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• VoIP provider files net neutrality complaint with FCC

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 04:16

  A Florida VoIP carrier has filed a net neutrality complaint against a Georgia utility and broadband provider, after the utility accused the VoIP firm of theft of service for using its network to deliver voice service without paying for it.

• 10 questions for BroadSoft CFO James Tholen

  By Nancy Weil | 22 May, 2012 02:21

  Name: James Tholen

• Cisco offers API to fight call fraud

  By Jim Duffy | 09 May, 2012 00:31

  LAS VEGAS -- Cisco this week at Interop 2012 released an API for its branch routers designed to enable third-party developers to write applications to enhance the security of phone calls over the router network.

• Skype investigates tool that reveals users' IP addresses

  By Jeremy Kirk | 01 May, 2012 12:40

  Skype said Tuesday it is investigating a new tool that collects a person's last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue.

• Cisco to add IM software to enterprise IP communications system

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 19 April, 2012 02:43

  Cisco will include Jabber instant messaging and presence software at no extra charge with its Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) enterprise IP communications system, the company plans to announce on Wednesday.

• Cisco adds IP multiplexing to mobile satellite package

  By Ellen Messmer | 10 April, 2012 03:42

  Using VoIP via satellite links can have bandwidth issues, but Cisco today said it's introducing an IP multiplexing technology for its Cisco Mobile Ready Net package that dramatically improves the number of IP-based calls on a satellite link.

• Cisco boosts telepresence system with new collaboration features

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 27 March, 2012 23:08

  Cisco will announce improvements on Tuesday to its Jabber IM, presence and video-conferencing product, as well as to its room-size "immersive" telepresence systems, as the networking giant continues to push its way into the workplace collaboration market.

• Microsoft restores access to phones that couldn't access Skype

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 17 March, 2012 10:26

  Microsoft has fixed a bug that made it impossible for about a dozen models of Skype-certified phones to log into the popular IM, VoIP and video-conferencing service.

• Some Skype-certified phones failing to log into the service

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 14 March, 2012 02:59

  Microsoft is investigating reports that about a dozen models of Skype-certified phones are having trouble logging into the IM, VoIP and video-conferencing service.

• Siemens improves scalability as communication moves to the cloud

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 07 March, 2012 04:43

  The next version of the OpenScape Unified Communications (UC) Suite can handle five times as many users, Siemens Enterprise Communications said Tuesday at the Cebit trade show.

• Skype for Windows Phone arrives in beta version

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 28 February, 2012 00:20

  Windows Phone users now have access to the Skype Internet calling service.

• Scattered Genesys needs to regroup after Alcatel-Lucent split, says analyst

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 02 February, 2012 02:39

  Alcatel-Lucent has closed the sale of its customer-service software and contact-center business Genesys, which now needs to regroup and start working on improving areas such as analytics, Gartner analyst Steve Blood said.

• Zultys adds Android client for its IP PBX

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 31 January, 2012 23:55

  Zultys has upgraded the software in its MX family of IP PBXs and added a Mobile Communicator client for Android-based smartphones, the company said on Tuesday.

• Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012

  By Ann Bednarz | 03 January, 2012 22:30

  Despite some hopeful fits and starts, the U.S. economy didn't escape the doldrums in 2011. Unemployment remained stubbornly high, the U.S. debt-ceiling crisis and budget scuffles spurred more economic uncertainty, and Europe's ongoing financial problems threatened global markets. If there's an upside, at least it's familiar territory.

• Aussies moving away from fixed-line communication devices: ACMA

  By Lisa Banks | 08 December, 2011 16:03

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has claimed that Australian consumers are embracing multiple forms of communication technologies, with mobile phones being the “bulk of voice communications.”