Vonage finds another landline partner
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Govt finds a partner in Microsoft
Govt finds a partner in Microsoft
08/19/2004 04:32 AMExpressIndia.com Aug 19 2004 8:54AM GMT
Music Choice Finds Mobile Partner in
Sprint
Music Choice Finds Mobile Partner in
Sprint
12/22/2004 01:12 AMMusic network Music Choice announced that it will partner with Sprint
to offer wireless audio music channels to Sprint Vision customers
Monday. In addition, Vision customers will also be able to access
video clips and music news through a mobile website created by the
Kansas-based company.
Broadband Surf Report: Vonage and more
Vonage
Broadband Surf Report: Vonage and more
Vonage
03/30/2005 04:55 PMBlog: Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:
Vonage
defends manually activated 911 calling--eWeek
...
Texas Vonage suit: here's what Vonage is
'guilty' of
Texas Vonage suit: here's what Vonage is
'guilty' of
03/23/2005 02:29 AMZDNet Mar 23 2005 6:18AM GMT
Microsoft software partner finds
Microsoft software cheaper than Linux
Microsoft software partner finds
Microsoft software cheaper than Linux
06/24/2005 03:22 PMThe Register Jun 24 2005 5:11PM GMT
SQLSoft+ Becomes Newest Sponsor Partner
at Microsoft Partner Solutions Center
SQLSoft+ Becomes Newest Sponsor Partner
at Microsoft Partner Solutions Center
12/19/2004 03:31 PMSQLSoft+, an IT training firm, becomes first the first IT training
company to gain the designation MPSC Sponsor Partner. [PRWEB Dec 18,
2004]
Microsoft Unveils Increased Partner
Opportunity and Investments At Annual
Worldwide Partner Conference
Microsoft Unveils Increased Partner
Opportunity and Investments At Annual
Worldwide Partner Conference
07/12/2004 12:14 AMBuilding on a year of steadily increasing momentum, Microsoft Corp.
today opened the Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Conference 2004 for its
global network of industry partners. Centered on the theme "Velocity,"
the event will highlight the success the reinvented Microsoft Partner
Program has experienced in its first year and the increasing traction
the program is experiencing as it goes into its second.
Citrine Technologies Attains Gold
Certified Partner Status In Microsoft
Partner Program
Citrine Technologies Attains Gold
Certified Partner Status In Microsoft
Partner Program
03/24/2005 05:17 AMCitrine Earns Gold for Competencies In ISV/Software Solutions and
Microsoft Business Solutions [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]
landline, schmandline.
landline, schmandline.
09/17/2004 10:39 AM
Hold the phone. You probably
already know that many Americans are
ditching their land lines in favor of
cell phones:
It is part of a generational shift to wireless, says Leap's
chief executive, Harvey White. "Our demographic is younger, and
when people start a household today they simply never bother to get a
land line."
But were you aware that
pollsters
don't call cell phones?
Media saturation,
changes in communications technology, and missed
demographics (americans abroad, for example) seem to make
polls
increasingly irrelevant.
(first link via e-v.com) New Microsoft MBS Partner Strategy
Proven Effective for New Partner,
Iteration2
New Microsoft MBS Partner Strategy
Proven Effective for New Partner,
Iteration2
07/26/2004 03:37 AMIteration2, a leading Microsoft Gold Partner and Axapta Business
Partner is proving the effectiveness of Microsoft's new partner
strategy. Off to a tremendous start with industry leading customers
and a significant series of accomplishments including Microsoft Gold
Partner Certification and the addition of three industry leading
customers during June. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]
What's a $99 Brainstorming Partner
Really Worth? - In the Case of
RichContent's eXpertSystem, it's
$Thousands in Expertise, Millions of
Ideas and a Tireless Partner
What's a $99 Brainstorming Partner
Really Worth? - In the Case of
RichContent's eXpertSystem, it's
$Thousands in Expertise, Millions of
Ideas and a Tireless Partner
03/17/2005 03:45 AMBrainstorming is taxing on... well, the brain. But the new
eXpertSystem software from RichContent releases your best ideas, using
Associative Thinking, 200,000 words and phrases and over 225,000
images to spur the mind to more creative innovations. New OSX and XP
application melds 5 powerful programs into one user-friendly
interface. Inspiration and creativity is just a click away, and starts
at less than $100... [PRWEB Mar 15, 2005]
Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier
Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier
11/11/2003 11:46 AMQuePasaCalabaza writes "The FCC has approved a bill 5-0 that allows
consumers to take their land line phone numbers and carry them over to
thier wireless ...
