Posts Tagged with ‘voip’

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 [...]

VoIP services have been quite a popular bunch as of late, with the promises of inexpensive and often free calls to friends and family. Of course, it goes without saying that the current exceptions are SunRocket, which has now shut its doors, and Vonage, which has been hit wit legal troubles and is now on its last leg.
That is why I found it so refreshing to hear of a new innovative service that is free of charge and devoid of [...]

If you weren’t convinced by our last piece on Vonage that the VoIP company is headed down, down, down, maybe this next bit of news will bring you around and help you see the truth. Just hours (okay, days) after Vonage was told to pay Sprint for stepping on the latter party’s patents, the press revealed that the small-fry pariah of the US telecom industry had also managed to lose out its appeal of the judgment concerning its very public [...]

As amazing and as newsworthy as the iPhone might seem to be, it?s got a long way to go before it really makes itself at home in the land of ubiquity. In fact, in terms of sheer numbers, the Apple device doesn?t hold a candle to the long-reigning king of the smartphone world, the BlackBerry, in all its various iterations.
So when the blogosphere talks of the debut of cool new Web 2.0 mobile-specific sites, should we by default talk [...]

Fighting the telecom behemoth that is Verizon has been mighty tough for little US VoIP provider Vonage. Now there’s yet another force the struggling company has had reckon with in court.
Boy, it almost makes you want to offer up some pity, or at least a shoulder to cry on.
According to news reports issued yesterday, Vonage has been ordered by a federal jury to hand over restitution in the form of $69.5 million to Sprint for infringing on six [...]

Blognation has reported today that Truphone, a London-based startup, is working on a voIP client for the Apple iPhone that will allows users to make affordable international phone calls.
Truphone is a beta-stage service that currently offers mobile phone users free calls via wi-fi and 3G by routing calls over the internet rather than through a traditional mobile operator. Users can also send text messages to other Truphone users free of charge.
The iPhone client is hardly ready for release, as Oliver [...]

Web-based calling has been around for a while now, and it has developed quite a large following of users. Skype is the most popular and it has now become commonplace for people to provide their Skype name and to tell others, "Skype Me."
Despite this, still not everyone is using Skype (myself included) and calling is only free for Skype-to-Skype calls.
This is where Israel-based Yoomba is out to make web-based calling more universal. To accomplish this, Yoomba connects users using nothing [...]

Remember when SunRocket, that US-based VoIP company, left the market without any advanced notice whatsoever? All those frustrated customers, forced to move to new service providers with nary a grace period in which to do so. Good times, eh?
Yeah, right. Well, despite fleeing the scene abruptly in mid-July and failing to offer to do so much as a press event to apologize for their complete and utter douchebagishness, SunRocket’s making news once again. Why, you ask? Well, because the company [...]