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Covers the latest news, insight, analysis, blogs and product reviews of unified communications equipment and software. Topics include transmission of voice communications over a wired or wireless network using technologies such as VoIP, IP Telephony, IP PBX, press-to-talk and computer-based voice.
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BroadSoft buys Genband's application server business to boost its VOIP enterprise applications. While Skype focuses primarily on bringing VOIP to more than 300 million consumers, BroadSoft sells its apps to telcos such as Verizon and Sprint. BroadSoft's buy comes a month after BT bought VOIP provider Ribbit for $105 million.
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Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi says a weakening global economy will stunt cell phone market sales in 2008. Indeed, cell phone sales in this key region for phone makers like Nokia and Sony Ericsson fell 16 percent year-over-year in the first quarter and 8 percent in the second quarter. No mention how the slowdown will impact Apple's highly touted iPhone.
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Klausner Technologies files a voice mail patent lawsuit against Google Verizon Communications, LG Electronics, Comverse Technology, Citrix Systems and Embarq in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas. Judah Klausner claims infringements on patents in various countries for visual voice mail. Klausner previously sued and won settlements from Time Warner's AOL and Vonage.
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JumpTap, which looks to challenge, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others in mobile search and mobile advertising, earns $26 million from AllianceBernstein L.P., WPP and others. The cash infusion will enable JumpTap to build out its white-label mobile search engine for operators such as AT&T and provide more ammunition to support its mobile advertising customers, which include NBC Universal. Mobile advertising is considered a green field for Web service providers looking to make more money from the mobile and wireless space.
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Carrier Qwest is looking to expand its presence by investing in network management. CTO Pieter Poll discusses Qwest's strategic plans in this eWEEK interview.
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T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan says his business sold more than 120,000 of Apple's new 3G iPhones, which hit retail stores to much fanfare July 11 and proved a smash hit for the mobile and wireless space. The news indicates that problems delivering consumers the popular gadgets has been solved. The question is: Will 3G iPhone's spotty connection issues get resolved?
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Mobile TeleSystems will carry Apple iPhones in Russia, with sales expected to begin in October, Apple says. Mobile TeleSystems is Russia's largest mobile phone operator. Russian companies have been vying to sell iPhones, which are a status symbol in Moscow.
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Intel and Yahoo unveiled a combination of the Intel Media Processor CE3100 ("Canmore") and the Yahoo open widget-based platform for TV and an initiative to embed applications - and ads - directly on your HDTV. The Intel-Yaho partnership either will require a set-top box, or the Canmore platform integrated directly into the TV. At press time, the price or availability of such set-top boxes was not known, but Kim said a set-top box would cost "substantially less" than the $300 charged by Sony for a similar device. The technology could also be built directly in to TVs, Blu-ray players, or other devices.
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Palm unveiled a new Palm Treo smart phone Aug. 20 based on Microsoft software to compete for business mobile users against rivals such as RIM's BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone. The Palm Treo Pro will be sold by Vodafone Group and 02 in Europe in September, and by Telstra in Australia. Palm does not have an agreement with a U.S. carrier to sell the phone, but it says enterprise demand is growing for unlocked smart phones that can work on any mobile network.
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The Blackberry Bold, RIM's answer to the Apple iPhone, hits Canada Aug. 21. Rogers Communications, owner of Canada's biggest wireless carrier, will begin offering RIM's new BlackBerry Bold. RIM's BlackBerry Bold is RIM's most advanced smart phone to date and is the first BlackBerry to support high-speed HSDPA cellular networks. It comes with integrated GPS, Wi-Fi and a host of multimedia features aimed at attracting consumers away from the Apple iPhone.
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Voice-Over IP: Your vendor may be leaving you vulnerable to high financial risks and you may not even know it. eWEEK correspondent Victor R. Garza sits down with VOIP hacking specialist and professor, The Grugq, at this year’s BlackHat conference in Las Vegas. The Grugq exposes results of his penetration testing and lets you in on which VOIP vendors are putting your company at the most risk of attack from hackers and what you can do to prevent it from ever happening to you.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issues a technology policy statement supporting a permanent research and development tax, expanded H-1B visas, lower capital gains taxes and free trade agreements. McCain differs sharply from Barack Obama, however, on network neutrality. Obama favors government action to mandate nondiscriminatory handling of network traffic while McCain favors a free market approach.
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Intel announces four new motherboards that will include Remote Wake, the ability for VOIP calls to wake a PC. Similar to Wake-on-LAN or Wake-on-WAN, Remote Wake is supported by VOIP provider Jajah. Orb Networks and CyberLink also announced support for Remote Wake for media management, evidence the technology will likely be used to perform tasks like recording TV programs.
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An Infineon chip could be at the root of complaints from around the world that Apple new iPhone drops calls and has unpredictable Internet links, according to a research report from Nomura. BusinessWeek also reported on its website on Thursday that the iPhone is suffering from faulty software on an Infineon chip, and that Apple plans to fix the problem with a software update.
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The deadline is nearing for a possible Federal Communications Commission proposal to require the winner of its spectrum auction to offer a free broadband network supported by advertising. Incumbent wireless carriers like T-Mobile claim unpaired Time Division Duplexing or paired Frequency Division Duplexing operations in the 2.1GHz spectrum cannot exist without substantial interference.
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Scopia Conferencing Platform manages to coax disparate conference room and desktop videoconferencing solutions into relative harmony.
Microsoft’s VOIP and unified communications platforms don’t intersect significantly—yet.
Review: Microsoft's VOIP system for SMBs boasts a few glitzy
next-generation features that make the system incredibly easy to use,
and comes in an appliance form factor that makes the system a snap to
deploy.
Review: Cisco's Smart Business Communications System extends to small businesses the same networking technologies available to larger companies in a platform that can take on video, instant messaging and other apps.
Review: magicJack, a small USB dongle device that makes it possible to plug any phone into a computer and make calls over the Internet, provides some interesting capabilities but these are outweighed by its shortcomings.
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