‘VOIP and Technology News’ Archive

Make Free VoIP Calls with Facebook’s Vonage App August 5, 2010 No Comments

05 August, 2010, by ITProPortal Staff

Vonage has announced the release of a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application for the iPhone and Android-based devices, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.
The application allows users to make VoIP calls to Facebook friends who have the app installed on their handsets. Vonage has said that users cans [...]

Voip for improved video conferencing solutions July 26, 2010 No Comments

If you thought that the idea of audio and video conferencing was the biggest thing that could have happened to your business, then here is something even better. Voip is the new king in the realm of business phone systems, which aim to improve your video and audio conferencing experience.
Before the [...]

TwitterFone – Cool New Voice to Text Message Service July 23, 2010 No Comments

TwitterFone, a voice-to-text-message service for Twitter launched just earlier today. From their press release: “Twitterfone voice-enables Twitter, a text message rebroadcast service and the hottest social networking service at the moment. With Twitterfone, people can dictate text messages via their mobile to be sent out to everyone on their Twitter [...]

Setting up iPhone for VoIP July 12, 2010 No Comments

For many cost-conscious users, the most important iPhone apps will involve VoIP, which will let them avoid the high cost of calling overseas from a mobile phone. But as is the case with all mobile VoIP solutions, iPhone VoIP will come with trade-offs.The iPhone has certainly been at the center of the news recently. Apple [...]

Are People Listening to Your VoIP Calls? July 9, 2010 No Comments

VOIP can connect you to the world. But what can you do to keep the bad guys from listening in on your calls?
It’s no secret that Internet telephony is vulnerable to eavesdroppers, much more so than conventional phone calls. That’s because IP phones aren’t part of the public phone network, where tapping requires a specific, [...]

How Hosted PBX Solutions Help Small Businesses Level the Playing Field July 8, 2010 No Comments

As a small business owner, it could be the best thing that ever happened to your company. Technology, some people fear it, some resist it, and others embrace it. With the technology available today, small businesses are increasingly leveling the playing field between themselves and big business. It used to be that only Fortune 500 [...]

Video Tutorials on VOIP July 10, 2009 1 Comment

There are great Video Tutorials on VOIP!
Just visit http://www.thinkbright.net/voip_blog/voip-tutorials/

Battery Cooling Solution to Reduce Network Cost for Operators July 9, 2009 1 Comment

SiteStar is a cooling cabinet that can increase battery life by three times, and reduce the electricity consumed for cooling batteries at a base station site by up to 95%. The life of a battery is inversely proportional to the temperature under which it operates, and is reduced by 50% with a mere 10°C increase [...]

Encrypting Voice Calls Between Offices and Mobile Cell Phones 2 Comments

Security vendor, Cellcrypt has announced an application which enables encrypted voice calls from smartphones to conventional office landline phones. The Cellcrypt PBX Gateway integrates with commercial office PBX systems and allows users to complete encrypted voice calls from existing landlines to mobile smartphones that are running Cellcrypt Mobile software.
The PBX Gateway also enables encrypted voice [...]

Three indicted for hacking 2,500 company phone systems (PBX) 1 Comment

More than 2,500 private branch exchanges (PBX)  companies were hacked by three people in the Philippines. These three people stole pass codes they sold to call center operators in Italy.    
Italian officials allege the sale of the pass codes helped finance terrorist activities, IDG News Service reported. On Friday, Italian officials arrested at least five people [...]