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'Phone Number' Internet Addressing Gains Support
News Theoretically, online users can access a person's contact information, including their email address, simply by typing in the person's phone number in the Internet address field of the Web browser. What that means is a phone number such as +46-8...
[August 14, 2003, 11:15]
Tesco Internet Phone
Forum Tesco have launched their internet phone, allowing you to make calls from your PC taking advantage of the substantially lower costs. If you're calling another Tesco Internet Phone user then calls are free of charge.
[February 9, 2006, 18:39]
VoIP Evades Surveillance
News Some Internet phone-service providers say they're willing to cooperate with police seeking to wiretap conversations -- but they can't because of technical limitations. Jeff Pulver, founder of Free World Dialup, said on Friday that if law...
[February 16, 2004, 10:15]
Vonage In Legal Bid To Continue Signing Customers
News The internet phone provider lost its patent-infringement lawsuit to telecommunications giant Verizon in March. The third patent explains how users can make and receive voice over internet protocol phone calls over a short-range wireless network...
[April 24, 2007, 16:17]
Vonage And Verizon Go Head-to-head In Court
News In the morning, a Verizon company executive described perceived losses caused by Vonage's existence, and an economist hired by Verizon suggested the leading internet phone provider should owe nearly $200m if the jury rules against it.
[February 28, 2007, 8:17]
Is VoIP Ready For Prime Time?
News In addition, connecting phone calls over the Internet could eventually open the door to advanced communications services that tie voice together with email, instant messaging and video conferencing -- something that Microsoft and others are...
[July 15, 2003, 11:43]
Heavy Rain Knocks Out Soho Dot-coms
News Some of the UKÂ’s top Internet companies could be without phone and Internet connections until next week as heavy rain in the West End and West London Tuesday puts 2,000 phone lines out of action and damages underground cables near Regent Street.
[August 10, 2000, 9:19]
VoIP Slips Into Handsets
News Major device manufacturers are planning to incorporate Internet phone calling technology into their modems and cordless phones, in another sign of the growing popularity of this cheaper version of telephone calling, executives said at the Consumer...
[January 12, 2004, 9:35]
Cisco Dials Up Small Business
News Cisco Systems on Thursday introduced less-expensive versions of its Internet phone software and services, as the company broadens its push into the small-business market. Obviously, there's a good market for the small- to medium-sized business, and...
[October 3, 2003, 12:55]
Mobile Addicts Won't Move To 3G
News More than half of British mobile phone owners aged between 15 and 34 would rather sacrifice their home phone than give up their mobile, but most are still unwilling to trade up to an Internet-enabled model in the next year.
[May 1, 2001, 10:20]
Panama Suspends Net-phoning Order
News Panama's supreme court has suspended restrictions on local Internet service providers that were intended to block Internet phone calls in that country, according to a report. Spanish language Web site La Prensa said on Tuesday that the high court...
[November 27, 2002, 10:16]
Technologists Assail Federal Net-tapping Rules
News Federal regulations saying that police must be able to tap into Internet phone conversations with ease are coming under renewed attack from academics, engineers and one of the Net's founding fathers. Because it's theoretically simple for an...
[June 13, 2006, 10:25]
Internet Blamed For Girl's Disappearance
News A teenager who ran up a £873 Internet phone bill may have disappeared with someone she met online, her parents said Wednesday. Karen Church, 16, from County Durham disappeared last Thursday after an argument with her parents over the cost of a...
[May 10, 2000, 14:36]
Skype Fixes Windows-based Client Flaw
News Peer-to-peer phone company Skype has updated its Internet telephony software, patching a critical flaw in its client for Microsoft Windows-based systems. Calls to other Internet phone users are free, while calls to traditional phones and mobile...
[November 16, 2004, 8:15]
VoIP Showcases Advanced Phone Services
News Upstart Internet phone providers are pushing novel features to lure subscribers and differentiate their services, as prices tumble. Historically, these applications have been devised, tested and shipped by Cisco Systems, Avaya and other traditional...
[January 22, 2004, 10:00]
Supermarkets Add WAP Phones To Shopping Lists
News Four of Britain's largest supermarkets have caught the WAP bug and will offer Internet-mobile phone technology to shoppers in more than 1,500 stores nation-wide. Now we're surging forward as people grasp that many of the benefits of the Internet...
[May 19, 2000, 13:08]
Panama Rejigs VoIP Tax
News Panama is set to introduce a tax that treats traditional and Internet phone calls the same way, a "technology agnostic" regulation that has had a mixed welcome from broadband phone providers. Last week, lawmakers in the Central American country...
[January 21, 2004, 15:20]
Interfering With The Revolution
News Skype chief executive Niklas Zennström vowed to shake up the phone industry 20 months ago with his creation, the first ever peer-to-peer Internet phone service. More than 110 million downloads and 2 billion minutes of phone conversation later...
[May 26, 2005, 14:20]
More WAP As Alcatel Joins The Fray
News The dual-band handsets are being specifically targeted the consumer market and use Alcatel's microbrowser (licenced from phone.com) with BT's Genie Internet. The One Touch is available as part of BTs Cellnet Internet phone pack for £79.99 prepay or...
[June 7, 2000, 11:08]
VoIP Firms Plead To Keep Phone Tax Exemption
News The largest US Internet phone companies are asking the Internal Revenue Service not to slam them with a "temporary" tax created more than 100 years ago to pay for the Spanish-American War. The VON Coalition argues that the text of the 1898 law does...
[September 30, 2004, 16:55]
