Month of February, 2007
Spontaneous human combustion: Skype to blame?
Paying for the pipes
Analysis A Voice over IP service was to blame for a man in Massachusetts bursting into flames at the weekend.…
T-Mobile's WiFi VoIP service still being tested
T-Mobile is ironing out the kinks in its HotSpot@Home service, which lets users with WiFi-enabled cellphones make calls on open WiFi networks, if available, and switches them over to the more expensive cellular network if they leave the range of the WiFi signal.
Vonage: patent smackdown won't bring shutters down
We will survive
Vonage today moved to reassure its two million customers that their internet phone service will not be disrupted and investors that their cash will be safe if it loses a patent lawsuit to Verizon.…
Closed Skype wants open networks
Pot, dial Kettle
eBay's proprietary VoIP service Skype wants the Federal Communications Commission to change its rules on how cellular networks operate.…
Joost, is it communication or Just IP TV?
I am a beta tester for Joost and I like it so far. I have gone through three software updates and everytime I get impressed. They have done something very amazing about TV, IP TV. Just because it was developped by the same guys who did Skype, does it fall under Communication?I am not very [...]
NY Times says challenges await WiFi phones
Dropped calls, unreliable call quality, weak signals, battery draining, legal issues. To sum it up, the New York Times' Matt Richtel says that WiFi phones just aren't ready yet for primetime.
T-Mobile says mobile VoIP will not hit revenues
I see no ships
3GSM Mobile VoIP (voice over internet protocol) will not hit mobile telephony revenues, but will have more of an impact on fixed line services, according to T-Mobile International AG chief executive Hamid Akhavan.…
Skype snoop agent reads mobo serial numbers
'Quite normal' feature has been removed
Skype has been spying on its Windows-based users since the middle of December by secretly accessing their system bios settings and recording the motherboard serial number.…
Truphone starts talking to Google
VoIP interoperability a go-go
Mobile VoIP provider Truphone has teamed up with the Google Talk network to offer customers free calls.…
Michael Robertson on VoIP wars and Net Neutrality
Backpackers rejoice
Serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson extended his Gizmo Project this week with a Flash-based browser plug-in. This means no installation is required, and the service offers five-minutes free calls to anyone in the world, or 10 if you register with an email address.…
