Skype in Windows Mobile Smartphone? Or, will loose lips sink chips?Word is flying all over the Web that the rather generically named Taiwan-based smart handheld device manufacturer High Tech Computer Corp. would like, totally, love to incorporate a flavor of Skype into Windows Mobile Smartphone-enabled handsets.December 14, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Smartphones
My hunch: 'VoIP Is Everywhere' will be marketing slogan for AT&T's Office In A BoxEarlier today, I noted this article in which it was revealed that AT&T and Intel would be working together to enable "Office In A Box," a portable device that would make it possible for corporate customers to make Internet phone calls regardless of location.Guess whose chipset will be inside Office In A Box.December 14, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
Exclusive: I visit the Trademark Office and get the scoop on how AT&T will market VoIPLast week, I treated you to a review and analysis of recently published U.S.December 13, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
I've found a real useful SIP setup primer for youAs you may know, Internet 2 is a consortium of 207 universities, as well as private and public sectorparticipants dedeicated to, as they put it,creating "aleading edge network capability for the national research community," and "enablerevolutionary Internet applications. Internet2's SIP.December 13, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
VoIP usage study shows North America laggingI've just downloaded the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry's International Benchmarking Study, which reports on techology usage and trends in 11 countries.December 13, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
Gunshots, First Responders, and VoIPWhether you are talking about putting a traffic light at an intersection, or ensuring that first-repsonder agencies have adequate communication, there's something in our nature that responds most urgently to a systemic problem after the problem is seriously exposed.Immediately after the terrorist attacks of Sept.December 13, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
Patent watch: NEC covers your back end- and its, tooAfter reviewing some recently published U.S. Patent applications with VoIP in the title, we're on to a batch with "IP Telephony" in the moniker.December 10, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
Skype: VCs, freaked-out incumbents, exclusivity-phobic partners, and the "moral values" factorIn today's IT Observer, VOIPAction.com's Chris Lewis speculates on whether Skype has the potential to be, as he puts it, "the Google of VoIP.December 10, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Legal
Can you hear me now? Check the web pageIf you are wondering about the title of this post, I took it directly from that Verizon Test Man commercial. I saw a hilarious one last night where he was testing cell phone connections in a blizzard.December 9, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
After New Year's, get ready for an all-out VoIP push by cableLook for widespread deployment of VoIP by cable operators in 2005. That's according to Standard & Poor'sEquity Analyst Tuna Amobi, who has come to that conclusion following meetings with several top cable execs earlier this week at the Credit Suisse First Boston Media and Telcom Week conference in New York.December 9, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
Encrypt that SIP!!The IT site SearchCIO.com is out with an interestingarticle on the technology vulnerabilities of Internet telephony.December 9, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Security
Vonage video phone? Feh!!Earlier today (probably "yesterday," as you read this), Vonage CEO Jeff Citron said that his company would sell videophones and offer a videophone service by the end of March.My colleague Ben Carny reports that the phone will resemble the VisiFone II, from broadband video hardware supplier Viseon.December 8, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Mobility
Patent watch: a way for cops to intercept VoIP callsYesterday, I posted descriptions of three VoIP related U.S.December 8, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Networking
What Vonage customers care aboutIndependently offered but promoted by Vonage as an online help resource and user community, The Vonage Forum has just passed three million page views.I wanted to see what current, prospective and ex-Vonage users were talking about.December 7, 2004 by Russell Shaw in Enterprise Software
Chips on shoulder: VoIP semiconductor market heads toward $1.7 billion annual salesA new report from technology research firm IDC estimates that the VoIP semiconductor market will reach $1.7 billion by 2008.December 7, 2004 by Russell Shaw in CXO