VoIP News Archive

02 October 2007

The huge writedown for Skype is not the only disappointment in the Internet telephony world.

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.

28 March 2008

About five years ago, when few had heard of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) as an alternative to the dominance of the big telephone companies, the promises of dramatically lower long distance charges and more features seemed almost too good to be true.

Initially, it was. Conversations either lagged or sounded like they were routed through a toilet bowl, while calls were mysteriously dropped. It all served to underline the telecoms' assertion that VoIP wasn't yet mature enough for business or consumers.

02 December 2007

If you’ve ever wished Skype could truly be mobile, on a dedicated mobile Skype phone that worked just like Skype on your desktop, the 3 Skypephone has arrived to make your wishes come true!

Skype, the world’s most popular Internet phone call software, having made online calling as simple and reliable as text messaging, has already gone mobile some time ago.

20 December 2007

The number of businesses using Siemens HiPath 8000 real-time VoIP (voice over IP) UC (unified communications) system have jumped more than 400% in the last year.

The company suggests that increased user collaboration and productivity are the reasons, and states that it’s seeing uptake in all industry sectors and across companies of all sizes.

30 January 2008

Officials from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) have announced that the new system software update for the PSP will immediately enable all owners of the newer PSP Slim & Lite model to make and receive calls using VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) telephone service Skype.

07 January 2008

12 October 2007

Truphone, which routes mobile calls via the internet, has introduced its best-ever call rates - and they remain in effect over the Christmas period.

Until 31 December, Truphone users can enjoy free mobile calls to landlines in 40 countries and to cellphones in the USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Mobile rates in Europe have been cut 20% to just 15p a min or less, and there is no connection charge, while rates to mobiles elsewhere in the world have been cut by an average of 23%.

27 September 2007

Digium is stirring up the open-source community it helped create by buying one of the vendors that has built an IP-PBX on its Asterisk VoIP platform.

Digium Thursday will unveil plans to acquire Switchvox, one of the many SMB-focused vendors that have cropped up in recent years with products built on top of Digium's open-source Asterisk VoIP software. Digium is the primary developer of Asterisk.