Tag Archives: Voice over Internet Protocol

“There will be podcasts for an audience of one and podcasts for an audience of one billion”

To accompany my column this week on podcasting (which will appear here when it’s out; subscription only I’m afraid), here’s a snippet from an IM interview with Cameron Reilly of The Podcast Network on podcasting: Jeremy: How about the big picture: What might people be using podcasts for in the future? And why has such… Read More »

A Cordless Skype Phone

There’s been quite a bit of hype surrounding the launch last week in the UK of the BT ‘Bluephone’ dualphone, which uses Bluetooth in the home to connect to a VOIP connection, but which switches to a mobile phone elsewhere. (Actually the launch consists of 400 early adopters until September.) There are lots of questions… Read More »

A Video Plugin For Skype

Skype is working on a video function which I’m told by beta testers is very good. Skype say it will out later this year. But one company called Dialcom can’t wait, and has already released a plug in called Spontania video4skype: Dialcom’s Spontania video plug-in is designed to be integrated with any 3rd party Internet-based… Read More »

Skype vs ICQ?

Skype is big — today it said its software has been downloaded by 100 million users, and 2.7 million people are online as I type this —- and it’s widely seen as a challenge to the old telephone companies. But could it also topple ICQ and other instant messaging programs? After all, the folk at… Read More »

SkypeIn’s Wonders, And One Nagging Concern

The SkypeIn thing is really excellent. I was a bit slow to get aboard, mainly because of credit card issues, but now I’m there I’m impressed. It’s great to see a free service adding extra paid services that are really useful, rather than the usual free service later weighed down by sneaky efforts to grab… Read More »