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Pentagon installs voip internet phones too
2007-05-20 05:21:00
Now the army boys and girls are getting into the internet calling too. Will that make them more peaceful? I don't know :-) But for sure it is another indicator of the voip's ever wider spread and acceptance across all areas of endeavor.The company who got contract to install the internet phone voip system for this fighting oriented department of US government is General Dynamics. As this department is very money rich so will this voip system be also one of the most fully featured and elaborate. To paraphrase Dan Busby at General Dynamics Information Technology it will be a voice centric, 21st century IT infrastructure for the Pentagon . Well, I'd say that what that basically means is that it will be cool and both parties look like quite happy with the tax payers sponsored deal. Now, if all they did was buy stuff like internet telephony then maybe we would have no wars :-)
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Voice Over IP Is Spreading
2007-03-30 04:41:00
There is currently, as of this writing, over 10 million voice over IP users in the US. Cable companies find themselves rivaling for the market share with dedicated voice over IP companies like Voip.com or Sunrocket. These companies target mainly local calling market, offering 50% or more savings compared to using regular PSTN phone services.The so called free VoIP companies are doing well as well targeting the international market. I said so called because you still pay with these long distance fees while calling to regular phone numbers and there's extra fees for regular incoming number and other extras like voice mail that comes free with the paid voice over IP telephone services. Also with the 'free services' you need to supply your own VoIP phone hardware like regular phone to internet adapters. Meantime Sunrocket for example offers free VoIP phones with one year money back guarantee and the lowest fees in the industry, starting at $9.99 a month.
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Long Distance Telephone Bill Tax Refund
2006-12-28 01:50:00
If you live in the US then you can qualify for a special one time tax refund of approximately$30 to $60. The estimated total amount to be refunded is reported at around $10 billion.According to the Internal Revenue Service "The telephone tax refund is a one-time payment available on your 2006 federal income tax return, designed to refund previously collected federal excise taxes on long-distance or bundled services. It is available to anyone who paid such taxes on landline, wireless, or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service."
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Expert Help Through Jyve ViOP Internet Phone And Instant Messenger
2006-12-20 23:53:00
Have you ever been looking for a fast answer to a question and was not quite not sure where to find it? Are you wondering how can you share what you know and also be paid for it? If you have answered in the affirmative to one or both of the above questions questions then you might be interested in seeing what Jyve is and what it does.Jyve is an international, Internet community based, information and knowledge search platform run through the proprietary Jyve hub platform. One of the pleasant things about it is that it offers virtually instant access to answers through Skype VoIP voice chat or internet messenger typing chat.It offers a broad base of categories, each one including several sub-categories:• Arts & Creative Services• Business & Finance• Computers & Programming• Education & Tutoring• Health & Medicine• Home & Leisure• Legal Services• Professional Counseling• Spirituality & ReligionThe interface of the system is very simple. First you type in your questio...
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Which Is Better - Paid VoIP or Free VoIP Internet Phone Calls?
2006-12-10 23:18:00
Paid VoIP internet phone plans start at around $20 a month which comes to about $250 a year. So why would one want pay for it if you can get it for free? But before I delve into that let me notice that even with the free VoIP to landline or cell phone offers – there are usually small long distance charges with common exceptions often dealing with free promotional offers. And with many free offers going around one can keep calling for free whether PC to PC to PSTN phone or in combintions of these involiving Wi-Fi internet phone connectivity - throughout many areas of the world.There are certain features that the paid internet phone provider might supply which a free one might not. One such feature is the 911 emergency call service functionality. This particular issue has to do with the difficulty of pinpointing a geographical location of a call that is being routed through the Internet . FCC has regulated in 2005 that all VoIP providers hooking up to PSTN network are required to com...
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Free VoIP Internet Phone Calling With Free Call Planet
2006-11-29 17:30:00
Free Call Planet allows VoIP calling to 39 countries fro free from within the USA. Here is the list of these countries as of the writing:ArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBelgiumB razil (only cities with these call numbers 55 21,55 31,55 11)CanadaChileChina (including mobile phones)Chech RepublicDenmarkFranceGermanyGuamGreeceHon gKong (including mobile phones)IrelandItalyKorea(South)MalaysiaMe xico (only cities with these call numbers 52 33,52 55,52 81)NetherlandsNorwayPanama (only Panama City 507 2)PortugalPuertoRicoRussia (only cities with these call numbers 7 095,7 812)Singapore (including mobile phones)SpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanThaila nd (including mobile phones)United KingdomUSA(except Alaska)Venezuela (only Caracas 58 212)US Virgin IslandsFor mobile phone users additional fees from their cell phone providers might apply. On unlimited minutes the call should be free although one needs to be carefull not to press the 'send' or 'call' button or retreive the number from the cellphone's ...
