Bring Your Home Phone Wherever You Go at The VoIP Weblog That's the claim made by PhoneGnome, the brainchild of David Beckemeyer, the former CTO and co-founder of Earthlink. Most VoIP lovers have heard of the device that marries your landline with your …

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VoIP provider Sabse Technologies, which recently purchased Jaxtr, has acquired Mobivox.
"Sabse, which is co-owned by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, is seeking to consolidate smaller VoIP companies into a serious industry contender," according to TeleClick.ca.
"The Mountain View, Calif., company says its new buy will allow it to quickly deploy voice-activation and voice-to-text features to its current users worldwide," writes VentureBeat's Camille Ricketts. "Mobivox also allows users to access contacts, initiate conferences and transfer calls all via voice."
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The Verizon Hub is no more.
"Verizon Wireless today said that they are terminating the Verizon Hub, an innovative VOIP home phone that doubled as a Web tablet and digital photo frame… The Verizon Hub died from a terminal service plan and confused retail strategy involving an expensive $34.99 monthly fee and a perplexing requirement that owners also have a Verizon Wireless cell phone," writes Gearlog's Sascha Segan. "It is survived, only barely, by its first cousin the AT&T Home Manager."
"The good news is that current …

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wooing startups at TJ’s Weblog Although it's today probably the hardest time in recent decades to raise venture capital, there are some companies and deal…

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VoIP Calls Can Be Blocked By Your Phone Company at The VoIP Weblog The question is, will they actually do it?Data packets and network dilemmas are expected to…

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Skype and Google Voice competitor VoxOx (from UC provider TelCentris) last week won the 'Best of Show' award in the consumer category at TMCnet's ITEXPO West 2009 in Los Angeles.
The serv…

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Nimbuzz recently launched Nimbuzz for Android, a new app designed, logically enough, for Android phones.
"Nimbuzz's claim to fame is that it interconnects a wide variety of other discrete, …

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TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that a group of venture capital and private equity firms are working together to acquire Skype from current owner eBay.
"Investors in the pr…

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TCM Mobile has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ganton Limited to deploy a commercial cellular VoIP network in India using TCM's proprietary technology.
"This will be the w…

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Unstrung Insider has released a new report entitled Mobile VoIP: A Disruptive Service Goes Mainstream, describing the growth of mobile VoIP as "an unstoppable train."
As report author John…

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