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Skype offers new VoIP features for Intel dual-core PCs

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Feb 08, 20062 mins
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Skype offers new VoIP features for Intel dual-core PCs, 02/08/06Skype is adding new features to its Internet telephony software through a collaboration with Intel based on the chip maker’s dual-core processors.Dell’Oro sees measured growth in VoIP gear, 02/07/06

Carriers’ large-scale transition to VoIP may not begin in earnest until 2010, though spending on gear for the new calling technology will roughly double over the next five years, according to research company Dell’Oro Group.

3GSM – Mobile show to signal no end to innovation, 02/07/06

Visitors attending the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona next week may find little time to enjoy the city’s great sights and food. This year’s event is shaping up to be one of the biggest and busiest ever, with plenty of new technologies, services and …

Convergence Weblog: Bye-bye free Internet, 02/07/06

Tiered IP services with tiered pricing seem more and more inevitable with the news that both AOL and Yahoo are going to charge for guaranteed, on-time delivery of e-mails. The companies already filter customers’ incoming e-mail for spam and phishing …

Convergence Weblog: Voipster opens a whole new can of zoep, 02/06/06

an open source, peer-to-peer VoIP platform has been making a splash since its recent introduction. The software can be used to make IP calls between computers, but perhaps more importantly it has an open application programming interface that …

Convergence Weblog: Cable needs IMS, 02/03/06

Cable companies that provide VoIP need to adopt the IP multimedia subsystem ( IMS ) architecture and soon if they hope to keep stealing customers from traditional phone providers. According to a study by IDC, the flexibility of IMS is necessary to …

Old-school VoIP, 02/02/06

One of the mysteries surrounding VoIP is how to integrate the legacy telephony infrastructure into the new paradigm. But what if that legacy equipment is 70 years old? …

Convergence Newsletter: What’s WiMAX all about?, 02/01/06

Last week, when we discussed how WiMAX could be used to offer wireless broadband, we got several comments and questions back about the technology. Today, we’d like to …

Convergence Weblog: VoIP could hide DoS attacks, 02/01/06

MIT and Cambridge University researchers warn that VoIP traffic could become a way to mask where denial of service attacks come from. The group, called Communications Research Network, says that the streaming nature of VoIP and its unpredictable use …