Texts touted as landline saviour
Texts touted as landline saviour
05/07/2004 03:42 AMZDNet UK May 7 2004 8:20AM GMT
BT cuts landline to mobe charges, again
BT cuts landline to mobe charges, again
09/01/2004 07:56 AM'BT's rates amongst lowest in the UK'
high incidence of landline displacement
high incidence of landline displacement
12/17/2003 03:43 PMZDNet Dec 17 2003 2:52PM ET
Canadians cut ties with landline phones
Canadians cut ties with landline phones
11/12/2003 04:27 PMglobetechnology.com Nov 12 2003 3:09PM ET
Wait 28 Years For A Landline... Then Get
Turned Down
Wait 28 Years For A Landline... Then Get
Turned Down
08/19/2004 02:19 PMYou may recall that last year we had the story of the amazingly
patient man in Bangladesh who
waite
d 27 years for a phone line. He had requested it in 1976, at age
33, and the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board claimed they
had "lost" the application, until the press picked up on the story in
2003, and they suddenly found (and approved) the request. Well, he's
got nothing to complain about, apparently. Also in 1976, over in
Romania, another man requested a telephone line. But unlike the
situation in Bangladesh, this time it took 28 years
to get
rejected. That's right. Romtelecom has finally processed
his application and said, sorry, they can't provide him with a
landline. The man wrote back, noting that plenty had changed in the
28 years since his application: he had gotten married, had two kids,
moved into a new home... and even gotten a phone line without having
to wait 28 years.
Move your landline number to a mobile
Move your landline number to a mobile
11/11/2003 05:48 AMFCC OKs switch
FCC OKs cell phone-landline number
switch
FCC OKs cell phone-landline number
switch
11/11/2003 11:39 AMZDNet Nov 11 2003 11:07AM ET
BT launches consumer VoIP with landline
pricing
BT launches consumer VoIP with landline
pricing
07/15/2004 08:55 AMZDNet UK Jul 15 2004 1:15PM GMT
Square7 Cordless Skype/Landline Phone
Square7 Cordless Skype/Landline Phone
03/19/2005 02:45 AM
For those of you riding the Skype wave who
would prefer not to have a separate handset setup for your free VOIP
calls, Square7 has introduced their newest Cordless DUALphone. A
cordless telephone that lets you plug into both your standard
telephone socket and also your computer's USB port, the on=screen
display tells you when your Skype friends are online and lets you call
them directly. If you want to call your non-Skype friends, press a
button and the phone gives you a standard dial tone. This could work
nicely if you need to keep your landline for whatever reason.
Available whenever Square7 gets their PayPal links fixed.
Square7
Launches First Cordless Skype Phone [BIOS]
Product Page
[Square7]
Skype To Offer Premium Landline Calling
Service
Skype To Offer Premium Landline Calling
Service
05/11/2004 09:15 AMLooks like Skype, the free P2P Voice-over-IP service from the creators
of Kazaa is planning on competing with other VoIP operators by
upselling premium services to allow users to make landline calls. No
word on price, but its certainly useful to Skype users and necessary
to the company (and its...
FCC orders cell phone-landline number
switch
FCC orders cell phone-landline number
switch
11/11/2003 11:39 AMZDNet Nov 11 2003 10:36AM ET
Yankee Group: The Landline-to-Wireless
Shift is Finally Under Way at Many SMBs
Yankee Group: The Landline-to-Wireless
Shift is Finally Under Way at Many SMBs
12/17/2003 03:43 PMZDNet Dec 17 2003 2:52PM ET
FCC seeks equal wiretap access to calls
via Internet, cell and landline
FCC seeks equal wiretap access to calls
via Internet, cell and landline
08/04/2004 06:55 PMSan Francisco Chronicle Aug 4 2004 11:15PM GMT
Vonage
Vonage
07/28/2004 03:08 PMStart-up finds talk is cheap with Vonage: I've heard a lot about
Vonage and seen their ads, but I
was never able to pin down exactly what they did. Turns it its
commercial Skype with
hardware.
Its service is simple. Vonage sends customers an Internet phone
box, which looks like a small cable TV box. The box plugs into most
high-speed Internet connections. Almost any telephone plugs into the
box.
