NetGear Wi-Fi Internet Phone for Skype

NetGear has just announced the upcoming in July 2006 release of a brand new WiFi internet phone for Skype. Yay, for all the mobile internet users. Now all you need to call for free to any PC, anywhere in the world is a WiFi hot spot and your brand new shiny Skype enabled internet phone. Isn't life good? :-)

This Netgear's internet phone is going to be selling directly from the Skype website for about $250 to start. It sports a nice color display, weighs 2.2 lb in the gift box with batteries and got the looks too.

Of course you can use this internet phone for calling to any regular landline or cellphone as well with the regular low cost Skype rates or for free this year, as a promo - within the United States and Canada.

VoIPCom Internet Phone Corporation

I heard recently the name VoIPCom. Curious what that was I did a little research and found that AmeriResource Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, purchased 23 million shares of VoIPCom which makes up for roughly 97% of the outstanding common stock, for $80,000 in April of 2005.

The name VoIPCom is a brand name of Voice over IP Communications Limited. And the company itself is apparently co-located within London, England and operating a carrier-grade VoIP platform allowing to send and receive traffic from VocalTec, Cisco and Clarent switches anywhere in the world.

Plantronic offering new internet phone bloototh headset

It is called Voyager 510 and it is Plantronics' newest entry in to internet phone accessories arena. This bluetooth headset technology is compatible with AOL, Avaya, Cisco, MSN, Skype, Yahoo and other internet phone software applications. Also it requires no installation, jut plug and play. It is currently being listed at around a hundred dollars.

Some of the Voyager 510's other attractive features also include:

• built in wind noise reduction technology.
• regular outside noise reduction circuitry.
• stylish, compact and light weight design.
• one touch call control buttons.

Skype partners with SPIRIT DSP

Skype has established now a core voice partnership with SPIRIT DSP. The later is a leading world provider of embedded voice conferencing, currently employing over 120 people.

With TeamSpirit (TM) being SPIRIT's key product and also the world's fastest voice engine for mobile applications - Skype is positioning itself strongly in the mobile and conference calling market. TeamSpirit (TM) 2.0 is a conference calling engine being targetted at business needing voice collaboration with wide band voice quality and sophisticated featureas at a competitive price point. Currently it is being bundled with products from Adobe, HP Open Call, Oracle, Paltalk and other ones.

Phillip Zimmermann's new Zfone VoIP encryption

Phillip Zimmerman, known for his Pretty Good Privacy encryption coding protocol has just released his beta Zfone - a new free Voip encription protocol.

The coding algorithm is called ZRTP and operates without reliance on the variety of current often overcomplicated and outdated coding algorithms.

The core of the Zfone technology is peep to peer based and executed over the RTP packets.
Meantime the protocol has been submitted to the IETF for consideration in use as a new public standard

Free Skype PC To Phone VoIP Calls

Skype has now begun ranning promotion offering free PC-to-phone internet phone calls anywhere in the United States and Canada.

Skype has currently about 100 million registered internet phone users. The biggest concentration of them is in Europe so the move is designed to widen the North American user base. It might also relate to some recent internet phone entries from the likes Yahoo and VoIP Stunt that come competing directly with Skype.

The new promo calls are being accessed from Skype's own Skype Mate software just as usual by dialing +1 area code and then the local phone number.

New Skype Voice Translation Service

Skype has announced a new service for on the go translating of voice from englisht to and from 150 other languages worldwide.

The service is available around the clock, every day through Skype teaming up with Language Line Services. The current fee for it is marked at $2.99 per minute.

In the words of Saul Klein, Skype's vice president of marketing: "Language Line's 'Personal Itnerpreter Service' greatly enhances the Skype experience for our growing multilingual customer base. Our consumer can now use the Skype technology to easily communicate in the languages their customers and friends prefer to speak."

AOL Opens Its Own VoIP Internet Phone Service

The new AOL internet phone service is going to be called AOL Phoneline and its area is to be first released in 50 US metropolitan areas.

The monthly charge for unlimited outgoing VoIP calls is set to $14.99 a month and iclueds incoming phone number. The unlimited calls will apply to US, Canada and 30 other countries.
Other features will include caller ID, call blocking, click to call and 911 calls support.

AOL is also counting with this new internet telephony develpment here on the support of the 80 million registered users of its AIM accounting for around 38 percent of the Instant Messenger market.