Category: voip

4 May 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 4 May 2008

Filed under: gadgets, nokia, voip, wifi - 04 May 2008

PhoneBoyWe’ve come to the end of another week of posts. It looks like I’m going to continue to crank out these posts, mostly because the automated methods to do this aren’t as attractive …

1 May 2008

AOL Allows SIP Clients To Make Calls. This Is News?

Filed under: software, telecom, voip - 01 May 2008

Voice over Internet Protocol, how it worksImage via Wikipedia

So let me get this straight. AOL is “opening” their telephony platform to allow …

30 April 2008

iSkoot for S60 Upgraded: Obscured by SSL

Filed under: security, software, voip - 30 Apr 2008

I will admit to not testing the “forced” upgrade aspect of this, but I did download and install the upgraded iSkoot for my Nokia N95 this …

IfByPhone: Connecting SMBs With Customers

Filed under: business, telecom, voip - 30 Apr 2008

IfByPhone provides a number of different tools that businesses can use to help them bring in more sales. They provide services such as: “smart” click-to-call, …

29 April 2008

Jajah Takes Over Yahoo’s Telephony Services

Filed under: business, telecom, voip - 29 Apr 2008

Jajah WebImage via Wikipedia

In what looks like a similar arrangement to what Jangl did with Jajah a while ago, Jajah scores

28 April 2008

iSkoot Pulls S60 Build, Plans To Push Fix 30 April 2008

Filed under: mobile phones, security, software, voip - 28 Apr 2008

CIA Triad.Image via Wikipedia

While it was, admittedly, not very nice of me to hand iSkoot a …

27 April 2008

iSkoot Will Fix The Encryption Issue On Nokia S60 Client

Filed under: nokia, security, software, voip - 27 Apr 2008

Looks like iSkoot made a mistake with their Nokia S60 client and will make it right. Apparently a non-production version of the S60 client made it to the public web, which sends data in the clear. Other published versions of …

26 April 2008

Proof of iSkoot Passing Credentials In The Clear

Filed under: security, telecom, voip - 26 Apr 2008

Dan York asked for this. Here’s the tell-tale sign from tcpdump that the user information is in the clear. Obviously, I used a different username than my own here as obscuring my password was difficult:
10:29:56.656220 IP 10.3.2.124.43852 > 69.25.76.54.80: P …

iSkoot Transmits Your Data In The Clear

Filed under: security, software, voip - 26 Apr 2008

Various people are thinking that Skype Mobile is basically an unbranded iSkoot, which does the same thing in much the same way. Generally speaking, …

25 April 2008

Deconstructing The Skype Mobile Client for J2ME

Filed under: mobile phones, software, voip - 25 Apr 2008

Various people today on Jaiku and Twitter pointed me at the mobile Skype client for J2ME handsets. Several Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and SonyEricsson phones are …

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