Tag: Voip
Posh Prezzies bring back Prohibition-era style webcams and VoIP phones
Who doesn’t want to feel like a character in George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck black and white film? Grab your flapper-dress, top hat, and a couple of ’40s-style peripherals for your computer, from Posh Prezzies.
The web-cam on the left may only have 300K pixels, but gosh does it look good. £30 gives you 15 frames a…
Shiny Video Review: Tesco's VoIP USB Stickphone
Who knew Tesco offered quite so many products alongside their groceries and mobile phones? They’ve branched out into their very own VoIP service, and released a USB ‘Stickphone’ which retails for £19.97 from Tesco stores, and…
eBay protects their Skype-ownage and removes JAJAH VoIP widgets from listings
It looks like eBay has finally cottoned on and realised that because they now own the VoIP service Skype, allowing sellers to link to a rival VoIP provider in their auctions, JAJAH, probably isn’t the smartest thing they can do if they want to make money from their acquisition…
iPhone gets VoIP courtesy of Truphone
Consider the cat well and truly among the pigeons. VoIP firm Truphone has been showing its service working on Apple's iPhone – a development which could have serious implications for Apple's mobile operator partners.
The demonstration's taking place at the DEMOfall 07 event, and it's just a demo – Truphone isn't launching a commercial VoIP service for iPhone. Not yet. Watch Truphone's official video showing the demo below.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 14-Sept-07: Adobe Photoshop, Google, Nintendo DS, Programmers, Wii
– Adobe are launching Photoshop Express, a free stripped-down online version (Gadget Lab)
– Google is offering $30 million to whoever lands a robotic spacecraft on the moon first (Daily Tech)…
Shiny Video Review: Skype and Skype Phones
Now that Skype is back on course, Susi takes us back to the beginning with a crash course in VOIP, and Alex prods at a few models that represent the range of available VOIP / Skype accredited phones…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 01-Aug-07: Ashton Kutcher, Windows Vista, Bittorrent, blog revenue, eBay
– Ashton Kutcher shills for an online Alternate Reality Game and VOIP start-up? (Boing Boing)
– Microsoft has sold 60 million copies of Vista, by 2008 there’ll be 1 billion PCs running Windows (Daily Tech)…
SkypeOut IS coming to mobile phones… eventually
When UK mobile operator 3 launched its X-Series service earlier this year, the inclusion of Skype was one of the most exciting elements. Experienced Skypers quickly noticed that it was only the basic Skype service, and not the more advanced SkypeOut giving you cheap calls to landlines and mobile numbers. However, Skype’s Tony Saigh has confirmed that SkypeOut is still on the company’s roadmap for mobile.
iRiver unveils W10 PMP with Wi-Fi and VoIP
iRiver is sticking everything bar the kitchen sink into its personal media players nowadays, and its new W10 PMP is no exception. There’s not much information on its specs, other than the fact that it supports VoIP and a location-based Wi-Fi technology called WPS.
Fring expands its mobile VoIP service to Windows Mobile smartphones
The mobile operators don’t like it, but more and more companies are putting Voice over IP services on mobile phones. Fring has been doing it for a while, but the company has just announced that its application now works on all Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 devices. That’s about 300 smartphones and Pocket PCs, folks.
