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RSS sip in newsCoffee Republic to offer free wi-fi
News Rival coffee chain Caffè Nero launched BT Openzone wi-fi across 330 of its coffee shops across the UK, replacing the Surf and Sip service. Coffee Republic will become the first UK coffee chain to provide free wi-fi to customers when it launches the... [14 Apr 2008]
Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend
News BT Openzone replaces the Surf and Sip wi-fi service previously used by Caffè Nero. A quarter of workers now take advantage of wi-fi hotspots, working remotely from a coffee shop at least one day per week to escape the interruptions of the office. [07 Apr 2008]
Broadband availability still hitting UK Plc
News Convergence - an umbrella term covering technologies such as IP (everywhere), SIP and IMS - quickly emerged as a theme this year. Competition in the UK telecoms sector is more intense than it was a year ago but there are still problems for... [07 Feb 2007]
Microsoft, Nortel show off their unified comms
News It ties together Nortel's Communication Server 1000 and Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 using the IP telephony standard session initiation protocol, or SIP. The CEOs of Microsoft and Nortel Networks have announced the first set of products... [18 Jan 2007]
Wi-fi users will vote with their feet
News Next was the train station which appealed to just four per cent of respondents, followed by coffee shops with 15 per cent of respondents saying they'd be most productive logging on while they sip a frothy coffee. [14 Jun 2006]
Mobile IM held back by 'traditional' operators
News Delaney's views were echoed by Paolo Simoes of Portuguese carrier TMN, who said: "IMS-enabled IM/SIP messaging on convergent devices will be the predominant mobile messaging technology of the future, replacing all others. [25 May 2006]
SIP: The way forward for VoIP?
News SIP (session initiation protocol) has become the new standard for VoIP and is expected to become more and more ubiquitous, analysts believe. According to a new report by research company Frost and Sullivan, SIP is now "widely accepted" in the... [22 Feb 2006]
Google wants to Talk to you
News According to information on Google's website, the company is also planning to support SIP - the protocol underpinning VoIP - in the future. Google is doing its bit to open up the world of instant messaging by making Google Talk interoperable with... [20 Jan 2006]
Cisco gets serious about mobile wireless
News Now the company is adding support to more devices, such as its 12000 IP router, which combines the functionality of an IP edge router and a Session Border Control device that controls and manages IP multimedia traffic using protocols such as... [06 Dec 2005]
Nine out of 10 phones will have a camera by 2009
News Even cheaper components and manufacturing efficiencies will push integrated digital cameras into the low-end handsets market, while high-speed networks and technologies such as SIP (session initiation protocol) and IMS (IP multimedia subsystem... [07 Oct 2005]
Voice over wireless data networks - a good bet
News While many in the mobile and telecoms industry promote unlicensed mobile access (UMA), it may not be the best long-term solution as it does not fully support the SIP standard often used for VoIP, push-to-talk and messaging and is not aligned with... [23 Aug 2005]
Nokia: Skype must change or die
News Nokia today announced a partnership with Avaya which will give users of Nokia Series 60-based smart phones and Avaya IP PBXs to have a single business number and voicemail, as well as PBX-style call logging for the smart phones and SIP capabilities. [13 Jun 2005]
55 million will go for Wi-Fi and mobile convergence
News Operators should then take a look at SIP-based architecture so they can extend their offerings when new standards including WiMax and CDMA go mainstream. Wi-Fi and mobile are set to make even close bedfellows in the coming months, new research has... [18 Jan 2005]
5 years ago: 3Com CEO says voice and data to merge
News But with costs coming down - and SIP emerging as the de facto standard - businesses are finally starting to switch to the technology en masse. 21.06.99: 3Com president and CEO Eric Benhamou, says the convergence of voice and data networks is "the... [21 Jun 2004]
Businesses warming up to VoIP, say experts
News It has to do primarily with the acceptance of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an industry standard for enabling communications between multiple users involving voice, video, instant messaging and other elements, according to Clive Longbottom... [17 Jun 2004]
