Evidence suggests that VoIP until recently has been an awkward prospect for most SMBs. Not everyone wants to wear either a headphone/mic combo headset or a Bluetooth earpiece. But that’s changing, and more practical VoIP hardware [One Stop Click] is appearing. Though mouse/ phone combos are not one of them, in my opinion.
But when it [...]

VoIP Equipment Market Growing 25% Per Year
According to iSuppli Corp., the total worldwide sales of VoIP telecom equipment will grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of nearly 25% from now until 2010, reaching nearly US$12B. This market includes:

Enterprise: IP PBX sales. This is the largest segment as of 2005.
Service providers: infrastructure.
Residential: various hardware.

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There’s been a spate of VoIP phone/ mouse combos, and it makes me and others [Engadget] wonder what the heck is going on? I’ve reviewed (or read reviews of) at least 5 mouse/ phone combos since July and I’m sick of them. Personally, I think they are a bad functional design, unhygienic, and totally unnecessary. [...]

Ah, Luxury
A new luxury hotel in Seattle, Washington, Hotel 1000, is loading up the features to give their guests an ultimate experience enhanced by all kinds of rich media delivery via IP communications. The converged network, which uses Cisco Unified Communications system, offers Internet access, VoIP calling, video including IPTV, electronic doors, video valet system, [...]