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Vonage, the VoIP mavericks have raised $35 million in its Series B round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Vonage’s senior management. The company plans to add additional area codes to its areas of service and anticipates expanding globally; first to Canada, and later next year into Europe.
BoardWatch has an interesting analysis [...]

United Press International has a rather gloomy and perhaps somewhat accurate description of the state of technology industry.
bq. “Is high-tech offshore outsourcing a threat to innovation and economic prosperity?” asked a New America Foundation forum on Thursday. Rather the question should have been: Given outsourcing, the relative cost structures, and its current modus operandi, is [...]

What is going on with the world? Criminals are getting away scott free and yes I am talking about Gary Winnick. There is word the man is not going to be pursused by the authorities for his dastardly acts. The New York Observer makes a good case for why he should be going to jail. [...]

And now this makes me sick. According to IPadventures, The Washington Post is reporting that the Oklahoma Charges Against Ebbers May Be Dropped.
bq. Oklahoma Attorney General W.A. Drew Edmondson told a judge yesterday that he is considering dropping fraud charges against former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers to avoid interfering with a related [...]

The New York Times reports that federal court has a request from a phone industry association to delay rules that allow customers to transfer numbers from traditional phones to cellphones.
bq. The United States Telecom Association, along withCenturyTel, a rural carrier based in Louisiana, filed the motion for a stay with the United States Court of [...]

South Korea is upgrading its national network to give citizens an even faster link to the net says BBC News.