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Controversy rises over VoIP wiretap possibility

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

With more people turning to VoIP Internet calls every day, concern is rising that the U.S. government will press its case to be able to listen in on them as they do with traditional landline calls in certain criminal cases and terror investigations.
A report from the Information Technology Association of America, a Silicon Valley based […]

SunRocket seems much improved

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I promised an update when I reinstalled it and tonight, after a week’s worth of renewed experience with SunRocket, one of the cheapest VoIP providers around, I can give it a favorable review. I’ve used it several times a day since reinstalling it and, except for occasional lags in dialing (it sometimes takes 20 seconds […]

SunRocket running well

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

It’s been some months since my first and disappointing experiment with VoIP provider SunRocket. But after hearing from several blog readers who reported good experiences with the service over the past few weeks, I hooked my SunRocket gizmo back up and, after a couple of days, am quite pleased by the quality and reliability. Maybe […]

Mike likes Skype

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

I’ve put the new Skype 2.0 with video through the paces and really like what I’ve seen. I’ve also installed a new Linksys phone headset that works with Skype. Very cool.  MIKE WENDLAND: Why phone? Skype instead.

Skype 2.0 offers video and more

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

I’ve been so impressed with the new 2.0 version of Skype that I went ahead and signed up for a phone number and outgoing VoIP calls. I’ve done one video conference so far and it was pretty slick, though running it through a wireless home network was the reason I was getting some dropouts, methinks. […]

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