Cisco aims to plug channel knowledge gap on VoIP
28 Nov 2006
Train to win
Cisco says it has doubled its European channel partners in the last year to more than 2,300. It announced plans to improve the training it offers resellers, adding that many lack VoIP expertise.
RTX ships 'first' cordless Skype phone
23 Nov 2006
Exaggerated claim?
Danish handset maker RTX Telecom today launched what it claims is the first cordless Skype phone that doesn't require a PC. That's what the blogs are saying, at any rate. What RTX is really claiming is to have shipped the first RTX PC-less Skype handset, which is a bit like Honda making a big deal about how it's the first company in the world to ship a Civic with four wheels.
NEC adds VoIP to thin clients
09 Nov 2006
Prefers VMware to Citrix for virtual PCs
Why provide thin clients only with remote access to applications, when you can give them a full VoIP-enabled Windows XP environment on which to run standard PC software? That's the question posed by NEC with its Virtual PC Centre, or VPCC, which combines thin clients with VMware and VoIP.
Skype 3.0 beta is go
08 Nov 2006
What's that coming over the hill? It's a Ballmer
Skype released the beta of the third iteration of its VoIP software today, as Microsoft turns its roving eye towards the free net call market.
Skype says problems not its fault
07 Nov 2006
A bigger boy did it...
Skype is blaming a bigger boy for the problems users are having making phone calls.
AOL cans UK call centre
07 Nov 2006
And then there were none
AOL is pulling out of its call centre contract in Scotland, leaving it without UK-based customer support. Call centres will now be based offshore in the Republic of Ireland and India.
SkypeIn not in right now
03 Nov 2006
Incoming calls routed nowhere
Skype, the popular VoIP service, has been having technical difficulties with its SkypeIn service which enables Skype users to have a real phone number and receive normal phone calls through their Skype service.
Skype users hang on for free calls
27 Oct 2006
Promotion gone wrong
Skype user forums are filling up with angry customers who signed up to the Voice over Internet Protocol firm's free UK calls promotion.
Belkin gears up to ship Wi-Fi Skype phone in UK
25 Oct 2006
Pure predicts bright future
24 Oct 2006
Sparkling revenues prompt acquisition hunt
Pure Telecom is on the acquisition trail after announcing a healthy revenue forecast on Monday.