Posted by Avatar on January 10th, 2010 in Companies, Organizations, Products, Versions
With the recent release of Apple’s new Operating System, the Mac OS X Leopard comes an improved version of the built-in chat software iChat. The company, in conjunction with AOL has joined forces for all text, voice and video service. Users have to sign-up for the said service with AOL to get an AOL account or with Apple itself for a .Mac account to use the service. The new iChat has many improvements including crystal clear voice and video through the use of the AAC-LD codec. There is also a new call recording function which in previous versions needed a separate third-party software to accomplish.
Some critics still complain about the inability of the said facility to inter-connect with other established instant messengers and that the said bonuses have been offered by other third party software makers.
Posted by Avatar on December 29th, 2009 in News, Organizations, Paid
Jajah has already been offering the service for web based calls that were not only cheaper but even better than traditional wireless services they have this ability for the company has its own international backbone which they use for signal transmission as opposed to the approach of mobile providers who opt to turn lo local providers who bill them instead.
As an answer to their so-called threat to the wireless provider’s market, the company president says on the contrary for they are even trying to work out deals with tie-ups from where they would be offering their software and service as an OEM application along with the mobile carrier’s products. The move would even bolster the capability of countries that have infrastructure capabilities that limits their market reach. Through the service, they hope to offer expanded range to their networks allowing more business to flow from those areas.
Posted by Avatar on November 25th, 2009 in News, Organizations, Paid
The company says that its move to introduce VoIP into the mobile market is not to challenge the need for wire line or wireless carriers but rather to augment them. Many communications operators are finding their move threatening but the company CEO says it merely wants to merge traditional telephony and IP telephony together. The move was made possible when Apple Inc. released the iPhone SDK that allowed developers to develop applications for the iPhone platform as with Jajah they opted to develop a Voip systems which they are now introducing to the wireless market. The initial version of their WiFi Voip deployment was for the iPhone but would be deployed over the whole range of companies and mobile phones as soon as compatibility issues are answered.
Posted by Avatar on October 21st, 2009 in News, Open Sourced, Organizations
Skype has been using sound ranges in the upper 16 KHz for quite sometime now, and the next move would be to take the challenge a notch higher into the HD range. Like the advancements in audio visual technology, HD voice would allow us to hear more and better from calls we make. The ease at which such a system can be implemented into each and every household is quite easy for most have PC’s wired to the internet which allows codecs to be downloaded and installed with ease. The developments may come in the next few years, the leap from noisy to crystal clear voice calls that allows you to listen to your wife who’s on the line as if you were listening to a concert by Steven Tyler as she tells you the instructions for today’s menu as she’s on vacation with her friends in the Bahamas.
Posted by Avatar on September 17th, 2009 in News, Open Sourced, Organizations
The world’s voice call traffic is centered in the sound range of 3,500Hz down to 300Hz which was so old tech way back when copper was the transmission medium of choice. In today’s world of Fiber Optics and other faster technologies, why the hell are we still suffering from the poor sound quality that regular phone lines are offering. For over two years, proponents of the Voip open source community have been working to develop and test voice quality in the upper 16 KHz to 32 KHz range that would be a great improvement to our voice calls. They have come up with several systems that offers such high quality audio output for Voip-based calls and they are beginning to get noticed.
Posted by Avatar on August 25th, 2009 in Companies, Free, News
Similar to Skype in many respects except for two major advaltages, it has a mobile version that runs on most 3G ohones as well as support for multi-party calls that allows several users to communicate with each other. Both functions are not yet being offered currently but they might have to do so in the near future for they would be lagging behind due to threats from newer more innovative developers. Multi-conferencing is the next development for VoIP for it would make it more enticing for businesses as the next step for their telecomminucation needs. With VoIP PABX’s systems and VoIP on a chip already being embedded in the many consumer electronics products out there, the future is indeed looking bright for VoIP.
Posted by Avatar on July 29th, 2009 in Companies, Free, News
Another of the new VoIP focused startups that is making headlines, they offer free internet based-calling for free after a short sign up-process. The company is yet to come up with a retail system for the voice call minutes points (called jax) which they have coined for the unit of measure they use for their calls. Each user has the ability to get more jax’s as they refer more and more people to use the product at 20jax a referred user. Other than that, there is still no facility to purchase hard jax to use so people have to keep on finding users who would be new to the system to earn more call points. There is also a different rate of jaxs consumption for each and every call type, a local call may consume less jax as opposed to an international one. There is more to expect from the company as they seek to release their product but initially, they are still in the works of ironing up the bugs as they gain more knwoledge on possible problem areas.
Posted by Ceasar on June 15th, 2009 in Companies, Information, News
The service has long been loved and is used by many people all over the globe, Skype has again grown with it’s introduction of their video service included with the version 4.0 software. Though technically more on video, Skype is one of the leading providers of VoIP the world over and with their new release that uses a better and more efficient Silk audio codec, it comes closer to a better unified communications solutions for business and personal applications alike. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Ceasar on May 15th, 2009 in Information
The search Giant has again done it with their acquisition of GrandCentral as their VoIP arm that is set to again bolster the position of the company as one of the computing world’s giants in all fronts. People have long used their GrandCentral account yet the company failed to get the much needed cash flow to remain competitive, adopted by Google and available only to GrandCentral users, GoogleVoice would soon be made available to all Google users. GoogleVoice has adopted the benefits of the company’s beneficial traits such as the unified mailbox where all your messages from service providers go, one single assigned number to ring all your mobiles and so many more. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Ceasar on April 15th, 2009 in Information, News, Organizations
The EU has been slow to adopt VoIP services due to the myriad of providers and maybe hesitation to release the full potential of VoIP that may influence the profits of these same providers. The EU has concluded in deliberations that providers are to be advised to allow the availment and offering of such service should they continue to maintain their stand to offer separate services. Many of the EU’s member countries have been slow in adopting VoIP due to it’s assured impact on traditional telephony services and the ensuing hardware investments needed to bolster their ability to do so. Continue reading this post…
With the recent release of Apple’s new Operating System, the Mac OS X Leopard comes an improved version of the built-in chat software iChat. The company, in conjunction with AOL has joined forces for all text, voice and video service. Users have to sign-up for the said service with AOL to get an AOL account or with Apple itself for a .Mac account to use the service. The new iChat has many improvements including crystal clear voice and video through the use of the AAC-LD codec. There is also a new call recording function which in previous versions needed a separate third-party software to accomplish.
