Tommy Telephone: The Making Of A Telephone
I've been spending a lot of time looking at old movies made for the bell system. One that caught my eye was this a video that showed the various parts that went into making a telephone handset: all 448...
View ArticleMight Mid-Band Ethernet Make Copper Competitive With Fiber?
In a recent post, I posited that it was possible to take the entire bandwidth of a copper line and instead of making it voice, make it data and run VoIP over the top of it. That was just a theory. The...
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Jazinga Might Have The IP PBX Right
I got a piece of hardware from UPS on Monday from a company called Jazinga. It's a Wifi-enabled router with a PBX that promises to make it possible to have a PBX up and running without an IT staff. In...
View ArticleBroadSoft Wants Your Voice Apps!
BroadSoft is running a contest to try and get you to write a voice Mashup. Started on 8 July 2008, and running through 2 September 2008, the Xtended Voice Mashup Contest is about getting Web 2.0 and...
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Introducing the Verizon Hub
Verizon Wireless this week introduced the verizon Hub, a touchscreen VoIP system for the home, which costs $200 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a two-year agreement. "In an effort to rekindle some love...
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Verizon Hub to Add an App Store
Reuters' Sinead Carew reports this week that the Verizon Hub is getting an app store. "The Verizon Hub, a new kind of home phone with some Web add-ons like weather and traffic reports, will soon come...
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A (Plug-In) Star Trek Communicator
Star Trek fans can now purchase a $43 replica Communicator (also available here and here) that can actually be used to place VoIP calls... as long as you're willing to stay connected to your PC via a...
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MagicJack Goes Mobile: Anticipating the FemtoJack
I recently published an article at Enterprise VoIP Planet reporting on magicJack's plans to release a femtocell-enabled version of its VoIP device, presumably to be called the femtoJack. The concept is...
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Sipera Systems Launches UC-Sec 100 Security Appliance
Sipera Systems this week introduced its new UC-Sec 100 security appliance for small and medium sized businesses. "Benefits include private communications across networks to devices in any location with...
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Goodbye, Verizon Hub
The Verizon Hub is no more."Verizon Wireless today said that they are terminating the Verizon Hub, an innovative VOIP home phone that doubled as a Web tablet and digital photo frame... The Verizon Hub...
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VoIP Gets Sexy: Introducing the BeoCom 5
Bang & Olufsen this week introduced the BeoCom 5, an extremely stylish two-line combined VoIP-and-landline phone."The dual-line DECT phone works both as a twin landline handset and as a VoIP...
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Google Phone To Be VoIP-Only?
© The Lightworks Rumor has it that the Google Phone, coming in 2010, may be data-only, relying entirely on VoIP for voice calling."Users could still make calls just like a normal phone, of course,"...
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MagicJack Demos VoIP Femtocell
Photo © freephotos70 I was one of the first to break the news last summer of magicJack's planned USB femtocell... and this past week, YMax Corp. finally introduced the product. "Announced this week at...
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Clear Announces New VoIP Modems
Clear has announced two new VoIP-enabled WiMax modems. "Both feature built-in ATA compatibility, which means if you have Clear Voice VoIP you can jack your phones straight in," writes SlipperyBrick's...
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HP Coupons for Your Favorite Hewlett-Packard Items
HP coupons for your favorite Hewlett-Packard items are just a keystroke away. Photo © Marcin Wichary Founded by William Hewlett and David Packard in a garage in 1939 with an investment of just $538,...
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