Review: Linksys CIT200 Cordless Internet Telephony Kit. review cit200. Linksys' Cordless Internet Telephony Kit has hit the shelves to help further propel Skype into mainstream legitimacy. Tim Higgins takes a look at a nicely done way to unchain yourself from...

because of applications like Skype that IP telephony is evolving from its stage of infancy. It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that IP-based telephony solutions such as Skype are set to become serious competitors for classic telephony solution providers...

VoIP firms, will tell you that it is not a complete telephony replacement comes down to emergency situations. VoIP is not as easily traceable as normal telephony services, and so will not always work well with emergency numbers such as 911. Steps are being...

the soft-phone for outbound call management. Similarly, even though the CS50-USB shows up as a regular Windows audio device, it is limited to monaural audio in just one ear. And since it supports only the audio spectrum needed by traditional telephony, it...

be relinquishing its lead position anytime soon.. In the realm of free VoIP, Skype is king. With over 225 million downloads to date, the Luxembourg-based provider of Internet telephony can rightfully claim to be in control of the free VoIP market. Indeed,...

simply, I'll concentrate on VoIP products aimed at average not-especially-technical consumers. I'll call this Consumer VoIP for lack of a better term. The early days of Internet telephony were pretty much limited to tinkerers, teens and 'tweens. These folks...

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Internet-based telephony. Skype was created by KaZaA founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and combines instant messaging, voice telephony and file transfer capabilities into one application. Skype is pretty adept at getting around firewalls (unless it...

chipmakers said, to pack the power of mainstream PCs into a device that would fit in the palm of your hand. The telcos were interested, and began spending billions of dollars to buy the spectrum licenses for 3G data telephony. The thinking went that the...

Linksys' Skype Phone. linksys. Despite the rumors about Skype being purchased or done in by competitors, it appears that Linksys thinks Skype will be around for at least a little while longer. Tim Higgins previews the upcoming CIT200 Cordless Internet Telephony...