Voip/ip Telephony
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The dawn of unified communications
Insight The recession is forcing businesses to search for ways to cut costs--and unified comms is one place many will start, says analyst.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Mobile, Web Conferencing, PBX, IP, ThinkGrid, On-demand, IP network
Telepresence--time to work together
Insight perspective Tired of your comms kit not working well with others? An analyst says it's time to push for compatibility in the telepresence space.
Tags: LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Video, Standards, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Quocirca, Sales, Interoperability, phone
The talkification of the Web
Insight perspective The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the Internet. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues author Howard Greenfield.
Tags: Web browsers, VoIP/IP telephony, Web 2.0, Ribbit, Google Inc., Telecommunications, phone, software, technology company, Facebook
Configuring VoIP in Twinkle
Techguide If you need a reliable and capable SIP softphone for Linux, Vincent Danen suggests using the feature-rich Twinkle to configure its use.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, SIP, Fedora Project, Twinkle, Phone, laptop computer, VoIP, authentication, headset
Web 2.0 an innovative boost to IPTV?
News Web 2.0 content and services bring benefits to Internet protocol television, but there are challenges in implementation, says an industry player.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Web 2.0, TVs, CommunicAsia 2008, IP Television, Facebook, CTO, TANDBERG Television, Web 2.0, vice president
Virtual meetings to ground 2 million airline seats
News Videoconferencing tech, and online worlds such as Second Life, will increase in usage as organizations reconsider whether face-to-face meetings are essential, says Gartner.
Tags: Video, VoIP/IP telephony, Forecasting, Airline, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Video Conferencing, Gartner Inc., Forecasting, Worker
Google tries to break IPv6 logjam by own example
News It argues there now are financial reasons to adopt the next-generation Internet standard. And Google itself could profit from the more democratized network.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Google Inc., Server, network, Internet, IPv6, IPv4, VoIP/IP telephony
Skype retiring third-party Extras
News Developers and users will have some adjustment time. Skype won't certify any new submissions, but it won't yank support for existing Extras until their certificates expire.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Backup, Developer, adjustment, Mozilla Firefox, API
Skype founders pull out the stops
News The men who launched the Internet-calling service are redoubling their legal efforts after a failed last-minute bid to buy back the eBay unit.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., networking company, financial, founder, Internet, VoIP/IP telephony
FCC looking into Google Voice and rural calls
News After AT&T complained that Google Voice is allowed to skirt rules that require it to connect expensive calls to rural areas, agency is reportedly planning to probe the matter.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Google Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Phone, landline phone company, network, Net Neutrality, Voice, Associated Press
China's Skype service censoring messages
News University of Toronto researchers say they uncovered "targeted surveillance" of TOM-Skype users in China. Text chats are blocked if they contain certain words.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Security, Report, E-mail Message, Server, New York Times Co., Canada, professor
Skype: We didn't know about security issues
News The company's president says he knew its Chinese partner filtered messages, but he was unaware that it was storing personal information in an insecure way.
Tags: Privacy, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., Security, Storage, software, IM, researcher, knowledge
Chinese translation service stutters into life
News Jajah's voice-recognizing telephone translation service has an unsteady start, suffering an outage immediately after launch.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Software, Service, phone, speakerphone, co-founder, network, China, Internet
M'sian IP tech provider to support Microsoft UC
News Malaysian Internet telephony technology provider QubeConnect signs deal to develop and offer interoperability on Microsoft Office Communications Server.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, VoIP/IP telephony, Microsoft Corp., China Mobile Ltd., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Malaysia, venture capital, software, unified communications, VoIP
Skype touts business credentials
News Trying to shed the perception its voice over IP technology is just a consumer tool, the company stresses it can help small businesses keep costs low.
Tags: Communications, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., IP, Advertisement, phone, London, Silicon.com, founder
