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Over the last 5 years the traditional telecoms’ share of the telephone market has shrunk significantly as upstart cellular and VoIP competitors continue to gain ground. But even more bad news is on the horizon for the likes of AT&T and Southwestern Bell; projections indicate that by 2010 more than 25% of American households will no longer even own a traditional land line.But this collapse isn’t just a case of good companies struggling
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Gautam posts in The VoIP Weblog that a number of tutoring companies are using VoIP as a tool in their teaching. When it comes to a good soft phone or VoIM (Voice over Instant Messaging) client, you can’t beat it as a teaching aid for remote tutoring. You have voice, text, file sharing, and in the case of some VoIM clients such as AIM Pro (amongst others), desktop application sharing. What’s more, al that functionality is inexpensive or free.

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Microsoft is going to make inroads into iPod market by including VoIP to its new Zunes iPod. Zune is a digital media player. However, Microsoft sources confirmed that the digital media player will challenge Apples’s iPod. The product will have software and download services. To know more on this issue, you can refer to the news article titled, “ Microsoft ‘Zune’ iPod Challenger Confirmed by Redmond“.

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February 15, 2007

Google and VoIP: The Story So Far

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_VoIP_The_Story_So_Far’;Most fairy tales end with the trite and magical, "…and they lived happily ever after." But the story behind Google and its VoIP service, Google Talk Beta, isn’t a fairy tale. It’s more like a whodunit, where the plot is shrouded in a "dark and stormy night."
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Time is not conducive for mobile VoIP services as of now. It has far less impact and not so widespread as those operating over PCs. There are all sorts of technical issues that make mobile VoIP services difficult to implement. Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile expressed his views on MVoIP applications at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona.

Talking to the reporters in the sideline of 3GSM conference, Akhavan said that technical issues related to how networks pass on IP address of mobile users have not been completely resolved.

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One of the things that caught my eye today was a line-up of sexy new devices debuting at 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona from Taiwan-based smartphone giant HTC.

While I was musing over the 12 ounce HTC Advantage mobile office, the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6-equipped HTC S710, and the HTC P3350 media-hub and PDA,
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Shall I wrong to say, there is also a strong competition for free services? If it was not so, then Pingo would not have suddenly launched their free VoIP offer for the customers.

Pingo made an announced that they are offering free VoIP calls to China and Vietnam during the lunar New Year Festival season, which starts from February 18 and ends on March 4.

The free offer came barely a few days after Skypes announcement to provide a similar type of service for the Chinese speaking customers.

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February 07, 2007Mino Wireless Valentines Promo

Mino loves you, baby, so they’re doing a Valentines promo. Mino Wireless, who hit 100,000 mobile users in August 2006, allows you to make VoIP-based calls from your cell phone using their Java soft client. If you buy $10 worth of calling credit on or before Feb 20th, they give you $2 free credit.

I tried it out in early August last year and the quality was crystalclear at the time, impressing even
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February 08, 2007Free FuturePhone International Calls Not So Free

At least not for AT&T, who apparently had to foot a bill for US$2M per month, according to GigaOm.I’m behind on my VoIP reading again, but apparently AT&T’s lawsuitagainst them has caused FuturePhone to slap a huge red sign on theirwebsite: “This service is no longer available.”

FuturePhoneplayed a sort of telephony arbitrage, setting up a phone number intelco-friendly Iowa, who
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