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VoIP Internet Phone Calling For Free
2006-11-25 11:21:00
One way of calling for free is through achievement of mastery in mental telepathy and clairaudience :-)But also, much more easily, you can accomplish that feat these days through the means of widely available technology. And while long distance physical travel is usually accompanied by monetary spending and sometimes a lot of it - these days your voice can be tele-transported to most destinations on Earth for free.It is being done through the utilization of Internet . Once you are connected to the Internet then there need to be no extra fees for transferring of information. So yes, there is often a charge for the hooking up to the Internet itself but aside of that the data travels for free. And once voice is digitized on computer it is also treated as any other computer data. And then, by tapping to a public wireless connection - even that charge can be circumvented.Technically speaking the procedure at hand here is called VoIP or Voice over the Internet Protocol. So pra...
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New Cisco Linksys CIT310 Cordless Internet Phone
2006-11-12 23:15:00
Cisco's division Linksys has released released its new entry into the arena of cordless internet phones. It is called CIT310 and is particularly designed to inerface the best with Yahoo messenger VoIP service.For under $80 it is a good value - already available on the Internet .This phone allows you to call for free to other Yahoo Messenger voice users and you can see your Yahoo buddies list right there on the phone's display. It also works as a regular cordless phone.
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Vonage partners with HP
2006-10-09 04:50:00
Vonage has announced a new partnership with Hewlet Packard. As a part of this agreement each new HP and Compaq computer is going to be bundled with a special offer from Vonaga offering discounted rates on their VoIP internet phone plans. The computers will also come with the relevant Vonage VoIP software.
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China to become biggest broadband market in 2007
2006-09-05 00:32:00
According to the Ovum analytics company China is poised to have the largest number of broadband subscribers by some time in 2007. That is despite of the currently still very low broadband market penetration there amounting to some 3.4% Naturally that is because of the large population of China and the booming economy.According to the same forecast the number of Chinese broadband users is to reach 139 million by the year 2010. That will surely increase the penetration of broadband based internet telephony as well as of all manner of WiFi VoIP applications.
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VoIP Calls Steady On The Increase
2006-08-08 03:52:00
Worldwide number of Internet phone users as well as VoIP revenues have roughly doubled. The VoIP spread is commonly predicted to be on an increase through the year2010.In the United States the VoIP Internet phone usage has been evenly split between commercial and private, individual users. Meanwhile in Europe business VoIP users accounted for about a quarter of the Internet phone calls.Also in the US, currently the biggest VoIP customer base belongs to the cable companies, standing now at around 39 percent and ahead of the biggest VoIP names like Vonage and Packet 8.
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Skype on USB stick
2006-07-13 02:00:00
Skype has just pertnered with SanDisk in releasing a new product to the market.SanDisk, the well known maker of USB memory drives will be releasing new USB drives ranging in capacity from 512Mb to 4Gb and suggested retail price from $39.99 to $199.99. Nothing real new there - but these drives are going to be embedded with the full Skype internet phone software for VoIP calls on the go. Just plug in one of those to any windows 2000 or XP computer connected to the internet and off you go Skype calling. The new USB memory sticks are of the Cruzer Micro and Cuzer Titanium lines and as a bonus they will also come with one month free of Skype voicemail for voice messaging on the go.It looks like after being acquired by eBay last year, Skype continues expanding very nicely. Remember also that all Skype calls to landline phones are free in the US and Canada till the end of this year 2006 as a part of special promotion.
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New Philips Internet Phones
2006-06-29 05:53:00
Phillips Electronics has announced a new VoIP phones. One that works with Skype, called VOIP 321 and one for Microsoft's Live Messenger, named VOIP 433. The names of these devices are not too sleek but the looks are :-) Both Internet phones work also as regular, PSTN land line cordless phones. These also include big back lit, monochrome LCD screens displaying among other things - which contacts are currently on or off line. The buttons are back lit too and the color of the display model at the Las Vegas 2006 Consumer's Electronics Show - is a nice metallic silver.
