Despite deregulation in the telecom industry a while back, it seems that like some amorphous creature that cannot stay separated, the big Bells are reforming. AT&T, bought out by SBC last year, has plans to buy BellSouth. Extreme VoIP writer Todd Spangler seems to think that this has to do with the VoIP threat, as [...]
Got a lot of POP-based email accounts? Want to manage them all from your cell phone? Try Flurry, a free service [via TipMonkies]. If I understand correctly, Flurry is a Java-based application, so your cell phone or connected PDA has to be Java-enabled. Thing is though, if you get as much junk mail as I [...]
My father, a retired professor who continues his side interest of real estate brokering, sent me an email last week that completely surprised me. Whenever a new VoIP soft phone shows up online, I usually download it and give it a go. My father has served as my test subject several times, as he’s usually [...]
Andrew Garcia at eWeek writes that open source telephony has created “a fertile breeding ground for new solutions built from the ground up for small businesses.” Yet SMBs are lagging behind in VoIP adoption, not for lack of interest but because they don’t know what to use.
If this is you, you might consider Digium’s Asterisk [...]
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 [...]