Ad watchdog slaps The Link's wrists
11 Oct 2006
Unfair comparison with BT
The Advertising Standards Authority has told phone retailer The Link and Freetalk Communication that a recent email advertising its Voice over Internet Protocol service was unfair to BT.
US using more mobiles than landlines
10 Oct 2006
And VoIP take-up forecast to take off
Mobile phones have eclipsed landlines as communication methods of choice for Americans, according to an online survey by Harris Interactive.
Swiss gov 'mulls' spyware to tap VoIP calls
10 Oct 2006
Paging Superintendent Trojan
The Swiss government is "considering" the use of a spyware application called Superintendent Trojan to eavesdrop on IP telephony conversation, Heise Security reports.
Vonage V-phone hits UK streets
09 Oct 2006
It's mobile and, technically, it's a phone
It's a phone on a USB stick, it looks just like any USB memory stick, and it has (at last!) shipped into the UK. It's the Vonage V-phone.
Vonage calls up USB key phone
05 Oct 2006
VoIP app and 250MB of storage space
VoIP telephony company Vonage has launched its V-Phone USB calling kit in the UK. It's the size of a Flash drive - there's 250MB of free storage space on there - but also includes all you need to use your Vonage account on any PC, anywhere.
Skype patches Mac OS X flaw
04 Oct 2006
Calling out for an update
Skype has released an update for its Mac software following the discovery of a security vulnerability that created a means to compromise Apple PCs running the popular IP telephony application.
Skype on Symbian 'is challenging', CEO says
28 Sep 2006
Technical hurdles
Putting Skype onto a Symbian phone has proved more difficult than had been hoped, according to an interview given by co-founder and chief executive Niklas Zennstrom to a Finnish newspaper, as reported by Yahoo! News.
Intel hypes WiMAX to the sky in Brazil
25 Sep 2006
A man in a van would do
Column It is over five years since two LocustWorld staff set up a satellite van in a Yorkshire Dales village, and provided wireless internet to local users who couldn't get ADSL.
'First' GSM, VoIP dual-mode Windows Mobile handset launched
22 Sep 2006
Paragon Wireless pitches SIP-friendly phone at corporates
US-based VoIP handset maker Paragon Wireless has launched what it claims is the world's first Windows Mobile 5.0 phone designed for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) VoIP calls that also operates as a regular quad-band GSM/GPRS handset.
iSkoot brings Skype to Treo smart phones
21 Sep 2006
VoIP over cellular
iSkoot the Sype-on-mobile-phones company has brought its VoIP software to Palm's Treo 650 and 700p, the firm announced this week even as it extended its network coverage to dozens of countries outside the US.