Vonage loses Sprint-Nextel patent suit, plans appeal; Skype: The new worm-delivery system

Opinion
Sep 26, 20071 min

Latest VoIP news.

Vonage loses Sprint-Nextel patent suit, plans appeal, 09/25/07: A federal court ruled on Tuesday that struggling VoIP provider Vonage infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel.

Not so dim: Start-up Dimdim challenges Cisco WebEx.

Skype: The new worm-delivery system, 09/17/07: A few weeks ago, Skype, IMO, gained eternal notoriety when executives of that firm, through mouthpieces, and the power of the internet, tried to convince users/subscribers into believing that a service outage which came suspiciously after a (Microsoft) Windows update was Redmond’s fault. Nowhere in their press releases was the fact that they, Skype, had just pushed out a software update as well!

ITExpo 2007 recap: Announcements from Clarus, Comverse, Contactual, Paraxip, 09/24/07: At the Internet Telephony Expo held earlier this month, several companies announced new products.