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4 October 2008

T-Mobile @Home and UMA: It Works

While it’s been kind of a rough week workwise, with the announcement of Nokia selling off the Security Appliance business, I did get a couple of new phones to play with: …

3 October 2008

Miscellany From The Inbox

It keeps coming:

Mobivox Unveils Voice-Activated Mobile Services Platform: This is primarily geared at service providers. While I think their platform is good, as it contains thinks like voice-activated dialing and call control, group calling, and voice-to-SMS, and voice-to-email messaging, …

15 September 2008

Why I Think EQO Is Doomed

Filed under: software, voip - 15 Sep 2008

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I don’t like to prognosticate, but after reading the latest PR speak from EQO, …

11 September 2008

German Courts Ban VoIP App on iPhone

Filed under: apple, mobile network operators, mobile phones, software, voip - 11 Sep 2008

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T-Mobile in Europe seems to have something against VoIP, attempting to …

10 September 2008

Senator Investigating High Text Messaging Pricing in U.S

Filed under: mobile network operators, telecom - 10 Sep 2008

Herbert Kohl, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
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Slashdot, textually.org, Mobile Industry Review, and others are reporting that a Wisconson congress critter is taking the

20 August 2008

Vopium: More Minute And SMS Stealing

Filed under: telecom, voip - 20 Aug 2008

I am periodically asked to review VoIP services. One of the more recent ones is Denmark based Vopium. …

20 July 2008

The Weeks That Were 23 June - 12 July 2008

Filed under: mobile phones, phoneboy, software, telecom, voip, week that was - 20 Jul 2008

I’m still trying to get caught up with these posts. Next week, I should be caught up doing these bloody things.
Of course, next week’s …

27 April 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 28 April 2008

Filed under: blogging, phoneboy, week that was - 27 Apr 2008

PhoneBoySorry that this post is late. Not sure if you read these things anyway, but hey, it’s a tradition. What I might do in the future is highlight a post from each of …

29 February 2008

101 Things That You Never Knew You Could Do With Mobile Handsets

Filed under: voip - 29 Feb 2008

I do quite a lot with my mobile handset. If I had to, I could probably get by with just my mobile handset and possibly an external keyboard. I have a …