Voip/ip Telephony
51 Stories
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.
Tuesday, May 19 2009 09:26 PM
Tags: LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Video, Standards, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Quocirca, Sales, Interoperability, phone
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.
Wednesday, April 01 2009 09:05 PM
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, LANs and WANs, VoIP/IP telephony, Mobile, Web Conferencing, PBX, IP, ThinkGrid, On-demand, IP network
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.
Wednesday, May 07 2008 04:47 AM
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.
Monday, November 02 2009 01:42 PM
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, SIP, Phone, Fedora Project, Twinkle, laptop computer, authentication, VoIP, headset
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.
Monday, October 12 2009 10:03 AM
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Google Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Phone, network, landline phone company, Net Neutrality, Voice, Associated Press
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.
Thursday, September 24 2009 10:06 AM
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., networking company, financial, founder, Internet, 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.
Monday, September 14 2009 09:44 AM
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Backup, Developer, Mozilla Firefox, API, adjustment
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.
Monday, March 30 2009 11:37 AM
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Google Inc., Server, network, Internet, IPv6, IPv4, VoIP/IP telephony
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.
Monday, February 09 2009 06:34 AM
Tags: Video, VoIP/IP telephony, Forecasting, Airline, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Video Conferencing, Gartner Inc., Forecasting, Worker
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.
Friday, June 20 2008 07:22 PM
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Web 2.0, TVs, CommunicAsia 2008, IP Television, Facebook, CTO, TANDBERG Television, Web 2.0, vice president
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.
Monday, October 06 2008 01:46 AM
Tags: Privacy, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., Security, Storage, software, IM, researcher, knowledge
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.
Thursday, October 02 2008 10:40 AM
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Security, Report, E-mail Message, Server, New York Times Co., Canada, professor
Chinese translation service stutters into life
News Jajah's voice-recognizing telephone translation service has an unsteady start, suffering an outage immediately after launch.
Friday, August 08 2008 11:14 AM
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Software, Service, phone, speakerphone, co-founder, network, China, Internet
T-Mobile says Sidekick data may yet return
News Wireless carrier has said efforts suggest 'recovering some lost content may now be possible', while those who do suffer a permanent data loss will get US$100.
Wednesday, October 14 2009 10:47 AM
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Data backup, disaster recovery, Data Management, Database, Data services, Battery, Phone, Microsoft Corp., Sales
Microsoft's Sidekick data 'almost certainly lost'
News U.S. users of the T-Mobile Sidekick handset have been told their personal data, which was being hosted by Microsoft, is unlikely to be recovered after a server failure.
Tuesday, October 13 2009 10:20 AM
Tags: Cellular phones, VoIP/IP telephony, Smart phones, VoIP, Hiptop, Microsoft Corp., handset, Sidekick, Backup, Server




