Sun takes aim at Apple's walled garden with a smartphone built on JavaFX.

Asterisk creator and sponsor Digium put the mass market squarely in its sights today with its acquisition of three year-old Asterisk PBX company Switchvox.

As more and more people do business from a home office, and the Internet connection increasingly becomes as essential as a phone line -- or is the phone line -- lower prices bring a T1 line within range. At the same time, providers are looking for a way out of the race-to-zero that characterizes consumer Internet service.

Some are saying that Skype's recent problems illuminate inherent architectural weaknesses in the VoIP provider's architecture. When it comes to building VoIP networks, Counterpath CTO Jason Fischl says many heads are better than one.

Skype's chat client is now in hacker sights.

The ceaselessly energetic Iotum team has released a Facebook app that gives social networking a voice it can use. Known for its “Relevance Engine” that attempts to bring some human intelligence and brain power to incoming calls, the Ottawa-based Iotum’s app is about as close to a click-and-call service as one can get on Facebook. [...]

Palm pulls the plug on the Foleo.

Businesses and ITSPs have long-needed an inexpensive way to connect legacy analog devices to a VoIP network, and Linksys announcement of the SPA8000 — an eight-port FXS Analog Terminal Adaptor device — early this year had many eagerly anticipating its release. Finally, that time is here. The Linksys SPA8000 is now available in the United States. We’ve [...]

PhoneGnome customers can relax. The feared service interruption that users were alerted to last night likely won't materialize.

Skype's calamitous outage last week holds a lesson for the VoIP industry and illustrates weaknesses of Skype's approach, says Erik Lagerway.

Linksys officially retired the PAP2. This shouldn’t be a big deal to most consumers as the PAP2 was more expensive than and not as functional as the PAP2T. The retirement of the PAP2 may be an issue for service providers wanting uniform customer equipment.

Jeff Pulver's pioneering VoIP service becomes a member-supported service.

No, no, no, it’s not namaste. Nemertes. Nemertes Research, that is. But your confusion is understandable, because Nemertes is a guru — a guru for the Virtual Workplace. And if you’re in IT, you should be putting your corporate palms together and bowing right now. The hot-off-the-virtual-press nine-volume Nemertes benchmark called “Building the Successful Virtual [...]

Mobile phone for granny, new industry research reports, yet another SunRocket antidote

Just in case you wonder if the NSA is watching you, let me clue you in on your real not-so-secret sharer. Forget your electronic diary, your business deals and double deals, and the fifth wife you’re hiding in the apartment around the corner. Harris Interactive researchers have homed in on one of your most [...]

Packet8 garners a preferred replacement deal with defunct SunRocket.

SunRocket is generating a whole lot more interest dead than alive. The VoIP pure-play’s skulking exit has garnered major media attention, and a slew of other providers are swarming around the carcass hoping to land a few of the company's stranded customers.

SunRocket is DOA and VoicePulse is ready to take up some of the slack.

Businesses spending on mobility and unified comm, more apps on your smartphone, Motorola and Level 3 go shopping again.

Samsung's new Ubigate converged communications platform aims to add up big savings for small businesses.