Tag: voip

  • Blueface has me blue in the face.

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written before about what a crap service I am receiving from voip telephony provider Blueface. Now I know why they are called Blueface. Yet again today the Blueface service is down and I can’t make outgoing calls from my landline. And anyone who has called me on my mobile knows just how bad…

  • Jajah launches half-baked mobile product

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    Tom Raftery
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    Jajah launched a new VOIP product for mobile phones overnight. The story was broken by our own Pat Phelan and followed up by BusinessWeek and Mike Arrington. There are a number of problems with the product (I suspect they launched to deadline rather than launching when they had fully tested). The most obvious one I…

  • VOIP blues!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I switched my telephony over to VOIP earlier this year. I signed up for an account with Irish VOIP co. Blueface and the service has been, on the whole, fairly reliable. In fact, I was so happy with the service I recommended it in a Sunday Times article on VOIP this last weekend. Boy do…

  • Skype launch video for Mac (preview)

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    Tom Raftery
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    Skype have released Skype for Mac with Video Preview. You can download it here. It is beta software so be aware that when you install it, you may have issues. Having said that, I installed it on my iMac G5 and so far so good! This is a photo of my first video call on…

  • What are the chances?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Skype is a cool little application. It allows you to make calls over the Internet for free to other Skype users and very cheaply to phones. Recent versions have included the ability to Skypecast (Skype with up to 100 people) and to video conference. One of the major issues with Skype has always been that…

  • Secure VOIP calls

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    Tom Raftery
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    Phil Zimmermann is a living legend – a cryptographer he released a cryptographic program PGP for the encryption of email and files on computers as open source freeware in 1991. Zimmermann was pursued through the courts by the US Customs in a criminal investigation for exporting cryptographic software in breach of US export regulations. The…