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PTCL Bill Inquiry and Payment Modes
Dial 1200 for Billing Information Customers can simply dial ‘1200‘ from their home or office landline to access instant billing information of the required PTCL service. “1200″ is a dedicated service to exclusively provide billing information to the customers. Telephone Bill Payment Using Cards PTCL bill payment cards of Rs. 300, 500 and 1,000 are available on... »
Mobile VoIP: 2010 Will Be An “Exit” Year
A few days ago I posted an article about VoIP as the “industry of the decade“, meaning that VoIP has been the industry with the highest growth in terms of cumulative revenues. 2008-2009 has also been an important period in terms of market consolidation. Ribbit has been acquired by British Telecom after a very... »
The Wish List: 7 Things We Hope Will Come True in 2010
With 2009 coming to an end, it is not surprising that everyone is making predictions about what 2010 has in store. So instead, four of us — Liz, Stacey, Sebastian and I — have put together a wish list of seven things we hope come true in 2010. Facebook Goes Public – What Silicon Valley... »
Google Voice VoIP in 2010?
eWeek has an interesting interview with Google’s Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz where Bradley said he was very enthusiastic about Google’s acquisition of Gizmo5, a company that unlike Skype adopted the industry SIP standard. Gizmo5 brings technological know-how to Google in the areas of VoIP, SIP, and termination. Further, Gizmo5 has... »
PTA Quality of Service (QoS) Parameters for Improving Fixed Broadband and Cellular Data Services
Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has formulated two sets of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to improve and monitor the Quality of Service (QoS) of “Fixed Broadband” and “GPRS/EDGE” networks. The objective of introducing these KPIs is to create transparency and set monitor-able standards in fixed broadband and GPRS/EDGE services hence ensuring consumers’ satisfaction. Extensive consultations with... »
Top Stories of 2009: SIP trunking and Unified Communications gain momentum
In 2009 it was hard to look through VoIP news and not bump into another announcement about a SIP or Unified Communications (UC) deal. Both items have gained momentum and are becoming the rule in the VoIP world. According to Infonetics, SIP trunking service revenue is expected to have an 89 percent compound annual growth rate... »
StarTech KVM Console to USB 2.0 Portable Laptop Adapter Review
If you are an IT or network manager you know how frustrating it can be to try and troubleshoot a rackmounted server that doesn’t have a monitor or keyboard hooked up to it. After all, LCD rackmount console can be pretty expensive. Often referred to as “headless servers”, in many cases you... »
Airvana: An Opportunity in Femtocells
Timothy Lutts submits: Back in October, I wrote the following: I’ve got an iPhone. In fact, my wife and two of my three kids have iPhones. The iPhone is absolutely wonderful as a portable computer, camera, music player and casual gaming device. I use it to check on stocks, keep notes, view... »
RIM Has A Problem
Last night around 7 PM or so I caught a tweet that made me check my Blackberry. Yes indeed, there must be an outage. Then another tweet came in. Then another, and another. All the while RIM was silent. This is not the first time that Research In Motion was off the air and I don't... »
Sprint: No Reason to Sell
Jim Van Meerten submits: On Financial Tides I try find stocks I think are the best to buy now but also report on some of the most popular issues. Sprint Nextel (S) has been on the volume leaders list recently. I’m going to look at Sprint’s stats objectively: Has the stock been hitting new highs... »
Voxeo teams with Remego for contact centers in APAC
Florida-based VoIP platform provider Voxeo is teaming with Remego, a Sigapore-based VoIP provider to provide open source contact center services in the Asia Pacific region. Using Voxeo’s open technology platform in Interactive Voice Response (IVR), instant messaging, SIP, VoiceXML, CCXML and mobile web for the creation and management of unified communications and unified self-service applications,... »
Say Hello to the New New GigaOM
Two winters ago, we unveiled a new design for GigaOM — today, we are launching another one. Whereas before, our focus was on design, this time around we’re aiming to bring you a unique user experience. Our product guru, Jaime Chen The biggest change at our company in the intervening two years, of course, has been... »
Google Maps Navigation Comes to Older Android Phones
Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation (beta) for older devices that use Android OS version 1.6 or higher. It debuted as a free feature on Android 2.0 (Droid) handsets a few weeks ago and was received with much enthusiasm. Now devices such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1 will be... »
The State of Cloud: Startup Heroku Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps
IMPORTANT POINTS Heroku is adding about 1,000 apps to its platform every week Heroku is seeing interest from non web developers. Heroku has built its platform as a service cloud cheaply using Amazon’s web services. Heroku, the San Francisco-based startup that offers a Ruby-focused cloud platform as a service, last week saw the number of apps... »
Should Page Speed Influence Google PageRank?
Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that the speed at which web pages are available might become a factor in SEO moving into 2010. He said that because... »
AdMob Data Reveals Android’s Growth, Device Market Share
AdMob, a mobile advertising network, which has been releasing mobile metrics for a while now and touting the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch metrics as headlines, is instead focusing on RIM, Symbian, Android and even Windows Mobile devices in its October 2009 mobile metrics report. I guess when you are soon going to be... »
AOL Reveals Lame New Look & Logo
AOL will launch a new look and logo along with its official spinout from Time Warner on Dec. 10, as it tries to become a content-centric company. Wolff Olins, a global brand and innovation consultancy, worked on this new look and logo which seeks to replace the older, more iconic AOL branding. The minute... »
TripIt Launches Android App as Beta
TripIt, a travel aggregation service that is offered as an application on the iPhone and BlackBerry, is now available as a beta app for Google’s Android platform and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just like us, our colleagues at jkOnTheRun, WebWorkerDaily and TheAppleBlog are all fans of TripIt, and the Android... »
Skype CEO Outlines Platform Ambitions, Hiring Plans
Skype, with its spinout from eBay complete and its legal troubles with founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis settled, is looking to the future, where it wants to become a ubiquitous real-time communications platform. And that means thinking about the next-generation Skype architecture and hiring a lot of smart people, CEO Josh Silverman said... »
Where Have The Big Internet Players Gone in VoIP and Why
The crusty John C. Dvorak has been a fixture in PC Magazine for many years. This week he penned a piece about Google Voice and free calling. In the opinion column John raised a few points that need to be expounded upon, and I’m in the kind of mood to do just that! Point One: Now... »
Nokia N900 Maemo 5 Bakes in Skype
The new Maemo 5 software in the Nokia N900 has some surprises, including Skype baked into the operating system. Sweet! This will allow you to make free calls using the uber-gadgety Nokia N900. What else is new? Well Maemo 5 will update over-the-air (OTA), so no more connecting to a PC just... »
Mobile Phone Entertainment Takes Off In Rural India
In the furthest reaches of India’s rural heartland, the cellphone is bringing something that television, radio and even newspapers couldn’t deliver: Instant access to music, information, entertainment, news and even worship. Despite its rapid modernization, many of India’s 750,000 villages remain isolated except for the cellphone reception that now blankets almost the entire country after... »
MindTouch Cloud Launches into Cloud Collaboration
MindTouch just launched their popular open source Sharepoint-like software into the collaboration cloud. Called MindTouch Cloud, this hosted SAAS offering will put them in direct competition of the likes of Google Apps, Google Wave, Zoho, and others. MindTouch will deliver their open source collaboration applications in the cloud for a monthly fee that starts... »
Voxeo raises $9M for more acquisitions
Voxeo, a Florida-based VoIP provider, has raised $9 million from North Atlantic Capital and Florida Growth Fund. The company claims the new funds will be used to continue its growth through acquisitions. In the past 14 months, the startup has picked the SIP VoIP platform Micromethod as will as Motorola’s VoiceXML brower, instant messaging developer IMified... »
Facebook Pokes XMPP. MSN, Yahoo & AIM Better Watch Out
The instant messaging world should prepare for a major quake — thanks to Facebook, which seems to be all set to launch a new connection interface that would allow Facebook Chat to work with any kind of XMPP client. The news of this development was first reported by Mickaël Rémond on the company blog... »
Driven to Distraction: When Texting Kills, Britain Offers Path to Prison
Inside the imposing British Crown Court here, Phillipa Curtis, 22, and her parents cried as she was remanded for 21 months to a high-security women’s prison, for killing someone much like herself. The victim was Victoria McBryde, an up-and-coming university-trained fashion designer. Ms. Curtis had plowed her Peugeot into the rear end of Ms. McBryde’s... »
FreeConferenceCall Upgrades Voice Messaging
FreeConferenceCall.com has announced additional features to its SimpleBlast voice messaging service.SimpleBlast works like a voice broadcasting system – users can record and distribute instant voice messages using a telephone and computer. The service provides quick and personal ways for users to reach an established group of contacts, such as sending …(176 words) ... »
SimpleSignal Brings Call Control Toolbar to Hosted VoIP
Hosted VoIP is making great strides, but there is often one problem – with hosted VoIP you don’t get desktop call control. Well, today SimpleSignal introduced its Call Control Toolbar, which adds advanced business VoIP calling features while leveraging their hosted environment. Personally, I am very computer-centric and hate managing my phone calls... »
PlayStation Hooks Up With Netflix; Streams Follow
On Friday, I was waxing eloquent about Netflix and its streaming video service, which has become part of my media consumption. And like me, many Netflix fans were accessing the new but fast-growing video streaming service via their DVD players, televisions, Rokus and Xboxes. Well, add Sony’s PlayStation 3 to this list. Netflix just... »
Study: Unified Communications provides 4X the ROI
A study carried out about Frost & Sullivan–commissioned by Cisco and Verizon–found that collaboration tools like VoIP, instant messaging, and high-definition video meetings resulted in cost savings averaging four times the return on investment for firms using the IP platforms. Frost and Sullivan surveyed 3,662 decision makers in small- and medium-sized business as well... »