07/01/2011 - Skype Officially Launched Group Video Calling with New Premium Package
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Skype has officially launched group video calling for consumers and enterprises. Group video calling is available as part of the new Premium package which offers group video calling together with access to live chat customer support as a day pass for $4.99 (€3.49/£2.99) or as a monthly subscription for $8.99 (€5.99/£4.99) per month.13/12/2010 - Fring Launches Dynamic Video Quality Mobile Calling
fring announced the rollout of its network-optimized DVQ mobile video calling technology. The company’s proprietary DVQ (dynamic video quality) technology adjusts video bit rate and frame rate according to the specific device to match current network bandwidth during a call, delivering the best possible video picture quality for available bandwidth between call peers. 14/10/2010 - O2 to use Jajah acquisition to launch international VoIP 'favorites' service
Remember '5 Faves' from T-Mobile? O2 is taking a note from that playbook with the launch of its 'International Favourites' program. The services uses the Jajah acquisition to allow O2 customers to make international calls to five numbers for £10. The price goes towards 3,000 landline minutes and 200 mobile minutes to calls to those five favorites. Read the article.
11/10/2010 - IPsmarx and VoIP Innovations Announce Partnership and API Integration
IPsmarx Technology and VoIP Innovations have announced compatibility and API Integration for local and toll free DIDs. According to the companies, this integration will enable VoIP service providers to easily and quickly offer services to a new market. 15/07/2010 - IPsmarx Wants to Revolutionize the Calling Card Industry
IPsmarx released their newest innovation for the prepaid phone card industry that is said to allow Calling Card and Pinless Service Providers to expand their network of sales agents, increase their customer base, and reduce operating costs. 02/06/2010 - IPsmarx Adds German IVR to Its Calling Card Solution
IPsmarx announced that it has added German IVR language as an option to its Calling Card Platform, making 13 total IVR language options to choose from.31/05/2010 - Skype 2.0 Brings 3G Calling to the iPhone
A long after its competitors had brought 3G VoIP calling to the iPhone, Skype has finally announced the launch of the new version of its iPhone app that allows to make and receive Skype-to-Skype calls, and to call mobiles and landlines over 3G data connection.27/05/2010 - fring Gives Android Users the 1st Mobile 2-Way Video Calls
fring just announced the release of the world's first mobile video calls over internet on Android devices. Android device owners now join Nokia (Symbian S60) and iPhone/iPod touch users who are already making free mobile video over internet calls with fring.
06/05/2010 - Winning VoIP Philosophy: Interview with Arash Vahidnia, CEO of IPsmarx
“VoIP penetration among businesses is increasing rapidly, but I believe that reliability and redundancy can still be improved. Many service providers have not yet implemented redundancy to improve reliability,” said Arash Vahidnia, President and CEO of IPsmarx, in an interview with VoIP.Biz-News.com. 05/05/2010 - Skype Introduces New Monthly Calling Subscriptions and Group Video Chat
Starting tomorrow, Skype is rolling out new calling plans to more than 170 countries. 1-month, 3-month and 12-month calling plans will be available in 60-minute to unlimited packages. The range of subscriptions start from $1.09/month. The company will also introduce new video conference calls feature next week. 30/04/2010 - Combined VoIP and CRM for Small Businesses
Ringio, a new company founded by a group of long-time SaaS and Telephony Executives, has launched a new service for small and mid-sized businesses that brings them a combination of CRM and telephony functionality that until now has been available only through call centers and enterprise-level telephony systems.27/04/2010 - RIM Announces BlackBerry MVS 5 with Voice over Wi-Fi Calling
RIM announced BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5 with voice over Wi-Fi calling. It works with Cisco UC Manager and enables a business user to use their regular desk phone number and extension from their BlackBerry smartphone. 04/03/2010 - Winner of the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009” Announced
Our polls for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009” closed on the 15th of February. The winner is a result of the amount of votes they were awarded by readers, all readers where invited to vote for their favourite products or service in the Smartphone, HDTV, Storage and VoIP categories.01/02/2010 - Skype experiences more problems
Looks like Skype is seeing some growing pains. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Skype is responsible 12 percent of international voice calls--so it's no wonder the company might be experiencing some issues rising to that scale.
