In Jack Womack’s future-past slipstream novel Elvissey, a couple from a future Earth society goes back into the past to an alternate Earth, 1950s era, before that Earth’s Elvis Presley became famous, and then takes him unwillingly back to the future to worship him. In Bradley Denton’s science fiction novel Buddy Holly Is Alive And [...]

JaJah have announced their new service for cell phones that is designed to allow a user to use Jajah for certain types of calls from your cell phone, exensive international calls come rushing to mind.
If you would like to use the new Jajah service you’ll have to head over to their site and sign yourself [...]

Oh no, not another keyboard with Skype built in! I’m afraid so. The Buffalo BKBU-SKJ109/SV comes from Japan, has all the usual hot keys for application launching and a full sized handset.
A what? Yep, the BKBU-SKJ109/SV has a wired phone to the right of the main keyboard that is integrated with Skype. [...]

Before we get started, what exactly is Quality of Service (QoS)? According to Wikipedia it is:
In the fields of packet-switched networks and computer networking, the traffic engineering term Quality of Service (QoS) refers to the probability of the telecommunication network meeting a given traffic contract, or in many cases is used informally to refer [...]

VoWiFi, or VoIP over Wi-Fi, is expected to be a growing niche of IP telephony, what with all the dual-mode cell phones and Wi-Fi phones starting to peek out from under wraps, and the numerous municipal Wi-Fi projects all over the world. VoIP call quality is such an important issue these days, and will be [...]