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snom has released snom klarVOICE, a wideband headset that can be adapted for all of snom’s VoIP phones. It boasts twice the voice frequency spectrum.

“Telephones have remained unchanged for so long, most people have no idea what limitations they have lived with,” explains Dr. Michael Knieling, Executive VP of Marketing and Sales. “But VoIP also lays the groundwork for a revolution in the quality of voice we communicate with!”

According to snom:

The new snom klarVOICE handset works with the codec G.722. This codec is able to shrink the bit rate of the voice channel down to 12.65 kbps, offering excellent quality. In standard narrowband VoIP calls, the voice signal is sampled at 8,000 times per second, resulting in an effective voice pass-band of about 200 to 3,300 Hz. The new wideband handset offers a doubled sample rate, providing an effective pass-band of 50 to 7,000 Hz.

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While Total Home DVR has been released in other markets, it’s being officially announced today in San Antonio, where I live.
I’ve had Total Home DVR for 4 days and works as advertised. …

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p-news.comNorwood Promotional Products is using Captaris RightFax’s Fax over IP functionality to manage its business orders across its U.S. locations.
“We chose RightFax Fax over IP for its …

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p-news.comThe first phase implementation of Bandwidth.com’s new all-IP network has been completed by Sonus Networks. The Next-gen network deployment is intended to provide secure, advanced …

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AT&T has  announced that its AT&T U-verse TV ranks highest in customer satisfaction among residential television customers in all three regions where it was ranked, according to the …

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p-news.comThere’s a new VoIP phone from Hulger that is brass and solid American walnut. At $300, it’s pretty pricey too.
And dude, this thing is a total throwback from the 80s. I swear I …

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p-news.com… there must be a bad seed muddling it up.
Enter HoaxCall.com. It’s a web-based prank calling service. No longer do you have to worry about doing the talking yourself on prank calls. …

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p-news.comTone Software Corp. will be helping Communicado to develop a converged IP Telephony and Unified Communications platform. The integrated solution from the two partners will combine voice …

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p-news.comAndy at VoIP Watch has discovered an anomoly between Skype and SkypePhone. Read about it here.
TMCnet reviewed the Adtran IP 706. Find out the verdict here.
SoliCali has an echo problem
…

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Feeling the credit crunch?

No problem.
Why not tap into the millions of residential customers and create a special class of stock that could invest, say, $10 per month and buy into the new …

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AT&T’s move to reorganize itself into four business units is likely a precursor to layoffs, according to sources within the company who asked not to be named. The reorg comes as AT&T …

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New consumer research, from Leichtman Research Group, reports that 27% of TV households in the United States have at least one Digital Video Recorder (DVR), and 30% of those households have more …

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Spotted in the wild:  Cisco’s new IP Set Top Box for AT&T’s U-verse.

I happened to be meandering in an AT&T store in San Antonio and spotted this display.
It’s bird. 
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p-news.comVoIP application software provider Broadsoft’s chief technology officer will be speaking on a panel at Telephony Live: The 2008 Telecom Summit. The panel is “How open should i be?” …

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p-news.comPatton  and Patton-Inalp Networks AG  have launched new BRI and PRI VoIP product lines. They are intended to seamlessly inter-operate with Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications …

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p-news.comDigitalBridge Communications is now offering VoIP over their high-speed WiMAX network in the U.S. Currently, the service is available in some areas of Idaho, Indiana, Montana, South …

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Cable providers rate poorly on both customer service and pricing, but thanks to their speedy broadband service, they have so far managed to score more customers than the phone companies, according …

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p-news.comSmall businesses have a new option for phone systems.
Bandwidth.com has released Phonebooth, a hosted IP-PBX that is intended for small business use. The cost effective alternative …

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p-news.comNortel is using Certicom’s security technology to improve cryptographic performance and simply application creation for its UC platform for U.S. Federal Government agencies.
According …

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Here’s AT&T’s Larry Meyers doing a very cool and very real world video demo of the  Samsung Rugby™ ruggedized cell phone.
The Samsung Rugby™ is a rugged device loaded with …

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p-news.comDid you know that VoIP is illegal in Zimbabwe? Apparently it was, but not not be anymore. Read about it on Metro Zimbabwe.
VoIP system users can be targeted in attacks, says CNET. Read …