VoIP Watch noted from one of his contacts that Skype had become unavailable once again on Sunday. According to the Skype site, some users were having trouble "opening Payment In Client window, making a call to Online number, making a purchase or using any other service." Users may have also seen an error message like "Internal error" on the web or "Check your connection" in their Skype Client. The company is currently investigating the issue. It does not seem like the problems were widespread.
Just last week, Skype users experienced issues logging in to Skype. Those who had logged in before the outage had no problem using the service, but those who tried to log in during the outage could not.
For more:
- here's the VoIP Watch page
- here's the Skype page
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19/01/2010 - Telegeography: 12% of international calling is on Skype
According to a recent independent study conducted by Telegeography, about 12 percent of international calls are made on Skype! While international calling growth has slowed, Skype calling growth increased. The report states that Skype's international calling traffic was 54 billion minutes in 2009 having grown 63 percent since 2008.
The Telegeography report revealed that annual international telephone calling only grew by about 8 percent. "The volume of traffic routed via Skype is tremendous," said TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert in the release. "Skype is now the largest provider of cross border communications in the world, by far." With even more options and Skype competitors on the horizon, one can only imagine what these numbers will look like this time next year.
For more:
- read the release
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30/07/2009 - IPsmarx Partners with DIDX to Extend DIDs Reach
IPsmarx Technology and DIDX have agreed a partnership with the aim of allowing VoIP service providers to expand their global reach.
The VoIP solutions provider delivers Softswitch and Calling Card Solutions to operators in 63 different countries.
14/07/2009 - WCell Joins Mobile VoIP App Market
WCell International has announched that its VoIP calling platform is now available for download on a variety of mobile operating systems, including BlackBerry, Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
The Hong Kong-based application for mobile devices is awaiting approval by Apple for listing in the iPhone App Store.
25/06/2009 - Nimbuzz Offers VoIP Calling Without 3G or WiFi
Nimbuzz is partnering with Voxbone to offer its VoIP calling service using local DID access numbers – without the need for 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity.
The arrangement means that users can make voice calls to contacts using most of the popular IM and VoIP services, including Gizmo5 and Skype, in over 50 countries.
21/05/2009 - IPsmarx Streamlines Bundled Services' Billing
Billing can be a complicated process for VoIP service providers and calling card operators - especially if they want to diversify and offer more than one service.
In some cases customers end up receiving separate bills or a third system has to be used to generate them.
22/04/2009 - i2Telecom Eyes New Opportunities As Berman Appointed CEO
Telecomms veteran Andy Berman has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of i2Telecom International.
The move follows a "transitional period" for the Atlanta-based company which has seen it shift priorities towards mobile applications and services.
03/03/2009 - INTERVIEW: Carrie Hartford Fedders From IPsmarx Technology
IPsmarx was named as joint winner of the 2008 voip-biz.news Product of the Year Award last week for its SIP-based calling card platform.
Carrie Hartford Fedders, account manager with IPsmarx, spoke to voip-biz.news about the solution, which eliminates the need for a VoIP gateway and PSTN lines using DID (Direct Inward Dialing)
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27/02/2009 - MyGlobalTalk and IPsmarx's SIP-based Calling Card Platform Share voip-biz.news Product of the Year Award
Two innovative products dominated voting to share the honours in voip-biz.news' Product of the Year 2008 competition.
With 33 per cent of the nominations, MyGlobalTalk's VoIP calling solution earned praise for its sound quality and call rates, as well as features such as no contract being required, no connection fees and no minimums.
19/01/2009 - Skype and IBM collaborate on LotusLive
Skype has announced that it is to integrate Skype functionality with IBM's LotusLive.
The new cloud services from IBM are designed to help individuals build communities to work more effectively and efficiently across and beyond their own companies.
16/01/2009 - Choice of VoIP iPhone Apps Growing
The options for VoIP calling on the iPhone are expected to continue expanding with both Skype and Truphone expected to join a growing list of VoIP apps for the Apple handset.
Truphone already provides an app for the iPhone which enables users to make low-priced international calls via the GSM network even when the smartphone is not connected to the Wi-Fi network.
13/11/2008 - Skype Launches Computer-free Videophone
ASUS has launched the first Skype certified videophone allowing unlimited video calling over the Internet.
The AiGuru SV1, part of the Eee Phone product family, has a 7" display and a built-in webcam, speaker and microphone.
