LG-Nortel is going to be using a Microsoft operating system in a new generation of VoIP phones. The company–a joint venture of Korea’s LG Electronics and Canada’s Nortel Networks–will base its products on Windows CE 6, codenamed “Yamazaki.” They won’t be LG-Nortel’s first Windows CE products; it already has a SIP phone based on Windows […]
Speaking of Dubai, don’t count on making a VoIP call there any time soon. The nation’s telecom regulators have put the brakes on legacy carrier Etisalat, which was trying to get a VoIP service launched before a new competitor could get its act together. Regulators say they won’t have technical and legal standards in place […]
A company based in Dubai and New York says it’s launching yet another free VoIP service. Efonica says its service will provide secure and high-quality calls using technology its parent company is trying to patent. The parent company, Fusion Telecommunications International, says it’s applied for a patent on a technique it uses to provide service […]
You’ve probably gotten email from a company called Plaxo, a Web 2.0 company that centralizes people’s address books and calendars online. Wanting to do more than just manage the data, Plaxo is getting into the VoIP business, too. It announced this week that it was teaming with VoIP carrier Jajah to implement a Click to […]
AOL’s doing it, so you could have made book on Yahoo’s getting into the game, too. Weeks after AOL announced a VoIP add-on to AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo has cut a deal with iBasis, a global VoIP carrier, to create Yahoo Messenger with Voice. PC-to-phone calls within the U.S. and to 30 countries will cost […]
Tech consultants The Yankee Group says that legacy carriers who are working on fixed/mobile convergence will probably blow it the first time out. FMC promises to let customers use the same handset for cell calls and landline-based VoIP, switching seamlessly as they move from the public cell network to their home or business networks. Yankee […]
P2P company Streamcast–the folks who own the file-swapping software Morpheus–is suing Skype and 21 other people and companies. The claim is a little convoluted: Streamcast says it had the right of first refusal to buy the FastTrack P2P technology developed by Kazaa, technology that Streamcast says forms the foundation of Skype. The founders of Kazaa […]
WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday conceded a legal dispute over the 3 percent federal excise tax on long-distance telephone service and said $13 billion would be refunded to taxpayers.
The telecommunications industry hailed the decision in the long-fought battle to kill a 1898 law, established as a luxury tax on […]
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