Adam Stone

After reading this review of Internet Explorer 8, if you’d like download the browser, here’s the IE 8 download page. Microsoft has finally taken the wraps off its latest Internet Explorer iteration. The recently-released Internet Explorer 8, downloadable for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, has been thoroughly tested and cleansed for public consumption. So […]

With the open source music player Songbird finally making its v1.0 debut this past December after two years in development, the big question swirling around Songbird continues to be whether or not this Mozilla-based player will be able to give iTunes a run for its money. Songbird’s interface is somewhat similar to iTunes but with […]

Any time we see online user reviews that include phrases like “thunder god,” we are at once both skeptical and curious. Skeptical because, let’s face it, is anything really that good? And curious because, well, what if it is? FileZilla Screenshot FileZilla may very well have earned the title. The freeware, open source FileZilla is […]

Any time we see online user reviews that include phrases like “thunder god,” we are at once both skeptical and curious. Skeptical because, let’s face it, is anything really that good? And curious because, well, what if it is? FileZilla Screenshot FileZilla may very well have earned the title. The freeware, open source FileZilla is […]

Technology planners in the Town of Enfield, Conn. say they have taken a big leap forward. Their effort may be exemplary of what municipalities can gain by upgrading their connectivity architecture with an eye toward VoIP. Save money and improve services: That’s the bottom line. “Our plan was to merge the technology between the municipality […]

Need we say that 2008 has been a busy year in the world of VoIP? We’ve got a dozen months worth of intrepid reporting to prove it. Time now to get some perspective. We’ll publish soon our prognosis on what the New Year promises, but first a look back on the departing 365. The passing […]

When the economic news isn’t gloom these days, it’s doom. We’re bracing for the worst, but the worst is not here yet. Nevertheless, in a couple of reports just out, industry watchers say the prognosis for IP communications remains relatively strong. The Radicati Group predicts steady growth in the on-premises corporate unified communications (UC) market, […]

We’ll be pulling the lever on Tuesday—or touching the screen, or making our mark, but we won’t be phoning it in. At least not yet. The thinkers at San Diego-based Everyone Countsare betting they can get voters to register their preference by VoIP within the next few years. Their Web-based technology won’t just make life […]

Pushing IP voice calls across cellular data networks: It’s technically feasible, but the business model has always been tricky, with carriers ever anxious to maintain the financially rewarding model of billing voice and data as distinct plans. Now that distinction may be breaking down, with one top tier carrier poised to allow the use of […]

Small businesses looking to upgrade their telecom situation are sometimes apprehensive. Solutions are often complex and typically require some degree of technical expertise to deploy. If you don’t already have it in house—and most with fewer than 20 employees do not—that expertise is going to cost you. “You look at the market and it is […]