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Google, LA hit speed bumps on move to cloud
July 23, 2010
Google and the city of Los Angeles have hit a speed bump in the full implementation of Google Apps into the city's various departments, and the costs of a delay could top $100,000—for Google.
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Smartphone shipments jump 43 percent
July 22, 2010
The second quarter saw 60 million smartphones shipped around the world, a 43 percent jump from a year ago, with Apple gaining more market share.
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Nokia profit plunges 40 percent
July 22, 2010
Nokia took home a profit of 227 million euros ($291 million), down from the 380 million euros a year earlier. Sales for the quarter that ended June 30, 2010 were virtually flat, inching up 1% to 10 billion euros from 9.9 billion a year ago.
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Skype shelves call charges as operators will collect the money instead
July 22, 2010
VoIP operator Skype has shelved plans to charge users for 3G calling, claiming that operator plans to bill by the byte make such charges redundant.
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Skype for iPhone Now Runs in Background, Replaces Phone App
July 22, 2010
One of the “tent-poles” of Apple’s iOS4 is multitasking, and one of the biggest features of iOS multitasking is letting VoIP applications continue to run in the background, alerting you when a call comes in, for instance. Until today, though, this has been largely moot as the big daddy of VoIP — Skype — had not been updated to use this new feature.
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Nokia seeking new CEO
July 20, 2010
Mobile phone giant Nokia is looking for a new chief executive to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
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VocalTec and YMAX/magicJack Announce Merger
July 16, 2010
VocalTec, the inventor of VoIP including the softphone, and YMAX, the creator of magicJack and other products and services, have successfully merged and will be traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol CALL.
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SIP trunking: A primer
July 12, 2010
SIP is being used more widely these days than before, but almost exclusively as a means of reducing communications costs for businesses with multiple physical locations and existing high-speed data connections between sites by removing PSTN equipment at each site and consolidating the voice infrastructure.
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Reverse engineer extracts Skype crypto secret recipe
July 9, 2010
A group of code breakers led by Sean O'Neil reckon they have successfully reverse engineered Skype's implementation of the RC4 cipher, one of several encryption technologies used by the consumer-oriented VoIP service.
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US VoIP subscribers 21 million strong
June 30, 2010
The US Federal Communications Commission reports that there are 21 million VoIP subscriptions stateside, and that the vast majority of them are residential customers. But it didn't count Skype subscribers.
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Skype to start charging for iPhone VoIP
June 1, 2010
Skype has launched a new iPhone version, enabling calls over the 3G data network, but come 2011 users will be expected to start paying for those calls too. — And that brings the value of Skype down quite substantially. Just imagine roaming outside one's home network and getting charged by Skype and the foreign carrier for data usage.
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| Videoconferencing |
Cisco introduces Cius Android tablet PC
June 29, 2010
Cisco Systems plans to offer an Android-based tablet PC to its business customers with integrated video conferencing and other communications tools built in.
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Polycom CEO says looking to buy, not to be bought
June 22, 2010
Polycom new chief executive said the videoconferencing company was not in any talks with potential buyers, but instead expects to become more active in pursuing acquisitions of its own.
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Videoconferencing Comes of Age, Again?
June 16, 2010
For most of the last 40 years, videoconferencing has been the wave of the future. With every new generation of technology, the latest invention is the one that’s going to make videoconferencing take off. But the advent of the Web and iPhones may turn such meetings into everyday events, replacing many face-to-face gatherings.
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Steve Jobs Delivers a Surprise with iPhone 4 — Videoconferencing
June 7, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs displayed his showmanship at the WWDC10, unveiling the iPhone 4 as expected, but with a kicker ending — videoconferencing capabilities.
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Can OpenStack Change The Cloud Computing Game?
July 19, 2010
Rackspace and NASA have paired to deliver an open-source cloud computing platform, dubbed OpenStack, and cloud providers and partners are pumped for the possibility of more open cloud computing and possible standardization.
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VMware Knows the Cloud Doesn’t Need Server Virtualization
July 17, 2010
Server virtualization created cloud computing. Without the ability to run multiple logical server instances on a single physical server, the cloud computing economics we know today wouldn’t be possible. At that point, though, the value of server virtualization will go down substantially.
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Microsoft launches Azure private cloud in a box
July 12, 2010
Microsoft is making good on its promise to allow enterprise customers buy Windows Azure preconfigured in datacenter containers from selected partners. Microsoft took the wraps off the name for this offering — Windows Azure Platform Appliance — and said Dell, Fujitsu and Hewlett Packard were all to sell this offering.
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Cloud computing 'to overtake desktop by 2020'
July 6, 2010
Cloud computing is likely to take on a renewed importance in the coming years, with research predicting that it will overtake desktop computing by 2020.
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| Other News |
- How the Cloud Changed World's Oldest Newspaper - July 6, 2010
- Private cloud computing: Pitfalls and advice for avoiding them - June 29, 2010
- Amazon EC2 Creators Pull Curtain Off Of Nimbula - June 23, 2010
- Vonage believes the iPad could be its cure - June 22, 2010
- Verizon to Tie Cloud Storage With Computing - June 15, 2010
- VMware in Talks to Acquire EngineYard - June 10, 2010
- Verizon pledges to promote new Motorola smartphones - May 28, 2010
- Does cloud computing need LAMP? - May 23, 2010
- Cisco to launch $500 home TelePresence - May 21, 2010
- The SIP Forum and the i3 Forum Partner to Promote Interoperability of SIP-based Carrier Services - May 20, 2010
- Google tries freeing Web video with WebM - May 19, 2010
- Microsoft kills off Response Point IP phone - May 18, 2010
- Google to Buy Global IP Solutions (GIPS) - May 18, 2010
- Google: Microsoft Office 2010 A Cloud Collaboration Wannabe - May 17, 2010
- LTE subscribers to hit 200 million by 2015 - May 17, 2010
- Cisco Stands By Its Telepresence Bet - May 14, 2010
- Skype won't be developing software for Windows Phone 7 - May 13, 2010
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27.93 |
-0.22 |
-0.78 |
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AAPL |
257.25 |
-0.86 |
-0.33 |
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ALU |
2.98 |
0.38 |
14.62 |
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APKT |
28.26 |
-4.13 |
-12.75 |
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BRCM |
36.03 |
-0.66 |
-1.80 |
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CSCO |
23.07 |
-0.14 |
-0.60 |
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EGHT |
1.43 |
-0.04 |
-2.72 |
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HPQ |
46.04 |
-0.37 |
-0.80 |
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INTC |
20.60 |
-0.43 |
-2.04 |
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LVLT |
1.13 |
0.02 |
1.80 |
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MSFT |
25.81 |
-0.22 |
-0.85 |
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MOT |
7.49 |
-0.12 |
-1.58 |
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NOK |
9.51 |
0.29 |
3.15 |
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PLCM |
29.68 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
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RDCM |
5.58 |
0.08 |
1.45 |
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RVSN |
6.84 |
-0.02 |
-0.29 |
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SI |
97.39 |
0.45 |
0.46 |
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T |
25.94 |
-0.08 |
-0.31 |
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SONS |
2.88 |
-0.08 |
-2.70 |
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VG |
2.45 |
0.06 |
2.51 |
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VZ |
29.06 |
0.18 |
0.62 |
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