VOIP

Power technology company Eaton has expanded its Eaton 5130 line of uninterruptible power supplies with 1000, 1500 and 2200 VA models. The equipment is designed for the needs of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP equipment) and EDGE/3G/WiMax wireless networking systems. They all come w...

SOHO wireless routers such as a NETGEAR or Linksys could combine VOIP functionality from providers such as OOMA or Vonage by simply running the VOIP software of choice in its own VM separate from the main wireless router OS, and could be maintained ...

By Russell Shaw While expressing often-offered analyst opinions that SunRocket's failure shows the competitive odds stand-alone VoIP providers are up against, Ryan Kim's article today in the San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting quote from a Vonage spokesperson. Noting that Vonage picked up...

By Russell Shaw VoIP carrier Jajah- which enables cheap long distance calls by bridging two local calls with a VoIP connection- is inviting iPhone users-subscribers to sign up via their service for international calls. In fact, they have a new marketing pitch for these iPhone users. It's called Free.You...

By Mitch Ratcliffe Here's my challenge. I'll pay $100 for a VoIP client I can use over WiFi on my iPhone. Matthew Miller has explained that the iPhone will work without the AT&T SIM card, and I've set up my Sprint EV-DO card in a MacBook Pro to share its connection with my iPhone, so I don't need AT&T to comp...

By Russell Shaw Om's been hearing that pure-play VoIP provider SunRocket has recently laid off some 40 employees. Some mid-level executives are said to be in this number. Om asks us to regard these reports as rumors for now. I think that SunRocket's 200,000 subscriber count gives them some shelter agains t...

By Matthew Miller A couple of days ago my Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host, Kevin Tofel, posted news that Gizmo Project added IM support for AIM and MSN Messenger. They even made it very easy to add your buddies to your Gizmo Project contact lists. You can also call people on Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, G...

By Russell Shaw Now, now, let us not get too techno-elitist like some of us are prone to do.. For the mobile VoIP uninitiated, as well as those of you who want a quick briefing on what's out there VoIP handset wise, the New York Times' Roy Furtchgott's got (say that fast, five times), a feature in today's paper...

By Russell Shaw After reading fellow blogger Tom Keating's excellent review of USRobotics' USR Cordless Phone for Skype (due later this month at $119.99, and his comparison of this product with the Linksys Cordless Internet Telephony Kit, I immediately thought of a reason why VoIP-capable cordless p...