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Like the iPhone - How About a Sun Phone?
Sun takes aim at Apple's walled garden with a smartphone built on JavaFX.



Digium Aims for Mass Market
Asterisk creator and sponsor Digium put the mass market squarely in its sights today with its acquisition of three year-old Asterisk PBX company Switchvox.



T1 to the Home — The Next Big Thing for SMBs?
As more and more people do business from a home office, and the Internet connection increasingly becomes as essential as a phone line -- or is the phone line -- lower prices bring a T1 line within range. At the same time, providers are looking for a way out of the race-to-zero that characterizes consumer Internet service.



Are Skype’s Problems Architectural?
Some are saying that Skype's recent problems illuminate inherent architectural weaknesses in the VoIP provider's architecture. When it comes to building VoIP networks, Counterpath CTO Jason Fischl says many heads are better than one.



Worming Skype
Skype's chat client is now in hacker sights.



Iotum Adds a Pretty Voice to Facebook
The ceaselessly energetic Iotum team has released a Facebook app that gives social networking a voice it can use. Known for its “Relevance Engine” that attempts to bring some human intelligence and brain power to incoming calls, the Ottawa-based Iotum’s app is about as close to a click-and-call service as one can get on Facebook. [...]



A Big Never-Mind From Palm
Palm pulls the plug on the Foleo.



Linksys SPA8000 Review and Configuration Wizard
Businesses and ITSPs have long-needed an inexpensive way to connect legacy analog devices to a VoIP network, and Linksys announcement of the SPA8000 — an eight-port FXS Analog Terminal Adaptor device — early this year had many eagerly anticipating its release. Finally, that time is here. The Linksys SPA8000 is now available in the United States. We’ve [...]



PhoneGnome Customers Can Breathe Easy
PhoneGnome customers can relax. The feared service interruption that users were alerted to last night likely won't materialize.



Skype Gets Lessons from Murphy
Skype's calamitous outage last week holds a lesson for the VoIP industry and illustrates weaknesses of Skype's approach, says Erik Lagerway.



 
   
     
 

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