Intel Announces FXS Card. Eh?

Source: saunderslog.com

This past week Intel (INTC. announced the Intel 600SM PCI Phone Adaptor.  Billed as a means to allow you to talk using PC VoIP clients, but be “untethered” from your PC, it was hard to figure out exactly what this device was.  After digging through the marketing spin, it quickly became apparent that the 600SM PCI card is in fact, nothing more than a common-a-garden FXS card, bundled with some software to let it be controlled by and control various popular PC softclients like Skype, CounterPath XTEN and so on.  Dan Warne provides more details.  It’s an ATA, controlled by proprietary software, on a PCI card.

Dumb.  Maybe not.  Coming to you straight from the Department of Rampant Speculation… Available only to PC OEMs, and not to the end user, this may be the precursor of an initiative to put an ATA on every motherboard.  That would change the landscape.

Published on June 8th, 2006 under , ,

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AT&T and Cell Phones for Soldiers Launch Earth Day Challenge: Double Cell Phone Recycling by Next Earth Day to Support the Environment and Military Families

Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today that the company will work with Cell Phones for Soldiers (CPFS) to drive recycling and reduce e-waste through the next year with a goal of doubling t…

Published on April 22nd, 2008 under , , , , , ,

VoIP Supply Launches IPCameraSupply.com

Source: smithonvoip.com

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Many have written me over the last month or so asking why my posting has been so sparse. Well, it is because I have been busy working on our newest…

Published on November 4th, 2007 under , , ,

Belated news: Jajah launches in Canada

Source: saunderslog.com

One last bit of unfinished business from last week was this announcement from Jajah — they’ve now officially launched the service in Canada, which means that we Canucks can pay for it wit…

Published on August 29th, 2007 under , , ,

Saunderslog 3.0 launches

Source: saunderslog.com

When I first moved to WordPress I played with a bunch of different layout themes, before ultimately building my own.  My first design was a simple two column layout based on one of the existin. WordPress…

Published on July 21st, 2007 under

Announcing the BlackBerry 8820 — with Wifi AND a removable battery

Source: saunderslog.com

In what had to have been the most predicted announcement of the year, Research in Motion announce. BlackBerry with WiFi yesterday.  This RIM BlackBerry 8820 is essentially a BlackBerry…

Published on July 18th, 2007 under , , ,

Truphone wins injunction against T-Mobile. Lives to fight another day.

Source: saunderslog.com

Widely reported yesterday, Truphone scored a small victory in its fight with T-Mobile over access.  T-Mobile ha. chosen to block calls to Truphone numbers, arguing that Truphone was not…

Published on July 17th, 2007 under , , , , ,

Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad

Source: saunderslog.com

The Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad is done. Four companies each got six minutes on stage, and two analysts, Stowe Boyd and David Coleman, were allowed one minute each to critique. 
Collanos showed…

Published on June 20th, 2007 under ,

RIM announces BlackBerry Curve

Source: saunderslog.com

In the news this morning, RIM has introduced the BlackBerry Curve.  They’re definitely stepping up their game.  The Curve is billed as the worlds smallest QWERTY keyboard device, and includes…

Published on May 3rd, 2007 under , , ,

Strutting their stuff at the ETel Mashup Contest and GigaOM LaunchPad events

Source: saunderslog.com

Two of the events I loved the best at ETel were the GigaOm LaunchPad, and the Mashup Contest.  In both events, entrepreneurs have had the opportunity to get up on stage, and show off the newest…

Published on March 2nd, 2007 under , ,

Telephony 2 launches

Source: saunderslog.com

The world of software-based telephony systems is certainly not without players.  Aside from open source solutions, like Asterisk and all its derivatives, there are a number of traditiona…

Published on February 13th, 2007 under ,

Nuvoiz launches at DEMO

Source: saunderslog.com

Nuvoiz caught my eye as they announced at DEMO today.  Positioning themselves against Skype, they are a standards based softphone (XMPP and SIP) with enterprise features like call hold / transfer,…

Published on January 30th, 2007 under

VoIPSupply Announces Affiliate Program

Source: saunderslog.com

It’s announcement time in the world of VoIP.  With the Internet Telephony show in full swing in Florida, there are some pretty nifty bits of news coming out.
For instance, have you ever…

Published on January 24th, 2007 under , ,

JAJAH moves to ad-funded model; Announces European partnerships

Source: saunderslog.com

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Published on December 17th, 2006 under , , ,

TechCrunch UK: The Communication Platform Wars

Source: saunderslog.com

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Published on November 10th, 2006 under , ,

HubbubPR Launches

Source: saunderslog.com

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Published on November 2nd, 2006 under

UNC takes big step forward in E911 location Services

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University of North Carolina’s ITS department is making headways in providing location services for VOIP and Mobile VOIP services within the campus.ITS has asked assistance from Intrado, Inc…

Published on October 26th, 2006 under , , , , ,

VON: Two Asterisk Announcements

Source: saunderslog.com

A couple of notable announcements from Digium yesterday: 
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Published on September 13th, 2006 under , ,

Communigate and Versature Announce

Source: saunderslog.com

Closer to home, yesterday iotum partner Versature announced their relationship with Communigate.Â.  The highly stable and scalable nature of the Communigate platform was a key factor in…

Published on August 29th, 2006 under

Launching Hullo

Source: saunderslog.com

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Published on August 25th, 2006 under ,

The VONosphere Launches

Source: saunderslog.com

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Published on August 7th, 2006 under , ,
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