The phone works like any other phone, but Vonage is routing the
calls over the Web. (If the person on the other end of the line is not
a Vonage user, the call will hop onto a regular phone line for the
very last leg of its journey.)
This is the future.
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Why Vonage is Just a Fad
Why Vonage is Just a Fad
05/20/2004 08:33 PMZDNet May 21 2004 0:40AM GMT
Vonage: Strike One
Vonage: Strike One
08/06/2004 03:25 PMI was scheduled for a phone call with a VIP today, and when he got on
the line (my office Vonage phone), it was unusable, multi-second
delays on each voice round-trip. Damnably, I didn’t have my
cellphone with me, so we had to reschedule. I called up Vonage, had
to punch through two levels of slow menu (could be worse I suppose) to
get to the tech support queue where I waited for five minutes
listening to vasty echoing silence to talk to someone who put me on
the tech support queue (“I thought this was tech support?” “No,
I’m a general-purpose service representative.”) Which picked up
after only a minute or two, and he made a vague attempt to blame my
ISP and said he’d sent a couple of downloads to the phone that
should address the problem. So, if it’s a known problem with a
known fix, why don’t I already have it? I don’t have to do this
kind of thing for either my land-lines or mobile. All in all, I’ve
been fairly happy with Vonage so far, but much more of this could sour
the relationship quickly.
Vonage reviewed
Vonage reviewed
03/13/2003 10:24 AMRaffi Krikorian's review of Vonage's Voice-over-IP phone-service is a
great, info-civilian-oriented overview of the best way to secede from
your phone company.
The Edison, New Jersey based company gives you one Cisco ATA186 and a
phone number in an area code of your choosing (I had a little piece of
northern New Jersey in my living room). You have a choice of two
different levels of service to go along with this box: for
$25.99/month you get unlimited local/regional calling (where
local/regional is defined by the area code you choose for your phone
number) and 500 minutes of free US long distance, and for $39.99/month
you get unlimited long distance. And you also get international rates
that rivals most common calling cards. The only problem is that the
service only delivers one ATA186, and that specific model is required
to use the service -- no other SIP compatible devices are supported
yet. If you want to use more than one phone with the box, you will
either have to rig up a network of telephone splitters and wires; or
you can do what some have done and hack your house to plug the Cisco
box into your house's in wall telephone network.
Link
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09/21/2004 07:05 PMVonage, 2nd try for IP telephony
Vonage, 2nd try for IP telephony
12/17/2004 06:36 PMLast summer I switched to lingo.com, an IP phone service that
proved to be cheap but
unreliable. Starting last week Lingo failed altogether and
their tech support folks (available only by phone, which is kind of
irksome) failed to call back, so I ordered Vonage, which is the same
$25/month but does not include Western Europe in its unlimited calling
region and has higher international rates.
Here's how Vonage has worked...
- Vonage sends you a brand-new Linksys broadband router with
included IP phone jacks and three Ethernet jacks; if you were relying
on your old router for 802.11b or to use as an 8-port hub you may have
to buy some new networking gear
- the customer service Web site is very slow and about 25% of the
time page requests produce an error page with a "try again later"
instruction
- tech support is available through a form on their Web site; this
form asks for your name, phone number, account number, etc., even
though you've already logged in and it should have all of his info as
part of your account profile
- tech support via phone results in a "we're experiencing an
unsually high volume of calls; try again later"; customer service
(billing, etc.) can be reached after a 15-minute wait in queue
- they say that they never received my FAXed letter of authorization
to transfer my old number from Lingo and want it refaxed
- when set to simultaneously ring my cell phone Vonage does ring the
cell but I can't hear callers (they can hear me though)
They say that it will take two months for them to transfer the
phone number from Lingo, so I'll have to pay $25/month to Lingo for
forwarding until that happens.
[Update: I believe that I unfairly maligned Vonage in regards
to not being able to hear callers on calls simultaneously rung to my
cell phone. It turns out that it is my PalmOne Treo flaking out
on the very day that I installed Vonage! This makes Treo #10
that has failed, I think. It lasted about two months, just like
the others. Anyone have a suggestion for a GSM phone that will
do a calendar and contacts sync with Microsoft Outlook?]
