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BroadSoft acquires Sylantro as VoIP market consolidates

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:00:14 -0500

BroadSoft, a provider of VoIP applications to telecom service providers, this week said it acquired competitor Sylantro Systems for an undisclosed sum.

VoIP and the VAR channel

dblacharski — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:49:08 -0500

The growth of VoIP has created new opportunities, but like any new technology, it is changing the way people do business. Traditionally, telecom service providers relied on their AR channels to install CPE and lines. The service provider provided the dial tone, and the reseller made money on sales, installation and maintenance.

FBI: Criminals auto-dialing with hacked VoIP systems

ITworld staff — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:44:04 -0500

Criminals are taking advantage of a bug in the Asterisk Internet telephony system that lets them pump out thousands of scam phone calls in an hour, the FBI warned Friday.

Vopium further extends its reach by launching in Germany and France

Safia — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:55:58 -0500

With its latest launch in Germany and France, Vopium users can get 30 minutes trial call along with 100 SMS free. Experience this amazing offer now!

Adobe's hosted CoCoMo service released as public beta

ITworld staff — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:23:56 -0500

Adobe Systems has released a public beta of CoCoMo, a hosted service that developers can use to add video conferencing, voice-over-IP and other collaboration features to applications built with its Flex developer tools.

Ribbit opens Web telephony platform to all developers

ITworld staff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:35:57 -0500

Ribbit Monday released for general availability its Web telephony platform, designed to extend telephony development to the world's Web developers through the use of its APIs.

Hosted and Distributed Phone Systems

James Gaskin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:07:30 -0500

Every vendor paying a public relations person (and that's all of them) want to spin bad news for you into good news for them. Since we have plenty of bad news lately, at least economically, their PR machines are working overtime.

Good VoIP Deployment Guidelines (Do Not Exist?)

Ari Takanen — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:27:25 -0400

I get questions regarding VoIP deployment all the time. Sometimes it is someone looking for simple and cheap Enterprise VoIP, who are unsure if VoIP can be deployed securely with those two parameters in the equation. More often it is the security aware people who are willing to invest almost anything to make it work, but cannot. As always, there is no silver bullet solution for either. If you look at my past opinions, I keep changing my mind between cheap that works, and secure that doesn't. What do you think? Which way should we go in VoIP?

Mobile application Fring secures first operator agreement

ITworld staff — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:28:15 -0400

Fring, which makes a chat and IP (Internet Protocol) telephony mobile application, has secured its first agreement with an operator, the company announced Tuesday at the Symbian smartphone show.

Microsoft to release OCS 2007 update in February

ITworld staff — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:30:57 -0400

Microsoft plans to add voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), collaboration and Web presence enhancements to the next version of its unified communications software, which is due out in early February 2009.