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Vonage settles Sprint's patent claim
VoIP provider Vonage Holdings has settled a patent dispute with Sprint Nextel by agreeing to pay Sprint about $80 million, the two companies announced Monday.

Far EasTone may promote WiMax handsets, but not Skype
Far EasTone Telecommunications doesn't plan to shy away from WiMax handsets once its high-speed wireless network is up and running in southern Taiwan, but the company certainly won't welcome Skype's popular Internet telephony software.
September 28, 7:04 a.m. PDT

VoIP provider Jajah gives subscribers toll-free Internet calling
VoIP service provider Jajah is offering its subscribers toll-free call buttons that they can place on their Web sites, enabling site visitors to immediately set up phone calls to Jajah subscribers in 122 countries.
September 28, 6:51 a.m. PDT

Update: Vonage loses Sprint-Nextel patent suit, plans appeal
A federal court ruled on Tuesday that struggling VoIP provider Vonage infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel.
September 25, 2:30 p.m. PDT

Verizon Business adds to SLAs
Verizon Communications' Business unit has expanded its service-level agreement (SLA) options, allowing customers to invoke their SLAs on the last mile of their network connection, even in cases where Verizon doesn't own those pipes.
September 24, 8:12 a.m. PDT

Nokia targets businesses with dual-mode E51 mobile phone
Nokia released on Tuesday the newest addition to its E-series lineup of mobile phones for businesses, revamping the user interface for easier navigation, executives said during a London product launch.
September 18, 8:19 a.m. PDT

Skype warns users of Windows worm
Skype users are under attack from a new worm that spreads through the peer-to-peer Internet phone application's chat feature.
September 10, 7:05 a.m. PDT

Best of open source in networking
If we had to pick the most significant trend in networking today, the VoIP phenomenon might well top the list. And open source is playing no small part. While enterprises remain reluctant to rip out their tried-and-true PBXes, open source VoIP -- usually in the form of Asterisk -- is capturing business communications one small business or branch office at a time. Sooner or later, enterprises too will catch the open source VoIP bug. The cost savings and flexibility are too compelling to resist.
September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies
Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind.
September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Unified communications: Here at last?
While Todd Sharp is driving down the highway between Charlotte and Atlanta, a new sales order triggers a lookup for the customer phone number and salesperson (that would be Todd) assigned to it. The system then polls Siemens OpenScape UC (unified communications) software and checks Todd’s presence status, discovering that he’s working remotely and available only on his cell. OpenScape kicks off a VoIP call to Todd’s cell phone and, using a text-to-speech engine, reads the sales order over the phone. It then prompts Todd to press 1 to autodial the customer. Minutes after the order arrived, Todd is thanking the customer from his car.
September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Tata to aid India's telecoms expansion
India's largest outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has landed a US$140 million contract from India's large state-owned telecommunications services provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., for the deployment of next-generation networks in the country.
August 30, 7:15 a.m. PDT

Paying Skype users get a week's free VoIP service
Skype is offering a week of free service to paying customers who may have been affected by the two-day outage of its Internet telephony service last week.
August 23, 5:31 a.m. PDT

Microsoft: Skype outage shows work to be done
A Microsoft executive addressed the recent Skype outage on Tuesday by comparing VoIP to early automobiles in a horse-drawn world.
August 21, 2:36 p.m. PDT

Verizon Business rolls out VoIP enhancements
Verizon Communications' Business unit will launch a VoIP service for customers of its Hosted IP Centrex package that will give users access to new features like text messaging and calendar synchronization.
August 21, 2:23 p.m. PDT

Skype offers more details of 'perfect storm' outage
The situation that prevented millions of people from accessing Skype's Internet telephony service late last week was a "perfect storm" and should not reoccur, the company said Tuesday.
August 21, 5:42 a.m. PDT

Skype says crash followed Windows security update
The widespread failure of Skype's Internet telephony service last week happened when millions of Windows users tried to log in to the system at the same time, after downloading a software update from Microsoft and rebooting their machines, Skype said Monday.
August 20, 6:54 a.m. PDT

SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud
In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore.
August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores
The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time.
August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech
You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology.
August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Update: Skype outage continues, business users affected
Almost 36 hours after the problem caused widespread outages in eBay Inc.'s Skype service, engineers continue to work to fully restore this extremely popular Internet telephony and instant messaging service, while many business users deal with work disruptions.
August 17, 6:22 p.m. PDT

eBay says Skype was not attacked
Skype has not been attacked, eBay said Friday, dispelling rumors that Russian hackers took down its popular online telephony service.
August 17, 12:00 p.m. PDT

