Company Spotlight: Obihai Technology Reinventing VoIP a Third Time

March 2, 2012 By
Obihai Technology

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 engineered and developed by the team at Obihai Technology. In fact, while running Komodo Technology in the 1990s, Obihai's founders, CEO Jan Fandrianto and VP of Engineering Sam Sin, helped launch the consumer VoIP industry when they invented the analog telephone adaptor. The company was bought by Cisco and the ATA-186 and ATA188 devices … [Read more...]

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Cisco Killer OBi110 Puts Google Voice on Any Phone

January 18, 2011 By
Obihai Technology's poerful OBi110

It's been a long six-year run, but the Cisco SPA3102's reign as the most powerful consumer VoIP adaptor is over. A new device, the OBi110 by Obihai Technology, selling for less than $50, has stepped in to invigorate the sleepy consumer VoIP hardware space. The device offers virtually all the features that have made the SPA3102 the chosen adaptor among VoIP do-it-yourselfers, and sports a slew of enticing new powers. These include: The ability to make US/Canada calls and receive calls … [Read more...]

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Free Press Pushes for Open Communications from Every Angle

June 29, 2009 By
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When many people hear about something called the Free Press, if the term rings a bell at all, they tend to think of the Detroit Free Press, the venerable old-line newspaper that's been published out of the Motor City for 178 years. Nowadays, however freepress.net is a web 2.0 property whose mission is no less than one to "reform media [and] transform democracy." Dedicated to diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications, Free Press was … [Read more...]

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