The evolution of the media phone product segment may just be beginning but it has the potential to become the 4th screen in the home.
That’s according to a report by In-Stat, which said the device could also become a next generation business IP phone.
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Mirial has released version 6.2 of its video conferencing software that steps the Softphone up from 720p to 1080p.
Cristoforo Mione, business development director at Mirial, said that with Full-HD resolution up to 1080p for both decoding and encoding, the upgraded version set the pace of the evolution in video and VoIP technology.
Frank Grillo, Cypress Communication’s executive vice president of marketing, is the winner of the voip-biz.news’ Person of the Year award.
In nominating him for the title, the telecoms professional was described as a "visionary executive" and "innovative thinker" with "technical acumen".
Two innovative products dominated voting to share the honours in voip-biz.news‘ Product of the Year 2008 competition.
With 33 per cent of the nominations, MyGlobalTalk’s VoIP calling solution earned praise for its sound quality and call rates, as well as features such as no contract being required, no connection fees and no minimums.
VoIP provider Vonage had a revenue increase of 9 per cent to USD $900 million in 2008.
However, reporting on its fourth-quarter and full-year 2008 earnings report, the company said it lost a net of 14,700 subscribers in Q4.
ZTE Corp has achieved what it claims is the world’s first EV-DO Revision B (Rev B) VoIP call on its CDMA2000 system.
It is the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor has achieved a 9.3Mbps download rate and 5.4Mbps upload rate.
Blueslice Networks has sold a SIP-enabled ngHLR, HSS and AAA, bundled into one fully integrated solution, to Unify Mobile.
The SDM platform is to be used by in&phone, one of its mobile operations in Switzerland.
Montreal-based Blueslice’s CSP 3000 includes the ngHLR and its Advanced Low Cost Roaming solutions – giving in&phone the ability to offer subscribers new roaming features.
The struggling economy will slow the growth of VoIP, but deployments remain wide-ranging at mitigated levels.
So says In-Stat in a report that also found just over a third of US businesses that have deployed VoIP use it exclusively.
JAJAH is to offer new services enabling VoIP calls to be made either via WiFi or over the cellular network for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian users.
They are being offered as white label solution to enable carriers and non-carriers to launch the service under their own brand.
Spitfire has completed interoperability testing and accreditation for its SIP Trunking service with the Panasonic range of phone systems.
This includes Panasonic’s next generation phone system, the KX-NCP (Network Communications Platform).