The buzz is that when Apple announces its new products today, it is very likely to include a VoIP enabled iPod!
The root of the speculation is that Apple boss Steve Jobs is a fan of hugely hyped product introductions and this time it started as usual...
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A joint Atug and Engin survey and a report on Fixed Voice Services Market that was released last week revealed that a number of Australian companies have dumped fixed lines in favour of VoIP and mobile. If the recent reports are to be believed, there is...
Tom Keating writes about Skype’s new offer to bid for talking to a Hollywood star. Actually, to get the privilege to talk to your favourite star (though he/she might not be in the small list there) you will have to outbid others.
He writes that he...
I read this news in The Register that says, if of late if you have been experiencing silent moments, repeated sounds, buzzes while using Skype, chances are that it’s traffic is being ‘managed’ by a third party system. Sandvine is a company, which is now...
Jupiter Research has found that 52% of consumers are willing to switch pay TV services if they could get a better price for the same channel selection. In the report titled IPTV: Simple Benefits, Not New Technology, Most Effectively Compete Against...
NEC Corporation has installed NEC’s IP telephony system and broadband network at Tokyo’s newest hotel, Mandarin Oriental. The IP system is capable of servicing the hotel’s 650 IP phones and 1,300 IP ports which includes its 179 guestrooms and suites....
BT has announced a £12 million program that would see its current legacy TDM network replaced by an MPLS based network across more than 30 countries. The project would be completed by March, 2008.
The MPLS network would be providing it with an...
Aswath Rao is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and has almost 25 years of experience in the telecommunications field, having worked for leading R&D firms in the telecommunications field. His proposal for Inter Connect Function has...
3Com Corporation and NUVO Network Management have entered into an agreement for NUVO to deliver managed services such as performance monitoring, change management, reporting, inventory management and problem targeting services which help in ensuring the...
Hughes network Systems has released new VoIP capable satellite broadband routers. The DW7740 model features two VoIP ports combined with two broadband LAN ports which enable international service operators to provide a flexible range of voice and high...
Internet telephony over mobile phones took centre stage at the 3GSM World Congress mobile phone conference held in Barcelona last week with two announcements that signaled that mobile phone industry is waking up to the potentially disruptive technology...
Telstra has submitted a position paper to the Department of Communications Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) regarding the issue of location services for emergency calls via the VoIP network. The company which is responsible for the operation...
Pushed to the edge, Vonage today announced that almost all of its customers have basic 911 service and a majority of them have Enhanced 911. (For the common man E911 is a feature that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's...
Encouraged by the success of fellow student Alex Tew’s with the MillionDollarHomepage, Russell McGurk has decided to try his unique experiment by creating his own unique website named – TheMediaExperiment.com.
So what will he do? The USP? Well, he...
Mediacorp TV has invited 2,000 users to be part of the IPTV trial group for its new video on demand service. This service allows subscribers an easy and immediate access to MediaCorp programs on their PCs and laptops. The service is scheduled to be...
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