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VoIP Provider Callcentric Offers New Plans, Free Phone Numbers

Voxilla Staff — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:46:33 +0000

VoIP service provider CallCentric launched a redesigned web site and added several new features over the weekend. Among the changes: Callcentric customers can sign up for free incoming phone numbers that can be used for any purpose. The numbers, from more than 80 rate centers in New York state, incur no monthly or incoming per-minute [...]

Bill Simon’s Free SIP-to-XMPP Gateway Easily Puts Google Voice on Your VoIP Phone

Voxilla Staff — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:49:34 +0000

Unless you’re an adventurous VoIP tinkerer, there is no easy do-it-yourself approach to getting Google Voice to work over an IP phone’s unused line. Obihai Technologies series of Obi telephone adaptors allow you to easily use a basic analog phone with Google Voice, but some contortion is required to use an Obi with an IP [...]

FBI Asking VoIP Companies to Voluntarily Support Backdoor Access to Users’ Phone Calls

Voxilla Staff — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:18:57 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigations is working to convince Internet companies and Voice over IP service providers to go along with a proposed federal law that would require them to build back doors into their systems to facilitate government surveillance operations, reports CNET. Federal plans to broaden wiretapping laws to include internet communications companies have [...]

Android Expanding Smartphone Lead Over iOS

Voxilla Staff — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:10:17 +0000

The battle between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android for dominance of the smartphone platform appears to be slipping ever so slightly in Android’s favor. According to a study released by digital research firm comScore, Inc., Google Android now commands a majority, or 51 percent, of the smartphone market, up 3.7 percent from December. Apple’s share [...]

Liar, Liar, VoIP on Fire: At Industry’s Low-End, Highbrow Boasts Ring Hollow

Voxilla Staff — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:16:20 +0000

In the fierce fight for cheap VoIP supremacy, hyperbole reigns supreme. In one corner sits MagicJack, whose decidedly unpolished commercials have run rampant through late night television and who issues press releases describing itself as “a cloud communications leader that invented voice over IP (VoIP)”. In the other corner sits newcomer NetTALK, a “cloud technology [...]

OBi202 VoIP Adaptor Now on Amazon, Wait Well Worth It

Voxilla Staff — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:43:55 +0000

Obihai Technology has been featuring the OBi202 on the front page of the company’s main web site for several months. Now, the device, which represents a huge step up from the company’s wildly popular OBi100 and OBi110 VoIP adaptors, is finally available on Amazon for $75. Was it worth the wait? Should users of previously [...]

CloudTC Releases Big Improvements to its Business Android IP Desktop Telephone

Voxilla Staff — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:36:21 +0000

CloudTC has released a substantial firmware upgrade to its Glass 1000 Android-based IP desktop phone that significantly improves on the award-winning device in many key ways. The phone, which retails for $599 (available for $499 at VoIPSupply), now operates on Android version 2.3 (“Gingerbread”), not the most recent version of Google’s operating system, but one [...]

Snom Aims to Enlarge Reach By Offering VARs Online Certification Option

Voxilla Staff — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:01:47 +0000

German VoIP equipment and PBX manufacturer Snom Technology AG has hit on an idea that may get the company’s highly rated products additional exposure in the United States. The company is now offering VoIP value added resellers (VARs) the ability to become certified to sell the snom One family of IP PBX products through an [...]

Digium’s Asterisk VoIP Phones Now Available

Voxilla Staff — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:30:58 +0000

Digium has announced that its trio of IP phones announced in February are now available for purchase. Designed to easily integrate with Digium’s open source Asterisk PBX and it’s commercial Switchvox United Communications system, each phone is capable of high-quality “HD voice” using the G.722 wideband speech codec and come with a number of built-in [...]

Verizon’s Anti-VoIP Measure Kills Naked DSL

Voxilla Staff — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:51:06 +0000

Verizon Communications is feeling the bottom-line impact as more homes abandon landlines in favor of cellular and VoIP service. The carrier, reports Computer World, will require its DSL internet access customers to purchase wired phone service from the company as well, which adds at least $5 to a monthly bill. Verizon reported an 8 percent [...]