VoIP is a very fast paced industry where new products and services crop up almost on a daily basis, with news spreading fast across a network of blogs and new sites. VoIP News have come out with their list of the 50 most influential people in VoIP, which is very comprehensive and well worth [...]

It’s a buzzword you might have started seeing around: IMS, or IP Multimedia Subsytem [wikipedia], which wikipedia defines as “… a standardised Next Generation Networking (NGN) architecture…” that will be the base for all types of Internet-based services including IM (Instant Messaging), SIP-based VoIP, FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) for cellular services (such as push-to-talk over [...]

Not too long ago, even ten years ago, parts of India suffered regular power outages on a daily basis. That was in some cities. Many rural areas today still have no electricity, period, let alone Internet access. But none of this is stopping IBM from offering BPL - Broadband over Power Line - Internet access [...]

Despite being a Communist country, with less emphasis on profit, China has a lot of businesses and many of them need telecom services. In fact, according to research firm In-Stat, spending on IP PBXes for Chinese enterprises is expected to grow from about US$164M in 2006 to nearly $480M in 2010, an increase of almost [...]

The concept of Six Degrees of Separation (Google search results) is often misunderstood. It’s a hypothesis that says that any two random people in the world are separated by no more than six degrees of social interaction. That is, if I wanted a way to connect with someone in particular, all I have to do [...]