Skype VOIP problems may continue throughout the day
Skype is still trying to restore service to millions of its customers almost 24 hours after they began to experience problems logging in to the VOIP service.
August 17, 5:15 a.m. PDT

Outage of Skype's VoIP service appears to be over
A log-in problem that shut many users out of Skype's popular VoIP service for nearly 14 hours appears to be over, but the company said more work remains to be done.
August 17, 4:14 a.m. PDT

Bug hits Skype's peer-to-peer network
A software bug has affected Skype's peer-to-peer network, preventing users in some parts of the world from logging on to its widely used VoIP service.
August 16, 7:42 a.m. PDT

Vonage battles to stay in the VoIP game
Vonage Holdings has "substantially completed" the deployment of work-arounds for two of three VoIP patents claimed by Verizon Communications, Vonage announced Thursday.
August 9, 9:15 a.m. PDT

Former SunRocket customers struggle with new VOIP provider
Customers of SunRocket, the VOIP company that recently folded, may have hoped their troubles were over when two competitors stepped up to offer them service in the absence of the failed provider.
August 9, 5:52 a.m. PDT

Nothing sure but death and the Internet tax debate
As a federal ban on discriminatory and access taxes on the Internet approaches a Nov. 1 expiration date, Congress is once again embroiled in a question that comes up every three or four years:  To what degree does the Internet merit special federal protection from state and local tax collectors?
July 27, 5:15 a.m. PDT

SunRocket buys time for former VoIP customers
Former SunRocket customers were given 10 days Thursday to sign up with another carrier and have their phone numbers ported, the company winding down the failed VoIP business said.
July 26, 5:57 p.m. PDT

High-fidelity VoIP
Not so long ago, I wrote an article on Asterisk and open source VoIP in general. In my discussion with Mark Spencer, the founder of Digium and the Asterisk project, he recommended Polycom as the phone vendor he would choose for an Asterisk deployment. In the same article, I profiled Summer Bay Resorts, which runs Asterisk across multiple call centers and hundreds of agents, all with Polycom phones. You might think Polycom is onto something.
July 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT

VoIP woes: Losing service without warning
On Monday evening, my wife reached me on my mobile phone. She was spending a long weekend with her family in Maine.
July 19, 11:33 a.m. PDT

Work-around puts Skype on the iPhone
A complex remote control work-around has achieved what every geek wants: running Skype on an iPhone.
July 12, 7:28 a.m. PDT

Nokia adds Skype to N800 tablet
Nokia introduced Skype Internet-calling software for its N800 Wi-Fi tablet on Wednesday, providing another alternative to using a cell phone, while a debate in the U.S. over what networks such devices may be able to use in the future heated up.
July 11, 2:02 p.m. PDT

European Commission pushes Germany on telecom access
The European Commission asked the German regulatory authority, the Federal Network Agency, Monday to do more to ensure a level playing field in the market for high-speed optical fiber connections to the home or office.
June 25, 9:49 a.m. PDT

T-Mobile, Truphone: disconnected over VOIP
A U.K. startup specializing in offering Internet telephone service via certain Nokia Wi-Fi enabled cellphones is making few friends with mobile operators, signalling tension ahead in the high stakes mobile phone industry.
June 19, 9:48 a.m. PDT

Raketu to add mobility to Web-based VoIP
Raketu Communications will add two new mobile phone features to its integrated communications, entertainment, and social networking service in a move to attract consumers on the go.
June 15, 8:10 a.m. PDT

Lawsuits, founder could derail Inter-Tel acquisition
Several class action lawsuits and a revolt by the founder threaten to derail a proposed $732 million acquisition of IP communications company Inter-Tel.
June 14, 11:06 a.m. PDT

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Robert Gourley
Imagine merging 11 companies’ IT departments, creating a standard communications platform that can withstand battlefield conditions, and launching an SOA effort all at the same time. And having it in operation just two years later. That was the challenge Robert Gourley faced as CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which gathers, analyzes, coordinates, and distributes intelligence data for the U.S. armed forces and in partnership with various civilian spy agencies.
June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT

U.S. soldiers face tough VOIP call
American soldiers in South Korea face a tough call on using Internet telephony in the country.
May 31, 9:19 a.m. PDT

OCS 2007 doesn't spell doom for VoIP
I should have gone to law school. If I had, I could right now be planning where to build my new summer home, 'cause you know I'd be on Microsoft's team getting ready to sue anyone who might be using a vaguely Redmond-resembling code module buried somewhere in one of my open source apps or OSes. Cha-ching.
May 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft
If Microsoft is muscling in on enterprise telephony vendors' turf, most of those companies right now are just trying to get along.
May 22, 4:53 a.m. PDT

