Displaying items by tag: voice

Optus is striking back at prepaid competitors with added data and talk time, but is it enough?

Optus has finally released voice and SMS stats for Christmas to Boxing Day 2014, rising from 2013 by 3%, voice calls by 5% and a huge rise in data.

Australian startup VoiceByte’s deal with Alcatel OneTouch sees its app preloaded onto Alcatel’s range of Android-powered OneTouch smartphones in Australia and NZ.

After Microsoft purchased Skype for US $8.5 billion back in 2011, many wondered when Microsoft’s Lync software would be folded in to Skype, or a separate business version of Skype. The date has been announced, and its in the ‘first half of 2015’.

ShoreTel has its wares on display at VMware’s 2014 VForum at Sydney’s Luna Park, with today the final day, showcasing not only its snazzy smartphone and tablet phone IP docks but also its current UC platform release, ShoreTel 14.2 - plus we had a chat on video to one of ShoreTel’s solution architects, Kevin Rossiter in the VForum exhibition area.

The 2014 Melbourne Cup’s mobile Internet service is reported to be sorted, with Telstra, Optus and Vodafone increasing capacity in various way to keep the punters connected.

Telstra has become the Uncanny X-Men blended in with the Fantastic 4G, with its LTE-A and now '4GX' branded equipment able to reach superhero-like speeds that make even the mighty Flash seem slow.

Cloud communications provider Call Journey now offers what it claims is the world's fastest voice analytics platform.

Popular VoIP and messaging application Viber is already available on several smartphone platforms, and has just launched a new beta for BlackBerries and Windows Phones, but without voice calls on those two new platforms – yet.

Australia's largest non-infrastructure based provider of telecommunications services, M2 Telecommunications (ASX: M2) has embarked on a radical shift of its business model by paying AUD$192m for Primus Australia - very much an infrastructure-based telco.

The bane of cold calling telemarketers, Australia's Do Not Call Register now has more than seven million numbers on its list and it continues to grow. The news released today by the Australian Communications and Media Authority is a ringing endorsement of the push for consumer privacy against unwanted voice call intruders.

The increasing take-up of mobile data services did not come at the expense of fixed line services in 2009-10, according to a new report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission tabled in Parliament yesterday.

I was totally flabbergasted at today's news that Monash City Council was receiving resistance to a simple biometric application for time-and-attendance monitoring.  Wake up people, this stuff has been around for well over ten years.

If you're an Optus mobile user with patchy 3G reception at home or work, and have a broadband connection with at least 1Mbps download speed and 512Kbps upload speed, Optus' swell femtocell should finally spell the end of potential coverage hell.

Vodafone has responded to media reports about both Vodafone's adverts claiming a better, stronger, faster network and a report that Voda's mobile broadband still isn't much chop in on the train past Hornsby to Newcastle.

Although Vodafone has recently announced major upgrades to its networks, grumblings by some still continue over voice and data quality, but not from everyone.

With today's Bluetooth headsets A2DP, DSP, noise-cancelling and multi-pair enabled, you need to do something different to stand out, with Plantronics doing just that with its latest Savor M1100 Bluetooth headset!

With today's Bluetooth headsets A2DP, DSP, noise-cancelling and multi-pair enabled, you need to do something different to stand out, with Plantronics doing just that with its latest Savor M1100 Bluetooth headset!

Although there was no mention whatsoever of improved or expanded voice commands or voice dictation in yesterday's iOS 5 launch, the word is that it's coming - as has a jailbreak of iOS 5 already!

Living up to its name, Australia's funkiest MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) has come out with a new 'unlimited plan' that cuts the cap crap spewed forth by Australia's $1-a-minute rip-off telcos.