Microsoft bought out VoIP company Skype last October for $8.5 billion in cash. The amount isn’t exactly pocket change, so it’s only fair that costumers are wondering why the new Windows Phone isn’t yet equipped with the video-chatting app. All Microsoft can say is that integration is “coming soon.” Though video chat support is already [...]

Someone needs to tell Skype to step it up in the VoIP game. Its competitor and mobile communications app, Tango, has grown to more than 30 million active users in less than a year since it first launched. It projects a possible 100 million active users in 2012. Compared to almost 700 million users on [...]

magicJack VocalTec, Ltd., the company that invented VoIP (with over 30 patents to affect that claim) and has sold over eight million units, recently announced two major retailers are reporting the largest sales records in the history of magicJack products. They are expecting sales of magicJack units to be approximately 400,000 to 500,000 in a [...]

A recent proposal by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau to mandate outage reporting requirements on interconnected voice-over-Internet protocol and broadband-service providers is being hotly contested by cable and telephone trade organizations. They contend the new requirements impose “significant economic burdens” on ISPs and other VoIP providers. However, as it did in adopting network-neutrality [...]

In a recent report by Juniper Research, Mobile Voice & Video Calling: Strategic Opportunities & Business Models 2011-2016, they find that the role of voice within the broader communications market will change and become increasingly available as an extension to other applications. Companies such as Vivox are pioneering services in the gaming industry, and Skype’s [...]

VoIPdito, a UK based provider of business telephone solutions using VoIP technology & Voxbone, a provider of worldwide geographical & local telephone numbers announced recently the completion of integrating their two systems at VoIPdito.com. Now companies of any size can take advantage of the high quality network operated by Voxbone and the feature rich hosted [...]

In a round of deja vu, Skype once again leaks your personal information. A security flaw within Skype as well as other VoIP systems has been uncovered that allows hackers to access users’ identities, locations, and even files. Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University say that Skype can be used to track [...]

If you’ve used Twilio, Skype, Google Voice, or one of the numerous other services that use VoIP (voice over internet) to connect a call, it was most likely Bandwidth.com doing the heavy lifting. The company has an extensive VoIP infrastructure that handles many of the connections for these services. Now, if you HAVE used these [...]

Taking advantage of Netflix’s dive in popularity among its customers, one of Skype’s founders, Janus Friis, plans to launch a new video-streaming website called VDIO (vee-dee-o). Friis is reportedly assembling an “A-team” of media and technology experts who have had experience in positions at NBC, Napster, Microsoft, TV Guide, Apache, and Skype. At its initial [...]

AT&T, Verizon, and Vodafone have all recently opened research centers in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas as part of a race among carriers to find a fiscally viable way of making free IP based calling a common place feature. With the addition of Spain’s Telefónica, the race is only getting wider. O2, the [...]