Hold the Phone: VoIP Style

Remember our Course Introduction module, setting up and using Skype? Well, I thought this article was interesting and ties into our previous learning exercise using VoIP. From my yesterday’s RSS feed in the New York Times Technology Section, “Phones for that Other System”:


This article talks about how “until recently, the best you could hope for was an ‘operators standing by’ headset and microphone, which had to be tethered to a computer, which was itself tethered to a router.” It shows how the computer headphone is now morphing into new, familiar-looking VoIP phones to be more user friendly. The idea is that offering a familiar looking phone will open up the market to let Skype compete with landlines and cell phones.