BroadSoft buys Genband’s application server business to boost its VOIP enterprise applications. While Skype focuses primarily on bringing VOIP to more than 300 million consumers, BroadSoft sells its apps to telcos such as Verizon and Sprint. BroadSoft’s buy comes a month after BT bought VOIP provider Ribbit for $105 million.
- Enterprise VOIP specialist BroadSoft Aug. 27 acquired the M6 Communication Applications Server and the product’s associated customer base from IP gateway supplier Genband.
Financial terms of the deal were not revealed, but BroadSoft said the purchase will help bring its BroadWorks voice over IP a…
Excerpted from:
BroadSoft Boosts VOIP with App Server from Genband
August 27th, 2008
Klausner Technologies filed a voicemail patent lawsuit against Google Verizon Communications, LG Electronics Inc Comverse Technology, Citrix Systems, and Embarq in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas. Judah Klausner claims infringements on patents in various countries for visual voicemail. Klausner previously sued and won settlements from Time Warner’s AOL and Vonage.
- SAN FRANCISCO - Emboldened by settlements with Apple Inc
and AT amp;T Inc, inventor Judah Klausner filed a voicemail patent
lawsuit on Tuesday against Google Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and
others.
The inventor’s company, Klausner Technologies Inc, also named as
defendants LG Electronics In…
Klausner Sues Google, Verizon Over Voicemail
August 26th, 2008
Klausner Technologies files a voice mail patent lawsuit against Google Verizon Communications, LG Electronics, Comverse Technology, Citrix Systems and Embarq in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas. Judah Klausner claims infringements on patents in various countries for visual voice mail. Klausner previously sued and won settlements from Time Warner’s AOL and Vonage.
- SAN FRANCISCO Emboldened by settlements with Apple Inc
and AT amp;T Inc, inventor Judah Klausner filed a voicemail patent
lawsuit on Tuesday against Google Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and
others.
The inventor’s company, Klausner Technologies Inc, also named as
defendants LG Electronics Inc,…
Read more here:
Klausner Sues Google, Verizon over Voice Mail
August 26th, 2008
Nortel has bought Pingtel from mobility firm Bluesocket. Nortel hopes the open source IP PBX division will have better luck moving forward.
Financial terms of the deal remain confidential but Nortel will acquire the key assets of Pingtel from Bluesocket, Pingtel’s existing OEM relationship with Nortel will be brought in house and Pingtel employees will be integrated into Nortel’s Massachusetts facility. Pingtel and Nortel have already been working together for a while on OEM SIP based enterprise solutions.
Pingtel’s sipX open source IP PBX software is highly regarded for its ability to scale to support up to 10,000 users and Pingtel landed Amazon.com as its largest publicly announced customer. The Amazon.com installation reportedly supports over 5,000 users in a high availability configuration.
We think this is an interesting move and we remember when Pingtel produced one of the earliest SIP phones called Xpressa which had a knob on the side to scroll through the phone book and later they moved away from hardware to focus on software and sipX development. In 2007, the company was purchased by Bluesocket. We like the way Nortel has made a move to an OpenSource system but has avoided the Asterisk race, it will be interesting to see how the Asterisk community reacts to such a big player in the Telecoms marketplace making a move into their area.
See the Nortel Press release here.
More:
Nortel Acquires Pingtel
August 15th, 2008
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issues a technology policy statement supporting a permanent research and development tax, expanded H1-B visas, lower capital gain taxes and free trade agreements. McCain differs sharply with Barack Obama, however, on network neutrality. Obama favors government action to mandate non-discriminatory handling of network traffic while McCain favors a free market approach.
- Long on tax cuts, free trade agreements and expanded H1-B visas, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issued his technology policy Aug. 14, prescribing a dose of open markets and unregulated competition for the nation’s IT sector.
While many of McCain’s proposals mirror his Democratic oppone…
Read more:
McCain: No Net Neutrality, No Internet Taxes
August 14th, 2008
Previous Posts