The Indian government must have some visionaries on board because they’re spending on US$1 B [Light Reading] to build a PAN (Pan-African e-Network). This is in collaboration with the AU (African Union). Their intent, apparently, is to beat China to the quick, and to eventually sell telecom equipment to African countries. When you consider that [...]

IP & Democracy is reflecting on The Rupe’s (Rupert Murdoch) calling DirecTV a “turd bird”. This is a company that ol Rupe has holdings in. What ever a turd bird is, IP&D concludes, the US DBS industry is dying. This might explain why DirecTV recently announced VoIP over satellite offerings. Though I don’t think that’ll [...]

I’ve been looking into this subject for quite a while, and for the life of me I couldn’t find an app that would circumvent an ISP set on blocking VoIP traffic. But all this has changed, for finally there is a solution.
Friends in the UAE and China, you’ll be interested in this! And [...]

A few days ago I talked about PresenterNet, a service hosted entirely online where you can view and discuss presentations and other media. Now Adobe are on the verge of releasing an upgraded version of Acrobat called Acrobat Connect, complete with VoIP, video conferencing and IM.
What’s cool about this? Well this is an [...]

Fring is a free application that runs on the Symbian S60 platform. It is a 3G mobile app that allows you to make free calls from your mobile and send text messages to other Fring users. While this is attractive, what draws my eye to Fring is that it also allows a user [...]