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Vonage’s trials and tribulations not withstanding, the Voice over IP market is booming, and that bodes well for start-ups like Veraz Networks and BroadSoft, likely to go public later this year.
Carriers, big and small, are spending liberally on VoIP equipment - $3.3 billion in 2006 which is up 32% from 2005 - according to Campbell, [...]

Following our story about Qwest’s lawsuit against Iowa-based “free calling” services, it looks like one of the named defendants, Fonpods, is offline. The Fonpods website seems redirected to a curious message about it being a Qwest page, so it looks like no more free podcasts for now. Calls and emails to Fonpods’ founder Ted Heieck [...]

Netvibes, the Paris-based personalized home page service, has started offering a mobile version called Netvibes2Go. The service lets users access some of the more useful Netvibes modules – iCal, GMail, AOL Mail, To-Do Lists and few more – on a mobile phone.
The set-up is pretty easy: create a tab in Netvibes called “Mobile,” and drop [...]

Windows Live Shopping beta is finished and so is the service. Visitors are politely told: use MSN Shopping, and redirects after a 15 second delay. Guess, this one didn’t pan out! via

At least for this week, the mobile industry’s largest and most litigious companies laid down some of their arms and gave us oh-so brief warm and snuggly feelings. OK, with the exception of that whole Alcatel-Lucent/Microsoft thing.
Cisco’s battle over the iPhone ended with a shared trademark and some very vague plans to possibly, maybe, one [...]

Vinod learns about the traffic building power of StumbleUpon.