Major brands in the VoIP space include Cisco, Poly, Grandstream IP phones, Mitel, and several others such as Nextiva and RingCentral. These VoIP providers have cornered a sizeable section of the IP ...

VoIP phones offer the familiar look of a conventional desk phone with similar functionality, but aren’t as plug-and-go. Like so much networking kit, setting up a VoIP phone can be a very frustrating ...

This weeks’ column concludes our three-week analysis of how organizations extend VoIP to their branch offices. Most commonly, they install IP PBXs at every location; 40% have adopted a distributed ...

Commercial carriers today face numerous challenges, including a global pandemic and the affects it has had on most businesses. Missing calls from clients and prospects shouldn’t be one of them. Many ...

After reading fellow blogger Tom Keating's excellent review of USRobotics' USR Cordless Phone for Skype (due later this month at $119.99, and his comparison of this product with the Linksys Cordless ...

To recommend the best phone systems for small businesses, our team of expert writers and researchers hone in on the most important factors. We rate providers on value for money – including initial ...

Ooma Office delivers nearly all the features a small business could ask for in a VoIP PBX, at a very affordable price. Every business must interact with its customers via the telephone at some point.

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

The humble office desk phone has become the latest device to fall foul of security research into vulnerabilities that open up the risk of espionage and cyberattack. Organizations using Avaya's popular ...

In the new motion picture Skyfall, James Bond uses fewer gadgets than in previous films, but a future 007 might not have to rely upon Q at all, instead taking advantage of ordinary gadgets, according ...