Government filtering of online content on the rise
As more people use the Internet to inform themselves, more governments around the world want to filter what they read, according to an academic study.
May 18, 7:12 a.m. PDT

Startup's DNS server boosts VOIP and media streaming
U.K. startup 3C has launched what it calls the world's fastest authoritative DNS server, capable of answering over a million queries per second on a single CPU.
May 16, 7:00 a.m. PDT

U.S. ISPs slam into wiretap deadline
U.S. broadband and VOIP providers on Monday hit a deadline to prove they could accommodate law-enforcement wiretaps.
May 15, 5:05 a.m. PDT

Europe's mobile advances
Smartphone VoIPIf, until now, most smartphone users have associated mobile Internet with writing e-mail, surfing the Web, or sending pictures, they could easily get hooked on cheap VoIP calls.
May 14, 8:49 a.m. PDT

Microsoft shows off new unified communications phones
Microsoft is launching a qualification program for phones that are compatible with its unified communications products.
May 14, 5:35 a.m. PDT

Siemens expands OpenScape line
As unified communications moves from the bleeding edge to the mainstream, Siemens Communications is set to expand its OpenScape platform into a line of three products, including a less expensive one with a focused set of features.
May 8, 7:38 a.m. PDT

Court rejects Vonage request for retrial
A U.S. federal appeals court has rejected Vonage's request that it order a lower court to retry a patent-infringement case against the company, Vonage confirmed Thursday.
May 3, 11:56 a.m. PDT

Experts: Patent ruling could reopen Vonage case
Legal experts say that a ruling this week by the U.S. Supreme Court could give new life to Internet phone company Vonage's claims that it has been the victim of overly generous patent rulings.
May 1, 2:28 p.m. PDT

Verizon Business to ensure VoIP quality
Verizon Communications' Verizon Business division now guarantees the quality of VoIP calls on its global VPN service.
May 1, 12:54 p.m. PDT

Skype your way to learning Chinese
Interested in learning Chinese, but don't have the money or time to study in China? Some teachers are turning to Skype for help.
April 30, 1:45 p.m. PDT

FaceTime offers Skype manager for business
A new security product has been released that manages certain aspects of Skype's VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) application, which may assuage fears from IT managers that the Skype program may save on phone bills but pose a security risk.
April 25, 8:43 a.m. PDT

Vonage gets permanent stay in patent case
A U.S. appeals court has granted Vonage a permanent stay of a lower court injunction barring it from signing up new customers. Earlier this month, the lower court had ordered Vonage to stop marketing its VoIP service to new customers after it lost a patent lawsuit brought by Verizon.
April 24, 11:04 a.m. PDT

Research firm: Rising tide lifts network spending
Both enterprises and service providers are opening up their wallets for networks, and they'll keep it up at least until 2010, according to Infonetics Research.
April 20, 5:15 p.m. PDT

Telecom veteran questions Verizon VoIP patents
Two patents owned by Verizon in its infringement lawsuit against Vonage are invalid, and if allowed to stand, could threaten all competing VoIP services, a telecommunications industry veteran said Tuesday.
April 17, 2:07 p.m. PDT

Vonage admits it has no workaround
Vonage has acknowledged it has no workaround for technology that was found to infringe Verizon Communications patents and does not know if one is feasible.
April 16, 12:40 p.m. PDT

New worm wriggles around on Skype
A worm targeting Skype's VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) application is harvesting e-mail addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said Monday.
April 16, 5:21 a.m. PDT

Vonage CEO resigns
Vonage Holdings CEO Michael Snyder resigned, the company said Thursday, at the same time announcing moves to cut costs.
April 12, 6:05 a.m. PDT

Vonage, emergency responders support 911 bill
Emergency dispatchers and VoIP provider Vonage on Tuesday urged U.S. senators to pass a bill intended to ensure that all VoIP customers can dial the emergency 911 service.
April 10, 2:58 p.m. PDT

Vonage gets temporary stay in Verizon suit
Vonage has been given a temporary stay of a federal order that it stop signing up new customers because it's violating Verizon patents.
April 6, 4:16 p.m. PDT

Judge bars Vonage from signing up new customers
A U.S. district court judge on Friday barred VoIP provider Vonage from signing up new customers after the company lost a patent infringement lawsuit to Verizon.
April 6, 11:04 a.m. PDT

