PluggedIn: Internet Telephony Takes the Spotlight
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One technology promises to harness the power of the Internet for voice communications. Its competitor has been around for a century, and has an industry shorthand that needs two adjectives -- "plain old telephone service" -- to describe just how boring it is.
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VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, may be geek speak for calls routed through cyberspace. But for many consumers, VoIP translates into ever-cheaper and sometimes feature-rich telephone alternatives. Consider the Skype service I've been testing. It lets members talk free from one computer to another.
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Analysis: New Google browser plug-in offers offline access to Web-hosted applications, intriguing developers.
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The Frankenstein-style gadget combines audio/video playback, VOIP, Wi-Fi, pseudo-GPS and podcast software. In Listening Post.
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A videophone that lets home users see who they are talking to has been launched by Amstrad.
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one benefit of the convergence between data and telecommunications. Companies today are seeing the value of transporting voice over IP networks to reduce telephone and
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NEW YORK - Traditional phone systems may be going the way of the Pony Express. Voice-over-Internet Protocol, technology that allows users to make and receive phone calls using the Internet, is giving the old circuit-switched system a run for its money.
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You could soon surf the internet and make a cell phone call from the air. The Federal Communications Commission is now open to the possibility.
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Flip it over and you have a VoIP phone.
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The trials and tribulations of application dependency in a virtualized, hosted world.
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More phone and cable companies promise high-speed Internet access, but how is a consumer to know?
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Mobile phone users are to be able to use their handset to make free calls over the internet via Skype.
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Skype is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way for individual customers to use their computers with broadband connections as telephones.
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InfoWorld - Nearly one year after Skype stole the headlines at the 3GSM World Congress with its&#160;plans to offer a mobile version&#160;of its Internet phone, a couple of nimble startups -- and not the Net telephony pioneer itself -- appear to have found a way to make this type of service work, both technically and commercially.
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Exploring PDA 'transmission technologies', apparently
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Ribbit's new Amphibian service makes phone-like voice features accessible via PC or online.
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A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.