15 May 2008

The Internet has never cared much for legal boundaries. Phishers steal credit cards across oceans and off-shore sites offer gambling with little regard for the laws of the countries where their victims or customers are located.

But when it comes to the government's search for foreign terrorists, says Eric Lichtblau, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter and the author of the federal wiretapping exposé, Bush's Law, that internationalism could get especially hairy.

26 September 2007

A federal jury on Tuesday ordered Vonage Holdings to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for violating six of its patents, prompting analysts to question whether the troubled Internet-phone company could survive.

Vonage, which lost another major patent case earlier this year, said it will appeal the decision that sent its shares plummeting 33 percent.

11 October 2007

A dispute between Apple Inc. and Toronto-based Comwave Telecom Inc. over the Canadian trademark rights to the name "iPhone" has yet to be resolved, adding another barrier to the launch of Apple's next-generation handheld device north of the border.

29 October 2007

The world's hax have been obediently keeping the lid on a deal due to be announced 11.30 today, giving Skype connectivity to mobile phone users with contracts or PAYG accounts with "3".

09 November 2007

10 December 2007

The total Dutch consumer telephony market grew by 39,000 connections during the third quarter of 2007 to 5.69 million, driven by a growing number of Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) users and increased growth for cable VoIP, according to Telecompaper's quarterly update on the Dutch fixed telephony market. The number of WLR customers grew by 103,000 to 283,000 on 30 September 2007. The number of Dutch consumer VoIP subscriptions grew 7.9 percent to 2.37 million.

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09 January 2007

The possibility of dual mode cellular/WiFi handsets being used as VoIP handsets via public hotspots to divert revenue from cellular networks has been with us for some time, but a deal between global hotspot operator Boingo and chipmaker Broadcom is about to make this a much bigger threat.

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11 February 2008

21 March 2008

Despite upheaval, doom and gloom in the U.S. economic world, the VoIP industry remains strong, according to a new study.

The study found that VoIP use is on the rise among both individuals and businesses in the United States, following European trends, and reports say those numbers will continue to rise.

13 May 2008

A Netherlands-based startup is offering a sort of Swiss Army knife VoIP-IM-chat-texting program that can operate on hundreds of mobile phone handsets, according to an announcement Tuesday.

Called Nimbuzz, the all-in-one application was announced in the U.K. and the beta offering is available for download. The company has received several million dollars in backing from venture capitalists, including $10 million from Mangrove Capital Partners, which was the original backer of Skype.