…and Verizon makes three….
Following on from the previous two Vonage shareholder lawsuits, now Verizon is suing Vonage over alleged patent infringements. Not surprisingly the result is an even steeper fall in Vonage’s share price than had already happened. One rumor is that Verizon is just kicking Vonage while it is down, but it could also [...]
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Well, Skype did - early this week at the eBay developers conference, one of the small announcements that slipped in included a screenshot of Skype with Paypal payment and billing built in.
The cynical would suggest that eBay hasn’t a clue and this is just a necessary feature before click-to-call can be embedded into eBay with [...]
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Ebay is starting to let a little information out about how precisely it is going to integrate Skype within Ebay and how it is going to make real use of the free VoIP application as part of its whole auction and ecommerce setup. News from its developers’ conference is that there will be some form [...]
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And our glorious representatives manage to muddle the issues even further. The basic things that happened are that the House passed the COPE bill. This COPE bill is mostly about changing cable and TV franchising and licensing rules in order to allow more companies into the market and to provide incentives to TV service providers [...]
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Om Malik at the influential GigaOm blog has an interesting post passed on from the DSL Prime Index site that looks at where broadband speeds are headed in the next five years or so [scroll WAY down]. The news isn’t good for the US. We are already behind Europe and Asia in broadband infrastructure and [...]
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Senator John McCain, ever the political heavyweight most likely to stir up some controversy on all sides, has submitted a Bill, an amendment to Senator Stevens’ VoIP Bill (one of the six currently gummed up in the works in Washington), that gives cable companies that provide a la carte channel choices a break in their [...]
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Here’s a nifty trick [ed’s note - this link is to the install for a Firefox extension - click it only to install] - the really neat part is that it recognizes phone numbers on web pages so that any phone number on any web page becomes click-to-call. Found this via Jeff Pulver’s blog who [...]
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Hard on the heels of a lawsuit from Streamcast, the creators of Morpheus, that essentially alleges that Skype didn’t have the rights to use core P2P technology that is embedded in its application, comes another hard-hitting lawsuit that could damage Skype’s commercial viability. Net2com, now a subsidiary of IDT, has sued Skype in New Jersey [...]
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The initial success of the Vonage IPO has soured. So much so in fact that a shareholder lawsuit against Vonage was announced today. The suit filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey by the Atlanta-based law firm Motley Rice asserts that the Internet telephony provider, its officers [...]
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