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Net2Phone sues Skype
2006:11:07 13-57-42
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 Internet phone company Net2Phone has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival Skype Technologies and its parent company, eBay.
Net2Phone, which filed its lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, alleges that Skype infringed on its patent, No. 6,108,704. The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) patent was issued to Net2Phone in August 2000.
Net2Phone's lawsuit comes as the VoIP industry has seen a flood of new entrants from small start-ups to »» |
eBay Builds Skype Into Auction Listings
2006:11:07 13-57-42
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 Google, Yahoo and MSN are also poised to launch voice-enabled online ads by the end of this year, said Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence. Sterling noted that eBay's alliance with Yahoo is expected to include voice-enabled ads over time. "This is a market that all the portals want to play in and eBay brings something to the table with Skype," he added.
In the first major pass at realizing e-commerce gains from its US$2.6 billion purchase of peer-to-p»» |
Cisco Buys Two Small VoIP Firms
2006:11:07 13-57-42
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 VoiceXML allows a user to interact with the Internet through voice-recognition technology instead of a traditional Web browser. Cisco said the companies' easy to use drag-and-drop products will strengthen its unified communications system, known as Service Oriented Network
Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) Latest News about Cisco Systems, which makes computer network equipment, said Friday it is acquiring privately held Metreos and Audium in two cash deals.
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Hacker, Businessman to Face Charges for VoIP Call-Stealing Scheme
2006:11:07 13-57-42
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 Edwin Andres Pena allegedly was able to secretly route 500,000 calls through a Newark, N.J.-based provider identified in the complaint as "N.T.P.," which appears to be Net2Phone. Messages seeking comment from the company, and its corporate parent, IDT, were not immediately returned Wednesday.
A Miami businessman helped by a professional hacker Latest News about hacker penetrated the networks of Internet phone providers to connect hundreds of thousands of free calls, federal prosec»» |
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Digium Raises $13.8M in Venture Capita
2006:11:07 13-57-42
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 Digium, the company that created and maintains the open source telephony platform, Asterisk, announced today that the company had raised $13.8 million in venture capital from Matrix Partners. It is the first time the company has received outside funding.
Matrix Partners is not without experience in funding open source companies. The venture capital firm was the first to fund the application server/community portal, JBoss, which was sold to Red Hat earlier this year for $350 millio»» |
Open-source VoIP company wins funding
2006:11:07 13-57-42
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 Digium, an open-source VoIP software maker, has received $13.2 million in first-round venture capital funding from Matrix Partners for the development of Asterisk. Asterisk is an open-source telecom platform with 1 million users. According to Huntsville, Ala.-based Digium, Asterisk's flexibility as an open source PBX lets companies build business phone systems that use both legacy and voice over Internet Protocol equipment.
Matrix was also an initial investor in JBoss, the open-s»» |
Local VoIP numbers, international cell calls
2006:11:07 13-57-42
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 PALO ALTO, Calif.--Imagine being able to use the hundreds of spare local minutes you get with your cellular plan toward international calls.
In a somewhat-ornate process, that's what Stockholm, Sweden-based Rebtel, which kicked off three weeks ago, aims to do. The company's technology, which is in beta, essentially reroutes international and long-distance calls through a VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) connection.
At the Rebtel site, subscribers submit their p»» |
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