Bill Simon’s Free SIP-to-XMPP Gateway Easily Puts Google Voice on Your VoIP Phone
Unless you're an adventurous VoIP tinkerer, there is no easy do-it-yourself approach to getting Google Voice to work over an IP phone's unused line. Obihai Technologies series of Obi telephone adaptors allow you to easily use a basic analog phone with Google Voice, but some contortion is required to use an Obi with an IP phone, and even then it may not work. You can follow our guide to rigging an OBi together with Cisco SPA-series IP … [Continue]
VoIP Provider Callcentric Offers New Plans, Free Phone Numbers
VoIP service provider CallCentric launched a redesigned web site and added several new features over the weekend. Among the changes: Callcentric customers can sign up for free incoming phone numbers that can be used for any purpose. The numbers, from more than 80 rate centers in New York state, incur no monthly or incoming per-minute fees. Two new rate plans have been introduced in addition to Callcentric's unlimited calling plan … [Continue]
Liar, Liar, VoIP on Fire: At Industry’s Low-End, Highbrow Boasts Ring Hollow
In the fierce fight for cheap VoIP supremacy, hyperbole reigns supreme. In one corner sits MagicJack, whose decidedly unpolished commercials have run rampant through late night television and who issues press releases describing itself as "a cloud communications leader that invented voice over IP (VoIP)". In the other corner sits newcomer NetTALK, a "cloud technology company" that claims its newly released NetTALK Duo WiFi is "the world's … [Continue]
VoIP Provider Callcentric Offers New Plans, Free Phone Numbers
VoIP service provider CallCentric launched a redesigned web site and added several new features over the weekend. Among the changes: Callcentric customers can sign up for free incoming phone numbers that can be used for any purpose. The numbers, from more than 80 rate centers in New York state, incur no monthly or incoming per-minute fees. Two new rate plans have been introduced in addition to Callcentric's unlimited calling plan … [Continue]
Qualcomm VoIP Chip Could Signal the End of Metered Cell Calls
Engadget and others today picked up on an acronym and initialism-laden press release from chip-maker Qualcomm about the "first successful VoIP-over-LTE to WCDMA handoff." Qualcomm's marketing folks may not have put it in an easy-to-understand fashion, but they believe this is an important breakthrough. They are right. The problem is that nobody — not even Engadget's usually reliable down-to-earth writers — have gotten past … [Continue]
VoIP Provider Callcentric Offers New Plans, Free Phone Numbers
VoIP service provider CallCentric launched a redesigned web site and added several new features over the weekend. Among the changes: Callcentric customers can sign up for free incoming phone numbers that can be used for any purpose. The numbers, from more … [Continue]
FBI Asking VoIP Companies to Voluntarily Support Backdoor Access to Users’ Phone Calls
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is working to convince Internet companies and Voice over IP service providers to go along with a proposed federal law that would require them to build back doors into their systems to facilitate government surveillance operations, … [Continue]
Android Expanding Smartphone Lead Over iOS
The battle between Apple's iOS and Google's Android for dominance of the smartphone platform appears to be slipping ever so slightly in Android's favor. According to a study released by digital research firm comScore, Inc., Google Android now commands a majority, or … [Continue]
Liar, Liar, VoIP on Fire: At Industry’s Low-End, Highbrow Boasts Ring Hollow
In the fierce fight for cheap VoIP supremacy, hyperbole reigns supreme. In one corner sits MagicJack, whose decidedly unpolished commercials have run rampant through late night television and who issues press releases describing itself as "a cloud communications … [Continue]
OBi202 VoIP Adaptor Now on Amazon, Wait Well Worth It
Obihai Technology has been featuring the OBi202 on the front page of the company's main web site for several months. Now, the device, which represents a huge step up from the company's wildly popular OBi100 and OBi110 VoIP adaptors, is finally available on Amazon for … [Continue]
Company Spotlight: Obihai Technology Reinventing VoIP a Third Time
If your home or office phone system has any analog telephone adaptor (ATA) or one of several Cisco-branded IP telephones, you are using products originally … [Continue]
E911 Over IP: VoIP Makes Emergency Calls Much Cheaper, Much Better
Perhaps the only remaining deterrent to consumer adoption of VoIP is the belief that Emergency 911 calling services do not work well with the technology. While this may have been true in VoIP's earliest days, … [Continue]
AT&T Accused of Swindling Millions Through Services Aiding the Deaf and Disabled
There is ample evidence showing that expensive incumbent phone carriers in the U.S. such as AT&T make little sense for consumers. Now there's more. The US Justice Department is filing suit against AT&T, … [Continue]
In Nepal, VoIP Is Still a Racket
Voice over IP may have already become the worldwide standard for making international calls, but in Nepal the technology is considered a form of racketeering. In a humorously exaggerated news story … [Continue]
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