MySpaceIM In The Wild

MySpace, not happy with being a dominant player in the social networking sphere has been a busy little beaver. If you aren’t happy with just being bombarded with invites and trains then maybe you’ll be interested in their new IM client, MySpaceIM.
It has the usual contact list, avatars, presence features etc. MySpaceIM also [...]


Disposable Phone Numbers?

Moshe Yudkowsky has a briliant idea regarding email addresses that extends to phone numbers: disposability. I haven’t quite gone as far as he has with email addresses, but I’ve been sketching out a “virtual email” system that could accomplish the same thing, and be used by anyone on any domain, via my web service. The [...]

Primus Offers Free VoIP Calls

Primus, a company that original started out in the early 90s (late 80s?) when telecoms were hit by the regulation smackdown. They sold bundled long distance minutes in blocks. I think I may have even used them way back in the mid-90s, when my long-distance bills were $600-800/m. But now, with so much free VoIP [...]

Vodafone: We Don’t Ban VoIP On Data Cards

Vodafone says that customers using their 3G data cards and laptops with connections to it’s network are able to run a soft VoIP phone and use it, but they monitor usage to avoid it being used as a gateway.  There are estimates that Vodafone already has a subscription base of some 1 million customers who [...]

AT&T Get Into Soft VoIP With CallVantage Service

AT&T have announced their own downloadable soft VoIP app developed in association with CounterPath. According to the press release I grabbed from CounterPath, one can see that this will be based on SIP and will have Caller ID, Voicemail, Call Logs etc. There’s no definitive word on whether CallVantage will be available for [...]