Saturday, September 23, 2006
JAJAH Conference Calling Limit Up To 10 Users
The NEW way to place a conference call ...JAJAH Conference Calling is a new powerful feature that allows you to schedule and initiate cheap conference calls with your friends and co-workers in an easy-to-use online set up.
The benefits
- Save up to 95% compared to other conference call solutions
- Total cost transparency. The exact rate for the conference call is always shown next to the "Call" button
- No costs at all will arise for the other conference call participants
- Missing conference call (dial-in) is a thing of the past, JAJAH is actively ringing the participants (dial-out)
Monday, September 18, 2006
SKYLOOK 2.0 (SKYpe & outLOOK)
Skylook 2.0 includes a major new feature called “Alerts and Forwarding”. This feature allows you to be alerted about important events that occur when you are away from your PC. These events include: The receipt of an important Email; the receipt of a Skype instant message, an important contact coming on-line, a missed Outlook reminder; a missed call or voice message. When any of these events occur, Skylook can inform you via phone or SMS. Depending on the type of event, the contents of the relevant message are forwarded to the phone via audio or SMS (e.g. voice mail messages are replayed over the phone call).
Here are some interesting scenarios where we see this feature being of use:
You desperately need to speak to Fred, but can’t get in touch with him. His Skype status is offline and you cannot reach him on his mobile phone. You want to know as soon as he “resurfaces”. You use Skylook to set up an alert that will call you on your mobile phone as soon as he comes on-line. Later, your phone rings - it’s
You don’t want to be available all the time, so you don’t set up Skype call forwarding, but you would like to know if anyone leaves you a voice message while you are away from your PC. That way you can choose which calls to return. You check a box in the Skylook options dialog to tell it to forward all voice messages to your mobile phone. Later, when you are away from your PC, your phone rings - it’s Skylook with a Skype Voice Mail message. After hearing the message, you are given the option to call the sender via Skype by pressing “1″ on your phone.
Skylook 2.0
Intel + Siemens = Next Generation VoIP
Intel Corporation and Siemens Communications today announced the establishment of a technology relationship between the two companies that includes an agreement to work collaboratively to create open unified communications solutions based on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The two companies have agreed to jointly fund and cooperatively conduct research focused on secure wireless networks and real-time open unified communications in the short term as well as work together longer term to create comprehensive vertical industry collaboration solutions to drive business process optimization for key market segments such as telecommunications service providers, financial services and digital healthcare.
Additional components of the agreement call for the two companies to establish joint market development efforts focused on the enterprise and service provider sectors. The overall goal of the joint effort is to demonstrate real time communications solutions for business process optimization using Intel architecture such as Intel® dual-core technology and carrier class Rack Mounted Servers (RMS) from Intel and the HiPath 8000 and OpenScape™ from Siemens.
The first step is to demonstrate the OpenScape platform running Applications such as Personal Portal, Unified communications, Video and Voice Conferencing and Mobile Clients. Intel and Siemens expect to present findings and display the first wave of technology solutions developed at an Intel lab in the US to selected customers by the end of 2006.
“Intel’s experience as the leading provider of silicon technology to the enterprise market world wide and established track record of industry collaboration puts it in a great position to shape the enterprise of the future’” said Gordon Graylish, vice president of the sales and marketing group and general manager of Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). “As a result of this collaboration, enterprise customers will be able to avail themselves of unified communications based on the industry’s highest performance and most cost effective architecture.“
“Siemens has a strong commitment to this joint development effort and to ongoing collaboration with Intel to unlock the potential of our open unified communication enterprise solutions to a global ecosystem of third party independent software providers and systems integrators,” said Thomas Zimmermann, president, Enterprise Systems, Siemens Communications. “Growth potential for the open unified communications market is significant. Our own customer base for the HiPath 8000 solution has grown substantially, and Siemens is adding a new HiPath 8000 customer nearly every week.”
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WOW! Adobe launches Acrobat 8 version for VoIP service
US-based software company Adobe systems has launched Acrobat 8 version for online conferencing and VoIP services. It has been integrated with its updated Creative Suite 2.3 Premium.
Available for both Windows and Mac, the new version provides Acrobat Connect that facilitates Internet users to discuss and edit documents or other material during the real-time conference.
The Acrobat 8 also features an Acrobat Connect professional that offers VoIP, video, whiteboard, screen sharing to any flash-enabled user.
The company said the Acrobat Connect would be marketed from early next year in English for monthly fee of $39 and $395 per year.
Sent VoIP Central
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Windows Real-Time Communications Client API SDK (75,8Мб)
Source RTC Client SDK:
- RTC Information Agent MS Visual C++
- VideoFone Application Visual Studio .NET 2003 (Visual C# .NET)
- VideoFone Application Visual Studio .NET 2003 (Visual Basic .NET)
O'Reilly's VoIP
Practical VoIP Using VOCAL, 07 2002
Switching to VoIP, 06 2005
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 09 2005
VoIP Hacks (Tips & Tools for Internet Telephony), 12 2005
Skype Hacks Tips & Tools for Cheap, Fun, Innovative Phone Service
Lists of VoIP/SIP software
VoIP Phones by VoIP-Info.org
+ Wiki by VoIP-Info.org
List of SIP software by Wikipedia.org
VoIP's Terms in Wikipedia
VoIP - Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network.
