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Softphone: SOFTware PHONE A software-based phone for voice over IP VoIP that is installed in the user's PC. The audio interface can be a microphone and speakers plugged into...; Full Softphone Definition >>

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Company tells me they are working on touchscreen monitors for softphones: Here at the Internet Telephony conference in Miami Beach, I had a fascinating coversation late yesterday with a representative of a Canadian company called One Monitor. The rep-who did not want his name disclosed because he is not his firm's official spokesperson- told me of an imminent...; Tags: Touch Screen, Monitor, Softphone, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-01-23
IpDialer (msi): IpDialer for click-to-dial (C2D) applications in IP telephony. Works with Vonage, Cirpack Thomson Telecom, Snom, Skype, Eyebeam, X-Lite, MobileIPCentrex for VoIP telephony. The perfect CTI Computer Telephony Integration agent, using Clipboard to dial the number from any application. You can click on the number to be dialed on your PC...; Tags: Computer Telephony Integration, Windows Application, Softphone, Telephony, Microsoft Outlook, VOIP, Groupware, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Microsoft Office, Networking, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software; Software downloads 2007-03-01
Solegy Desktop Dialer (msi): This softphone is available to everyone wanting to experience the ease of making VoIP calls through their computer. However, Solegy can offer customized features like branded skins, enabling videos, instant messaging, pre-paid balances and one-click additional credit for service providers who want to adapt the softphone for their customers. Additionally,...; Tags: Softphone, Back-office, Operational Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2007-01-30
Free Yahoo! voice calls to India! Here, then is how permanent free world calling will happen: This weekend marks the Indian festival of Dilawi.Calls from the U.S. to parts of India are typically priced at 4.9 cents a minute on Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.This weekend, though, Yahoo! Messenger with Voice is running a free calling promotion to India.What we are seeing here is just the...; Tags: PSTN termination, softphone; Blog posts 2006-10-21
Itelpop for Outlook (exe): ItelPop for Outlook is a very simple to use softphone dialer and screenpop for Outlook application. It interfaces with any phone system that supports TAPI. Features softphone dial from clipboard screenpop, lookup records in Microsoft Outlook - based on CallerID, Integrates with any PBX or modem which supports TAPI. Introduce...; Tags: Computer Telephony Integration, Softphone, TAPI, Microsoft Outlook, Telephony, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Networking, Enterprise Software; Software downloads 2006-07-11

For efonica's softphone client, a mixed verdict: Spent a busy evening last night downloading, installing and demo-ing some IP softphones. After being quite impressed with Windows Live Messenger, I then decided to give efonica a whirl. That's the new softphone from New York-based Fusion Telecommunications International. Calls are...; Tags: softphone; Blog posts 2006-06-21
X-Lite (exe): CounterPath's X-Lite is a SIP based softphone. Based on the advanced architecture of eyeBeam 1.5, the new X-Lite is designed to showcase some of the feature rich capabilities available with our commercial softphone such as superior audio and video quality, zero-touch configuration, IM & Presence, and a comprehensive personal address...; Tags: Softphone, Address Book, Video, X-Lite, CounterPath, Corporate Communications, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Networking; Software downloads 2006-06-09
Lycos Phone? No thanks: Remember Lycos? At one time, they had an important search service. Now, after being at the periphery of search, they are using a partnership with India-based Global 7 to launch a softphone product called Lycos Phone. (First duh: Lycos Phone got its own website before a link to it...; Tags: Lycos Inc., Lycos Phone; Blog posts 2006-03-27
Tello, let me jump in your game: Tello, let me jump in your gameAbbeynet offers private labeled softphone todayAbbeynet.com offers any non-tech company a customized softphone that is web based and therefore better than Xten. see italian newspaper www.repubblica.it who offers a skype type service, but better than skype's softphone, because it is web based. Abbeynet can...; Tags: Channel management, Games, softphone, Abbeynet, Tello, Web, game; Discussion threads 2006-01-29
