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What should be your Plan B if Vonage locks you out or goes away?

In light of todays U.S. District Court ruling that Vonage will not be able to add any new customers until some form of final resolution is reached in the issue of infringement of three of Verizons patents, many, including colleague Larry Dignan are wondering about such issues as: ...

Tags: yahoo, Vonage, Skype, News, Gizmo Project, General, AOL

Blog posts 2007-04-06

USA Weekend bites at Jajah p.r. pitch

To read the puff piece by Reed Tucker in yesterdays USA Weekend Sunday newspaper supplement, youd think there were only two Internet phone services- Vonage and Jajah.Well, give Jajah credit for another p.r. coup. Were talking about a publication stuffed into more than 23,400,000 individual Sunday newspaper copies. "Unlike...

Tags: Vonage, Skype, General

Blog posts 2007-04-02

Alexa mashup site alexaholic lets you compare VoIP provider site traffic over time

Ive been having a little fun with alexaholic, a type of Alexa mash-up that lets you compare estimated page view totals and traffic patterns for several websites over specific lengths of time.Lets compare relative page view rankings for Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Gizmo Project and SunRocket site views over a...

Tags: Web site development, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Alexa Internet Inc., mashup

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Additional Resources

Vonage Mobile iPhone, BlackBerry apps arrive; free VoIP calls

www.hayda.netThank you, you answered the question I have been searching for which was whether or not to place keywords when blog commenting. mirc .RE: Vonage Mobile iPhone, BlackBerry apps arrive; free VoIP calls> The apss are pay-as-you-go What are "apss"?Why are so many articles all over zdNet loaded with typos...

Tags: Wireless LANs, 3G, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Vonage Mobile iPhone, Vonage Mobile, Vonage Holdings Corp., Blackberry App, VoIP-calls, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?

I was out of the loop last week when Apple, AT&T and Google all answered Washington's questions surrounding the apparent rejection of the Google Voice app for the iPhone. Over the weekend, I had a chance to do some reading on what had gone down and, more importantly, the official...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., VoIP, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., App, Google Voice, Smart Phones, Telephony, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-24

StrikeIron IVR Voice Notification Dashboard 1.0 (Windows)

This interactive dashboard application enables the sending of text-to-voice computerized messages or .wav files to anything with a phone number, including mobile devices, VOIP (Skype/Vonage), and land-lines. The application also enables mass/batch capabilities to send voice messages to a file of telephone numbers, as well as enabling the maintaining of...

Tags: StrikeIron, Phone, Dashboard, Microsoft Windows, IVR, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-08-10

Vonage: Can it grow the customer base?

Vonage continues to drop customers as the company pares marketing and subscribers opt for their wireless phones. What's unclear is whether Vonage can ever juice growth again. Vonage, however, is promising new features that may improve its standing. Vonage ended the second quarter with 2.5 million lines...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Marketing Research, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-06

News to know: Real Q1, Wolfram Alpha, Vonage, Psystar netbook, Google cloud

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Real misses for Q1, swings to loss; mentions "Facet" Garett Rogers: Wolfram Alpha has Google's attention ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Vonage Holdings Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Home Entertainment, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Dude, Where's My Phone Bill?

Dude, Where's My Phone Bill?Were is my "K Y Jelly"Yep, AT&T boned me also.I figured they were up to no good last yearwhen I was trying to help another person get VOIP service and It came back that they are not accepting new customers on their web site.So now I...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, AT&T Corp., Dude, phone, Ooma, Phone Bill

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Batman Meets VoIP

Batman Meets VoIPIP Man is cool!I like it better than watching TV. ;)I do have Vonage (Basic 500). But sometimes, I do have problems with my Vonage phone adapter (V-Portal) not registering with the Vonage network. I had to struggle with my phone adapter to get it to work and...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cable, Network technology, VoIP, IP Man, Vonage Holdings Corp., phone, V-Portal, Vonage Phone, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards

FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cardsCo-optingIf the new frequencies are open to any company and if some companies are threatened by competition using the new frequencies, then why shouldn't the threatened companies jam the new frequencies?That seems one of the points of this quoted quote:The...

Tags: Federal government, Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Amateur Radio, white space, spectrum, FCC, wireless

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbers

Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbersYeah. Sure.Right after we get the paperless office, flying car & the long-promised 3-day work week.Google has GrandCentral for contacting user's various phone numbersGoogle has GrandCentral something kind of along these lines with making multiple contacts but to the different phone numbers that one...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Microsoft Corp., phone, network

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

News to know: Ubuntu; Microhoo; IT scapegoats; XP; Google

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo Microsoft should walk away from Yahoo WSJ: Ballmer's big choice Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04 Gallery: A peek at Ubuntu 8.4 Jason Perlow: Ubuntu: I'm...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Information Technology, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Help Desk, Podcasts, Web Services, Microsoft Windows XP, Middleware, Call Centers, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Security, Spam And Phishing, It Operations, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-28

Leopard mauls podcaster (updated 2x)

For weeks I've been bedeviled by an audio bug on my MacBook Pro. The symptoms include poor audio quality by recipients of a Skype call using a USB microphone. While that may sound like an obscure bug, it affects one particular vertical market the hardest â€" podcasters. ...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Bug, Skype Technologies S.A., USB, Podcasts, Microphone, Internet

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"

Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"VoIP over EDGE? Right...Until the Iphone has 3G, VoIP is only possible over WiFi, which is never around for free when you really need it at least not in the US. Not sure why VoIP with an IPhone would...

Tags: Telephony, Wireless LANs, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, WIRELESS, VoIP, Apple iPhone, Wi-Fi, Gizmodo, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

Lose your VoIP in today's massive South Florida blackout?

(via South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Quoted on the website of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper, Florida Power & Light spokeperson Aletha Player estimated that some 700,000 South Floridians lost power due to a shutdown at an FP&L nuke plant today. Power...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-26

News to know: Black Hat; VoIP design flaws; Vista SP1; Apple

Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs George Ou: Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1...

Tags: Black Hat, VoIP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Vonage customer cancels, then gets call from collection agency, and then...

Vonage customer cancels, then gets call from collection agency, and then...Vonage BAD, Skype GOOD?The only reports that are ever written in this blog about Vonage are bad, negative, whining. The only reports about Skype are good, upbeat, parroting of Skype Journal propaganda. Never mind that Vonage is several...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

VoIPing this Valentine's Day? How did your call go? Tell us your stories

Not everyone is with the one they love on Valentine's Day. Maybe the one you love is on a business trip, on a faith-centered mission, off at graduate school, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Maybe they have Skype, Vonage, or some other Internet phone...

Tags: Call, Valentine's Day, Internet Phone, E-mail, VOIP, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-14

News to know: Office 14; Yahoo; Net neutrality; Android SDK

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Office 14 to add more online document sharing MSDN subscribers: Vista SP1 to hit by the end of this week Robin Harris: Protein nanotech in next gen storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 3...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SDK, Net Neutrality, Microsoft Corp., EchoSign 3.0, Nanotechnology, Linux, Web Browsers, Federal Government, Middleware, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Government, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-02-14