Ted Stevenson

Telecommunications provider JAJAH announced recently the availability of a new technology platform that will transform the millions of iPod touch devices now roaming the world in people’s pockets or purses, into fully functional mobile phones. “The connected lifestyle is spreading,” said Paul Naphtali, JAJAH’s vice president of global marketing, “particularly among college students. They’ve grown up in […]

IP telephony over cell phones—and other mobile devices—has been catching on for some time now, giving users the convenience of placing and receiving long distance and international calls at a fraction of the expense of cellular termination rates. Last week, two leading players in the VoIP over mobile realm—UK-based Truphone and Silicon Valley-based JAJAH—both announced […]

Skype users know that the popular application includes multi-party conferencing capability. But Ben Lilienthal, co-founder and CEO of Hoboken, NJ-based Vapps, Inc. views that as little more than “three-way calling.” If you want real audio conferencing using Skype as an endpoint, Vapps’ HiDef Conferencing service can provide it—complete with the ‘in-the-room’ audio quality that Skype […]

Setting up a wireless LAN or Wi-Fi network involves a certain amount of radio frequency (RF) voodoo. Engineers/designers have to get an accurate sense of how many access points (APs) point are needed and where they should be located for optimum performance and minimum interference. (APs are the wall- or ceiling-mounted base station units connected […]

As one of the few phone vendors that just makes phones, Berlin-based snom technology AG is gaining an expanding foothold in the North American market for SIP-based IP endpoints. Yesterday, at the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco, the company announced—and showed off—the snom 820, first in a new line of phones that feature high-resolution color […]

We’ve been chronicling the emergence of fixed/mobile convergence for going on three years now, as the first real-world implementations of the concept began appearing in mid-2005. The pioneers of F/MC created solutions designed to be deployed in service provider (carrier) networks. Though technically viable, the carriers have, for the most part, not adopted these solutions, […]

Utah-based Alianza Corp. has been developing its integrated VoIP/UC platform for some four years now, and selling it around the world to a variety of carriers, CLECs, and Internet service providers in the so-called tier two market—smaller subscriber bases. Alianza has architected its IP solution to support all types of transmission media, cable, satellite, and […]

Global IP Solutions has announced that it has adapted its highly successful VoiceEngine Mobile technology (used in Skype and other Internet-based VoIP services) for Apple’s second-generation iPhone. The VoiceEngine technology will help developers of iPhone applications easily add high-quality, real-time VoIP communications to a variety of application types. “The VoiceEngine takes a lot of the hard-to-manage […]

Global IP Solutions yesterday announced it has adapted its highly successful VoiceEngine Mobile technology used in Skype and other Internet-based VoIP services for Apple’s second-generation iPhone. The VoiceEngine technology will help developers of iPhone applications easily add high-quality, real-time VoIP communications to a variety of application types. “The VoiceEngine takes a lot of the hard-to-manage […]

Cisco Systems has made a couple of announcements about mobility of late. The first one, issued at the end of April (read it here), snuck past us initially, but we caught up with it. It describes a partnership with Nokia that “extends the rich Cisco Unified IP phone capabilities to Nokia Eseries dual-mode smartphones over […]

ZyXEL Communications, whose clever networking connectivity and infrastructure products we’ve long admired, this week announced a video camera unlike any other we’ve heard of. The ZyXEL V750W is an IP-networked device using IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) connectivity that is also an IP telephone. Each one comes with its own embedded phone number. This development […]

Yesterday we received a press release announcing the public release of Dimdim, a new open-source tool for online meetings. We’ve been testing some similar products of late so this caught our eye. In a move that will give you some idea of how disruptive this technology may turn out to be, the company scheduled a […]