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August 27, 2010

THE WRAP: Google offers Gmail voice

This week Google launched a VoIP service to take on Skype, while HP and Dell went head to head for 3Par, a little-known storage firm.
 
Google began a VoIP service through Gmail, offering low-cost calling to its 176 million users. Analysts said it would hit Skype harder than telcos.

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August 25, 2010

Google testing Gmail VoIP service: report

Google is reportedly testing a voice service for Gmail users, enabling them to make calls from their inboxes.
 
US website Cnet reports that Google is offering voice calling functionality in the Chat feature of Gmail mailboxes, allowing users to make calls to

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August 10, 2010

VoIP pushes industry to HD voice

Call duration rises with voice quality, VoIP, HD voiceVoIP players are setting new standards in voice quality with HD codecs.

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VoIP’s next trick: mobile HD video calls

HD voice isn’t the only technological advancement where VoIP has trumped the traditional telco sector. It’s also done the same for video calls, and HD video calls could be next.

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August 3, 2010

The rise of packet voice

People who knew the operator who placed the very first transcontinental phone call in the US are still alive today. So are people who had party lines, four-digit phone numbers and used operator assistance for interexchange calling.

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July 23, 2010

Skype abandons plan to charge for mobile calls

Skype has dropped plans to charge for VoIP calls over 3G networks with the latest version of its mobile client for the iPhone.
 
Skype made the announcement on its blog Wednesday while unveiling an upgrade for its iPhone app t

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July 15, 2010

SK Tel embraces VoIP

SK Telecom is embracing mobile VoIP as part of an updated mobile broadband strategy that also includes unlimited data plans and an accelerated LTE rollout timetable.
 
At a press conference in Seoul Wednesday, SKT president and CEO Jung Man-Won said that the cellco’s All-In-One 55/65/80/95 Plans and Number

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July 2, 2010

Mobile VoIP traffic to double each year: Juniper

Annual mobile VoIP traffic is forecast to double each year between 2010 and 2015, according to Juniper Research.
 
Global mVoIP traffic on 3G and 4G networks is expected to rise from 15 billion minutes in 2010 to 470.6 billion by 2015, with the US forecast to account for 29% of the pie by the

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June 20, 2010

The six steps to VoIP

Without outside pressure, operators would not concern themselves with VoIP until they had LTE networks.

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June 17, 2010

S-unno promises to turn iPad into a phone

Singapore-headquartered Spice i2i (formerly known as MediaRing) is showcasing its VoIP service S-unno at CommunicAsia2010.

A cross-platform service, S-unno allows end-users to run an IP soft phone on many popular mobile platforms – iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian are some examples – as well as Microsoft Windows 7, Vista and XP platforms for PCs and laptops.

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