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Written by Stephen Withers
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So the Skype outage was caused by a bug being exposed by many computers rebooting at much the same time.
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Written by Stephen Withers
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Skype's engineering team has apparently made some progress with the issue that prevented logging into the service as there are over two million users online as of this writing, though the company's Heartbeat status page is still showing problems with login.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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The National Australia Bank has chosen IPC - a US-based provider of mission-critical communications systems - to engineer and install VoIP technology for its relocated treasury division on a new dealing floor in Brisbane.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Kleenmaid, Australia's largest direct retailer of kitchen and laundry appliances, has chosen Commander Communications to provide all fixed wire voice and data telecommunication requirements between its new head office in Maroochydore, its data centre in Brisbane and its 34 retail outlets across Australia.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Advice from vendors of IP telephony systems is that enterprises contemplating an installation should audit their network first to ensure it is able to provide the capacity and low latency that voice demands, but feedback from delegates at a VoIP seminar suggests that this advice is not being followed.
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Written by Adam Turner
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If you're sick of paying exorbitant phone bills, but reluctant to trust your incoming calls to the internet, the Cisco iPhone offers the best of both worlds.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Soul (ASX: SPT) is now recruiting reseller partners for the Linksys One small business IP telephony and data network system, more than a year after it first announced plans to do so.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Avaya and Extreme Networks have joined forces locally to deliver a bundled offering to small-medium sized businesses comprising Avaya's small business IP PBX and intelligent network edge switches from Extreme Networks.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Telco service provider, Telarus, has teamed up with Aruba to provide fixed mobile convergence solutions to organisations based on Aruba's range of mobility controllers and WiFi access points.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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VoIP provider My Net Fone (ASX: MNF) says it had more than 35,000 paying customers at 30 June 2007, an increase of 5000 in June alone. It is also in the process of raising an additional $1 million in equity.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Linksys has introduced a sub $250 cordless phone for use with either Skype or with a standard analogue phone line.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Israeli company SoliCall has released PBXMate, a software product claimed to work with all popular VoIP softphones such as Skype and to dramatically reduce background noise by 'tuning in' to the speaker's voice and 'tuning out' extraneous sounds.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Skype might have to modify its softphone for Australian users in order to comply with soon to be-mandatory requirements to provide free access to Australia's 000 and 106 emergency numbers.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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According to Market Clarity's "Aussie VoIP List" - a frequently updated list of companies in Australia providing VoIP services - there were 260 such organisations at 04 June 2007. However this list embraces all those from the very small to the very large providing very different types of services.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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VoIP services are rapidly gaining popularity in Australia and are increasing being promoted as a substitute for the standard telephone service, but much progress will need to be made before they can really achieve this.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Skype has released its second update in a month to Skype 2.6, which had been out in beta since April when it was released in mid May.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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VoIP service provider, Engin, is aiming to become a leading provider of triple play services by signing up as a primary distributor of the TiVo personal video recorder - to be introduced to Australia early in 2008 by 33 percent engin shareholder, Seven Media Group - and as a reseller of Optus ADSL2+ services.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Optus has announced availability of two VoIP services for small business, previewed with much fanfare and minimal detail in March.
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