UK lays down first rules for VOIP providers
VOIP providers in the U.K. will have to provide clearer information about the services they offer under new rules announced Thursday by the U.K. telecommunications regulator.
March 29, 7:09 a.m. PST

Nortel, Microsoft lay ground for hosted services
Microsoft and Nortel Networks are extending their unified communications partnership to carrier networks, laying the groundwork for hosted services.
March 28, 6:23 a.m. PST

Microsoft gets into VoIP ... and confuses us
Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How Apple Store sales personnel differ from those at the Clearasil human testing lab. Whether the proliferation of Law & Order: X and Ebola virus outbreaks are somehow connected. The difference between Office Communications Server and Microsoft Response Point.
March 28, 3:00 a.m. PST

Cisco adds 3G to branch router
3G (third-generation) wireless will grow up at the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando this week, finding its place in Cisco Systems business routers.
March 27, 5:06 a.m. PST

Update: Judge hits Vonage with injunction
A federal judge on Friday issued a permanent injunction against VoIP service provider Vonage to stop it from using patented Verizon technology.
March 23, 1:42 p.m. PST

Microsoft to release VOIP server beta on Monday
Microsoft will open up beta versions of its unified communications server and client software to the public for download on Monday, a senior company executive said Wednesday.
March 21, 12:45 p.m. PST

Thomson vies for place in digital living room
Thomson has a quirky idea for a music-playing cordless telephone. It is showing a mock-up of the device on its stand at the CeBIT trade show, alongside other multimedia gadgets for the home, and hopes to have it on the market in the second half of this year.
March 19, 5:59 a.m. PST

Open source VoIP makes the business connection
Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP for the enterprise remains a wild frontier. SMB uptake has been considerable, as open source VoIP’s promise of control and cost savings make it a natural fit. But when it comes to large-scale implementations, open source voice has yet to get most enterprises to listen.
March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST

Lending ear to open source VoIP
Whereas commercial VoIP vendors typically supply their own phones, tying them to their IP PBXes for solid integration and providing phone setup, configuration, and maintenance as part of their packages, when it comes to deploying an open source VoIP solution such as Asterisk, it’s strictly a BYOP (bring your own phone) affair.
March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST

Case study: Asterisk proves its worth
Despite Digium’s current positioning of Asterisk for the midmarket, plenty of large-scale implementations speak to the scalability and versatility of the open source IP PBX. One such rollout — that of Summer Bay Resorts, a time-share vacation property company — provides ample evidence that if the phone is the lifeblood of your business, Asterisk is more than up to the task.
March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST

Adventures in Asterisk deployment
It seems I eat so much of my own dog food these days that I don’t have time to enjoy a nice steak every now and again. My experience with Asterisk hasn’t been any different.
March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST

VoIP’s mad scientist
Some stories are a labor of love. “Open Source VoIP Makes the Business Connection” is one of them. The love, in this case, originates with Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia.
March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST

Skype connects with the enterprise
Skype says business users grab 30 percent of its downloads, but is the enterprise ready for wider use?
March 16, 4:56 p.m. PST

Vodafone takes hybrid approach to mobile VOIP
Vodafone Group is demonstrating a service at the CeBIT trade show that allows mobile phone customers to call and exchange presence information with users of Internet phone services such as Skype.
March 16, 6:03 a.m. PST

Siemens teams with Nokia on Wi-Fi-GSM handover
Siemens is working with Nokia to polish the handover of voice calls between corporate wireless LANs and public mobile phone networks, a Siemens executive said Wednesday.
March 14, 12:57 p.m. PST

Unraveling the Communications Server mystery
Certain things exist without explanation: Ben Affleck's career; the micro PC; Tofurky. For many, LCS (Live Communications Server) 2005 fell into this category. Is it IM? Is it voice over the network? Does it use Messenger or something else? Redmond has recognized the Great Mystery of LCS and is looking to make things easier to understand with the platform's upcoming release, now to be called OCS (Office Communications Server) 2007.
March 14, 3:00 a.m. PST

Verizon ruling could be hard on Vonage
Shares of Vonage plunged Friday in the wake of a patent-infringement ruling against the company that some analysts called a grim outcome for the VoIP service provider.
March 9, 2:13 p.m. PST

Jury finds Vonage infringed on Verizon patents
A federal jury has found that Vonage infringed three Verizon patents and must pay $58 million in damages plus royalties to Verizon, Vonage confirmed Thursday.
March 8, 1:57 p.m. PST

Avaya adds IP phones, gateways, SIP
Aiming to let enterprises do more with their IP (Internet Protocol) telephony systems and keep them available when a network goes down, Avaya introduced new software, phones, and a gateway at this week's VoiceCon Spring conference.
March 8, 6:04 a.m. PST

