VoIP News & Information

Skype may find a significant rival in Yahoo Messenger 10 beta for Windows. Yahoo's latest places new emphasis on video calls, affording clear sound and video feeds.

VoIP provider Skype, whose corporate parent eBay has said it will spin off in an IPO in spring 2010, may be subject to a private offer from Netscape founder Marc Andressen's new venture capital firm and other private equity groups.

Google Voice is great, but it isn't an entirely free voice-over-internet service if you have to pay a phone bill to use it. With a few tweaks, though, you can talk to anyone on-the-cheap through...

Not anytime soon, bub. But when you eventually get your iPhone 4G, they should be included in your rate plan. Which is weird, because it's probably been a long time since you nervously eyed the clock while on the phone with your granny in Smallville. Long distance has been all-you-can-eat since cell phones and voice-over-IP conquered the universe. But international telephony—whether landline ...

A software engineer who created Trojans for the Swiss authorities to intercept Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone calls has published the source code to his programs in order to draw attention to the surveillance threat posed by such software.

Called the first wiretap Trojan, Peskyspy, targets Skype conversations by intercepting and recording audio between the Skype application and the victim's audio device.

With this survey information in mind, I offer the following guide to help you through the transition. The answers to these five simple questions, gleaned from others who have gone through the process, should prove helpful.

Last week Vonage and Apple said according to Barron's Tech Trader Daily that a Vonage VOIP Client has been submitted for App Store approval. Apparently the current version submitted on the 26th had minor requested fix. So possibly I am soon able to take...

Reports are that eBay has found a buyer for VoIP service Skype, which is in litigation with its founder.

Israeli IP communications vendor, AudioCodes, has kicked off operations in Australia and is looking for partners. The company’s products have been in the local market since 2002, but this is its first direct representation locally.