Powerline networking has often lived in the shadow of wireless networking, but its reputation in recent years has been on the rise. Based on the principle that home users want a network without wires strung all over the house, powerline networking uses the existing electrical wiring in your home to transmit data and create aContinue Reading
A report published by In-Stat and covered among the broad VoIP blogosphere suggests that hosted Voice over IP solutions are set to see “dynamic growth over the next few years” with projected revenues of more than $2 billion by 2010. The news of such huge growth should please hosted VoIP providers such as Covad andContinue Reading
Voice over IP is starting to move firmly into the mainstream consumer and business markets with interest in the cost-saving technology expected to grow significantly this year. However, one of the complaints I regularly hear from people I talk with about switching to VoIP is that they cannot afford to lose their landline phone number.Continue Reading
Gizmodo reports from CES on a fresh redesign on the Vonage router, which is currently a bland dark gray and black plastic box. As you can see from the image above, this new router is far removed from the current model. Vonage commissioned Frog Design, an international design consultancy firm, to spice up their boringContinue Reading
There has been a whole raft of Skype-related announcements this week on account of CES. The latest is the Cardo Scala-700 VoIP headset, which is a bluetooth headset that connects with Skype running on your computer. That doesn’t sound very exciting, but the Scala-700 has a trick up it’s sleeve, voice activation. With the Scala-700Continue Reading