Public beta due soon for new Microsoft VOIP server
Microsoft will release a public beta of new VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) server software by the end of this month.The software smoothly integrates with legacy phone networks and its Office application suite, the company said.
March 7, 4:10 a.m. PST

Cebit wrestles with 'image crisis'
There will be something for everyone at this year's Cebit trade show. Unfortunately, that's not what everyone wants.
March 6, 10:09 a.m. PST

Avaya Talks Up Voice as a Service
The great thing about SOA is that when you add a service, you instantly increase the potential of any application that can consume that service. Today, Avaya threw a new set of VoIP services into the enterprise SOA mix in the form of its CEBP (Communications Enabled Business Processes) solution.
March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST

More IT war stories
Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.”
March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST

Deutsche Telekom to expand mobile phone business
The T-Mobile brand could soon be coming to a market near you. As part of a strategy to revive profits, Deutsche Telekom intends to expand its T-Mobile cellular business in markets in which the German telecommunications group is already offering fixed-line services and possibly in entirely new markets, the company said Thursday.
March 1, 8:15 a.m. PST

Skype asks FCC to force open mobile networks
Skype is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country's mobile phone industry for "unlocked" devices and third-party applications -- such as Skype.
February 26, 5:02 a.m. PST

DiVitas opens up its cell-to-Wi-Fi gateway
A comparative operation: InfoWorld and Sports Illustrated:
February 21, 3:00 a.m. PST

Fring aims to cut cellphone costs with VOIP
Avi Shechter, co-founder and CEO of Fringland (Fring), could be on to something big with the launch of a cheap Internet-based phone service that runs over mobile networks. But the Israeli entrepreneur could also be in for the fight of his life with mobile phone network operators determined to protect their cash-cow voice business from virtual service providers.
February 16, 7:30 a.m. PST

Update: Vonage subscriber growth slows
Vonage Holdings lost less money in the fourth quarter of 2006 than a year earlier, but it didn't attract as many new subscribers to its VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service despite heavy marketing.
February 16, 5:13 a.m. PST

Wi-Fi and VOIP near full convergence
Don't know what it is, but nine times out of 10 when I somehow get roped into listening to some four-foot stage star with fiery curls and a voice like a prepubescent foghorn belt out "Tomorrow," I get a headache. Maybe I'm too close to the stage. Like I'm too close to tech predictions -- or tenuous segues. I mean, I've just spent several months of man-hours composing verse for the Vista vision, and what's suddenly the biggest story? 2009's Vista's successor, Vienna. (OK, what's with the Vs?)
February 14, 3:00 a.m. PST

T-Mobile CEO: VOIP will have no major impact
Don't expect new mobile phone services based on the Internet Protocol to become nearly as prevalent as those running over PCs. That's the view of Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International, one of Europe's largest mobile phone operators.
February 13, 8:25 a.m. PST

Curse of the call center
I was working for a small chain of electronics retailers in New Orleans when the head office in Memphis decided that we needed to replace our call center. Business had been expanding rapidly, and our home-grown call system was overwhelmed. We took bids from all the big telephony vendors for turn-key call centers, but in the end the top brass decided that it would be cheaper if we rolled our own.
February 13, 3:00 a.m. PST

Mobile VOIP is on the march
Nearly one year after Skype stole the headlines at the 3GSM World Congress with its plans to offer a mobile version of its Internet phone, a couple of nimble startups -- and not the Net telephony pioneer itself -- appear to have found a way to make this type of service work, both technically and commercially.
February 9, 7:04 a.m. PST

FaceTime to offer Skype management
Next month, FaceTime Communications plans to release new software that will make Skype a little easier to manage.
February 6, 4:41 a.m. PST

Nuvoiz aims to be Skype of the enterprise
Nuvoiz, a new company focused on developing mobile VOIP applications, launched on Tuesday its first products designed to be enterprise alternatives to Skype.
January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST

Women in technology: A call to action
A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology.
January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST

Back to school: Getting girls into IT
Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age.
January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST

Activism provides competitive advantage for IT
Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers.
January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST

Gender crisis in IT
You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look.
January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST

NEC technology fights IP phone spam
NEC has developed technology that can help prevent spam phone calls to VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) users.
January 26, 9:18 a.m. PST

France Télécom targets Web 2.0
France Télécom hopes to get more out of the 15 research centers it operates around the world by bringing them together as a single structure, Orange Labs.
January 18, 9:47 a.m. PST


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