Ted Stevenson

So-20 Wi-Fi Phone for Skype www.ipevo.com/ $129.99 Pros: Works well over Wi-Fi; lightweight; full Skype telephony features built-in; bright, color screen; easy to set up and use. Cons: Audio quality falters at highest volume; non-voice functions (video, instant messaging, etc.) not available. The PC is both a strength and a weakness in Skype’s incredibly popular Web-based […]

Skype users know that the popular application includes multi-party conferencing capability. But Ben Lilienthal, co-founder and CEO of Hoboken, NJ-based Vapps, Inc. views that as little more than “three-way calling.” If you want real audio conferencing using Skype as an endpoint, Vapps’ HiDef Conferencing service can provide it—complete with the ‘in-the-room’ audio quality that Skype […]

Telecommunications provider JAJAH has announced the availability of a new technology platform that will transform the millions of iPod Touch devices now roaming the world in people’s pockets or purses, into fully functional mobile phones. “The connected lifestyle is spreading,” Paul Naphtali, JAJAH’s vice president of global marketing told VoIPplanet, “particularly among college students. They’ve […]

Unified Communications UC was certainly the telecom buzz word of 2008. Suddenly no self respecting VoIP company could be without some sort of a product offering that gave users access to a bunch of communications applications and modes in a single interface—or something along those lines. But there has been nothing resembling general agreement on […]

Setting up a wireless LAN or Wi-Fi network involves a certain amount of radio frequency (RF) voodoo. Engineers/designers have to get an accurate sense of how many access points (APs) point are needed and where they should be located for optimum performance and minimum interference. (APs are the wall- or ceiling-mounted base station units connected […]

When Asterisk sponsor Digium, Inc. released AsteriskNOW, early in January 2007, the stated aim was to provide an open-source telephony “appliance.” Not appliance as in hardware/software combo, but appliance as in ‘all the software you need to get a complete telephony application up and running’—even if you don’t know a lot about Linux administration. AsteriskNOW […]

Utah-based Alianza Corp. has been developing its integrated VoIP/UC platform for some four years now, and selling it around the world to a variety of carriers, CLECs, and Internet service providers in the so-called tier two market—smaller subscriber bases. Alianza has architected its IP solution to support all types of transmission media, cable, satellite, and […]

Global IP Solutions has announced that it has adapted its highly successful VoiceEngine Mobile technology (used in Skype and other Internet-based VoIP services) for Apple’s second-generation iPhone. The VoiceEngine technology will help developers of iPhone applications easily add high-quality, real-time VoIP communications to a variety of application types. “The VoiceEngine takes a lot of the hard-to-manage […]

Cisco Systems has made a couple of announcements about mobility of late. The first one, issued at the end of April (read it here), snuck past us initially, but we caught up with it. It describes a partnership with Nokia that “extends the rich Cisco Unified IP phone capabilities to Nokia Eseries dual-mode smartphones over […]

In 2007, VoIPplanet.com introduced the VoSKY Exchange gateway to its readers and reported on its certification and co-branding by Skype. Today, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based VoSKY is announcing a new feature: click-to-call (C2C) capability, wherein a link on a website will place a call to a live agent via the company’s VoSKY Exchange gateway. As VoSKY director […]