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McCain: No Net Neutrality, No Internet Taxes
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issues a technology policy statement supporting a permanent research and development tax, expanded H-1B visas, lower capital gains taxes and free trade agreements. McCain differs sharply from Barack Obama, however, on network neutrality. Obama favors government action to mandate nondiscriminatory handling of network traffic while McCain favors a free market approach.
- Long on tax cuts, free trade agreements and expanded H-1B 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 opp...
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Intel Remote Wake to Wake PCs with VOIP Calls
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Intel announces four new motherboards that will include Remote Wake, the ability for VOIP calls to wake a PC. Similar to Wake-on-LAN or Wake-on-WAN, Remote Wake is supported by VOIP provider Jajah. Orb Networks and CyberLink also announced support for Remote Wake for media management, evidence the technology will likely be used to perform tasks like recording TV programs.
- Intel announced four new motherboards Aug. 14 that will include Remote Wake
capability, an improved form of the Wake-on-LAN
or Wake-on-WAN technology now in use. Intel's Remote Wake motherboards will
allow a VOIP call to wake up the PC.
Intel said the motherboards, which use either the G45 or G4...
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Vonage Makes VOIP Mobile
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Vonage Pro lets mobile workers take their home office phones with them. With features like Vonage Companion, users can set up their offices wherever they are.
- Vonage is rolling out its Vonage Pro VOIP offering designed to enable mobile workers and home workers bring their phone systems with them on the road.
Vonage Pro includes the next-generation Vonage SoftPhone client, called Vonage Companion, which lets users access their home numbers from any deskto...
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BT Quarterly Earnings Up 1 Percent
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BT Group, Britain's fixed-line telecom provider, said revenues rose 3 percent to 5.18 billion pounds, ahead of forecasts. BT Group posted a first-quarter rise in underlying core earnings of 1 percent on Thursday, just below forecasts, and said its full-year guidance remained unchanged. The BT Retail unit's share of net broadband additions was 31 percent during the quarter.
- LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - Britain's BT Group Plc posted a first quarter rise in underlying core earnings of 1
percent on Thursday, just below forecasts, and said its
full-year guidance remained unchanged.
The group reported underlying earnings before interest, tax,
depreciation and amortisat...
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Ribbit Chose British Telecom Because Size Matters
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Ribbit co-founder Crick Waters says Ribbit chose to sell itself to British Telecom because size matters. Rather than grow its VOIP software from scratch in competing with Google, Skype and phone carriers, Waters says Ribbit chose British Telecom for scalablity and footprint.
- British Telecom bought Web telephony startup Ribbit yesterday for $105 million. Here's the scoop for those who missed it.
During a demo last January, Ribbit co-founders Crick Waters and CEO Ted Griggs assured me that they had the technology and tools to make a go of it alone as Silicon Valley's ...
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BT Buys VOIP Provider Ribbit for $105M
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Ribbit, the VOIP company that lets software developers for the enterprise and consumers add voice capabilities to CRM apps such as Salesforce.com and social networks such as Facebook, joins BT's fleet of acquisitions.
- Update: BT has agreed to buy VOIP company Ribbit for $105 million in
cash.
Ribbit's platform lets developers add voice and automation features to
most Web-based apps or social networks.
The platform is based on the SmartSwitch, a piece of software that enables
voice data to move across land...
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Bloggers Slam Barack Obama on FISA Vote
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Barack Obama taking the heat on telco immunity support. Hillary Clinton earns chops for opposing amnesty for AT T, Verizon and other carriers. John McCain remains AWOL in aftermath of Senate vote.
- Gail from Oldwick, N.J., was an ardent supporter of Barack Obama before his July 9 vote supporting legal immunity for telephone carriers that participated in President Bush's domestic spying program. After the vote, she said she is quot;ashamed quot; she taught her parrot to squawk, quot;Obama Yes...
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Telco Immunity Approved by Senate, Obama
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A telco immunity bill gets a vote in the Senate. Barrack Obama approves three failed amendments to hold carriers responsible, but approves the final bill. John McCain skips the telco immunity vote.
- After a morning of fiery debate, the U.S. Senate voted July 9 to grant
retroactive immunity to telephone companies that participated in the White
House's warrantless domestic spying program. The 69-28 vote came after the
Senate defeated three amendments all aimed at either removing or modifying ...
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White House Opposes Any Delay in Telco Immunity
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AG, National Intelligence director warn veto looms if Bingaman amendment approved.
- The Bush administration July 7 threatened to veto the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill if lawmakers approve an amendment to the legislation that would delay immunity for telephone carriers until the Department of Justice conducts a study about the carriers' role in President Bush's warrant...
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Radvision Bridges Videoconferencing Divide
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Scopia Conferencing Platform manages to coax disparate conference room and desktop videoconferencing solutions into relative harmony.
- With Scopia Desktop, Radvision extends an affordable, highly scalable and
robust videoconferencing solution to Windows-based desktops. However,
Radvision's real value derives from its Scopia Conferencing Platform's ability
to tie together its customers' disparate investments in conference room vi...
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Enterprises Need to Deal with Skype Boom
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Tech Analysis: What enterprises can do with--or about--the VOIP application.
- With the explosion in the popularity of the Skype peer-to-peer voice over IP program, IT managers are finding themselves faced with some familiar questions: Should they curb Skype's use in the company? Should they support the application, even when it comes in through the backdoor? Should they embra...
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Refreshed Skype Could Rekindle Acquisition Talk
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New Skype video and conversation management tools could make the VOIP platform more attractive to Google, Microsoft or Yahoo.
- Updated: VOIP detractors who felt Skype wasn't ready for prime time can stop naysaying.
Released for your beta-testing pleasure June 18, the new VOIP (voice
over IP) platform is packed with video, ease of use and call quality
enhancements that lets users move easily from PC-to-PC audio,
video a...
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New Skype Beta Makes Video VOIP a Snap
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Skype delivers a unified communications service with better video calling access and conversation management.
- Skype, the popular free VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protcol) unit of eBay, June 18 released a revamped platform that makes it easier for the service's 309 million users to make video calls from their computers.
The new Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows aims to leverage the fact that 28 percent of Skype ...
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ShoreTel Ships New Unified VOIP System
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The company adds a high-resolution video option to its voice, IM and e-mail combined system.
- VOIP provider ShoreTel the week of June 16 began
shipping Version 8.0 of its ShoreWare Professional Call Manager unified communications
system, which already offered voice, instant messaging and e-mail, but now
includes an option for video with business processes.
ShoreTel claims to be the firs...
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Remote Workers: How to Be Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind
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Succeeding at the art of telecommuting requires extra vigilance on the part of remote employees--making it abundantly clear that you're not only in the loop, but you'd like to stay in it. Here are some suggestions for making your presence felt in the office, no matter where you happen to be working.
- By Deb Perelman
If you show up to the office each day, it's enough to just be
there. You probably don't need to let people know if your lunch will be
60, and not 30, minutes. You don't need to pow-wow with your manager
throughout the day to prove you're not slacking. But the rules change...
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