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SIPphone Makes The Call To Jajah

Source: gigaom.com

Jajah, in its effort to become a backend platform for VoIP services, has started offering call termination, billing and other such services to one and all comers. They got a big boost when they signed up Yahoo! Now, the Sequoia Capital-backed company has signed up SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo and will handle their call termination. Does this mean Gizmo’s call quality will increase? I certainly hope so – I have stopped using the service because of poor quality of voice.

Instead, I have opted for RingCentral, which recently introduced a Mac OS X soft client (in addition to a PC version) and it is doing a might fine job for me. I was highly skeptical of RingCentral in the past but they have won me over with their high quality service. (Full review, pending!)

Soft phones – whether they are from RingCentral, Vonage, Gizmo or Skype extremely useful. I almost never am close to a landline, but an internet connection is always handy. Using soft phone, I can make quick calls without really breaking away from the computer screen. I am not alone in professing a liking for Softphones. A Frost & Sullivan report says that as a percentage of total IP-telephone market soft phones share will increase from 5 percent to 20 percent by 2014. Softphone sales rose to 416,000 units, worth $18.9 million in 2007, up 30% over 2006.

Published on June 26th, 2008 under , , , , , , , ,

What’s New Now: Gizmo Project 4.0, fringMe Widget, Truphone For Facebook

Source: gigaom.com

SIPphone just released Gizmo Project 4.0, a soft client that includes video calling. You can make free video calls, even if only one person has a webcam, and the Meta IM and Tabbed Chat interface make it a worthy IM client for your Windows desktop. Mac people will have to wait, but 4.0 works on Nokia tablets. Now if they would just improve their quality of service…

Mobile VoIP/IP startup Fring has released the fringME! widget, which lets web visitors fring you from anywhere you’ve placed it. Among the cool features on this widget is the real-time ‘find me’ feature, which instantly opens a GoogleMaps window to show the fringster’s physical location via their GPS-equipped handset.

And lastly, my favorite voice-over-Wi-Fi company, Truphone, has released a Facebook app that allows folks to call you directly from the social network, just add the Truphone ‘Call Me’ button. They also have a video explaining how it works.

Published on November 29th, 2007 under , , , , ,

Gizmo Project now supports Nokia N95

Source: voipcentral.org

gizmo-project-now-supports-nokia-n95_28 SIPphone’s widely used VoIP client, Gizmo Project has been updated with a number of features. The popular VoIP software now supports Nokia S60 dual mode phones including Nokia N95. It is available for the beta users. The early version supported Nokia N80.

Gizmo Project VoIP software is also supporting AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and MSN Messenger buddies. Thus, you can free voice calls and chats to the users of these IM clients.

The company has planned to provide similar capabilities for Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and iChat.

The Gizmo Project provides free calls from a computer to the landline or mobile phones of other Gizmo users.

This service is available for landlines in 60 countries and mobile phones in 17 of them. Using Gizmo Project, you can make free voice mail and conference calls.

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Published on June 12th, 2007 under , , ,

Gizmo Project 3.0 now available for Windows

Source: voipcentral.org

After introducing Gizmo Call last month, SIPphone has today launched the latest version of its popular desktop VoIP product, Gizmo Project 3.0 for Windows Operating System. The latest version features meta-voice capabilities, which provide free calling service to Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live users.

The Gizmo Project 3.0 is regarded as the first VoIP software to link together multiple VoIP networks to enable users to call to four of the most popular Voice and IM networks with one client.

With Gizmo Project 3.0, the users can make free calls to Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live, Google Talk and Jabber. It is very simple to make calls using the latest Gizmo version. The users just need to enter their username or ID of the person whom they intend to talk and domain.

The latest version also includes real-time file sharing feature that allows users to exchange files with other Gizmo Project 3.0 users, or send files directly to any jabber clients.

The company plans to provide Gizmo Project 3.0 services for Mac and Linux OS in the next 30 days.

