Reports have been pouring in for the last several hours.Devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, both of which run on AT&T’s not so edgy EDGE network, are really having a rough patch with connectivity today.As BlackBerry board Pinstack reports via Engadget:We’re getting reports from all over that AT&T customers are having trouble with 3G [...]

From Wisconsin’s Kenosha News comes this story that after a January 7 tornado demolished her home, and ensuing rain and snow made it a bear to fix, a woman from the area has received a $2,025.45 bill from her (now former, well duh) cable television service.Yes, strange but true. Ann Beam, the woman at the [...]

Who hasn’t been on an important conference call and heard the infamous “buzz” sound on the speakerphone caused by cell phone interference. Nextel two-way “push to talk” phones are notorious for causing this “buzz” sound, as well as Blackberries. Still don't know what I'm talking about? Sure you do. Just play this MP3 file and you'll recognize this annoying buzz sound.

There’s a newly published Microsoft Patent application that - at least the way I read it- seems to both alter and add significant options to the way in which cut-and-paste is performed between various Windows-compatible documents and utilities.That’s not to say you will have to reprogram your brain to c&p from say, Word into a [...]

Let’s get a conversation going here about the relative costs and merits of server-based unified communications in the enterprise vs. hosted unified communications solutions.Both types of solutions involve capability of PC to PC voice communications within an enterprise, and often, beyond the enterprise as well.Let’s look at the cost issue. As reader and vp-marketing for [...]

In November of 2007, I reviewed the Microsoft Response Point IP-PBX. One of the Response Point's main features is the "Easy button" that you can press and then speak commands to the RP system, such as "transfer to Tom Keating" or "call Bill Gates".

VocalTec Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: VOCL), a global provider of carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, announced today that its VoIP technology has been selected by a leading PTT in Latin America to provide voice services over its WiMAX network.

VoIP solutions - with their unique format and cost advantages - have been responsible for bringing innovative technology to the common people. With intelligent applications of high-end techniques, these solutions have initiated quite a few changes in the way people are communicating across geographical domains at specific moments in time.

Certain parameters need to be checked while opting for VoIP services and providers of the same. The call quality, costs, and availability of technical support differentiate the average providers from those that are the very best.

Fonality has become the first open-source-based VoIP provider to strike a deal with a Tier 1 computer vendor. Starting this February, customers will be able to purchase fully provisioned Fonality VoIP Phone System servers from computer maker Dell . The Fonality VoIP Phone System will come installed on Optiplex 330 PCs, according to Fonality CEO Chris Lyman.