Apr 21
Samsung has blamed a fire at one of its South Korea data centers for taking Smart TV and other services offline for more than four hours over the weekend, including … Continue reading
Mar 18
Google Voice could be next on the company’s consolidation chopping block, according to recent word that has surfaced, with the app being nixed in favor of integration with Hangouts, following … Continue reading
Mar 18
Obihai Offers New Low-Cost Home Phone Options As Technology Change At Google Ends Free Service
Posted in: Today's ChiliMy free lunch is about to end. I’m one of a few hundred thousand customers enjoying free monthly home phone service.* We use a low-cost analog telephone adapter (ATA) called an OBi, connected to Google Voice for free domestic home phone service. But on May 15th, Google is dropping support for the XMPP protocol that makes this work. While Google Voice and Hangouts will still offer free… Read More
Mar 18
Brace yourself Google Voice fanboys, your treasured service is probably not long for this world. But don’t you worry; the sooner it’s dead the better we’ll all be.
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Mar 13
This article was written on April 06, 2007 by CyberNet.
Vonage just got more bad news. First it was the lawsuit that they faced and were then found guilty of for infringing on patents which Verizon owned. Now today their problems just got worse. A judge has ruled that Vonage may no longer sign up any new customers for their VoIP service due to the patent infringement they were found guilty of.
Roger Warin, the Vonage lawyer said that “It’s the difference of cutting off oxygen as opposed to the bullet in the head.” Without the capability to sign up new customers, there’s absolutely no room for growth and just means this would be a slow “death” for Vonage to face.
Current customers will not be affected by the injunction, and Vonage says that they have plans to appeal today’s ruling. For now, they have been ordered to pay Verizon $58 million in damages as well as 5.5 percent royalty on every future Vonage sale. And according to Beta News, if they appeal, they will be forced to pay a $66 million appeal bond.
As of yet, the Vonage website is still allowing new sign-ups for their service.
News Source: Beta News
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Mar 04
Microsoft has baked Skype support into Outlook.com, extending last year’s preview of the VoIP integration into a worldwide launch, and adding HD support for PC users along the way. Outlook.com … Continue reading
Feb 26
On the official Skype blog today, Microsoft announced a new sign-up method for those who are new to the service: one’s Microsoft account. The new sign up method is being … Continue reading
Feb 24
WhatsApp Is Getting Voice Calling
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Facebook’s new messaging service
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Feb 14
Skype rival Viber has been bought by Rakuten, the rapidly growing Japanese internet commerce firm, in a $900m deal that will see it push the call and messaging service as … Continue reading
Feb 13
BlackBerry has rolled out an update to BBM for iPhone and Android, adding in BBM Voice for making calls, and enabling BBM Channels, among other new features. The update, available … Continue reading
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