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Net2Phone review
Reviews At first, the sound quality was dreadful. Our long-suffering correspondents in the US said that throughout the conversation it sounded as though the sound was breaking up. On our end, everything said by the caller was echoed a couple of seconds...
[February 6, 2001, 23:00]
Device to link home phones directly to Net2Phone
News Network equipment maker Linksys will soon sell a new device that allows consumers to make low-cost, long-distance phone calls using Net2Phone's Internet-based voice network. The small device, basically an add-on to a cable or digital subscriber...
[January 8, 2001, 15:17]
Skype sued for patent violation
News 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 US District Court in New Jersey, alleges Skype infringed on its...
[June 6, 2006, 11:10]
Ringing the changes with VoIP
News Net2Phone chief executive Stephen Greenberg doesn't use automated teller machines. He remembers using an ATM only once, about 15 years ago when he was stuck on a business trip in Los Angeles. When he needs cash, Greenberg says he grabs it from an...
[September 10, 2003, 11:45]
Cisco faces lawsuit for alleged fraud
News Internet telephony specialist Net2Phone and Adir Technologies filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems on Tuesday, charging the networking giant with alleged fraud. The complaint, filed in the US Court for the District of New Jersey by Net2Phone and...
[March 20, 2002, 9:16]
MSN disconnects free long-distance
News Microsoft and Net2Phone have placed limits on free Internet phone calls offered over MSN Messenger, marking the latest disappointment for consumers hoping to wipe out long-distance bills by turning to the Web.
[February 7, 2001, 10:27]
Free phone calls for Microsoft IM customers
News Microsoft said Thursday it entered a deal with Web telephony company Net2Phone to offer free phone calls to users of Microsoft's instant messenger service. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
[July 20, 2000, 15:17]
Companies work on Net phone
News Panasonic is working with Net2Phone to develop a phone that can handle standard calls as well as voice-over-IP calls. The "One Touch" phone is being demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
[January 7, 2000, 11:45]
IDT touts 10 cent US telephony
News Net2Phone allows any Net user to make full-duplex calls to anywhere in the US from 10 cents (about six pence) per minute because voice data is carried over the Internet until it reaches IDT's US telephone infrastructure.
[January 7, 1997, 11:19]
Microsoft escapes voice-data lawsuit
News Microsoft has successfully fended off a lawsuit over a set of controversial voice-digitisation patents, in a case that could have roiled the computer and Internet telephony industries if the patents had been upheld as valid.
[February 6, 2004, 10:55]
AT&T's weakest wireless affiliate hits the markets
News The third, final and weakest AT&T wireless affiliate -- Tritel -- goes public today and should make a respectable debut. But one question lingers: Wouldn't it make more sense to just buy AT&T shares? AT&T Wireless, which will be traded as a...
[December 14, 1999, 15:56]
Linksys EtherFast cable/DSL voice router
Downloads Firmware for BEFN2PS4 - EtherFast Cable/DSL Voice Router (powered by Net2Phone).
[July 21, 2002, 8:00]
VoIP regulation hangs in balance
News Internet telephony companies are fighting efforts by California state regulators to apply traditional telephone rules and taxes to their services. Six VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) providers, including Net2Phone, 8x8 and SBC IP Communications...
[October 27, 2003, 13:55]
Tech investment: The Dutch approach
News Ambassador Clifford Sobel speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber at the High Tech Connections symposium in Silicon Valley. Formerly the chairman of Internet telephony company Net2Phone, Sobel said the Netherlands is focusing investment capital and...
[January 19, 2004, 10:00]
Net telephony cracks appear
News Portugal, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland and two South Sea islands, Micronesia and Palau have banned the technology from their countries, according to IDT, maker of the Net2Phone Net telephony product.
[June 27, 1997, 9:06]
News Burst: Instant Messaging gets a voice
News Instant messaging got a significant boost Thursday as Microsoft added voice to its MSN Messenger service V3.0. The software giant, which has been battling with AOL and Yahoo! over the instant messaging system, has incorporated technology from...
[July 20, 2000, 10:25]
VoIP search and SFX app launched
News For the price of tailored advertisements, an Internet ad company is peddling free add-on features, including search capabilities, for conversations on Skype and other voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. Privately held United Virtualities, based in New...
[March 29, 2005, 9:55]
Windows XP messenger takes aim at AOL
News Microsoft this week will introduce a test version of Windows XP that significantly boosts the abilities of instant messaging software to provide text, chat, video, audio and telephony services. Dubbed Windows Messenger, the product is Microsoft's...
[June 4, 2001, 8:58]
VoIP hang-up looming?
News A group of telecommunications giants is quietly pushing a proposal that could create hang-ups for up-and-coming Internet-telephone rivals. At stake are rules used to divvy up the 5.2 billion unassigned phone numbers set aside for use in North...
[January 27, 2003, 13:11]
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]
