26 September 2007

Students at the University of Portsmouth and their families will have access to free phone calls via their computers, thanks to a new scheme being implemented in student halls of residence.

The University has installed new facilities which will provide students with cheap telephone calls to families and friends – and in some cases for free - using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. Access to over 25 television channels is also part of the package in student halls.

04 October 2007

There is a problem with Skype – but it's not how much money it makes.

Skype is famous enough to have reached the status of a verb, a rare honour. You don't make a Net phone call, you "Skype," just as you once you didn't vacuum a floor, you hoovered.

22 October 2007

Is the U.S. patent system irretrievably broken, or are aggrieved parties justifiably defending their turf against infringement by companies unfairly trying to benefit from the fruits of their labors? Looking at AT&T's lawsuit against Vonage, it definitely seems to me like it's the former.

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09 November 2007

It’s getting more difficult every day to tell the difference between Voice over IP and traditional phone service. That can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing, depending on how you look at it and what aspects you’re comparing.

06 December 2007

As of next September, Voice over Internet Protocol services must allow for emergency calls, the watchdog has decreed.

28 December 2007

VoIP clearly has moved into the mainstream, but 2007 marked a year of high-profile stumbles that appear to signal the end of standalone IP telephony.

06 February 2008

Fring, a provider of VoIP on mobiles, has added new functionality in their latest release.

Beyond the VoIP and IM functions already included, they’ve expanded to allow the interchange of files between subscribers - mobile to mobile, PC to mobile, as well as between mobiles and PCs, if it runs an MSN IM or Skype client.

24 March 2008

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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.