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Skype drops open-source appeal

News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. The company has dropped its appeal against its conviction last July in a German court of failure to...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Building fatter connections between its 300 offices to promote video conferencing and enable it to roll out VoIP. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing.

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News While BT ToGo phones can make use of wi-fi at home or via BT hotspots for mobile VoIP, there is no ability for calls to be seamlessly handed over from wi-fi to cellular and vice versa, as with FMC phones.

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News V is for VoIP An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News V is for VoIP BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management (CRM) software from SugarCRM. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News V is for VoIP Network operators and service providers argue that the internet is already unequal and certain types of traffic - VoIP, for example - require prioritisation by default. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News V is for VoIP Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high speed broadband, according to the European Commission's latest i2010 progress report. This compares to 62 per cent in 2005.

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News V is for VoIP Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half (1.6 million) also available as MP3s. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News V is for VoIP There are now 637 high speed downlink packet access products on the market, with almost half (303) of them being mobile phones. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

Is your network performance getting you down?

News Meanwhile the rate of VoIP implementations has increased five per cent on last year, with 66 per cent of organisations having implemented or looking to implement VoIP in the next 12 months. Network professionals' biggest VoIP concerns are quality...

Tags: voip, security, network

[01 Apr 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News V is for VoIP When asked about the benefits of Avatalk over other free VoIP services - such as Skype - Brotherton said: "It really comes down to the rich immersiveness of virtual worlds. Broadband from A to Z

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News V is for VoIP For some time, many ISPs have been offering users what they call unlimited broadband, although it almost always comes with some kind of "fair usage" cap on downloads. PlusNet has been one of the few providers to buck this trend...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

News V is for VoIP Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in London, Berners-Lee said: "Initially there was a huge issue [with the web] that you couldn't find anything.

Tags: berners-lee, semantic web, google, internet

[13 Mar 2008]

Inflation-busting tech budgets predicted

News Companies are also looking to invest heavily in virtualisation, storage area networks and VoIP. Tech spending in the UK is likely to increase at a quicker rate than inflation over the next twelve months - despite an uncertain economic climate.

Tags: spending, vista, recession, virtualisation

[10 Mar 2008]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News V is for VoIP Broadband may be as common, and almost as cheap, as chips in Blighty these days but there are plenty of places in the world where bog-standard fat pipes are harder to come by. The UN's comms agency, the International...

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

C&W hooks up with Orange over FMC

News Fixed-mobile convergence enables a single device to be used to make calls over an IP network when the user is indoors, seamlessly switching to a mobile network when the device moves out of range of the VoIP network.

Tags: cable & wireless, fmc, orange, device

[05 Mar 2008]

Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction

News V is for VoIP The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per cent in the past 12 months according to the 2008 Better Connected report from local government IT body the Society of Information Technology Management...

Tags: socitm, online, web services, local government

[04 Mar 2008]

Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC

News V is for VoIP The European Commission is to issue a recommendation on how member states should go about rolling out fibre connectivity to homes and businesses. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: fibre, eu, ec, authority

[28 Feb 2008]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News V is for VoIP It is also sniffing around fibre. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for ADSL B is for BT C is for Cable & Wireless D is for Dial-up E is for Education F is for Fibre

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Broadband switching still a tricky business

News V is for VoIP To switch providers, subscribers need to obtain a Migration Authorisation Code (MAC) from their current broadband provider. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: customers, ofcom, regulations, broadband

[15 Feb 2008]

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