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Enhanced VoIP headset solutions

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Plantronics has unveiled the SupraPlus wideband headset and Vista M22 amplifier with Clearline audio technology.
Used together or separately, the new products use wideband networks to offer professionals optimal voice quality and business-critical reliability and comfort.
The SupraPlus wideband headset supports new wideband IP phones from Avaya, Cisco, Nortel, Siemens and ShoreTel.
The Vista M22 enhances any Plantronics […]

AOL expands its media reach by stepping up service with VoIP

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

IT SEEMS LIKE everybody’s offering you internet phone service. But AOL’s Callways (www.aol.com) offers more than just voice calls.
Though it was hurt by the switch to broadband, the communications giant still counts 22 million subscribers willing to pay at least $15 per month to get stuff most web travelers get for free. That’s because AOL […]

Colleges, Universities Are Looking Before Taking VoIP Leap

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

America’s colleges and universities, like businesses of all sizes, are dipping their toes into the VoIP waters - and finding them muddied by what the scholastic community thinks is too much hype by Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) vendors. As such, they’re looking into every nook and cranny before making a decision, up to and […]

Up VoIP creek: have an emergency plan while VoIP providers work on 911 shortcomings

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

VoIP’s LACK of landline-class emergency services didn’t seem that big a deal initially–tall phone-bill savings overshadowed the problem. Then a couple of Vonage (www.vonage.com) customers dialed 911 and didn’t get an emergency response.
Within days, state attorneys general had filed consumer-protection lawsuits against Vonage, and Congress introduced new bills to tax VoIP. The FCC told internet […]

Gaga for Google? Find out if Google’s marriage of IM and VoIP is worthy of raves

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

GOOGLE’S NEW Google Talk isn’t the best VoIP phone service; Skype is. It isn’t the best IM service; that title goes to AOL Instant Messenger. Google Talk (www.google.com/talk) is likely to disappoint both high-volume VoIP and IM aficionados.
But casual users will find it a convenient blend of both mediums nicely integrated with Gmail, whose responsiveness […]

Enhanced VoIP headset solutions

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Plantronics has unveiled the SupraPlus wideband headset and Vista M22 amplifier with Clearline audio technology.
Used together or separately, the new products use wideband networks to offer professionals optimal voice quality and business-critical reliability and comfort.
The SupraPlus wideband headset supports new wideband IP phones from Avaya, Cisco, Nortel, Siemens and ShoreTel.
The Vista M22 enhances any Plantronics […]

More, more, more: AOL expands its media reach by stepping up service with VoIP

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

IT SEEMS LIKE everybody’s offering you internet phone service. But AOL’s Callways (www.aol.com) offers more than just voice calls.
Though it was hurt by the switch to broadband, the communications giant still counts 22 million subscribers willing to pay at least $15 per month to get stuff most web travelers get for free. That’s because AOL […]

Dynamic duo: Wi-Fi and VoIP team up to make calling more flexible

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

It was only a matter of time before Wi-Fi and VoIP met up and joined forces in your business. They’ve come together in the form of Session Initiation Protocol phones. This very flexible protocol has become a top choice for VoIP applications. Chances are, if you have a VoIP setup, it already includes SIP protocols. […]

With a RebTel yell: VoIP goes cellular

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Just as the World Wide Web has Web 2.0–which has brought us blogs, MySpace, YouTube, etc–VoIP is promising to bring us “Voice 2.0″ (as Iotum cofounder and CEO Alec Saunders called it in last year’s Voice 2.0 Manifesto).
Simply put, Voice 2.0 is the promise of voice being just another network app made good. It’s not […]

Vodafone launches an aggressive defense of its network against the rise of VoIP

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

As one of the largest locally owned real estate agencies in the Pacific Northwest, with more than $1.6 billion in sales, Prudential Northwest Properties (PNP) of Portland, Ore., understands the balancing act agents must perform to deliver the prompt phone and in-person responsiveness customers demand. To maintain its leadership, the firm realized last year it […]

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