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Review: OBi VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge

OBi100 VoIP Adapter

I’ve been trialing a new gadget last few weeks called an OBi. OBi is essentially a Internet VoIP bridge box similar to what you might get if you subscribed to Vonage. Why would you want to get an OBi? The number one reason is that you could then ditch your traditional phone (POTS) line, and [...]

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What’s The Difference Between an iPad and an iPhone?

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Here’s another back-to-basics article that will straighten out this question once and for all. If you type “What’s the difference between an iPad and an…” into Google, it auto-suggests that you mean “What’s the difference between an iPad and an iPhone“, which implies that there are more than a few people searching for the answer [...]

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Mac App Store favorite picks

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After looking around Apple’s newly released Mac App Store last night, I found a few Mac Apps that peaked my interest. Happy hunting and let us know your favorite apps. Lyrica ($0.99) searches through six different databases automatically to locate the right lyrics of the currently playing song in iTunes. At less than a buck [...]

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Line2 iPhone VoIP app lets you make/receive calls via Wi-Fi/3G

The Line2 iPhone app from Toktumi is a VoIP calling application that lets you use Wi-Fi and 3G networks to make or receive calls with your same telephone number. Line2 may be particularly interesting to international travelers, as they can make calls back home without incurring international fees. On the flip side, making international calls [...]

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CES 2010: magicJack Positioning to Become Next Biggest Internet Phone Company

Image courtesy of AP magicJack maker YMax plans to start selling a a magicJack for cell phones in about 4 months for about $40. The gadget will plug into your PC and which then acts like a cell phone tower, so that if your cell phone is within range (about 8ft) of your PC, the [...]

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There may be a Google data-only phone in early 2010

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is reporting that a Google Phone is imminent, possibly in early 2010. However, it may be a data-only VoIP ‘phone’ but what would be cool is if Google issues Google Voice phone numbers to those phones. About the only bad piece of news here is that it may end up initially [...]

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AT&T to allow VoIP apps on iPhones to work on cell network

Well, well, well. AT&T has just decided to reverse their prior stance and allow iPhone users to use Skype and other VoIP apps on the cellular networks. VoIP apps would work when the iPhone was on a WiFi network, but not when connected to the AT&T network. Certainly, this is good news for consumers, but [...]

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Vopium releases free iPhone app

If you’re a Vopium user, or perhaps a wanna-be Vopium user because you have an iPhone, you’re in luck as they recently released the free iPhone app. More about the Vopium VoIP mobile service. It integrates tightly with your iPhone contacts directory so you can quickly make VoIP phone calls. You can trial Vopium for [...]

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GfG Article Recap – Week of Mar 20 2009

Here is last week’s featured gadgets and news items at Gizmos for Geeks: To start off the week, we took a look at Legacy Locker – a rather needed innovation that allows you to pass down important account details for your online ‘assets’ in the case of your death. We found two interesting pieces of [...]

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Vopium launches their mobile VoIP service in the US

Vopium launched their mobile VoIP service in the US recently, offering a lower cost option for international calls from cell phones. Vopium consists of a free software app for your mobile handset that routes your int’l calls over their network. Vopium is available for over 500 GSM handsets from over 20 hardware vendors and they [...]

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