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Microsoft escapes voice-data lawsuit
News This court today asserts that the language in the specification regarding 'over' and 'through' a telephone line somehow requires the claims to cover only those communication networks where nothing but a telephone line lies between the two end...
[February 6, 2004, 10:55]
Comms Focus Guest Column: Ericsson's Mobile Workforce
News Simple voice capability is no longer sufficient to accommodate the mobile worker's business agenda - data communication is the future. This combination offers a hi-tech taste of the future - instant, effective communication for voice or data using...
[July 24, 1998, 13:56]
Cyberwarfare 'a reality in 12 months'
News Gartner claims that, unlike traditional circuit-switched networks, VoIP networks have an inherent weakness when it comes to latency -- any delay to the packets carrying the voice traffic disrupts communication.
[January 15, 2004, 11:50]
Broadcom cleans up noisy mobiles
News Viterbi decoding is a key aspect of most modern wireless communication; if M-Stream proves itself in practice it could find much wider application in networks and radio communication of all kinds. This makes voice calls more reliable and enhances...
[February 14, 2006, 11:15]
Microsoft pushes seamless communications
News Microsoft claims it wants to create applications that break down the barriers between voice, text and video to enable more seamless communication. A transformation has started in communication. At the CeBIT trade show in Hanover on Tuesday...
[March 5, 2008, 17:10]
TfL puts £150m up for network services
News In separate pre-tender notices in the Official Journal of the European Union, TfL says it is likely to seek a managed service provider for data infrastructure and voice communication services, as well as framework agreements for a range of...
[December 4, 2009, 11:31]
How to survive a catastrophic outage
News Yet, incredibly, at the onset, not a single customer of Con Edison Communication, the subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Company that provides data and voice transport products and services to metro New York City, lost service.
[February 2, 2004, 10:50]
European Parliament restricts access to personal data
News As the Cappato report stands, EU countries should restrict police powers to intercept communication traffic data and location data in normal circumstances. The controversial EU directive, which was simply intended to update current laws to include...
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
US Report: The Internet is dead - Sprint chief
News Companies will not be able to effectively handle the downpour of packets that will result from the emergence of big communication pipes in data networks. Just as his company has begun to put large businesses onto its well-publicised new data...
[October 6, 1998, 9:16]
IBM follows Microsoft with unified comms push
News At the core of the offering is an open set of application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by IBM as a subset of the Lotus Sametime collaboration capabilities, along with communication APIs provided by Cisco to access communications...
[August 24, 2007, 17:38]
VoIP: Paying the price for cheap calls
News The issue is that, when voice becomes an application, it also becomes subject to all of the same security threats as other applications on the data network and so, given its key role in enabling business communication, has to be adequately protected.
[August 8, 2005, 17:10]
Will Pentium III live up to its hype?
News You're basically trading MIPs for baud," referring to the use of computing power in a machine in place of data being transferred over a communication link. With increased computing power can convey information more intelligently, and so provide...
[February 17, 1999, 17:10]
Virtual commando conversations boost VoIP
News People are willing to accept a low quality of voice communication, because it's a game service. Online services for Microsoft's Xbox game console and Sony's PlayStation 2 have created the first major consumer application for voice over Internet...
[February 6, 2004, 13:35]
Top 10 lessons for enterprise iPhone adoption
News If an iPhone makes an employee happy, then supporting it will deliver the collateral benefits of a happier workforce and a new line of communication between IT and employees. The company saw significant cost savings in data and voice tariffs.
[April 15, 2009, 14:21]
VeriSign wants a piece of wireless mobile
News No industry needs to go global faster than communications," Vernon Irvin, executive vice president of VeriSign Communication Services, said in a statement. VeriSign plans to use the new global billing and payment services first with its wireless...
[February 25, 2004, 9:15]
China Mobile CEO's rules of thumb
News And China Mobile is the mobile communication partner for the Olympic Games -- we promised to provide 3G services during the Olympics. And today the proportion for value-added services -- we call them non-voice services -- is as high as 20 percent.
[May 11, 2006, 14:55]
Internet telephony 'is not telecommunications'
News Earlier this month, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals came down on the opposite side of the debate, throwing out the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) classification of cable broadband as an information service.
[October 17, 2003, 16:10]
Voice recognition software is ready for real use
News It makes communication so much easier," she says. Voice recognition software (VRS), once a clunky, cumbersome product that caused more aggravation than it was worth, has evolved into a sleek tool that can increase your productivity significantly.
[August 29, 2002, 15:57]
Enterasys secures enterprise VoIP
News Software that detects unauthorised use of VoIP systems, prevents service disruption and eavesdropping, and monitors voice networks for new threats will be absolutely vital for businesses considering IP telephony as an alternative to more...
[August 22, 2007, 11:52]
BT wins £99m MoD comms deal
News The commencement of this service for defence represents a logical and significant step forward in the continuing modernisation and rationalisation of the fixed communication network infrastructure which began in 1997," said Darrell Midgley, head...
[July 16, 2009, 17:34]
