VOIP Solution and Service

The Danish company RTX Products A/S has introduced a cordless telephone handset that works with internet phone service provider Skype’s services and does not require a personal computer. The new DUAL phone helps people to save money on their phone bill and gives them more flexibility when using Skype.

The company’s DUAL phone 3088 can also be used as a normal phone using a landline. It works by connecting its base station to both a broadband internet connection for Skype calls and a traditional analog landline connection for making calls over the public switched telephone network(PSTN). The cordless aspect of the product is provided by DECT, a wireless technology well known for high reliability, low cost and no interference problems.

The phone has a simple Skype user interface and possesses almost all the Skype voice features. To use it on the internet, however, the internet connection must always be on. Users will have the option of making a Skype call or landline call and also Skype PC calls, SkypeOut, SkypeIn and Voicemail. The phone is priced 159 euros and has a colour display and an operating time of more than 10 hours of talk time as well as up to 140 hours at standby.

RTX Products A/S is a 100% owned subsidiary of RTX Telecom A/S, an internationally oriented group which develops and markets advanced high-tech solutions and products such as the DUALphone, Wireless Local Loop (WLL), Bluetoothâ„¢ headsets and healthcare products.

As schools prepare themselves to be tech savvy and more and more schools are putting transmitters in classrooms to give pupils wireless access from laptops to the school computer network and the internet, yet another debate poses a question mark on the use of wireless.

Many parents and some scientists are concerned that low levels of microwave radiation emitted by the transmitters could be harmful, causing loss of concentration, headaches, fatigue, memory and behavioral problems and possibly cancer in the long term.

Although there is no conclusive evidence for this, yet the debate is sure to send a shock through wireless LAN vendors, for whom the education market is a critical growth area. This is the latest in what seems to be a rising number of wireless controversies involving school-age and sometimes younger children, covering not only emissions but also privacy, security and safety, and acceptable use of cell phones, WLANs, and RFID.

Take a look at some of these incidents which show how parents and teachers are getting more and more apprehensive about the hazards of wi-fi.

At the Prebendal School, a prestigious preparatory in Chichester, West Sussex, England, a group of parents lobbied the head teacher, Tim Cannell, to remove the wireless network last month.

At Ysgol Pantycelyn, a high school in Carmarthenshire, Wales, parents aired their concerns to the governors, who agreed to switch off its wireless network.

Stowe School, a Buckinghamshire private boarding school, also removed part of its wireless network after Michael Bevington, a classics teacher for 28 years at the school, said that he had such a violent reaction to the network that he was too ill to teach.

Until now, BlackBerrys have been exclusively designed for use in the corporate world - not anymore. BlackBerry Pearl from Rogers Wireless is a stylish and powerful smartphone featuring the gold standard in push-email. The smallest, lightest BlackBerry ever in a stylish smartphone designed for the person who works and lives on the go.

With Blackberry Pearl you have Camera, MP3 Player, Micro SD Card, Trackball, SureType, Voice-activated Dialing and Blackberry maps. Other features include:

* Email, calendar and contacts pushed to your device in real-time.
* Quad-band worldphone with email and Internet access to over 90 countries.
* EDGE enabled for faster downloading and Internet surfing.
* Speakerphone for hands-free and conference calling.
* Bluetooth® support for headset and car accessories.
* High-resolution colour display that automatically adjusts the backlight based on ambient lighting.
* Instant Messaging with BlackBerry Messenger and Yahoo!® Messenger.

It comes with a high resolution backlit LCD colour screen supporting over 65,000 colours. It has a resolution of 240 x 260 pixels and sells for $249.99 on a three-year voice and data plan from Rogers Wireless and is available exclusively across Canada through Rogers Wireless dealers, retail points of sale or online at www.rogers.com.

Rogers Wireless Inc. is Canada’s largest wireless voice and data communications services provider with offices in Canadian cities across the country, more than 6.3 million customers, and two powerful brands: Rogers Wireless and Fido.

At last VoIP is beginning to free itself from the shackles of broadband and PC and has come in the hands of cellphone users.

It is an obvious threat to Voice 2.0 , and of course to old-fashioned telephone and mobile companies. The companies like Skype, who have reportedly not moved much ahead in the mobile zone, also have to adapt to this new technology. These companies in the recent years have attracted millions of customers by allowing cheap or free phone calls over broadband instead of traditional phone lines.

However to use them users must buy special hardware to make phone calls over the internet, and the best deals are typically between two callers who use the same service. In other words, Skype isn’t much helpful in connecting you to your old grandmother in the old country unless she’s savvy enough to have a broadband connection and an account of her own.

Now is the era of smaller companies like Jajah and Rebtel. One company is boasting that customers can make VOIP calls over landlines or mobile phones without needing broadband. For $1 a week, another company connects international callers on mobile phones at no charge other than that for a local call.

In both cases, the companies rely on the fact that incoming calls are often free for cell-phone users. Both approaches have weak points, like a complicated pricing system (Jajah) and a clunky calling protocol (Rebtel). And there’s new competition from iSkoot, which offers software that helps cell phones access VOIP.