Verizon had accused Cox of infringing six patents related to Internet telephony. Verizon settled a similar suit against digital phone service provider Vonage last year for $117.5 million.
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cox Communications did not infringe patents owned by Verizon Communications, a jury in Virginia decided on Monday.
Verizon had accused Cox of infringing six patents related to Internet telephony, but a jury at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia decid…
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Cox Did Not Infringe Verizon Internet Telephony Patents: Jury
October 7th, 2008
Web communications firm Skype faces a backlash at home and in China for apparently allowing core principles to be compromised in order to meet the demands of Chinese censors, analysts warned. Skype, with its promises of total security and privacy, has long been popular with Chinese looking to keep their conversations away from the prying eyes of government censors.
- HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Savvy Internet users in China began avoiding the version of Skype offered by its Chinese partner two years ago, but news it filtered and recorded text messages has sparked new worries about the global firm’s commitment to privacy.
The U.S.-owned Web communications firm…
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Skype’s China Spying Sparks Anger, Security Fears
October 6th, 2008
In this IT Link podcast, the CIO and CTO of Dimension Data, Mark Slaga, talks about the issues IT organizations face as they ponder the migration towards unified communications.
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Moving Towards Unified Communications
October 3rd, 2008
eBay’s Skype VOIP telephony business adds some improvements to the second beta of Skype 4.0 for Windows, including the return of the compact screen and group contact capabilities. Reintroducing features from Skype 3.8 seems retro, but Skype needed to make the moves to keep its over 300 million users happy. Such improvements could lead new VOIP and telephony customers looking for free messaging and collaboration apps to Skype in a time of financial distress.
- Skype on Oct. 1 will launch the second Skype 4.0 beta for Windows with
improvements to the way users view and access their VOIP conversations, as well
as better instant messaging alerts. Skype 4.0 Beta 2
will be downloadable here beginning Oct. 1.
The move follows criticism from users after eBay…
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Skype 4.0 for Windows Brings Back Compact Screen, Group Contacts
September 30th, 2008
Telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson says it is seeing no decline in customer purchases despite the troubled global economy.
- COPENHAGEN (Reuters) Telecom
equipment maker Ericsson has seen no trend yet for its telecom operator
customers to hold back purchases due to the global financial crisis, its
chairman said on Thursday.
quot;At the moment, even if the world is in
this financial crisis, we see no tendencies that…
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Ericsson Chairman Says Customers Still Investing
September 26th, 2008
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