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Over the years we have seen the gradual separation of phone numbers from geographical location. To date, Skype's SkypeIn service has been the best demonstration of this trend; even though I live and work just outside Toronto, Canada, I have a Palo Alto, Calif., SkypeIn number for historical family...
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Truphone, the service that allows you to make cheap long distance phone calls using VoIP technology on a mobile phone, is now available to users of BlackBerry devices as a beta offering. This product is called Truphone Anywhere for Blackberry.
London-based Truphone’s service, which typically uses...
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AT&T reported a slight boost in profits this morning, and the carrier has quite a bit to boast about, especially on the wireless side. iPhone activations reached 2.4 million during the third quarter, and 40 percent of those iPhones were sold to new subscribers who activated on the AT&T network...
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An almost decade-long effort to bring an unknown wireless broadband technology to the U.S. is set to bear fruit next month in Florida after XG Technology Inc. scored a $375 million infrastructure deal backed by a secretive Swiss billionaire.
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EQO, a mobile VoIP startup based in Vancouver might have cut as much as 65% of its work force, a sign that Mobile VoIP isn't an easy nut to crack.
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While most of media attention at TechCrunch’s annual start-up showcase in San Francisco was on the latest and shiniest start-ups, I ended up spending most of my day walking the demo pit, quietly checking out what was on display.
And after that I checked on the health of the alumni of 2007. I was...
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Despite Nokia crippling VoIP on its latest N-series handsets, mobile VoIP companies are coming through with updated apps to keep Nokia users yapping away for free. Today fring released its software update for the N96 and N78 that gives users mobile IM and VoIP.
Other providers such as Truphone and Gizmo...
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Tom Keating reports that the owners of Skype Wi-Fi phones and other standalone devices have been experiencing excruciating network problems, and points to the vitriol flowing freely on the Skype forums. This raises the question: Why are these outages happening? And should Skype (EBAY) start to build...
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Microsoft has launched a new version of their Windows Live Search mobile search application to go heads-to-head with Google Maps. We all know and love Google Maps ability to find just what we need and pinpoint that particular need on a map, but Live Search for Windows Mobile is about to take it one step...
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Well, Safely that is... I am guilty of it too. Being mobile and connected is a part of our lives now. The constant communication, the constant e-mail, the constant text messaging all this while driving down the road at 70 MPH... You don't do it? There are a bunch that do! And many of them wreck while...
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We wrote about the Skype for iPhone web service earlier this summer, and now two more VoIP startups are trying to bring their magic to the popular phone from Apple (AAPL). Truphone, a UK-based maker of software that allows you to send and receive phone calls over Wi-Fi on Nokia (NOK) mobile phones, has...
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OK, this has to be the coolest news this morning. SHAPE Services, a Stuttgart, Germany-based company, well-known for making mobile IM clients, has just announced Skype for iPhone, an iPhone-optimized Web site that allows you to access Skype via the browser on the iPhone. You can try out this for free...