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- VoIP
- Voice Over IP A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8...
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ZDNet Resources
- Does SunRocket's sudden close show more VoIP regulations needed?
- When last week's failure of SunRocket left some 200,000 subscribers scrambling for an alternative home phone service, many saw this as the free market at work. Free market as in, survival of the fittest, and the availability of other choices waving discounts to former SR customers as the wisdom of...
- Tags: Regulatory, Providers, News
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Mitel Vs. ShoreTel: Two VoIP solution providers in Patent suit
- (Hey guess what, this isn't an iPhone post!!)But it's important to one of our core missions.Fellow VoIP blogger Jon Arnold's just back from a Mitel conference. They make VoIP products and solutions.Mitel is suing ShoreTel big time. Oh, and ShoreTel makes VoIP products and solutions.Jon's take is here.I share...
- Tags: Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Australian regulators propose more specific emergency calling infrastructure for VoIP
- The Australian Communications and Media Authority ACMA said today it is proposing changes to the Telecommunications Emergency Call Service Determination 2002 to confirm the obligation to provide free-of-charge access to emergency call services for ‘two-way' and 'dial-out only' VoIP. 'Many VoIP providers already provide free-of-charge access to triple zero and these proposals clarify that...
- Tags: Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- FCC extends disability provisions of Communications Act to VoIP
- Late Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission extended the disability access requirements of Sections 225 and 255 of the Communications Act, which currently apply to traditional phone services, to providers of interconnected VoIP services and to manufacturers of equipment used to provide those services.Section 255 of the...
- Tags: Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Outrage: starting today South Korea blocks our soldiers from using VoIP
- Starting today, U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea can no longer use U.S.-based VoIP services to phone home.Now, they will have to use a South Korean telco such as Korea Telecom Corp., Hanaro Telecom Inc. as well as LG Dacom Corp. These soldiers must obtain a South Korean local...
- Tags: Regulatory, Predictions and Observations, News
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- EXCLUSIVE: 1995 Newsgroup posting proposing VoIP predates Verizon, Sprint patents
- This ones quite a story. I am not a patent attorney, but I would think that this info would be useful to all the players involved in the VoIP patent infringement cases between Vonage and Verizon, and Vonage and Sprint. Dan Connor, who runs the Vonage Forum, has just found...
- Tags: patents, Regulatory, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Uh-Oh Canada: You're about to deregulate VoIP
- Yesterday, the Canadian federal government announced it would overrule that nations CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Communications Commission) and de-regulate VoIP.Last year, the CRTC regulated VoIP by enacting pricing restrictions on traditional telephone companies and the rates they were able to chare without regulatory approval. The fear was that in...
- Tags: General, Regulatory, Vonage, VoIP, Canadian Radio-Television
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- Comcast VoIP 1, Dave "Grandfather of Internet" Farber, 0
- And so, as Rich Tehrani reports, it played out in a Texas courtroom yesterday when Comcast successfully defended itself against a $2.2 billion lawsuit filed by Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, who is often cited as the "grandfather of the Internet," holds a series of VoIP-related patents. That was, and is,...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Internet, Comcast Corp., conferee, telephone, Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, patent, VoIP, in-charge conferee, PSTN, network
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
Additional Resources
- Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?
- Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?How did we not see this?This is brilliant on Microsoft's behalf. They do get rid of the anti-trust sentiments at least the plausible ones and still have their share in the market.Now, don't misunderstand me. It's going to take a lot more...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, iTune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, diet, Microsoft Windows 7, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- The power of standard protocols
- I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...
- Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Voicent Predictive Dialer (exe)
- Voicent Agent Dialer is a predictive dialer and semi auto dialer combined. Voicent Predictive Dialer assists marketing or sales people for telemarketing campaigns. Predictive dialing supports VOIP through Skype and remote agents. Automatic dialing can play audio messages, transfer calls, and record conversations, all by the press of a key....
- Tags: Dialer, Voicent Communications, Voicent Agent Dialer, Voicent Predictive Dialer, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Marketing Research
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- Google Chrome: Steal this browser
- Google Chrome: Steal this browserMemory Usage not commendableFirefox 3 uses lesser memory than Google Chrome. The base browser itself uses about 75MB and with 5 tabs opened, the total memory usage is around 200MB. Firefox with the same number of tabs is less than 100MB. Makes me wonder how efficient...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Web browser, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Adding voice to Second Life
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, describes how users of Second Life have consumed more than 8 billion minutes using the company's VoIP software. by Administrator
- Tags: Second Life, Voice, Telephony, Telecommunications, VOIP, Networking, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Linden Lab VP, platforms & technology: Joe Miller
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab talks to CNET's Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they're incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP...
- Tags: VP, Streaming Video, Linden Lab, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Personal Technology, Networking, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless Headset
- Wireless keyboards, mice, and printers have been around for years, but headphones and headsets are fairly new to the cordless party. Logitech's entry into the fray is the ClearChat PC Wireless Headset. Unlike the Creative Digital Wireless Gaming Headset HS-1200, which is targeted at gamers, Logitech sees the ClearChat as...
- Tags: Logitech, ClearChat PC Wireless Headset, headset, Creative HS-1200
- Product reviews 2008-08-28
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud failsMore to blameShame on the customers who selected this vendor. When evaluating vendors in the cloud, your RFP should identify exactly how these companies secure, backup, and process your data. I fear that poorly run IT shops like this one will...
- Tags: cloud computing, MediaMax, Linkup
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Comcast VoIP's service is no great bargain- and I'm talkin' more than just the high price
- Comcast VoIP's service is no great bargain- and I'm talkin' more than just the high pricewe just for 4 CDV linesWe have comcast internet and our own VoIP Asterisk server. We do some major volume we put around 20,000 minutes per line a month. I haven't found any all you...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, call quality, VoIP, Comcast Corp., fax, Comcast Voip
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Apple iPhone ad banned
- Apple iPhone ad bannedBetter than the alternativesMy iPhone works as promised.My Macs are more reliable than my Windows boxes.In short, there are better options.Why anyone would buy anything from Apple...is beyond me. Especially the iPhone. It doesn't work as promised in sooooo many ways.i guess every iphone user is mad...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, iphone, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., advertisement, cellular company, phone, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- 9.2 mln mobile users added in India in July 2008
- Indian mobile telecoms added 9.2 mln users in July 2008, taking subscribers in India to nearly 300 mln, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said. by AM
- Tags: India, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
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