[Dec 3 Update: When voicemail is pending, the Vonage system
fails to change the dial tone. A second try to reach technical
support (at 1:30 pm Eastern time) resulted in the same "we're too busy
to talk to anyone" recording. The voice quality of calls is
somewhat low, with some constant static.]
Vonage Now Available in Canada
Vonage Now Available in Canada
04/12/2004 03:37 PMTechfocus Apr 12 2004 8:10PM GMT
New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X
New: Vonage SoftPhone for Mac OS X
06/28/2004 09:54 AMVonage released a Mac OS X version of its SoftPhone software for use
with its Voice Over IP telephone service.
Vonage goes to Canada
Vonage goes to Canada
04/13/2004 04:52 AMBell tolls for telcos
Vonage arrives
Vonage arrives
03/06/2004 01:59 AMMy Vonage phone arrive yesterday afternoon. I followed the simple
instructions for plugging it into my cable modem and now I'm making
calls to anywhere in the US or Canada - 500 minutes/month for $15. So
far, the sonic quality has been as good as a "real" phone. Yep, them
Voice over IP bits can hold their own. And the plain ol' telephone
company, the one with the network that's too smart for it's own good,
ought to be worried....
Vonage softphone
Vonage softphone
12/19/2003 04:58 PMHave been trying out the Vonage softphone with some success. My Laptop
(IBM T40), like most, has built in speakers...
Vonage goes wireless
Vonage goes wireless
12/18/2003 11:57 AMGetting the scoop once again, Om Malik reveals that Vonage is working
on software that would let you use their broadband Voice over IP
telephone...
NY Wants To Regulate Vonage
NY Wants To Regulate Vonage
05/20/2004 01:09 AMAdd New York to the list of greedy states along with California,
Florida and Minnesota that want to get as much money out of VoIP
providers as possible by declaring them phone companies. New York has
become the latest state
to
declare Vonage a phone company that they can now regulate. This
is a backwards step that is likely to slow down the acceptance of
VoIP. While it may mean that the NY state government can suck a few
extra taxes out of people, it will mean slower adoption, which means
slower economic growth. Even worse, they're doing this while the FCC
has made it clear that they're still reviewing this issue and had told
states to leave VoIP providers alone while they come up with a
position at the federal level. This is merely a short-term grab at
extra tax revenue.
Vonage Goes Portable
Vonage Goes Portable
12/18/2003 03:38 PMOm Malik breaks the news that Vonage will soon have laptop and
PDA-based software client for its service: It's not news that Vonage
has tens of thousands of subscribers, nor that they offer a
high-quality, full-featured hardware-based broadband voice-over-IP
service that allows you to map multiple incoming real phone numbers to
your virtual line. It also not news that you can get high-quality
software VoIP clients; I'm personally enamored of Xten's suite, which
work with Windows, Mac OS X, LindowsOS, and Linux. They're beautiful
and come in free and paid flavors, including a multi-line conference
version. The Xten clients can interface with any standard SIP (Session
Initiation Protocol) server, and many of the VoIP providers who offer
long-distance over the Internet use standard SIP gateways. But getting
from Xten outbound to the VoIP provider is a pain: I had to have the
CEO of Xten provide me the details for a couple of VoIP services;
those details aren't on the VoIP long-distance service sites. Then
there's the question of inbound service. Even though you can use Xten
as the default client with Addaline.com, it's unclear whether you can
receive inbound calls via their service. Most of the VoIP in software
is focused on making calls to the PSTN and receiving calls from other
folks using services like Free World Dial-up, which provides you with
a free non-PSTN VoIP number and SIP gateway. Om's scoop is certainly
that Vonage is going to package the software and PSTN offering into a
no-configuration package that will be as easy to use as their hardware
service. Vonage's hardware solution is pretty simple: open the box,
plug it in, wait a minute. You're done. Voice mail calls can be
alerted via email, and other features can be enabled through the Web
site's dashboard for your account. Because Vonage works over
broadband, a Pocket PC or a laptop equipped with their soft client in
turn connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot or access point means free phone
service everywhere -- it's another incentive to lower cell phone plans
(for roaming purposes) and increase the number of hot spot locations.
I'm a recent Vonage convert. I use my cell phone as my office and
roaming line, and although I'd switched to a $130/month plan from
Cingular because of their rollover minutes, I had $250 and $450 bills
in September and October during particularly intense work periods.
Yes, that's...
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