VoIP News

Welcome to the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. Although response to the first edition of this carnival is average, I am sure that it will become more popular soon. Here are the posts that have been selected to be featured on this week’s carnival.

Mr Credit Card presents Review of Vonage VOIP Phone Service posted at Ask Mr Credit Card’s Blog. According to the writer, Vonage offers the most value for
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In order to improve the efficiency of organizations and productivity of end users ShoreTel is introducing a number of IP Telephony enhance enhancements. This is also expected to bring down the cost of ownership of ShoreTel IPT products. The company has introduced the latest version of its software, the first SIP based IP phone and has also added a small footprint IP PBX hardware.

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When I reported the elimination of VoIP functionality from Nokia N95 by Vodafone and Orange and then the reasons of the removal, a Fring spokesperson left a comment in one of my above posts.

I think the comment is an indication that VoIP is there with Nokia N95.

Fring, the emerging MVoIP application will still work on the N95.

With Fring, we can make free mobile calls and send instant messages to other Fring users. At the
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eBay has released the first quarter results of 2007. The result makes us clear that the auctioneers VoIP wing is growing but not satisfactorily in comparison to the past quarters.

According the eBay data, Skype has signed up nearly 196 million users by the end of March 2007, an increase of 107 percent from 95 million registered users a year earlier.

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Mobile VoIP clients are becoming the order of the day. In order to cash on the frenzy associated with mobile VoIP, CounterPath is offering Mobile VoIP client in Europe which will be running on WinMobile devices. The company already develops soft phone client for Mac and Windows computers.

This new client is called X-PDA and is available in two
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Its a gateway for Skype to GSM and vice versa. Eurodesign has dubbed it MobiGater, which connects your PC that runs Skype and your mobile phone and allows the users to make free Skype and low cost SkypeOut international calls from their mobile phones anywhere in the world.

Explaining about MobiGater, Anton Mihalev of Eurodesign says,

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Kensington has rolled out its Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone, a new Bluetooth-supported phone for making VoIP calls. This Bluetooth device supports Skype, MSN, Yahoo! and Google services.

The device boasts of the following features:

1.Better call quality with advanced cancellation and noise suppression technology

2.Stylish design fold into the size of a PC card slot

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Explaining the reasons for the elimination of VoIP service from Nokia N95, Vodafone says VoIP is not a reliable technology and confronts a number of problems like in-depth testing, a solid end-to-end user customer experience, billing integration and customer support.

In a statement Vodafone said,

There is a misleading perception
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TELMEX, the largest telecommunications service provider in Mexico has reached an agreement with Nortel to provide Hosted IP PBX services to both medium and large business enterprises in the country.

As per the deal, Toronto-based Nortel would provide its IP based telecom and multimedia solutions to the Mexican telecom giant. It includes Notels Communication Server 2000 and Nortels Global Services portfolio.

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Taking a step to meet the growing demand for greater text messaging options, Verizon Wireless has announced a new plan known as Americas Choice plan, which brings Unlimited Messaging service for the customers. The US-based VoIP giant is also rolling out Americas Choice Family SharePlan Select with Unlimited Messaging for all the lines on the plan.

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