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By Doug Mohney, on August 26th, 2010
Making free phone calls just got easier through Google(www.google.com) (so long we all remember that “free” is not really free, but subsidized through someone else’s money) via “Voice Calls from Gmail.”
More specifically, you need a Gmail account and calls through your computer to American and Canadian numbers are free through “at least” January 2011. [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 11th, 2010
After being off the PR radar for nearly a year, Fonality (www.fonality.com) has gone through an extreme makeover and started making noise again through a “relaunch” of the company that includes 1) A website redesign 2) Actually talking to media again and 3) Doing a big presence at IT EXPO West. Oh yes, and expanding [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 28th, 2010
AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) has rolled out Enterprise Session Border Controller (SBC) capabilities for its Mediant platforms.
The company says the new capabilities target a growing market for a range of IP-enabled services at the enterprise, including SIP trunking, Hosted IP-PBX, remote extension, and contact center and conferencing services.
AudioCodes says the solution addresses the needs of users [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 22nd, 2010
Dialogic (www.dialogic.com) has unleashed a raft of software-based products this month along with a cloud-based developer network/service.
The software announcements – four total, two updates, two new products – are all grouped under the PowerMedia media processing family/brand.
PowerMedia IP Media Server (IPMS) and Host Media Processing (HMP) software should be familiar to Dialogic users. IPMS includes [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 20th, 2010
Optimum Lightpath (www.optimumlightpath.com) has connected to CENX’s New York exchange.
The move allows Optimum to connect/reach more than 10 million Ethernet service locations worldwide, enabling Optimum’s customers to establish Ethernet-based low-latency and high-bandwidth connections between the New York metro area and key locations around the world.
Needless to say, Optimum has a lot of financial [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 14th, 2010
IntelePeer and WorkSpace Communications have teamed up to deliver a hosted UC offering based on Microsoft Office Communications Server.
IntelePeer is providing the SIP Trunking service, a voice peering network, and “SuperRegistry” while WorkSpace is providing a patent-pending Microsoft OCS environment that interoperates with any previously installed Microsoft Exchange Solution.
Together, the two enable service providers to [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 14th, 2010
Note: Phone.com is an advertiser on HD Voice News
Phone.com (www.phone.com) has cranked out a whole bunch of mobile features for its SMB service, including clients for the iPhone and Apple plus SMB send support on phone.com phone numbers.
Released in June, Phone.com added the Phone.com Mobile VoIP client for the iPhone and the Phone.com Mobile Office [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 13th, 2010
I hate to take Digium (www.digium.com) out to the woodshed, but this is the response I got when I asked about the potential for a Switchvox mobile client for Android.
"Digium is evaluating the public response and usage of the iPhone and BlackBerry Apps, and based on these results we’ll determine if and when we should [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 13th, 2010
Free Conference Corporation – a.k.a. www.freeconferencecall.com – has added an archive recordings feature, enabling conference callers to save multiple recordings of pass conference calls for access at another time.
The feature automatically archives recorded calls. Archived calls can be accessed via the web or phone by simply entering a call’s specific reference number. Calls can [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 9th, 2010
CounterPath (www.counterpath.com) has released Bria 3.1 for the Mac and Windows.
The latest version of the VoIP soft client includes support for multiple accounts. Users can select on-the-fly which account to use for voice, IM and HD video calling, regardless of the type of network (wired or wireless) in use. Bria 3.1 also includes an enhanced [...]
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