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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by Ceasar on March 15th, 2009 in Companies, Information, News, Products
The service has been around for quite sometime yet the small box to which a soft phone plugs into may have lost luster compared to other options such as better IP-based telephony services. Skype has been thriving even with setbacks such as software bugs and growing competition yet they have outpaced other forms of the [...]
Posted by editor on February 15th, 2009 in News, Versions
Skype has now upgraded its software to fix a major hole that has cased a problem with use of the the widely popular internet-based voice communication system. From the original article:
Peer-to-peer phone company Skype has updated its Internet telephony software, patching a critical flaw in its client for Microsoft Windows-based systems. The vulnerability could allow [...]