August 03, 2006
VoIP Roundup - Thur Aug 03/06
Ted Shelton of IP Inferno and VoIP Magazine has been busy and proactive. First he sent a letter to Meg Whitman of eBay, urging her to open up the Skype VoIP protocol. Then he sent a letter to US Senator Dianne Feinstein, and got this positive letter about network neutrality in response.
Dal of Asterisk VoIP News asks, is residential telephony past it's sell date? Both mobile comm and VoIP have threatened providers of regular phone service, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Analysis from Frost & Sullivan shows that the industry there reached its peak in 2005, and the subscriber base will be growing at a paltry compound yearly rate of about 2.3 percent up until 2012. There are, however, other areas of growth in the business. [via Asterisk VoIP News]
For those of you familiar with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), you know that it's a handy way to consume the content of your favorite websites, especially news sites. Well, here's a leg up on RSS news reader software: one that reads you one minute headline summaries via an Asterisk-based VoIP phone. [via Nerd Vittles] There's also MailCall for Asterisk, which reads you your email by VoIP phone.
New Zealand's Slingshot offers the iTALK VoiceBox to bring VoIP calling to regular home phone users. This is done by connecting a regular phone to a broadband connection via a suitable adaptor device. [via The VoIP Weblog, Scoop]
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