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Femtocell Technology Stutters 2008-07-18 03:05:18 We are still hearing a lot in the Press about Femtocells however it seems several of the large mobile operators are having second thoughts due to unresolved technical issues and unclear business cases.
The concerns were voiced at the recent Femtocell Europe 2008 conference when SFR said it had delayed selecting a Femtocell supplier because of [...] Read more:Technology
Mickey Mouse goes VoIP :-) 2008-07-10 09:52:36 Or at least int Europe he does.
EuroDisney has opted for a VoIP and FMC solution from Orange - this in itself is interesting to see a Mobile Operator offering such a solution but we guess this is a combination of France Telecom who own Orange and Orange itself putting together a solution for such a [...] Read more:Mickey
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Neat Use of Mobile Messaging 2008-07-02 08:37:55 We like to see a great use of the technology we use and sell everyday and we think Nike have come up with a great idea.
They have launched a new service called Nike PhotoiD that aims to tap into the habits of the digital generation and the “growing expectations of consumers to customise their lives”. [...] Read more:Mobile
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Has the UK got a New Mobile Operator ? 2008-06-27 04:38:08 Our readers will know we always have an eye for something a little bit unusual or slightly off the wall as sometimes our industry can be a little bit predictable to say the least. Well during the last few days we have seen some press that there is a new mobile provider in the UK.
Normally [...] Read more:Mobile
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SIP is not just for Voice 2008-06-23 08:38:10 We are all aware of SIP - actually not everybody is !!! but we assume that those reading our blog will be but I guess most of us think that SIP is a voice only protocol but it is not and we are glad to see some new products emerging to support Video over SIP.
ZyXEL [...] Read more:Voice
VoIP Voice gets Clearer 2008-07-29 05:54:53 We see that Snom has announced Wideband support on it’s popular VoIP handset range - the phones require an upgraded handset and new software. The new snom klarVOICE handset works with the codec G.722.2 PSTN. This codec is able to shrink the bit rate of the voice channel down to 12.65 kbps, offering excellent quality. [...] Read more:Voice
Nortel Acquires Pingtel 2008-08-15 06:04:42 Nortel has bought Pingtel from mobility firm Bluesocket. Nortel hopes the open source IP PBX division will have better luck moving forward.
Financial terms of the deal remain confidential but Nortel will acquire the key assets of Pingtel from Bluesocket, Pingtel’s existing OEM relationship with Nortel will be brought in house and Pingtel employees will be [...] Read more:Nortel
Does Skype Have a Backdoor ? 2008-08-08 10:38:43 We all hear about government agencies that listen into phone calls and how VoIP has presented some interesting challenges for them. In the past we have heared Skype
say theat their calls cannot be listened into because of their proprietery encryption methods, well we have now seen a story to the contrary.
The Austrian interior ministry [...] Read more:Backdoor
Google Join the Browser Band 2008-09-09 03:20:43 We see that Google
have launched the Beta version of their Chrome browser - there has been an awful lot written about it and the impact it may have in the market place. We see many discussions about Google trying to take Microsoft head on.
We like it, in fact we have used it to write [...]
Are Nokia Moving away from Native VoIP ? 2008-09-02 04:05:51 We are fans of Nokia
and the way they have introduced VoIP support on most of their WiFi enabled handsets but we see various reports that they will no longer offer VoIP capabilities on some of its new handset models, such as the N78. The N series phones previously included a VoIP client that enabled [...] Read more:Moving
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Tesco adds more VoIP to the supermarket shelves 2008-09-24 04:01:35 We have previously discussed Tesco
offering VoIP to the consumer - see our post here, well we see that Tesco are also offering a cheap VoIP service using WiFi on Nokia handsets. The offering makes use of a service by Australian company Freshtel, and requires an application download for the Nokia phone.
The service is currently [...] Read more:shelves
Snom Collaborate with Fonality 2008-09-15 05:42:13 With Asterisk based products one of the big objections to deploying them is compatibility with software and hardware, there is such a wide range of products in the market place that often it is the customer who suffers the pain while ‘glitches’ are sorted out.
Fonality
has added a new partner to its “ecosystem” this week, [...] Read more:Collaborate
Asterisk and Skype to Join Forces 2008-10-13 11:24:40 Skype have been trying to push hard to penetrate the business market and especially the medium to large enterprise type market, we see that Digium and Skype now plan to work together to Skype enable Asterisk.
The Skype for Asterisk connector will enable a presence on the Skype network while getting all the functionality of a [...] Read more:Skype
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Have You Ever Regretted Sending an email ??? 2008-10-07 06:30:41 Sometimes we see something that catches our eye that just makes us smile. GMail or should I say Googlemail has just added a feature called Mail Goggles
I am sure we have all done that late night email sent after a long day and a few beers or glasses of wine that in the [...] Read more:Sending
Android Phone Debuts in USA 2008-10-01 03:42:38 We like to talk about news that could change the marketplace in our industry - well we believe that the launch of the first phone supporting Google’s Opensource Operating System Android
is big news. We see lots of phones supporting the Symbian Operating system, Microsoft and various other manufacturer specific well this is the first [...]
Implementation Problems for VoIP or Unified Comms 2008-11-05 04:31:04 We saw a great article over at processor.com that descibes problems and pitfalls to watch out for if you are implementing VoIP or Unified
Communications - the key points listed are:
Converged Network Woes
Ageing Networks will not fly
Business Issues Bog Down Process
Beware the UC Promise
Network Threats Plague Voice Systems
We have discussed many of these points in [...] Read more:Implementation
MobilePress - Cool Plugin for Wordpress 2008-10-29 08:50:56 The IridiaBlog runs on Wordpress
and we are big fans of it but one of the (small) limitations for us is that we like to have a nice graphical theme which tends not to play well for our readers who are using mobile devices. We have found a great plugin called MobilePress that renders our [...] Read more:Plugin
Another Mobile Carrier Attempts to Block VoIP 2008-10-24 10:34:10 Our regular readers will know that one of our pet subjects that we watch with interest is the different ways Mobile
carriers attempt to stop VoIP over WiFi being used on handsets connected to their networks. Obviously they see it as a big threat to their revenue and in many cases handsets are provided ‘free’ [...]
FreePBX Moves on and Up !!! 2008-11-21 06:40:25 In the past we mentioned that Fonality caused a few waves in the Opensource Community by developing their own version of FreePBX to work more closely with their Trixbox product, it seems that FreePBX has now entered the hands of bandwidth.com by hiring the project’s main developer as its Open Source Community Developer and is said [...]
BT Say Move to VoIP is Accelerating 2008-11-14 04:44:03 We see that British Telecom has released one of it’s regular VoIP surveys, which they say showed increased adoption rates and planned VoIP expenditures over the next two years. Half of the respondents to the survey planned to increase VoIP expenditures during next year.
Demonstrating the Return on Investment of moving from a PSTN system to VoIP [...]
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