Soft VoIP

7 Issues Holding Back VoIP + IP Telephony

Depending on whom you ask, VoIP and IP telephony has probably been around for nearly a decade - the same amount of time that the Internet has been publicly available. And yet, in that time, it has a relatively small penetration in the telecommunications market in terms of consumer (business or individual) use. While the [...]


Audio Vampire: Recording VoIP Conversations

Technocraft, a Japanese company, is offering Audio Vampire, software for Windows-based audio recording. Using this tool, you can record all your VoIP conversations in Skype, MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Recording starts automatically in the these three VoIP/ VoIM clients, and records to WAV, MP3, or WMA files. Audio Vampire is also an audio [...]

Mobile VoIP Calling With Truphone For Nokia Phones

Good news for some Nokia phone users: mobile VoIP. Truphone announced that they are releasing a beta version of their mobile software for Nokia N80 phones (to follow up on the E-series version of the software). Truphone utilizes Wi-Fi to allow VoIP calls to landline phones. Nokia has tried dual-mode phones before, but TechWorld says [...]

Gizmo Ties Up With LiveJournal

Gizmo and LiveJournal recently announced that they are teaming up together, pitching their new partnership as the first integration of VoIP with a social network. They’re calling it Gizmo Project for LJ Talk.
So what do you get? Well basically, you download Gizmo and then login using your LiveJournal username and password. Once [...]

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 [...]