Microsoft, Nortel Jump Into the Enterprise VoIP Market
Posted on January 29, 2007 - Filed Under VoIP News | Leave a Comment
About six months ago, Microsoft announced a joint partnership with Nortel to focus on the development of a series of products aimed at merging the VoIP and communications services of the two companies. In mid January came more details of the venture, indicating a serious attempt by Microsoft to break into the fast emerging market […]
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Read More..>>Business VoIP and the Converged Network
Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under Articles | Leave a Comment
For years businesses have been forced to maintain two separate networks, the local area network for data, and a telephone network, or PBX, for their telecommunications needs.
Converging the two networks into one is not a new idea, and in fact has been around since the eighties. At first, the idea was to merge the data […]
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Read More..>>Skype Introduces New Pricing Strategy
Posted on January 23, 2007 - Filed Under VoIP News | Leave a Comment
VoIP provider Skype gets busy again adjusting its pricing strategy as it announces that it will reduce the per minute charge for international calls, and begin charging a small connection fee per call.
The new strategy is part of a larger new premium subscription plan called Skype Pro, to be introduced initially in Europe and rolled out […]
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Read More..>>Choosing the Right Broadband Connection for VoIP
Posted on January 22, 2007 - Filed Under Articles | Leave a Comment
For people wanting to use VoIP telephony, one important consideration is the type of broadband connection to choose. Here is a rundown of the three most common options available to the residental consumer - cable modem, DSL, and the wireless network. “The most important factor in determining the quality of the call is the quality […]
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Read More..>>Net Neutrality Act Once Again on the Agenda
Posted on January 19, 2007 - Filed Under Commentary | Leave a Comment
On January 9th, Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and Democrat Byron Dorgan reintroduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act to the Senate. Better known as the Net Neutrality Act, the bill was killed by the Senate last year in a vote split down party lines (Democrats yea, Republicans nay), with the exception of Senator Snowe. With the […]
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Read More..>>Bell South and Cingular Wireless: The New AT&T
Posted on January 17, 2007 - Filed Under Commentary | 1 Comment
The recent announcement by AT&T of the acquisition of Bell South has caused quite a stir in the region, conjuring up memories of a huge, unresponsive entity controlling every facet of our communication capabilities, and making us pay dearly for it. Along with the Bell South acquisition comes the swallowing of the Cingular cellular network, […]
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Read More..>>The Linksys iPhone
Posted on January 16, 2007 - Filed Under Internet Phones | Leave a Comment
The announcement last week of the new Apple iPhone spurred tech mogul Cisco to initiate a lawsuit against Apple for trademark infringement. Cisco gained the rights to the term iPhone in 2000 with the purchase of Infogear of Redwood City, Ca. With all the fuss about who has the right to use the term iPhone, […]
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Read More..>>iPhone Wars Pit Apple Against Tech Giant Cisco
Posted on January 15, 2007 - Filed Under Internet Phones | 2 Comments
A lot has been said since Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s new iPhone at MacWorld in San Francisco last Tuesday. Shortly after the announcement, tech giant Cisco announced it was suing Apple for trademark infringement on the term iPhone. It seems that Cisco owned Linksys debuted its own iPhone in December, and Cisco has owned the […]
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Read More..>>Advantages of IP Telephony for the Residential Consumer
Posted on January 13, 2007 - Filed Under Articles | 1 Comment
Businesses have for some time now been utilizing Voice over IP Telephony through the building of Converged Networks. As VoIP technology matures and the network pipe grows ever larger, LANs that existed primarily for data transmission are being converted to handle all types of media based on the Internet Protocol. With a well established infrastructure […]
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Read More..>>Residential VoIP: Things to Consider Before Switching
Posted on January 12, 2007 - Filed Under Articles | Leave a Comment
While Voice over IP Telephony has proven to be a viable and cost saving alternative to the traditional Telco’s for the small business community, there are some drawbacks that the residential consumer should consider before making the switch.
Power Outages
Because your VoIP service utilizes a broadband connection and the hardware plugs into the wall, if a […]
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