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.
Tesco Telecoms faces mis-selling probe
04 May 2007
BT: Quite right too
Ofcom has launched an investigation into practices at Tesco's Telecoms unit.
Vonage wants retrial of Verizon patent case
02 May 2007
Supreme Court ruling to the rescue
Vonage has asked for a retrial in the patent case which the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone company lost to telco giant Verizon. The company wants the trial reheard in the light of a new Supreme Court ruling on patent law.
Firm offers Indian maths graduates by VoIP
27 Apr 2007
All-the-the-boffin-you-can-take at a flat rate price
The chairman of an online-tutoring startup connecting Indian graduates to Western schoolchildren by VoIP says he is not engaged in outsourcing education.
Vonage gets injunction stay made permanent
25 Apr 2007
Still confident of victory, but squirreling away cash just in case
The US Court of Appeal has granted an indefinite stay on the injunction which threatened to prevent Vonage signing up new customers while its patent row with Verizon drags on - meaning the company might just remain viable.
Vonage admits it can't avoid Verizon patents
16 Apr 2007
US VoIP providers hold collective breath
Vonage has admitted that it has no technical work-around to avoid infringing Verizon's patents on key VoIP techniques, putting the future of the company, and other VoIP providers in the US, in doubt.
Vonage chief walks
13 Apr 2007
Adios
Troubled telco and broadband provider Vonage has lost its chief executive. Michael Snyder has quit as CEO and resigned from the board of directors.