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Comment For years, Skype and other VoIP services have been providing an internet alternative to traditional phone service. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard Greenfield. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web.
[01 May 2008]
Comment V is for VoIP V is for VoIP During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market outside the US.silicon.com spoke to LinkedIn CEO, Dan...
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment V is for VoIP V is for VoIP It also gives bands unprecedented access to accurate and valuable feedback from the music public.silicon.com spoke to founder David Courtier-Dutton to get the lowdown on Slicethepie and how it is taking on the...
[18 Feb 2008]
Comment Fast-forward to today and we have multiple fixed and mobile networks with twisted pair, coax, optical fibre, wi-fi, and WiMax providing telephone, TV and broadband connectivity, VoIP, quadruple service plays and number portability.
[07 Feb 2008]
Comment Facebook for networking, Flickr for image sharing, YouTube for video sharing, and a whole raft of various instant messaging and VoIP platforms. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off, asks Mark Kobayashi-Hillary...
[24 Jan 2008]
Comment Charging someone for mainframe time certainly won't fly but charging them a set fee for internet access, PC maintenance and VoIP services or at least knowing how much those services are worth to a business might.
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment V is for VoIP Written at The Atlantic Hotel on the island of Jersey and dispatched via a free wi-fi service that actually needed no password - hurrah for common sense Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another.
[20 Dec 2007]
AS Profile Because VoIP technologies are now part of everyday life for even the least tech-savvy internet user - no doubt to the consternation of the big telecoms providers - the Swede is now looking at shaking up another industry: television.
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Profile The software and hosted service allows for on-demand collaboration between businesses, through the use of internet and VoIP products, without having to load applications on their own networks. Cisco continues to dominate the networking...
[12 Oct 2007]
Round-Up Auction website, VoIP company. The auction website raised a few eyebrows when it announced it was buying the VoIP company for a whopping $2.6bn, and the Round-Up's not one to use the word 'whopping' lightly.eBay has now announced a whopping $900m...
[05 Oct 2007]
Comment Today the industry is resisting VoIP, wi-fi, YouTube and just about everything else the customers are demanding. Written in my home office just outside Woodbridge in the UK and dispatched via my home LAN and broadband connection
[07 Sep 2007]
Comment Is VoIP a viable option when it comes to replacing the PBX? Should IT risk management be the responsibility of the CIO or should it be a company-wide process? Will Sturgeon argues in favour of the latter and discusses the reasons why a chief risk...
[10 Jul 2007]
Leader Technologies such as IM, VoIP and VPNs, and kit such as laptops and mobile phones, means few office workers need to be constantly chained to their desk anymore. National Working From Home Day - today - is nearly over for 2007 but it will be...
[18 May 2007]
Comment Just because take-up of faster broadband, mobile email, VoIP and IM has rocketed, doesn't mean these techs are easy to use. Working from home is good for people and good for the planet. But how easy is it for a team to collaborate while everyone's...
[17 May 2007]
Comment It is essential to remember that VoIP services such as Skype calls are not free because bandwidth is never free. Services such as VoIP, Citrix-style thin clients or video are not at all tolerant of low quality networks.
[17 Apr 2007]
Comment Though there is precious little evidence of VoIP security attacks, organisations cannot afford to be complacent. Make no mistake, says Anthony Plewes, VoIP is an attractive target for hackers and malware writers.
[04 Apr 2007]
Comment While Skype's strong encryption prevents interception and eavesdropping, the software is still vulnerable to the vishing (phishing scams over VoIP) and social engineering threats that email and telephony also suffer from.
[02 Apr 2007]
Comment Surely if someone is already paying BT for broadband every month, all VoIP calls should be free. Just as a wave of new converged fixed-mobile services are being announced in the UK, Germany's biggest telco has killed off its own FMC product.
[27 Mar 2007]
Comment Talk on a fixed-line phone and a mobile - and then try a VoIP call. The arrival of the internet plus Skype and VoIP in general has changed everyone's perception of voice communications. VoIP has near hi-fi quality with bandwidth typically spanning...
[26 Mar 2007]
Comment Worried your VoIP network is not secure? In many cases hiring a consultant to do a VoIP-focused security audit will be money very well spent. NEC has announced a modular tool called VoIP Seal that uses a combination of methods to identify spit.
[22 Mar 2007]
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