Skype Technologies on Tuesday launched a test version of its Net telephony software for handheld devices. The new application, called PocketSkype, is designed for PDAs (personal digital assistants) ...

Open-source telephony is a system supporting all types of telephony applications such as PBXes, call centers, interactive voice response systems, chat lines and many other types of voice technologies.

Conformance to industry standards such as SIP is greatly helping drive down system costs and enhancing design choice flexibility. In my recent No Jitter article reviewing the VoiceCon Orlando RFP ...

An open source model for IP telephony might yield results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons. In theory, an open source IP ...

Gavin Cowie isn't in the Net phone business, but it didn't take him long to figure out why the technology has never taken off "It's worth it because it's so cheap, but sometimes it sounds like I'm ...

Open source IP telephony software packages are helping users move away from the traditional world of proprietary office phone systems, PBXs with closed operating systems and expensive specialty ...

(For those new to the column, Forward Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A forward migration kit is ...

Torino, Italy-based Ovolab on Tuesday announced the forthcoming release of Phlink v2.1, a new version of its telephony software for Mac OS X. The new release, with support for key new technologies ...

Kazaa co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have a new target: the telephone industry. They've launched Skype, which they claim is the first Internet phone service to use peer-to-peer software.