Jordanians Rejoice: TRC Lifts Skype Ban!

Jordan’s Telecommunications Regulatory Commision (TRC) has lifted their block on Skype, just one month after they initially banned Jordanians from using the service due to security concerns.  The TRC believed that Skype was a potential terrorist tool because of it’s built-in encryption.
Dubai banned VoIP last week, but only one day later the UAE Telecom Regulatory [...]


VoIP Call Quality: Can You Hear Me Now?

The VoiP Girl wishes for fixing voice quality on the fly when using Skype, Gizmo Project, or other soft phones. She finds herself starting her VoIP conversations with
So how do I sound, can you hear me?
I’ve found myself doing pretty much the same thing. And sometimes the response, surprisingly, is a quizzical “yeaaaaah”. So [...]

News Briefs - Fri Oct 13, 2006

It’s A Camera. It’s A Phone. It’s A Samsung SCH-B600
Samsung has released the world’s first 10-megapixel camera phone. If you’ve followed digital cameras, you know that this phone’s camera resolution is up there with the best of the digital cameras. The B600 also has 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom and a built-in TV [...]

Janus Blogs, Talks About The Venice Project

Janus Friis is the man behind Skype, Kazaa and The Venice Project. He has just started to blog, revealing a few details on the future of his next ‘groundbreaking’ service; The Venice Project.
He says that while it still has it’s fair share of bugs, it will combine the best of both worlds to bring [...]

Top Softphones For Mac OS X

I’ve been thinking recently about VoIP and OS X. I suppose a lot of people are inclined to think that VoIP on OS X doesn’t go any further than Skype, or iChat. But interestingly there are some very good alternatives to these 2 apps available for OS X. And, might I add, [...]