13 May 2008

A Netherlands-based startup is offering a sort of Swiss Army knife VoIP-IM-chat-texting program that can operate on hundreds of mobile phone handsets, according to an announcement Tuesday.

Called Nimbuzz, the all-in-one application was announced in the U.K. and the beta offering is available for download. The company has received several million dollars in backing from venture capitalists, including $10 million from Mangrove Capital Partners, which was the original backer of Skype.

15 May 2008

The Internet has never cared much for legal boundaries. Phishers steal credit cards across oceans and off-shore sites offer gambling with little regard for the laws of the countries where their victims or customers are located.

But when it comes to the government's search for foreign terrorists, says Eric Lichtblau, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter and the author of the federal wiretapping exposé, Bush's Law, that internationalism could get especially hairy.

03 May 2008

To cut your phone bill, and spend longer chatting to loved ones overseas, get VoIP, says James Daley

The cost of making a phone call has fallen dramatically over the past few years, with many landline providers now charging nothing more than the monthly line rental fee for customers who only use their phone to make national or local calls in the evenings or at the weekend.

11 May 2008

Millions of mobile users can wave goodbye to hefty bills for international calls thanks to a new service. But how good is it?

A new mobile phone service that allows users to chat with friends in China for the price of calling their local takeaway sounds too good to be true. Last month, however, such an application was launched as a free download available to almost anyone with a modern 3G phone.

11 May 2008

Many suspected it because of anecdotal evidence that often apartment renters no longer bother to connect fixed line phones. Now a new report confirms it. Nearly half of household consumers with a phone in Australia prefer to use their mobile phones as their primary means of voice communications.

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13 May 2008

A new Facebook application called Phone-Me-Now allows Facebook members to place free calls from their friends' Facebook profile pages, without revealing either party's caller ID.

The company, Ifbyphone, was offering the first 1,000 accounts 100 free minutes per month to regular U.S. phone numbers, though we doubt there are any of those left.

Standard Ifbyphone subscriptions start at $14.95 per month.

12 May 2008

Voice Over Internet Protocol or Voip could make life easier for freelancers and out of office workers as they try to close contracts and win new business said a council member of the Internet Telephony Services Providers' Association.

Colin Duffy, who incidentally is the CEO of VoIP provider Voipfone, said that Small and Medium Businesses can compete on equal footing with bigger companies by being more flexible through VoIP services and by offering services such as having voicemals forwarded as sound files to an inbox.

07 April 2008

The VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) or 'Internet Telephony' facility has been every jabber's dream come true. While people can commonly use this facility through the good-old PC, they could only wish to access this facility through a regular "non-smart phone", until now.

TringMe, an Indian-based firm that earlier developed a VoIP service for Smart phones, has now extended its service to basic, low-end mobile phones. To avail this 'Push & Talk' service, all one needs to do is send an SMS to TringMe.

02 April 2008

We've been hearing for years that widely-used VoIP systems may hold large numbers of exploitable vulnerabilities, but a new report isolates over 100 specific flaws that researchers have found in the applications.

09 April 2008

VoIP-Provider, Sipgate, has made an affordable mobile VoIP phone available to the UK market, marking the company’s entry into fixed-mobile convergence.

The Pirelli DP-L10 GSM/Wifi phone is available to anyone from Sipgate’s online shop for just £59. The offer is not restricted to Sipgate’s VoIP customers.

The phone features a free SIM-lock, which means it can be used by customers on any cellular network.