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VoIP slashes hotelier's costs
News Fledgling premium hotelier Pantin Hotels is due to open its flagship hotel in Leeds next week complete with free wi-fi and VoIP telephony throughout the building. Guests will be offered free internet... [03 Sep 2008]
BT's Ribbit buy to take on Android?
News BT has bought internet-telephony company Ribbit, in a move that will bring the communications giant up against competitors ranging from Skype to Google's Android platform. Ribbit provides what it terms... [30 Jul 2008]
Procter & Gamble in $650m network deal with BT
News BT will provide a state-of-the-art, high speed, IP-based, firewall protected network that will offer conferencing, remote access, voice calls, IP telephony and internet services. Consumer packaged goods... [10 Jun 2008]
Asus dives into instant Linux
News Splashtop includes a Firefox-derived browser and the Skype internet-telephony application. Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards,... [19 May 2008]
Skype trialled on Java mobiles
News With the new client, Skype joins a number of companies, such as Fring and Truphone, attempting to bring internet telephony to the mobile world. Skype has released a test version of a client for... [30 Apr 2008]
Mobile phones: A public health time bomb?
News It states: "There is a growing and statistically significant body of evidence reporting that brain tumours such as vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) and astrocytoma are associated with 'heavy' and 'prolonged' mobile phone use,... [31 Mar 2008]
Comcast and Time Warner to invest in 4G…
News The cable companies had hoped they could integrate mobility into their offering to add more value to existing services like telephony, TV and broadband. These so-called 4G networks will allow people to connect a wide... [26 Mar 2008]
Nortel to showcase networking breakthrough
News Nortel, the largest supplier of telephony gear in North America, plans to announce Wednesday that it has developed gear that can shuttle traffic across the internet backbone at speeds of 40 gigabits per... [12 Mar 2008]
Microsoft dives into unified comms
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Business Division president Jeff Raikes have formally launched several products that are key to the company's strategy of offering "unified communications" for businesses - that is, software for bringing... [17 Oct 2007]
MySpace and Skype to get chatty
News MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the eBay-owned telephony client providing voice chat services for the News Corp-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. [17 Oct 2007]
eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy
News This means eBay has been forced to reassess the value of the internet telephony company relative to its overall business today. Jordan Rohan, managing director and internet analyst at... [02 Oct 2007]
Vonage loses bulk of Verizon patent appeal
News Essentially, US Patent No.and US Patent No.define how phone calls are routed over the internet, which essentially is the basis of Vonage's IP telephony service today. And as the legal dust settles, the... [27 Sep 2007]
Vonage infringed Sprint patents, says jury
News A US federal jury has found internet telephony player Vonage infringed on six patents held by Sprint Nextel. Sprint sued Vonage in 2005, claiming the company was infringing on seven Sprint patents that... [26 Sep 2007]
BT drops below half share of fixed-line calls
News BT's retail broadband revenue grew by 19 per cent in the last quarter, while the company's internet telephony business grew by 23 per cent in the same period. BT's share of fixed-line call volumes fell... [24 Aug 2007]
Skype swats "massive" outage bug
News Skype has fixed a software bug that made the internet telephony service almost unusable for two days last week. Thirty per cent of Skype's 220 million customers are business users, according to the... [20 Aug 2007]
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