VoIP

Connecting for Health optimistic on NHS VoIP take up

Computing.co.uk (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Tom Young, Computing , Monday 9 November 2009 at 15:36:00 Over 100 sites now using system, and numbers expected to rise sharply Over 100 sites are using an NHS broadband network, installed as part of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT, to make Voice over IP (VOIP) phone calls. The service became available on the N3 NHS broadband network in July 2007 and has seen a 600 per cent increase in...

Apple Still Not Allowing VoIP Calls Over 3G

GigaOM (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

Earlier today in response to my post about Nimbuzz, a good pal emailed to find out why the service didn’t work over the iPhone’s 3G connection. After all, a few weeks ago AT&T announced support for VoIP over 3G with much fanfare, a move that was widely applauded, including kudos from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. A [...]

Rumor: Google buys Gizmo5, expanded VoIP service coming soon?

Download Squad (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Filed under: Google , VoIP TechCrunch is reporting that Google has purchased VoIP company Gizmo5 . Google has its own internet telephony service called Google Voic e, which lets you route your calls to different phones, screen calls, and receive email notifications and automated transcripts of phone calls. But Google Voice doesn't let you make calls from a PC to a phone. Gizmo5 does. If Google really...

Doddle Makes VoIP Easy as Pulling up a Website

VoIP Monitor .net (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Doddle allows users to make VoIP calls anywhere in the world via Doddle’s web based SIP phone directly from their webpages. With Doddle’s free online phone service, no registration is required and VoIP is as easy as accessing a webpage. Users just begin using. Doddle’s web based phone allows anyone to add phone capabilities to their web applications, including websites, portals,...

Has Google Bought Out VoIP Provider Gizmo5, Too?

Moco News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Google is reportedly adding VoIP provider Gizmo5 to its ranks, on the heels of its $750 million acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob. TechCrunch reports that the deal is worth just $30 million. Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) responded to a confirmation request with the standard: “We are always talking to various companies about various things, but we don’t comment on rumor or speculation.”...

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Google Reportedly Buys VoIP Startup Gizmo5 For $30M

Tech Trader Daily (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Google (GOOG) has agreed t buy the voice over IP startup Gizmo5 for $30 million in cash, according to TechCrunch, which attributes the story to “sources,” and says the deal will be announced soon. TechCrunch theorizes that Gizmo5 will provide “the glue that puts Google Voice and Google Talk together into [...]

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Forget Skype, Google acquires Gizmo5 VoIP startup instead

Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Wow, remember a few weeks ago when Skype was beset by multiple legal actions from its founders and was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5 to replace the underlying codebase that they were being sued over? Well things seem to be moving fast in the VoIP world because today, not only did Skype and its founders come to an agreement and save the underlying codebase, but Gizmo5 got acquired after all--just...

Google Acquires Gizmo5 VoIP Service; VoIP Coming to Google Voice? [VoIP]

Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Google has bought VoIP service Gizmo5 , according to tech news weblog TechCrunch. If that's true, we're thinking it could mean some seriously cool things for Google Voice. We detailed a few months back how to make free VoIP calls from Google Voice with Gizmo5 , so connecting Google Voice with Gizmo5 seems like a no brainer. Right now when you sign up for a Google Voice account, the service can only...

Mobile VoIP crushed by OneVoice?

Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

VoIP Survivor has an article with a similar theme to what we were talking about in the last week's Editor's Corner. He brings up the emergence of the OneVoice standard supported by AT&T Inc., Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Orange, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. The standard would put voice and SMS over LTE based on SIP and, according...

Google Buys VOIP Startup Gizmo5 -- Report

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

TechCrunch says Google will acquire voice-over IP tech provider Gizmo5 for $30 million in cash. TC : Gizmo5 is a good fit with a number of Google products. Google Talk allows voice calls between users but has no PSTN link to allow incoming or outbound calls to real phones. Gizmo5 does this well already. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Google Buys AdMob For $750 Million In Stock (GOOG,...

Philly Area Companies battle for Business Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Market

Philadelphia Tech News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

You can credit companies such as Vonage and Comcast for popularizing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for residential services. On the business services side, a number of companies are positioning themselves for growth in this market. Although VoIP has been present in many larger enterprises for some time, its adoption in SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) has been occurring more recently....

Euro-VoIP Telio posts strong Q3

Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

European VoIP provider Telio posted strong numbers in its recent earnings release. Operating profits increased by 43 percent in third quarter 2009 while revenues were up NOK 3.3 million coming in at NOK 96.3 million from NOK 93 million from the same quarter last year. "We have continued to deliver record results for the last 10 quarters, and we are naturally very satisfied with revenue growth...

Buying A Used Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) System

Free No Catch Ringtones (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Since the advent of the internet, new and exciting ways to conduct business have been cropping up all over the place. The burgeoning technology of modern business is ever growing and it's important to keep up with the latest technologies. VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol is one of the biggest advances to hit, as of late. Perhaps it's time for you and your business to purchase a VoIP system and...

Apple continues to block 3G VoIP on iPhones

MAC News Network (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Apple is still preventing the use of 3G VoIP on iPhones, according to observers. While Wi-Fi has always been an option for Skype and other iPhone VoIP apps, 3G calling has typically been blocked out of bandwidth concerns, and the potential for depriving cellphone carriers -- namely AT&T -- of voice revenue. In regions with unlimited data, 3G VoIP could effectively circumvent minute limitations....

Worth reading: Murdoch says no content to Google, VoIP still not available on 3G iPhone

Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch tells Austria's Sky News that he plans to withhold content from Google searches. He cited the Wall Street Journal as an example of a source where only the first paragraph comes up on search engines and is free. Anything after that is subscription-based. He is planning to make newspapers like The Times and Sunday Times chargeable online, he said in a video. Check out...