By Sharla Sikes
VoIP-PAL.com, a telecommunications products, announced the termination of an agreement between it and Big Apple Consulting USA.
“We have had many inquiries asking us if we have an investor relations firm working with us,” said Richard Kipping, chief executive officer of VoIP-PAL.com. “So to clarify, we thought we should announce that VoIP-PAL.com, Inc. suspended […]

By Sharla Sikes
BT announced the release of its MarketPulse product, designed specifically for delivering VoIP service to the trading room on the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure.
BT MarketPulse integrates data, voice and other multimedia applications in open session initiation protocol. Users can coordinate point-to-point connections used to deliver calls to the trading room.

By Sharla Sikes
We’ve already talked about the VoIP growth rates in the United States, which are somewhat driven by the uncertain economy. But Canada is seeing growth in numbers of VoIP users, as well.

By Sharla Sikes
Big-time computer manufacturer Dell formed a partnership with Fonality that will bring Fonality VoIP to Dell’s business customers.

Dell is looking to capitalize on that trend, and chose Fonality and its Asterisk opensource telephony package. Fonality’s product is “easy to use” and “directly installable,” making it a good choice for PC behemoth Dell to […]

By Sharla Sikes
Vonage settled with Sprint in a patent infringement suit Monday. A judge awarded $69.5 million to Sprint in the suit, which claimed Vonage had infringed upon six Sprint-Nextel patents.

By Sharla Sikes
If VoIP isn’t the average consumer’s first choice for telephone service, it may pick up even more speed in the near future. While VoIP user numbers are growing steadily, it’s more popular with small businesses.
911 service continues to make potential VoIP users leery; stories of misrouted emergency calls have made recent headlines. With […]

By Sharla Sikes
It’s hard to argue that VoIP use is growing worldwide. Lower costs attract customers across the market, but appear especially attractive to businesses. While growth figures  appear impressive, there’s more to the story.
Less than half of all businesses use VoIP, and numbers are even lower among small businesses. VoIP industry predictions look for […]

What is ‘VoIP’?
Simply put, VoIP refers to the carriage of voice signals over the Internet. PC to Phone VoIP refers to using your ‘Internet-connected’ computer to make calls to conventional telephones around the world. Whereas traditional telephone calls take place over fixed line ‘circuit switched’ networks, VoIP calls are routed through the Internet using a […]

For those who have never heard about the potential of VoIP, be prepared to radically change the way you think about your current long-distance calling plan. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is very simply, a method for taking ordinary analog audio signals and turning them into digital signals that can be sent over the Internet.

SMBs are primarily interested in the business case VoIP can offer — they want lower total cost of ownership and better system management. Providers, however, are still trying to sell SMBs on features and functions.