Archive for December, 2006

Telchemy Launches Distributed Application for Enterprise VoIP, IP Videoconferencing, HD Telepresence Pre-/Post-Deployment Test

Telchemy,® Incorporated, the global leader in Voice and Video over IP performance management technology, announced the release of DVQattest/EN a powerful active test tool for Voice over IP, IP Videoconferencing and HD telepresence service assurance. DVQattest/EN uses Telchemy’s market leading VQmon technology to provide network assessment, pre-deployment testing, SLA monitoring and advanced network troubleshooting for [...]

December 14th, 2006 - Posted in VoIP

VoIP TalkFree Places two New Tools in its “Phone Business in a Box.”

San Francisco, CA, December 13, 2006 – International VoIP reseller TalkFree, has added two new tools to its centerpiece product, the “VoIP Phone Business in a Box.”
The first tool, the “Inbound Telephone Numbers” program, arms TalkFree business customers and service resellers with a new service using Direct Inward Dial numbers ( DID ) [...]

December 14th, 2006 - Posted in VoIP

Small companies embracing VoIP

Small companies are keen to embrace VoIP, but still aren’t seeing the real advantages of convergence.
An Orange-commissioned report, which goes under the catchy title of Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK, is drawn from on-line interviews with 181 UK SMEs and asks about their current spending as well as plans for the [...]

December 14th, 2006 - Posted in VoIP

Sony Ericsson Z310

Sony Ericsson introduced Z310, another clamshell design phone with a seamless, semi-transparent finish, very similar in design to their Z610 , but somewhat smaller and lighter. The reflective exterior surface allows icons to be displayed, icons that serve as a signal every time an event takes place.
The Z310 also features light effects that can [...]

December 8th, 2006 - Posted in Sony Ericsson

Samsung SGH-i718

Samsung SGH-i718 has been recently approved by the Federal Communications Commission and is designed for the Chinese market only, so people from other parts of the world will have to miss out on Samsung’s smartphones yet again.
SGH-i718 is a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM/GPRS/EDGE Pocket PC mobile that runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and features [...]

December 8th, 2006 - Posted in Samsung

Sharp 910SH

Sharp’s 910SH for Japanese mobile carrier Softbank was released at the ITU Telecom World Show and brings everything one would expect a Sharp mobile to bring, including a brilliant 2.4 inch VGA display that takes photo viewing to a completely other dimension and a 5 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom that most likely [...]

December 8th, 2006 - Posted in Sharp

Samsung SPH-V9500

The SPH-V9500 clamshell, has probably been starved to near death until it reached an outstanding 11.9 thickness. Not that I haven’t seen something like this before, but the handset I’m writing about here doesn’t just come on the mobile market being all snotty about its incredibly slim waist, it is just something special.
Why? Because [...]

December 8th, 2006 - Posted in Samsung

Nokia 6300

The new and long awaited Nokia 6300 was presented. Well proportioned and with a clean-cut candybar design, Nokia 6300 has a series of user friendly features, as well as an ergonomic keymat and an easy to use menu.
It is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with 8x of digital zoom, an Mp3 player and [...]

December 3rd, 2006 - Posted in Nokia

Taipei city government turns on VOIP system

On Thursday, city government offices, the Taipei City Council, and 234 schools throughout the city switched to VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) systems from traditional phone lines, an official said. The entire effort is expected to save the city NT$400,000 (US$12,340) per month in phone bills starting from early next year.
VOIP technology allows users to [...]

December 3rd, 2006 - Posted in VoIP

The end of the line for large telephone bills

CHRISTMAS is the time of year for catching up with friends and family, and not just those living down the road. The holiday brings absent friends on distant shores very much into our thoughts, particularly given that tens of thousands of Scots live, work or have retired overseas.
The good news is that with a little [...]

December 3rd, 2006 - Posted in VoIP

Samsung SCH-B630

The DMB-enabled SCH-B630 has arrived as another evidence of how imaginative the guys that work in their development department are and also to prove us all wrong. Again. What is so special about this new release? Well, not very much, only that it has a whole lot of technology crammed in a body with [...]

December 3rd, 2006 - Posted in Samsung

Samsung SCH-B550

Samsung has unveiled yet another super-dooper, spectacular, stunning, breathtaking (and so on because I could do
this for the next 2 or 3 pages) mobile phone, namely SCH-B550, designed as a mobile gaming handheld console, a phone that will surely make all video games addicted individuals out there reach the next step of their evolution: [...]

December 3rd, 2006 - Posted in Samsung