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Latest blog posts from Iridiacom Blog

Have You Ever Regretted Sending an email ???
Sometimes we see something that catches our eye that just makes us smile. GMail or should I say Googlemail has just added a feature called Mail Goggles I am sure we have all done that late night email sent after a long day and a few beers or glasses of wine that in the cold light of day you... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Android Phone Debuts in USA
We like to talk about news that could change the marketplace in our industry - well we believe that the launch of the first phone supporting Google’s Opensource Operating System Android is big news. We see lots of phones supporting the Symbian Operating system, Microsoft and various other... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Tesco adds more VoIP to the supermarket shelves
We have previously discussed Tesco offering VoIP to the consumer - see our post here, well we see that Tesco are also offering a cheap VoIP service using WiFi on Nokia handsets. The offering makes use of a service by Australian company Freshtel, and requires an application download for the Nokia... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Snom Collaborate with Fonality
With Asterisk based products one of the big objections to deploying them is compatibility with software and hardware, there is such a wide range of products in the market place that often it is the customer who suffers the pain while ‘glitches’ are sorted out. Fonality has added a new partner... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Google Join the Browser Band
We see that Google have launched the Beta version of their Chrome browser - there has been an awful lot written about it and the impact it may have in the market place. We see many discussions about Google trying to take Microsoft head on. We like it, in fact we have used it to write this post... Read more...
Published a month ago

Are Nokia Moving away from Native VoIP ?
We are fans of Nokia and the way they have introduced VoIP support on most of their WiFi enabled handsets but we see various reports that they will no longer offer VoIP capabilities on some of its new handset models, such as the N78. The N series phones previously included a VoIP client that... Read more...
Published a month ago

Nortel Acquires Pingtel
Nortel has bought Pingtel from mobility firm Bluesocket. Nortel hopes the open source IP PBX division will have better luck moving forward. Financial terms of the deal remain confidential but Nortel will acquire the key assets of Pingtel from Bluesocket, Pingtel’s existing OEM relationship with... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Does Skype Have a Backdoor ?
We all hear about government agencies that listen into phone calls and how VoIP has presented some interesting challenges for them. In the past we have heared Skype say theat their calls cannot be listened into because of their proprietery encryption methods, well we have now seen a story to the... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

VoIP Voice gets Clearer
We see that Snom has announced Wideband support on it’s popular VoIP handset range - the phones require an upgraded handset and new software. The new snom klarVOICE handset works with the codec G.722.2 PSTN. This codec is able to shrink the bit rate of the voice channel down to 12.65 kbps,... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Femtocell Technology Stutters
We are still hearing a lot in the Press about Femtocells however it seems several of the large mobile operators are having second thoughts due to unresolved technical issues and unclear business cases. The concerns were voiced at the recent Femtocell Europe 2008 conference when SFR said it had... Read more...
Published 3 months ago