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- A quick and easy guide to the Verizon patents in the Vonage case
- Earlier this week I posted a detailed synopsis of the three Verizon patents at the heart of the infringement dispute with Vonage. You can find those posts here, here, and here.Network Worlds Denise Pappalardo now offers a cogent summary of just what exactly the disputed Verizon patents at the heart...
- Tags: General, Vonage, Verizon VoiceWing
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- For Vonage, April 24 could be "terrible Tuesday"
- Thats two weeks from today if you are counting or even if you are not.April 24 will be when a U.S. federal appeals court will hear oral arguments on Vonages request for a stay while it appeals a finding it infringed Verizons patents. Last Friday, a lower court...
- Tags: Verizon VoiceWing, Vonage, Regulatory, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- With patent stay-ruling expected today, Vonage's future could hang in the balance
- In just a few hours from now, Vonage will hear if a Federal judge will grant a stay in his ruling that Vonage is liable for violating three of Verizons VoIP-related patents.U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton will either issue the injunction or provide Vonage with a stay....
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon VoiceWing, Regulatory, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Jury to Vonage: pay Verizon $58 million. What do you think?
- A Federal jury today ordered Vonage to pay Verizon $58 million for patent infringement. The jury found that Vonage had infringed on three of the five patents Verizon accused its rival of doing.The payment, which will be appealed, is exactly one-thirds that of the $197 million Verizon had requested. The...
- Tags: Verizon VoiceWing, News, Vonage, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- I've just received an email saying Verizon Web Calling will drop 911 service April 1
- Even though I am not a Verizon subscriber, the following just appeared in my email Inbox a few minutes ago. Traceable to some address called webcalling-support@verizon.comIMPORTANT ACCOUNT INFORMATION REGARDING DIALING EMERGENCY SERVICES Effective on or about April 1, Verizon Web Calling will no longer...
- Tags: General, Verizon VoiceWing
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Verizon iPhone could have been a reality
- USATodays Leslie Cauley reports that as long as two years ago, Apple and Steve Jobs held initial discussions with Verizon about the carrier becoming exclusive distributor for the then-envisioned iPhone.If so, we would have seen Verizons logo all over the ad at the top, not Cingulars.Didnt happen.Verizon reportedly balked, because...
- Tags: General, Verizon VoiceWing, Cingular, Apple, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizons
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches us
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches usMessage has been deleted.
- Tags: Verizon Voicewing, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches us
- 3 important lessons the new Verizon VoiceWing price plan teaches usDumbest idea ever!Hmm, pay for minutes instead of pay for all you can "eat". Hmm, let me think about this . . . NO!Hmmm 4 cents a minuteI can get long distance for 2.9 cents a minute, with no broadband...
- Tags: Taxes, E-mail, Telephony, Free trade, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Voicewing, connection quality
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
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- VoIP's "four obstacles" are listed and described
- VoIP's "four obstacles" are listed and describedVoIP not ready for the bigtimeI had Vonage for my home phone service. Vonage--the company--itself was a nightmare (I'm back with Verizon now). But the Vonage VoIP service was almost as bad. Voice quality was ok, but not as clear as...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, voice quality, VoIP, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-12
- Vonage enjoined from using certain VoIP technologies in Verizon lawsuit
- Vonage enjoined from using certain VoIP technologies in Verizon lawsuitMy horrible Voicewing experienceVoicewing sucks! It's a joke that they are suing Vonage! Vonage sucks because it stole Verizon's lousy service which. Voicewing really does give a bad name to all of Verizon. I had the service for approximately 6 weeks...
- Tags: Telephony, VoiceWing, Verizon Communications Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- Microsoft does open source a favor with Response Point
- Microsofts Response Point, announced as an OEM competitor to Digiums Asterisk a few weeks ago, may be the biggest favor Microsoft has done open source in some time. (Picture from Obufete.Com.)The reason is that open source has bigger enemies than Microsoft when it comes to VOIP technology. The Bells.While Verizon...
- Tags: Telephony, Microsoft Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., VoIP, open source
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Biggest need in the VoIP space: Web-based, carrier-neutral universal VoIP phone directory
- Wouldn't it be great if there was a Web-based centralized directory of inbound VoIP phone numbers from all carriers? A third-party website where customers of Vonage, Skype's SkypeIn service, Packet8, AT&T CallVantage, Verizon VoiceWing, and pretty much any other IP phone service you could think of could list their inbound...
- Tags: telephone, VoIP
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- Vonage gets squeezed from above-Verizon- and below-AOL
- On Wednesday, Verizon announced that it would lower the cost of its VoiceWing service from $34.95 a month to $24.95 a month. That's a tad cheaper than Vonage's most comparable, $24.99 plan. But unlike Vonage VoiceWing's activation will be free.Then just yesterday, AOL said it would launch AIM Phoneline,...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
- Is this an MSN Messenger VoIP UI?
- An independent website called Messenger Blog has posted what one of the site's authors says is an updated version of MSN Messenger with PC to phone capability.It's been widely reported this capability will be offered via a partnership between Microsoft and MCI. I don't see an MCI logo in...
- Tags: MCI Inc., MSN, Verizon Communications Inc., MSN Messenger
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- To battle handset VoIP, cell carriers have three alternatives
- Earlier this week, colleagues Stefanie Olsen and Marguerite Reardon wrote and posted a quite insightful article called "VoIP wants to cut the computer cord."Their premise is that mobile users already predisposed to using VoIP don't necessarily want to open their laptop to access these services via softphone - say, a...
- Tags: softphone
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- What about..'GoogleNet by Verizon?'
- Something big is about to pop at Google. Just exactly what this is going to be has been a big topic this week at the Fall VON show.I really have no inside information, but I do have some insight. I'd say a GoogleNet by Verizon partnership would be the ultimate...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., GoogleNet
- Blog posts 2005-09-22
- Will enterprise users buy business VoIP from consumer VoIP providers?
- Right now, Verizon VoiceWing's VoIP service is aimed at residences and small businesses.But based on very informed scuttlebutt I've heard in corridors at the Fall 2005 VON show: I would not be the most surprised person in the world if, sooner rather than later, Verizon offered a branded VoIP for...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- UPDATED: Verizon, Columbia U. in major packet and presence research project
- Internet News gives us the scoop on a VoIP functionality research project between Verizon Laboratories and Columbia University. Verizon Labs is funding the effort to the tune of $120,000.This collaboration will concentrates on protecting voice packets from being compromised while traveling over converged networks, and boosting presence features that inform...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-07-28
- Part 1-Here's an overview of the Keynote Systems VoIP Test
- I've now had a chance to read and absorb the Overview of the Keynote Systems Competitive Intelligence for Consumer VoIP Service Providers study released yesterday. The study used precise metrics to measure various call quality performance criterial on some 166,000 VoIP-incumbent phone company calls between New York and San Francisco....
- Tags: Keynote Systems Inc., PSTN, T1, VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-07-13
- What AT&T and Verizon's new E-911 claims downplay - or don't say
- I'm not all that impressed by AT&T's and Verizon's separate announcements late yesterday that yea, they are flooring it on E-911.Sure, there's some movement, but these press releases are all about spin control- assuring anxious current and would-be subscribers that "yea, we're working on it."Let's look at each announcement with...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-07-12
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