Published on February 27th, 2007 under , , ,

Gizmo Project developer intros web-based calling service

Source: voipcentral.org

Gizmo Project developer SIPphone has just introduced yet another mega project to provide web-based VoIP services to more than 150 countries in the world.

Dubbed as Gizmo Call, the new project is available at gizmocall.com. It allows customers to call both landline and mobile phones from any web browser that supports Adobe Flash Plug-in. In fact, calls are free. You dont need to install any additional software for Gizmo Call, nor also require to registration for the service.

It is now available for Windows and Mac OS. The company will extend the web calling service to Linux OS in a month. The new offerings would be official available in near future.

As of now, Gizmo Call operates in number of web browsers including IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari. It can support other browsers which support Abode Flash 9 plug-in.

Published on January 30th, 2007 under , , , ,

IHT’s Kevin discusses Skype and Ebay culture.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Kevin O’Brien at International Herald Tribune has written a lengthy but good article about Skype and Skype business at Ebay. "Waiting For Skype to Pay Off Ebay". He brings good and bad information about culture clashes, stiff headed managements and more than doubled Skype users (free skype downloads) together to paint a nice picture.
Once you read the article, you may wonder where Skype is going. It will certainly will not go out of business but the question arises as to if they could make a proper business out of Skype. Where Skype would become a day to day word in corporate world.
Andy Abramson over at VOIP WATCH, who lead me to the IHT article mentions hiring Michael Robertson in as president, (Michael is the guy who got you MP3.com? Lindows (Hey Micheal where is my PC?) and then Linspire and Freespire. He also has the SIPphone and MP3tunes under his arms now. SIPphone I think came from somewhere in France a while ago. But one thing is for sure, Andy is right and Michael is a sure footed business man. Skype will go ways if Micheal is at the helm. Thanks Andy for putting Disruptive thoughts in my mind.
Links;
IHT Kevin O’Brien’s article
Andy’s IHT on Skype
Micheal’s Minute

Published on November 16th, 2006 under , , , , , , , , , ,

LiveJournal reaches a new level in the blogosphere

Source: voipcentral.org

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We are all familiar with LiveJournal, the California-based online social community of nearly 10 million users. The social networking site is now bringing VoIP, Instant Messaging and many more things for its users. How amazing!

The site has integrated SIPphones Gizmo software to provide VoIP and live communications between users. With this addition, LiveJournal has sailed itself into a new level in the blogosphere.

The LiveJournal users would derive a number of benefits. They can now call each other simple at the click of the mouse and other communication services like conferencing calls, instant messaging and mobile calls.

All they can do using their current LiveJournal account. Besides these, they can record voice records.

Commenting on the VoIP initiative of LiveJournal, SIPphones President Jason Droege said,

Adding VoIP and IM services for everyone immediately take the whole community to a new level. Today LiveJournal just beat everyone else to the punch.

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Published on October 18th, 2006 under , , ,

SIPphone offers free US phone nos that ring computers and mobiles

Source: voipcentral.org

SIPphone today announced Area775 – a VOIP service where one personal phone number can ring a landline, mobile phone or any computer connected to the Internet making it possible for incoming calls to be answered from anywhere.

This service is available now from the Area775 website

Now, users can sign up for a free US telephone number that, when dialed, will ring both their computer and any US mobile phone or landline.

One of the best features of this is that the incoming calls can be screened from any phone or computer by listening to voicemail messages callers leave while they are speaking. Also the choice is upon you whether you take a call or ignore with a voicemail message sent to an email account as an audio attachment.

Michael Robertson, CEO, SIPphone said;

VOIP has been all about free PC-to-PC calls. Area775 is the first service that links VOIP to the traditional phone world and gives users unprecedented power to manage their voice communications by screening and answering calls on any SIP device, computer or regular phone, as well as transferring calls between their devices.

Anyway this new service – Area775 offers unique calling features giving consumers the ability to easily manage calls in a sophisticated manner.

You can take opt for a free US telephone number in the 775 area code or pay $3.95 per month and select a different US area code.

Sounds good, right?

News: Businesswire

Published on February 16th, 2006 under ,

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