Latest VoIP news.
Vonage wins permanent stay of patent ruling, 04/24/07
Vonage this week received a permanent stay of injunction from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. that would have barred it from signing up new customers.
ShoreTel improves VoIP features, management options, 04/24/07
ShoreTel has sharpened its VoIP platform for midsize and large enterprises with its release this week of ShoreTel 7, which offers improved personal call-management features for users and more flexible system management tools for administrators.
Skype user numbers grow, but slower, 04/20/07
New data from eBay shows that its Skype VoIP service is still picking up lots of new users, but at a slower rate than in previous quarters.
From Cisco Subnet: Cisco business slowdown spewing into its service provider unit?
Cisco has asked its global service provider sales force to pull some sales into its fiscal third quarter, according to Pacific Crest analyst Tim Daubenspeck, reports Barron’s Online. The news comes just a day after another financial analyst warned of a slowdown in Cisco’s enterprise business.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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