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		<title>VoIP phone market heating up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like this summer is shaping up to be a hot one for Voip phone manufacturers.
Thanks to the rapid adoption of standards based open source and open source based VoIP systems, the emergence of HD Voice and the rebounding of prosumer spending, a plethora of manufacturers will have a new voip phone hitting the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/voip-phone-market-heating-up/</link>
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		<title>Nimbuzz gains a step thanks to Voxbone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tobias Kemper, Nimbuzz&#8217;s head of communications, says Nimbuzz wants to be a truly mass-market application. But before they can get there, they&#8217;ll need to increase the number of ways folks can access and use the service.
One step in that direction was their recent tapping of Voxbone, a provider of worldwide telephone numbers and origination services for voice carriers, to help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/nimbuzz-taps-voxbone/</link>
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		<title>Niche applications driving video calling adoption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Propelled by the &#8220;seeing is believing&#8221; phenomena video phone calling is continuing to increase in popularity and usage.  It&#8217;s growing adoption, however, is not being driven by traditional consumer calling (as one would think), but by niche applications.
A perfect example is recent news that VoIP, Video and IP Surveillance equipment manufacturer Grandstream Networks has teamed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/niche-applications-driving-video-calling-adoption/</link>
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		<title>Price or support?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to consumer VoIP service you can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it too. If you want service at low price with more features than a traditional land line it will come with trade-offs.
That&#8217;s why Robert Mitchell&#8217;s account of his dealings with Vonage&#8217;s technical support was interesting to read.
It&#8217;s a textbook case on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/price-or-support/</link>
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		<title>DECT VoIP phones growing in popularity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The VoIP equipment market has been relatively quiet this year (and Q4 of 2008). Paralyzed by the economy, new product announcements (on the whole) have been kept to the minimum.
The one trend that seems to be awakening the VoIP equipment market is the ever growing demand for high quality, reliable mobility solutions. As VoIP adoption [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/dect-phones/</link>
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		<title>Jaxtr gets sold, which mobile VoIP provider is next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those outside of the VoIP industry, 2008 will go down as the year the great recession began. For those inside the industry, 2008 was the year Mobile VoIP grew in prominence.
A year ago at this time, news of a mobile VoIP provider being acquired would have garnered a ton of headlines. Today, there was barely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/jaxtr-gets-sold-which-mobile-voip-provider-is-next/</link>
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		<title>Cisco continues creeping into IP surveillance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re one of the world&#8217;s largest companies and &#8220;own&#8221; 85% of all IP networks you&#8217;re in a powerful position. This is especially true as technology moves from the analog world to the digital, IP world.
One industry that is currently moving from analog to IP, much in the same manner as voice, is video surveillance. Like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/cisco-continues-creeping-into-ip-surveillance/</link>
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		<title>eBay&#8217;s mishandling of Skype continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[eBay&#8217;s inability to fully integrate and maximize the potential of Skype within it&#8217;s core offerings has been well documented over the last few years. And even in prepping Skype for sale or an IPO, eBay continues its string of boneheaded moves when it comes to the world most popular voice and video service.
According to a statement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/ebays-mishandling-of-skype-continues/</link>
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		<title>Cisco SPA8800 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today pal Cory Andrews broke the news about the newest SMB VoIP product from Cisco, the SPA8800.
The Cisco SPA8800 is an affordable VoIP Gateway option for small medium businesses and VoIP service providers. The Cisco SPA8800 is SIP based and features four (4) FXS ports for connecting traditional telephones and or fax machines.
The Cisco [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/cisco-spa8800-released/</link>
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		<title>Windows market still attracting interest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the long term future of Microsoft&#8217;s Response Point software still unknown one would think that it&#8217;s a signal that the Windows Telephony market is dud. And while Microsoft&#8217;s attempt to capture a juicy chunk of the massive small business market seems to have hit a snag, it&#8217;s not deterring other VoIP industry players from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smithonvoip.com/windows-market-still-attracting-interest/</link>
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