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Microsoft has released the MSN Live Messenger with VoIP
2006-06-22 07:23:00
MSN Live Messenger is finally and officially out of beta and released to the public for free as it was with its previous version.The new messenger sports a new graphics design and layout while keeping its previous cool functionality. The new awaited features include the VoIP internet phone to and from landlines and cell phones, synchronized audio and video and one click access to blog and email.This messenger is a part of the slew of new Microsoft products being gradually released under the name Live which is going to include the all new 64 bit Windows Vista , Office Live, new Hotmail email and new Outlook Express.The software engine in the messenger is based on code designed by Logitech International SA.The Live Messenger is available for download from http://get.live.com/messenger/overview
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Skype getting activated on eBay
2006-06-15 03:16:00
It has been nine months since eBay has purchased Skype for $2.6 billion. And yesterday eBay has announced that it is ready to include the Skype phone on 14 of its auction listing categories. These were selected to be those that might demand the biggest amount of interactivity between the buyer and the seller which could be facilitated by a quick and free computer phone conversation.Many eBayers are excited about the new internet phone feature while some are apprehensive about putting the Skype button on their listings because of the prospect of being flooded by phone calls.Another service that eBay is currently testing, called eBay alerts,will be able to place cellphone calls to buyers, alerting them to status of their bids.Google is also currently testing a 'click-to-call' advertizing service.
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Cheap VoIP From Voipcheap
2006-06-04 19:52:00
Here is a new twist on the free internet phone calls to landline phones. A company called Voip cheap gives certain amount of free landline calling to the following destinations:Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.So these internet call landline destinations qualify for 300 free minutes a week once the user deposits some real money to their Voip Cheap account. That amount expires after 90 days and is not refundable or transferrable.The system requirements for Voip Cheap are very basic:Minimum System Requirements:PC with Windows XP or ...

NetGear Wi-Fi Internet Phone for Skype
2006-05-25 08:15:00
NetGear has just announced the upcoming in July 2006 release of a brand new WiFi internet phone for Skype . Yay, for all the mobile internet users. Now all you need to call for free to any PC, anywhere in the world is a WiFi hot spot and your brand new shiny Skype enabled internet phone. Isn't life good? :-)This Netgear 's internet phone is going to be selling directly from the Skype website for about $250 to start. It sports a nice color display, weighs 2.2 lb in the gift box with batteries and got the looks too.Of course you can use this internet phone for calling to any regular landline or cellphone as well with the regular low cost Skype rates or for free this year, as a promo - within the United States and Canada.
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VoIPCom Internet Phone Corporation
2006-05-24 18:46:00
I heard recently the name VoIPCom. Curious what that was I did a little research and found that AmeriResource Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, purchased 23 million shares of VoIPCom which makes up for roughly 97% of the outstanding common stock, for $80,000 in April of 2005.The name VoIPCom is a brand name of Voice over IP Communications Limited. And the company itself is apparently co-located within London, England and operating a carrier-grade VoIP platform allowing to send and receive traffic from VocalTec, Cisco and Clarent switches anywhere in the world.
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Plantronic offering new internet phone bloototh headset
2006-05-23 04:03:00
It is called Voyager 510 and it is Plantronics' newest entry in to internet phone accessories arena. This bluetooth headset technology is compatible with AOL, Avaya, Cisco, MSN, Skype, Yahoo and other internet phone software applications. Also it requires no installation, jut plug and play. It is currently being listed at around a hundred dollars.Some of the Voyager 510's other attractive features also include:built in wind noise reduction technology.regular outside noise reduction circuitry.stylish, compact and light weight design.one touch call control buttons.
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Skype partners with SPIRIT DSP
2006-05-23 03:45:00
Skype has established now a core voice partnership with SPIRIT DSP. The later is a leading world provider of embedded voice conferencing, currently employing over 120 people.With TeamSpirit (TM) being SPIRIT's key product and also the world's fastest voice engine for mobile applications - Skype is positioning itself strongly in the mobile and conference calling market. TeamSpirit (TM) 2.0 is a conference calling engine being targetted at business needing voice collaboration with wide band voice quality and sophisticated featureas at a competitive price point. Currently it is being bundled with products from Adobe, HP Open Call, Oracle, Paltalk and other ones.
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Phillip Zimmermann's new Zfone VoIP encryption
2006-05-23 03:35:00
Phillip Zimmer man, known for his Pretty Good Privacy encryption coding protocol has just released his beta Zfone - a new free Voip encription protocol.The coding algorithm is called ZRTP and operates without reliance on the variety of current often overcomplicated and outdated coding algorithms.The core of the Zfone technology is peep to peer based and executed over the RTP packets.Meantime the protocol has been submitted to the IETF for consideration in use as a new public standard
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