Appeal judge moots 'middle ground' in Vonage patent flap
25 Jun 2007
Asks if provisions for 'workaround' are appropriate
The black clouds that for the last three months have been hanging over VOIP service provider Vonage parted ever so slightly today, allowing through the tiniest sliver of sunshine as a federal appeals judge raised the possibility of a compromise in its patent war with Verizon.
Skype goes out to mobile phones
11 Jun 2007
Assuming you know who you're going to call
Skype Pro customers can now make international calls from their mobiles or any other phone at Skype Out rates, provided they've pre-registered the numbers they want to call.
Vodafone says VoIP is 'expensive' and 'unsafe'
07 Jun 2007
Shhh, don't tell the terrorists
Vodafone is telling customers that VoIP services are insecure - even as Sky News is reporting that VoIP calls threaten our war on terror because such calls can't be intercepted.
ooVoo readies six-way Jetson chat client
06 Jun 2007
Analysts suffering from video latency
Add another to the long list of free video-chat clients. With its new software, due to officially launch on June 11, startup ooVoo is entering a market that already includes AOL, Apple, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Skype, and a handful of smaller names. The difference? The ooVoo client focuses on multi-person video calls, allowing for face-to-face chat across six different locations.
T-Mobile internet biz buys a slice of VoIP action
29 May 2007
Jajah completes big name backer roster
Jajah, the Austro-Californian VoIP outfit we profiled last week, has announced that the mystery second investor in its third funding round is Deutsche Telekom (DT).
Skype worm leaps onto MSN
24 May 2007
IM in peril
Malware miscreants have created the first worm targeting Skype that's also capable over other instant messaging networks, such as MSN and ICQ.
Jajah calls patent big brothers for global VoIP domination
24 May 2007
Meesah wanna takem over dem telephones
When a young company struts about proclaiming it wants to be "the Google of XYZ", it's hard to take seriously. Generally, it's a headline-grabbing conceit which doesn't actually mean a lot: every tech company would love Google's market share, stock price, teflon public image, and 767 party plane. Jajah, a Silicon Valley VoIP outfit, probably has more claim to deploy the soundbite without being yawned out of the room than most.
Another ISP throttles bandwidth
23 May 2007
Nildram applies the brakes
Updated Pipex-owned ISP Nildram has joined the ranks of providers who are interfering with traffic to reduce the bandwidth burden from peer-to-peer networks and other "non-interactive" traffic.
Just one VoIP service to SIP from?
22 May 2007
Gizmo scores Nokia coup
Serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson has learned a thing or two from competing with Microsoft. Life is much easier if you can get the dominant hardware vendors to bundle your software.
Salesforce.com embeds Skype into CRM
14 May 2007
Voice choice
As part of its sustained campaign to dominate the emerging world of on-demand applications, salesforce.com has announced a version of the Skype Internet-based telephone software to work with its Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) package.