Nonoh.net, the cheaper version of Jajah.com

Today I got this message in my mailbox:

Dear Voip-Fan!

Once we saw what the Deutsche Telecom paid to participate in Jajah (http://blog.jajah.com/) we saw it as a challenge to make a similar product to Jajah, only a lot cheaper.
And the good news is....we succeeded!!

Besides a perfect calling quality Nonoh also offers the best rates in the market.
Just take a look at these prices and see for yourself how much money you can save;

NoNoh Jajah
China Fix FREE 2,9 Ct/Min
Germany Fix FREE 2,9 Ct/Min
Netherlands Fix FREE 3,2 Ct/Min
Poland Fix FREE 3,4 Ct/Min
Russia Fix FREE 3,2 Ct/Min
United Kingdom Fix FREE 2,8 Ct/Min
USA Fix and Mobil FREE 2,6 Ct/Min


And there is more, just visit http://www.nonoh.net/en/rates.html to see all our Superdeals.

Kind regards,

Kurt von Hees
www.nonoh.net

Email/MSN; kurt_von_Hees@hotmail.com

Well it sounds nice, and it's always fun to see smaller companies bug the big fish. Nonoh so far seems like a great v oip provider to me!

Nintendo DS hacks for free WiFi VoIP calls

Fun stuff for the game voipers: VoIP hacks for your own Nintendo DS!!

Since the Nintendo DS has a built-in microphone and a wireless Internet connection, what's to stop it from being used as a WiFi phone, or the DSphone, if you will?

I've scoured the 'net and found some projects currently underway that claim to do just that, albeit with limitations.

Here's more: http://voiptelephonyservice.blogspot.com/2007/01/nintendo-ds-hacks-for-free-wifi-voip.html

Sony PlayStation 3 Gains VOIP Service

Jajah, a VOIP service, has tailored its interface to the PlayStation 3 browser, allowing gamers to place voice calls.

As the PlayStation 3 currently lacks a service that’s comparable to the Microsoft Xbox’s Live service, which allows for voice communication via a USB headset, the Jajah interface at least allows gamers to communicate with one another. PS3 voice chat has been enabled on a game-by-game basis, however.

Intel also confirmed Wednesday that it has invested $15 million into the company via its Intel Capital arm.

Jajah said it had tailored its interface to the PS3 browser. users ned only to surf to the play.jajah.com Web site to initiate a call. Users enter the number they wish to call, and the service then calls the phone nearest the user (that number must be pre-configured) and connects the two numbers via a VOIP line.

“Jajah now brings free or cheap calling into the living room and away from computers. Initiating a call with Jajah can now be done while lounging in front of the TV with no need to fire up the computer,” said Roman Scharf, a Jajah co-founder. “This means that the whole family, regardless of interests or technological skills, can make cheap or even free calls from their normal home phone.”

It was unclear whether the service had been optimized for other console browsers, such as the Nintendo Wii.

How nice is this? I haven’t used Jajah yet, but I migth have to take a look at their service, with me being a vivid gamer and all. Then again I can’t imagine other VoIP providers being far behind of Jahjah here.

Be sure to read about Inel investing in Jahjah too:

Pentagon phone system to go VoIP

The Pentagon is moving to voice over IP as part of continuing renovation work there. The Defense Department has awarded General Dynamics Network Systems a contract worth $18.4 million to design and install VOIP for DOD's Renovation and Construction program office.

I guess these people are a little behind on schedule. Still a good sign and fun stuff to read about. Then again what can I say about being behing on schedule when these guys are currently working on the Wedge 2-5 project?

Wedge 2-5 also includes completing a new building-wide telecommunications backbone to provide integrated voice, video and data communications over unclassified and classified DOD networks.

Read more here: http://www.fcw.com/article102645-05-04-07-Web

Integration Mania: Uniting VoIP and Microsoft Outlook

By Cindy Waxer on May 7th, 2007

For a few years now, VoIP technology has allowed customers to centralize their business communications, from faxes to voicemail messages, in a single Microsoft Outlook inbox. But expanded integration features such as directory dialing and calendar synchronization are proving to be a potential business generator for resellers.

Interesting read. Is this the next step for VoIP?

Who knows. I’m amped and looking forward to new extension!

How did VoIP come about?

Russel Shaw posted quite a nice article on his ZDNet blog. For everyone who's wondering how VoIP came about, what the original idea was, where VoIP originated from, here's part of the answer. VoIP's birth:

I would like to offer up a suggestion for a product, or perhaps I should say a technology. This is an idea that I had that is really an extension of existing products, but I want to go on record as proposing this now so that when someone gets the bright idea in a few months or years, I canpoint to this as "prior art" (the Telecom Archives ARE permanent, aren't they?).

The idea is this: At some point on the Internet you have a server that connects to the telephone network. It can detect ringing and seize (answer) the line, or it can pick up the line and initiate outdialing. So far all of this can be done using existing products (modems, forexample). But what I would then propose for this new technology is to take the audio from the phone line and convert it into an audio data stream that can be sent to another location on the Internet. In a similar manner, this product should be able to accept an audio stream from the Internet and send it out to the phone line.

On the user (client) end, a companion product (designed to work with the server) would operate similar to IPhone or another two-way voice over Internet product, except that when the server receives a ringing signal from the telephone line, it would sent a data packet to the user's program that would cause an audible (or other) signal to sound or appear on the video display of the user's computer.

Read more here....

Skype financials: a few more notes on the data

Skype Journal has more on Ebay’s First Quarter results. Phil Wolff does some number crunching.“Following up on Jim’s Q1-2007 Is Skype’s First Profitable Quarter, I thought I’d see if I there was more to it. Skype calling didn’t grow in Q1-20070.

Skype-to-Skype calling didn’t grow this quarter, despite 25 million new accounts. Isn’t this a churn indicator? For each minute a new user called, someone else chose not to Skype for a minute. This could be seasonal: Q1 2006 was also close to flat growth.

And as you can see in the chart below, Skype’s retiring of free SkypeOut plans killed SkypeOut growth for the same period. This is clearly not seasonal.”

You’ll find his complete post on Skype Journal.