27 September 2007

Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that the future will be characterized by free, high-quality communication around the world. He was originally talking about satellite telephony, but it seems his predictions have come to pass, albeit using a few more wires.

12 October 2007

26 October 2007

Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) said today that it has settled its patent lawsuit with Verizon Communications. Vonage, an Internet phone service provider based in Holmdel, said it will pay Verizon a maximum of $120 million to resolve the suit.

Vonage is on the hook for at least $80 million. The final amount paid by the company depends on how an appeals court rules on Vonage’s request for a rehearing that concerns two Verizon patents. Vonage has already put aside $88 million in escrow for the patent battle.

14 November 2007

Noise Free, (Noise Free Wireless(TM), Inc.) a leading provider of next generation software to enhance voice communications, announced today that the commercial version of NoiseFree VoIP is now available for download.

13 December 2007

The Internet communications service wants to restore trust with its business customers after it withdrew thousands of London phone numbers

09 January 2007

Having been battered by intellectual property lawsuits, Vonage is trying to rejuvenate its business with MyVonage servies and new hardware like the V-Portal router

Troubled VoIP service provider Vonage is rolling out new products and services at the Consumer Electronics Show in a bid to reverse its downward spiral.

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12 February 2008

Technology questions are inevitably lobbed my way when I attend family get-togethers, and the holiday that just passed was no exception. It seems that a couple of folks were seriously considering signing up for some kind of VoIP service (one pointedly remarked on the near-flood of promotional material he was receiving about the service from his cable company), when someone piped in, "What's this Skype thing I keep hearing about?"

15 April 2008

There's been considerable talk about VoIP services one the iPhone. With the release of the iPhone SDK, it was just a matter of time before native  applications for the iPhone started cropping up. And, it looks like leading VoIP provider fring has managed to beat out the competition by launching the first ever VoIP application for the iPhone.

27 September 2007

A 23-year-old hacker named Robert Moore hacked into 15 telecommunications companies and hundreds of businesses worldwide in order to net free VoIP minutes, which he and a partner then sold at highly discounted rates for a million in profit. Moore, set to head to prison, brags to Information Week that hacking into the systems of major VoIP carriers was "so easy a caveman could do it." From the interview: