Skype is great for calls and video, I use it every day to keep in touch with friends, family and co-workers. But why has Skype not implemented an email service yet? With all the buzz around Gmail, .Mac and upgrades to both Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, why have Skype missed the Email 2.0 [...]

8×8 have announced that an upgrade to version 1.5 of their video and voice Packet8 Softtalk software with improved video using H.264.
Softtalk version 1.5 incorporates the H.264 protocol, a standard next generation video compression codec that significantly improves the videoconferencing capabilities of Softtalk. Apple have previously used the H.264C codec to great effect in [...]

GTalk2VoIP is a new application designed to allow users of Google Talk to talk with users of Windows Live Messenger.  However, it also allows outgoing calls from both apps to any PSTN number.  It also provides for incoming calls from a PSTN numbers.  And how do you set it up?  Add service@gtalk2voip.com to your contact [...]

NEC Philips have won the contract to power the University of Edinburgh’s VoIP infrastructure. Currently the university uses a mixed platform of IP phones and traditional PSTN phones. With this new contract, the universaity is aiming to expand it’s reliance on IP telephony from the current 800 sites to 1000 sites.
The university is [...]

Issues of VoIP call quality keep coming up, but as far as I’m concerned, general quality has improved in the past two years. My experience is with soft VoIP, so I’m focusing on that. Soft VoIP IM clients have improved - some more than others. But it’s not always the software that’s at fault for [...]