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EWeek is reporting about a coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists. Dubbed “electronic jihad, there is a good chance that it could happen sometime this week, perhaps on Thursday, according to some security experts. Lately there have been some consistent attacks on primary Internet services and the unraveling of major encryption routines [...]

Did you know that island nation of Sri Lanka is without dialtone? The Register is reporting that nearly 800,000 Internet and phone connections went on a blink when a fishing boat snagged the optical cable and caused a disruption. Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is now suing the vessel, the Indian-registered State of Nagaland for $5m [...]

Did you know that Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems does not use VoIP technology? Voxilla reports that despite the big brouhaha made by Cisco and Linksys over their new VoIP enabled WiFi equipment and ATA adapters, Linksys actually uses technology from a Cisco rival, Sipura.
A member of the team behind the two new products [...]

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Utilities have found new use for WiFi, and that means charging $40 a month for [...]

Why do bellheads always come across as whiny bitchy unhappy people? I mean FCC has given them their cake, and a new sterling silver set, but they still got to complain. Take for example, Lawrence Babbio, Verizon’s vice chairman and president at a conference in Aspen remarked, “The FCC hasn’t done their job for the [...]

Vonage, in a bitter feud with AT&T’s CallVantage and other VoIP service providers raised a whopping $105 million Wednesday, bringing its total VC funding to $208 million. Incidentally that’s $8 million more than the amount earmarked by AT&T to promote its VoIP services. To fans of World Series of Poker, this will look like a [...]