VoIP News |
August 5th, 2008 |
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It's a regular old smorgasbord out there . . . privately owned VoIP, IP-PBX systems are often left vulnerable, unprotected. And there are 300,000 of them there for the hacking and exploiting. In fact, the hacks are out there in the open on Google, as are the vulnerabilities. Can you [...]
GigaOM |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Crank calls have never been so easy. As folks on Reddit have pointed out, Disney's Hannah Montana Wake-Up Call makes getting up to no good a snap. Just enter your friend's victim's phone number and the delightful Miley Cyrus's voice will wake them up or send them a reminder: "Dear [...]
VoIP News |
August 3rd, 2008 |
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With the new Apple iPhone SDK giving developers a chance to craft and create all sorts of applications for the iPhone 3G, it's no wonder that VoIP applications are popping up left and right. What does that mean for AT&T? Not a whole lot. The company will get their monthly [...]
VoIP News |
August 3rd, 2008 |
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I mentioned that BT bought Ribbit recently. Ribbit created the SmartSwitch, a softswitch that can handle virtually any VoIP traffic. So, why would this partnership of a traditional telecommunications company with a Silicone Valley specialty company make sense? Find out ther answer here.[...]
Phone calls made over VoIP to 911 numbers will have the same access and protections as other 911 technologies under a new law.[...]
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it has been selected by GTD Group, one of the main service providers in Chile, to deploy the country’s first network based on fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technology. Installation and deployment of the GPON network will start in the third quarter of 2008, [...]
VoIP News |
July 28th, 2008 |
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VoIP could change how we look at telephones forever, much like cell phones changed how we think about staying plugged in. Imagine. Just 10 years ago, having a cell phone was still a thing that some people had embraced and others eschewed. Now, it's almost unthinkable to leave home without [...]
VoIP News |
July 28th, 2008 |
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China VoIP phone manufacturers are planning to raise prices. Fifty-nine percent of manufacturers there said that export prices will increase and they expect sales to continue to grow too, according to Global Sources' China Sourcing Report: VoIP Phones. "Fierce competition has driven half of Greater China's VoIP [...][...]
Internet VoIP telephony company Vonage has signed a deal with private equity company Silver Point Finance to provide the troubled company with at least US$125 million and agreed terms and conditions for up to US$215 million, provided Vonage can raise US$60 million from other sources. The cash will be used [...]
Portfolio |
July 28th, 2008 |
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As cable giant Comcast prepares to do battle with the Federal Communications Commission over charges it blocked file-sharing on its network, a look back at the events of the last year:-- Comcast is caught by the Associated Press blocking peer-to-peer traffic on its network, allegedly violating the F.C.C.'s 2005 "Internet [...]
VoIP News |
July 28th, 2008 |
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Choosing a VoIP system for a business is in a word: complicated. From choosing equipment to service to outfitting everything for an organization your size, it's a lot of decisions. Perhaps that's why a lot of organizations are turning to consultants to help with the decision making. (Hello, wide open [...]
VoIP News |
July 28th, 2008 |
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In college, my friends and I relished in VoIP. Back then, it was new and free . . . Although we could barely hear each other on our computer to computer calls, let alone on the few computer to phone calls we made, free is fantastic to penny-pinched college kids. [...]
The story in Slate about the death of the landline presents "partial truth" in my view as it picks up a theme that anyone who has had statistics in college quickly learns. The game we learned was called "how to lie with statistics" which really means telling the truth, but [...]
Maybe now that they got an infusion of cash Vonage's most recently hired PR team will start reaching out to influencers again like they did on their way up the VoIP and telco ladder. It's been months since I heard from them (the USA team that is.) My sources tell [...]
After months of trying, pure-play VoIP market leader Vonage has managed to refinance most of its debt, beating a Dec. 16 do-or-die deadline. Vonage has some $253 million in convertible notes that can be put to the company right before the holidays and, if it doesn't pay up, no more [...]
GigaOM |
July 24th, 2008 |
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The disruption potential of VoIP lies not so much in its ability to push down the cost of telephone service than in its ability to get consumers to ignore the telephone business altogether. The nature of the Internet makes VoIP advantageous even after the cost of plain old telephone service [...]
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