Latest VoIP news.
Telecom veteran questions Verizon VoIP patents, 04/17/07
Two patents owned by Verizon in its infringement lawsuit against Vonage Holdings Corp. are invalid, and if allowed to stand, could threaten all competing VoIP services, a telecommunications industry veteran said Tuesday.
Vonage admits it has no workaround, 04/16/07
Vonage has acknowledged it has no workaround for technology that was found to infringe Verizon Communications Inc. patents and does not know if one is feasible.
Regus Group inks biggest Telepresence deal yet, 04/16/07
Cisco has just inked one of its largest deals to date for its new Telepresence technology signing a deal with the Regus Group, a provider of outsourced workplaces across the globe.
New worm wriggles around on Skype, 04/16/07
A worm targeting Skype’s VoIP application is harvesting e-mail addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said Monday.
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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