Vonage

Vonage improves financial position and announces Vonage Broadband
May. 12, 2008
Following some rough times with legal battles and steep financial losses in 2007, Vonage may be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Last week, the company reported record revenue growth for Q1 2008, driven by an ...

The waning of the WAN? Not so fast.
May. 28, 2008
Many of my clients are thinking about how they can use Internet services to augment -- or even replace -- their WANs.

VON trade shows may be in trouble
May. 06, 2008
The founder of Pulvermedia - the producer of VON trade shows - has resigned, leaving in doubt the future of the shows, which were among the earliest venues for Internet voice and video.

GrandCentral, one call to bind them all
Apr. 08, 2008
Google's GrandCentral provides free and very powerful call management services.

Vonage hopes new services will improve prospects
Jan. 09, 2008
Troubled VoIP service provider Vonage is rolling out new products and services at the Consumer Electronics Show in a bid to reverse its downward spiral.

Book alleges Alexander Graham Bell fraudulently obtained his lucrative telephone patent - ...
Jan. 03, 2008
Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends that dodgy patenting in the telecom industry extends all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell.

Don't ditch the landline yet
Jun. 06, 2005
Home VoIP is cool, but needs safety and reliability fixes first.

IT people, places and things that matter
Dec. 20, 2007
Google, Steve Ballmer, Vonage, the Storm worm and Networx all made Network World's list of the 10 biggest newsmakers of 2007.

What doesn't matter in IT anymore
Dec. 20, 2007
Enough about what matters, here's what doesn't, or won't by the time we hit 2009 -- from A to Z.

Nortel sues Vonage; Successful phishing attacks on the rise, Gartner says
Dec. 18, 2007
Vonage sued by Nortel for patent infringement, and Gartner survey says phishing attacks are more successful this year.

The 15 biggest tech disappointments of 2007
Dec. 17, 2007
From on-demand video services that were overly demanding, to underwhelming operating-system updates, 2007 was full of disappointments. We surveyed the landscape and polled some old friends to come up with the 15 ...

Vonage sued by Nortel
Dec. 17, 2007
Vonage has been sued by yet another company for patent infringement, this time by Canadian telecom equipment manufacturer Nortel.

Vonage reaches tentative settlement with AT&T
Nov. 08, 2007
VoIP provider Vonage announced in its third-quarter earnings report it had reached an agreement in principle to settle its patent litigation with AT&T for roughly $39 million over a five-year period.

VoIP security notices show security remains a multi-vendor issue
Nov. 05, 2007
Two VoIP services and equipment alerts were issued late last month. The first advisory, issued to residential and SMB VoIP users was sent by the Sipera VIPER Lab, operated by Sipera Systems. The lab disclosed multiple ...

Vonage update: AT&T files patent claim, Verizon dispute settled
Oct. 29, 2007
Vonage disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that on Oct. 17 that AT&T had filed a patent infringement claim against the company. According to the filing, Vonage said that it intends to continue ...

Vonage settles with Verizon; four sentenced for defrauding MS; Storm worm befuddles NAC
Oct. 26, 2007
Vonage will pay $120 million in patent settlement with Verizon; The U.S. Attorney's Office says that four people were sentenced to prison and required to make $40 million in restitution for a scheme to defraud Microsoft ...

Vonage settles Verizon patent dispute
Oct. 25, 2007
Vonage announced today that it has reached a settlement with Verizon to resolve a patent infringement suit that was first filed in June 2006

Vonage settles with Sprint; 3Com, Avaya going private
Oct. 17, 2007
Vonage last week announced that it had settled its patent dispute with Sprint and had entered into a licensing arrangement under Sprint's Voice over Packet (VOP) patent portfolio. Under the terms of the agreement, ...

Vonage settles Sprint-Nextel patent suit
Oct. 08, 2007
Vonage announced that it has come to an $80 million settlement agreement with Sprint-Nextel to resolve a long-running patent dispute.

Vonage loses two patent cases in one week
Oct. 01, 2007
Vonage was hit twice last week with bad news from its ongoing legal battles. On Tuesday a jury found that Vonage was guilty of infringing on patents owned by Sprint-Nextel. The jury awarded Sprint-Nextel $69.5 million ...

Vonage gets partial remand in Verizon case
Sep. 26, 2007
Vonage is downplaying an appeals court decision affirming an earlier verdict of patent infringement on two patents owned by Verizon Communications Inc.

Vonage loses Sprint-Nextel patent suit, plans appeal
Sep. 25, 2007
A federal court ruled on Tuesday that struggling VoIP provider Vonage infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel.

Vonage nearly done deploying patent workarounds
Aug. 09, 2007
Vonage Holdings has "substantially completed" the deployment of workarounds for two of three VoIP patents claimed by Verizon, Vonage announced Thursday.

U.K. considers VoIP emergency call access
Jul. 26, 2007
Internet-telephony providers in the U.K. could eventually have to provide access to emergency services as part of a regulation under consideration by the country's telecommunications regulator.

Ooma offers free long distance forever
Jul. 20, 2007
VoIP start-up Ooma will offer free long-distance service in the United States for customers of its VoIP conversion appliance. The company competes against traditional carriers and VoIP providers such as Vonage.