El Salvador Successful Leap into VOIP Bandwagon

July 9th, 2006

DIDX.org network, the world Leader in wholesale VoIP number offering, with over 2500 global telcom members, now offers VOIP number services from El Salvador.
DIDX is a marketplace for cutting edge telecoms and ITSP companies from around the world, who aggressively buy, sell and trade DID’s using the Internet protocol. Members of this trading group range [...]

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Verizon, Samsung Launch 3.2-Megapixel Camera Phone

July 9th, 2006

Samsung and Verizon have unveiled a new camera phone designed to raise the bar on all-in-one handsets. Dubbed the SCH-a990, the new camera phone is the first phone with 3.2-megapixel capabilities offered through Verizon.
According to the companies, the new device, which has a built-in flash, can produce photos that are on par with point-and-shoot digital [...]

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Legal Bun Fight Over VoIP Deal Escalates

July 7th, 2006

The legal proceedings between IP Telephony softswitch developer, Transcom, and Adelaid-based ISP, Chariot, heated up outside the courts this week as Transcom’s Queensland-based subsidiary accused the ASX-listed Chariot of misleading the market.
Chariot has issued a statement to the ASX denying the allegations and reiterating that it intends to fight the Breach of Contract claims in [...]

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Viva la VoIP

July 7th, 2006

Tired of triple-digit phone bills? David Flynn shows how to make the internetyour next best friend when it comes to saving money.
Certain conversation topics are almost guaranteed to find a sympathetic ear: the weather, slow trains, high petrol prices, choked roadways, utter boredom with celebrity obsession. Oh, and phone bills.
Nearly everyone agrees they pay too [...]

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Microsoft Unified Comms Lacks VoIP, IM Compliance Tools

July 6th, 2006

Microsoft Corps complicated unified communications product roadmap, unveiled with much fanfare last week, is missing an important component: regulatory compliance tools for VoIP and instant messaging, according to Avanade Inc, an Accenture-Microsoft joint venture.
There currently are no compliance regulations for instant messaging and IP phone calls. But as these technologies become centrally managed, as Microsofts [...]

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Opera Australia makes its voice heard with VoIP

July 6th, 2006

Opera Australia has signed a two year deal with a telecommunications provider to supply voice, data and mobile services and an IP-based PBX to support its migration to VoIP.
The new network, to be integrated by NSC enterprise solutions, will replace the company’s 14 year old ICT infrastructure following an audit last year.
Timeliness of installation is [...]

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VoIP processor offers ‘first’ complete IMS solution

July 6th, 2006

Mindspeed Technologies Inc. has announced its seventh-generation Comcerto VoIP processor, designed for emerging IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) networking applications. According to the company, the Comcerto 900 Series processor will enable service providers to solve the increasingly difficult challenge of seamlessly transcoding wireless and wireline protocols in order to transport voice and video between legacy circuit-switched [...]

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Archer Signs Agreement with Thailand’s Buzz Technologies to Purchase 20 Million VoIP Minutes for China and India

July 6th, 2006

Archer Entertainment Media Communications Incorporated’s CEO, Michaek Salsman and Sutida Suwannavid Chairwoman of Buzz Technologies, Inc. announce that Archer has agreed to purchase 10 million minutes of VoIP time for India and 10 million minutes of VoIP time for China on an ongoing basis from Buzz. The agreement is subject to testing and individual [...]

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Nokia Mobile phone doubles as a metal detector

June 30th, 2006

The Finnish phone maker Nokia has devised a mobile handset that can also double as a metal detector, enabling the owner to look for concealed guns, hidden electrical cables and lost car keys, the British weekly New Scientist reports.
The US patent application filed by Nokia says the phone is fitted with an induction coil whose [...]

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Verso And IBM Team Up To Market Linux Based VoIP Solution

June 30th, 2006

Verso Technologies, provider of next generation network solutions, announced that Verso and IBM have executed a strategic teaming agreement to offer the Verso MetroNet VoIP Overlay solution on the IBM eServer BladeCenter platform. The joint offering creates a Linux-based VoIP solution running on the IBM eServer BladeCenter and will be globally positioned and marketed by [...]

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Acme Packet And The Voice Peering Fabric Deliver Efficient And Secure VoIP Peering

June 30th, 2006

Acme Packet announced that its Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) have been certified for Stealth Communications’ Voice Peering Fabric (VPF). The Net-Net SBC is RFC3263 compliant and supports the ENUM and SRV DNS look-up architecture to discover the next hop for call routing. Stealth Communications has certified that the Net-Net SBCs can be used with [...]

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Vonage Introduces Portable VoIP Device

June 30th, 2006

Internet phone provider Vonage aims to put VoIP in the palm of your hand with a new device that lets you use any PC with a USB port to make calls to other computers or to traditional landlines.
The keychain-style V-Phone comes loaded with Vonage’s VoIP software and features 256 MB of storage to boot, plus [...]

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