The hot topic in telephony service provider circles is the media phone. The upside revenue potential for media phones is huge. In-Stat analysts project that this new broadband device category will quickly replace more traditional telephones and the standard voice service packages offered in homes and businesses worldwide. In fact, ...
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Written by live.phone on March 18th, 2009
Written by live.phone on March 9th, 2009
Polycom has rolled out a media phone for the business environment. Unlike the media phone Avaya introduced last week, the VVX 1500 includes a "personal" video conferencing system.
Written by live.phone on February 27th, 2009
Sony is going to shut down its VoIP Go!Messenger service for the PSP March 31. Sony launched the free service in Europe last year.
Written by live.phone on February 9th, 2009
The day before the Hub VoIP phone hits the shelves at more than 2,500 stores throughout the land, Verizon Wireless has announced pricing on both the gear and the supporting VoIP plan. The company says the phone will work with any broadband service. Will Verizon honor net neutrality ...
Written by live.phone on February 9th, 2009
Unlike many other VoIP service providers, 8x8 managed to add some cash to its bottom line last quarter. The company announced its operating results for its Q3 quarter ending on December 31, 2008. Revenues were down slightly compared to last quarter, but up on a year-by-year comparison and the company ...
Written by live.phone on February 9th, 2009
Digium has rolled out a seriously hot upgrade to Switchvox in Miami for ITEXPO. The new version includes integrated faxing, video calling support, and XMPP open source IM/chat/presence, along with a bunch of other goodies including introductory API support, IMAP integration for voicemail, a new Windows desktop client, IP phone ...
Written by live.phone on October 16th, 2008
The global credit crunch is causing problems in the VoIP and Internet telephony community. It seems that funding, start-up money, and investors left some companies in a pinch. One such company is EQO. EQO was/is a VoIP/social networking play offering a free application that provides free IM, ...
Written by live.phone on October 10th, 2008
Over the weekend, the one million registered users to Free World Dialup (FWD) were told that free is no longer free. After 12 years of free operations, users will be asked to pay $30 per year as of September 1, 2008. The announcement also named Daniel Beringer, as CEO of ...
Written by live.phone on August 14th, 2008
Nortel has bought Pingtel, a subsidiary of enterprise mobility firm Bluesocket. Nortel hopes the open source IP PBX software/appliance division will have better luck moving forward.
