Garrett Smith has a post about a strange looking communications device called a Duo, by a company named Mvox. It’s being labelled by Mvox as the world’s first wearable Smart Communicator. It has one-touch voice dialing, has hands-free headset, and claims a 100% voice recognition rate. What’s more, you can use its Bluetooth wireless or [...]

Andrew Garcia at eWeek writes that open source telephony has created “a fertile breeding ground for new solutions built from the ground up for small businesses.” Yet SMBs are lagging behind in VoIP adoption, not for lack of interest but because they don’t know what to use.
If this is you, you might consider Digium’s Asterisk [...]

This is by no means a brand new technology, but Ambient Corp. will be providing broadband Internet access [Charlotte Business Journal] over Duke Energy Corp’s power lines to Duke’s customers. Part of the plan is to provide both voice and data transmission, although the term VoIP never comes up in the article. So we have [...]

With the growth of Wi-Fi phones, it’s obviously expected that Wi-Fi calling will grow. Bill Pechey of IT Week takes at a look at how Wi-Fi calling is making its way into 3G phones. In fact, this is by design. The 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) is an industry organization focusing on GSM and 3G [...]

Subscribers of Orange in the UK and some European countries can now make both VoIP and mobile calls from a single dual-mode handset, using a service called the Unique phone. The phones operate on WLAN (Wireless LAN) at home and a mobile network otherwise. Calls from home to landline phones and other Orange mobiles are [...]