Protocols which are used to carry voice signals over the IP network are commonly referred to as Voice over IP or VoIP protocols. They may be viewed as commercial realizations of the experimental Network Voice Protocol (1973) invented for the ARPANET.
VoIP - Voice over IP
Mobile VoIP - Mobile Voice over IP
Mobile VoIP or 'mobile voice over Internet Protocol' is an extension of the voice over IP technology and service. It puts wings on the classic approach of VoIP.
Mobile VoIP is more than Voice over WiFi or VoWiFi. Using any broadband IP-capable wireless network connection mobile VoIP will be an application over other networks such as EVDO rev A (which is synchronously high speed - both high speed up and down), HSDPA or potentially WiMax. Mobile VoIP will enable further economic and mobility tradeoffs. For example, Voice over WiFi offers free service but is only available within the coverage area of the WiFi Access Point. High speed services from mobile operators using EVDO rev A or HSPDA with probably have better audio quality and capabilities for metropolitan-wide coverage including fast handoffs from mobile base station to another, yet it will cost more than the typical WiFi-based VoIP service.
By mid-2006, there are an estimated 70 million users of Skype - a PC to PC service for voice communications over the Internet Protocol and some 20 million users of gateway-to-gateway voice over IP services such as Vonage, and there are a billion users of mobile phone users around the world.
Mobile VoIP - Mobile Voice over IP
VoWLAN - Voice over Wireless LAN
VoWLAN (Voice over Wireless LAN) is the use of a wireless broadband network for the purpose of vocal conversation. In other words, it's just like VOIP but over a Wi-Fi network. VoWLAN can be conducted over any internet accessible device, including a laptop, PDA or the new VoWLAN units which look and function like cellphones. VoWLAN's chief advantages to consumers are cheaper local and international calls, free calls to other VoWLAN units and a simplified integrated billing of both phone and Internet service providers.
At this point VoWLAN is not popular because of a lack of wireless coverage area. So, many VoWLAN service providers have been distributing cellphones with dual wireless and GSM modes.
Although VoWLAN and 3G have certain feature similarities, VoWLAN is different in the sense that it uses a wireless internet network (typically 802.11) rather than a cellphone network.
VoWLAN - Voice over Wireless LAN
SIP - Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer control (signaling) protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants. These sessions include Internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution, and multimedia conferences." (cit. RFC 3261). It was originally designed by Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University) and is specified in the RFC 3261 of the IETF SIP Working Group. In November 2000, SIP was accepted as a 3GPP signaling protocol and permanent element of the IMS architecture. It is widely used as signaling protocol for Voice over IP, along with H.323 and others.
SIP clients traditionally use TCP and UDP port 5060 to connect to SIP servers and other SIP endpoints. SIP is primarily used in setting up and tearing down voice or video calls. However, it can be used in any application where session initiation is a requirement. These include, Event Subscription and Notification, Terminal mobility and so on. There are a large number of SIP-related RFCs that define behavior for such applications. All voice/video communications are done over separate session protocols, typically RTP.
A motivating goal for SIP was to provide a signaling and call setup protocol for IP-based communications that can support a superset of the call processing functions and features present in the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The SIP Protocol by itself does not define these features, rather, its focus is call-setup and signaling. However, it has been designed to enable the building of such features in network elements known as Proxy Servers and User Agents. As such, these are features that permit familiar telephone-like operations: dialing a number, causing a phone to ring, hearing ringback tones or a busy signal. Implementation and terminology are different in the SIP world but to the end-user, the behavior is similar.
SIP - Session Initiation Protocol
Monday, September 11, 2006
Google Talk Portable
This is a version of Google Talk which has the ability to run from a USB key.
It's done up the same as all of the rest of the PortableApps.com solutions. One thing to note though is that in order to comply with Google Talk's Terms and Services, I had to leave googletalk.exe out of the zip file. So all you have to do is drop googletalk.exe into the "googletalk" folder and it should run properly.
I haven't had a lot of time testing it, but everything should run properly. Tell me if there are any problems. Comments, questions and feedback welcome.
link
by portableapps.com
Download Google Talk Portable from robloach.net
Download Google Talk Portable from skypeclub.ru
Friday, September 01, 2006
IBM Lotus Sametime
Enterprise instant messaging and Web conferencing
Real-time Right now
Instant messaging
Spell check, smiley faces, built-in VoIP and more. Chat with Mac and Linux users, too.
Web conferencing
Simpler to schedule and use. Automatic reconnections.
Social networking
Find an expert, discussions in open forums, instant polls with instant results.
Download IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Demo