Microsoft tries to talk its way into VoIP
26 Mar 2008
What's that? Speak up
Microsoft is shouting its way into the VoIP market by extending its small business phone systems to support voice recognition.
Free voice and video firm plans April 1 UK launch
17 Mar 2008
Red letter day for ad-funded Voixio
New UK service Voixio is to offer free national or international phone and video calls to internet users. The catch? For every call you first have to watch an ad or commercial.
Please don't call us, begs German VoIP phone outfit
13 Mar 2008
Comms breakdown for snom.com
You've got to feel a bit sorry for German VoIP phone outfit snom, which has asked customers not to call it following an evidently troublesome office relocation.
Go!Messenger VoIP for 'fat' PSPs coming on Friday
27 Feb 2008
Skype? Pah!
The PlayStation Portable?s (PSP) Go!Messenger service will finally go live on Friday, bringing VoIP and IM to owners of the first-gen PSP left in the cold by the recent Skype release.
eBay parachutes ecommerce veteran into Skype hotseat
26 Feb 2008
Now make some money
eBay has dispatched one of its own to take the helm at Skype, in the hope he can go some way to justify its increasingly baffling multi-billion buck purchase of the profit-lite VoIP app.
UK's number one router open to VoIP hijacking
21 Jan 2008
BT Home Hub pwned (again)
Updated Principals of the ethical hacking outfit GNUCitizen say they have found a serious security bug in the BT Home Hub that could allow attackers to engage in identity theft and other types of fraud by hijacking calls routed over the internet.
FBI rings warnings over VoIP phishing cons
21 Jan 2008
'Alarming' rise in vishing
Fraudsters are turning to VoIP systems to craft more convincing phishing attacks. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) warned last week of an "alarming" rise in the volume of so-called vishing attacks targeting US financial institutions and consumers.
Skype blocks poison movie peril
18 Jan 2008
Video pwnd the radio star
Skype said it has blocked a bug that created a means for hackers to attack vulnerable Windows PCs using malicious video files.
2008 - the year VoIP gets hacked?
17 Jan 2008
The drawbacks of IP everywhere
With VoIP rapidly becoming a commodity feature in everything from TV set-top boxes to barcode scanners, Sipera's VIPER Lab predicts that 2008 will be the year it all goes pear-shaped - a prediction borne out by Cisco's first security fix of the year.
Motorola brings VoIP to the shop floor
17 Jan 2008
Barcode readers you can talk to
It's not just mobile phones that are getting more features than you can possibly use, Motorola's latest barcode scanner has a VoIP client built in to allow shelf-stackers to chat while they're working.