Next big thing: private label softphones for non-tech websites: Next big thing: private label softphones for non-tech websitesprivate label softphones from my bank?yep, i agree with you that this is surely a possibility. were i "mr. vonage" and my bank began offering such a service (using somebody else as a supplier of the bandwidth/voip minutes), i'd surely take...; Tags: VOIP, Web site development, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Web site, softphone, USB TV; Discussion threads 2006-01-27
Next big thing: private label softphones for non-tech websites: Yesterday at the VoIP 2.0 IP Telephony Conference in Fort Lauderdale - wearing my ZDNet badge ever-proudly -I moderated a "VoIP Mobility Reality Check" panel.Over the next several days I will be seeding this blog with statements and insights offered via this panel, as well as some take-aways I obtained...; Tags: CounterPath Solutions Inc., VoIP; Blog posts 2006-01-27
Are SIPphone, CounterPath candidates for MySpace softphone?: Are SIPphone, CounterPath candidates for MySpace softphone?Web based ?I think that a web-based community and web-based services must be improved by a web-based VoIP environment, like this http://voice.repubblica.it (main italian newspaper!)This way, the web experience of the final user is really enriched.IMHO ;-)filostglophone for Myspace users releasedOn January 19th we...; Tags: Channel management, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cellular phones, software, MySpace, softphone, Myspace User, SIPphone; Discussion threads 2006-01-12
Are SIPphone, CounterPath candidates for MySpace softphone?: According to the London-based Financial Times newspaper, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch says that "voice services" will soon be introduced to youth-oriented social networking site MySpace. Looks like a two-month time frame from now until this feature is enabled. I have written often about how this 47 million-member, and...; Tags: CounterPath, MySpace; Blog posts 2006-01-10
VoIP's latest fashion show: the softphone UI: VoIP's latest fashion show: the softphone UIWhere is Vonage?Vonage STILL does not make a softphone for Linux - although it has a OS/X version. Does NetZero support Linux - or are they only cowtoeing to the Windoze-only crowd?; Tags: Linux, Telephony, softphone, softphone UI, VoIP; Discussion threads 2006-01-06
VoIP's latest fashion show: the softphone UI: I'm posting this from the Sands Exhibition Center, which is the Consumer Electronics Show's overflow exhibition and conference facility here in Las Vegas.Just had demos of the new softphone from NetZero Voice, as well as Packet 8's new softphone.Unlike more familar softphones such as Skype - these softphones are, in...; Tags: NetZero, NetZero Voice, softphone; Blog posts 2006-01-05
My Ten "Converging World" Predictions for 2006: Well, it seems that everybody has been posting their top ten predictions for 2006. In the converging worlds I cover here, I foresee the fast-approaching New Year as one for new forms of competition, unprecedented cross-sector alliances, under-the-table sleight of hand, political machinations, lawsuits, and more acquisitions. So then,...; Tags: softphone, VoIP, Net Neutrality; Blog posts 2005-12-28
Some great ideas to improve the enterprise soft client: On his blog, IP telephony entrepreneur and recognized industry thought leader Eric Lagerway has a post that he's titled "The New Era Enterprise Soft Client."I happen to agree with every single one of Eric's ideas. He'd like to see:More automation of "mundane" IP administrative tasks such as adding or moving...; Tags: softphone, IM; Blog posts 2005-10-10
To battle handset VoIP, cell carriers have three alternatives: Earlier this week, colleagues Stefanie Olsen and Marguerite Reardon wrote and posted a quite insightful article called "VoIP wants to cut the computer cord."Their premise is that mobile users already predisposed to using VoIP don't necessarily want to open their laptop to access these services via softphone - say, a...; Tags: softphone; Blog posts 2005-09-28
Why Amazon needs Net2Phone- and vice versa: Net2Phone is an IP Telephony pioneer that has fallen on hard times. Here are the numbers. They aren't pretty.Right now they are trading at $1.78 a share. And they are in talks to be acquired by IDT Corp. The two sides are talking, but may not be all that close...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc.; Blog posts 2005-09-15
AOL's two big reasons for doing a video-enabled IM softphone: In my previous post, I analyzed news reports that AOL is readying a video VoIP-enabled softphone for its popular AIM Instant Messenger product.Now comes the time to analyze why AOL wants to do this. I can think of two meta reasons:One big honkin' reason is that its IM rivals...; Tags: America Online Inc., AOL Instant Messenger; Blog posts 2005-09-08