Company wins more validation

In their ongoing battle for industry validation, the executives at Sarasota-based XG Technology have a new weapon for their arsenal: Rich Tehrani, an influential blogger and entrepreneur in the world of Voice over Internet Protocol technology.

Tehrani recently wrote a column for his blog titled “xG Technology's xMax technology works as advertised.” It's a big step for xG, which is attempting to do something big cell phone companies haven't been able to do: Provide an inexpensive way to make cell phone calls over the Internet using VoIP.

The company maintains a corporate office in downtown Sarasota and a research and manufacturing lab in Fort Lauderdale. It has spent the past decade both perfecting its technology and trying to prove to a skeptical industry that the system can work.