Posts Tagged with ‘voip’

We have already covered Fring on Profy before but for those of you who are not familiar with this interesting and very promising mobile service, I’ll start with a short introduction here. In short, Fring is a platform for cellular devices that enables users (they are called Fringers here) to access their existing accounts with Skype, MSN Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, and our beloved Twitter (with other services in the works, I believe) right from their handsets whenever they need or [...]

Oh, what the hey. We’ve come this far with our Vonage coverage. To quit before the horse is beaten to complete obliteration wouldn’t be fair to the loyal and the fully-engaged among all of you out there in readership land.
So we proceed once more in relaying an update on the dispute between American VoIP provider Vonage and the telecom giant AT&T made public in October.
A settlement, reached in early November between the two entities, was finalized late last [...]

Want to have VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) inside your webmail service? How about something to go along with your CRM software? Anywhere else? No problem. Ribbit will deliver on all fronts.
That’s the plan, anyhow. Ribbit, a startup in the business of providing a thoroughly adaptable VoIP platform for any and all Web telephony needs – corporate- or consumer-centric – has the desire to become a primary consultant for businesses big and small, as well as the pubic [...]

Earlier this week we brought you word about Skype’s imminent delivery of a mobile phone, which the company partnered with the international wireless network, 3 (Three), to provide consumers in many parts of the world with mobile VoIP calling and IM service. Well, folks, it’s arrived.
Today, the 3 Skypephone, as it has been labeled, is released to the UK market.
The debut of this official wireless-network-sanctioned wireless VoIP device is a first for a major Western carrier, and one that [...]

Skype has for a while shown to maintain just a small piece of itself in the world of wireless communications, what with its relatively lackluster sales of Skype-specific handsets (think Netgear, Philips, and SMC VoIP devices). Now the eBay-owned company is set to enter into the great big sea of cordless chatter with its announcement of the impending debut of its first cellular-network-backed handset in a new partnership with the international cellular network, 3.
The device, to be made available on [...]

It’s the Neverending Story. Part Deux. Literally.
As we all well know, it’s never honorable to kick a horse (or, in this case, a feeble, stunted pony) while it’s down, but like a wreck on the side of the road, we can’t help but look on, even when we know the fight’s not being had between two equals. So it’s with such conflicting feelings that we bring you word that the American VoIP company, Vonage, was hit last week with yet [...]

Today, MySpace and Skype are set to announce a partnership that will bring interoperability between the instant messaging clients of both services, as revealed at Webware. This will of course mean the introduction of free voice calling to any MySpace user through the VoIP service, and also free calls between a Skype user and a MySpace user. In addition, users will be able to link their MySpace profiles and photos or avatars to their accounts on Skype.
As it stands, no [...]

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company?s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity?s proprietor, eBay.
Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype?s achievement of attaining some 220 million users, and predicted that the company would begin to garner ?substantial income? further down the road. Skype brought in $90 million in revenue [...]

Skype is big. It?s almost certainly the largest VoIP network in the world, and perhaps even the grandest telecom entity around, too, if one is speaking strictly of the number of individuals using its software and services. Its membership currently stands at roughly 220 million.
But as far as the company?s finances are concerned, its proprietor says its not doing all that well.
What eBay valued at $2.6bn back in 2005 (so very long ago, eh?) is now being [...]