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The telecom death match between Vonage (VG) and Verizon (VZ) is being played on in a small arena enclosed by a mesh wire of patents. And things could get quite bloody in months to come. Ed Pennington, head of patent practice for Bingham McCutchen, a Washington DC law firm told Telephony that a whole bunch [...]

Reed Hastings is joining the Microsoft board. We assume Microsoft won’t be adopting Hastings’ vacation policy (also in the news today), but you never know.

Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and formerly of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has made a fortune out of betting on companies that tackle really big problems. Some of his bets – Juniper Networks, for instance – have paid off handsomely. Others have been marginally successful, at least from a [...]

When one is asked about Google’s incredible success to date, and what they did so right, the obvious answer will likely involve an explanation of the brilliant technologies that make up PageRank and Adwords. But if one looks under the hood, there’s also a not-so-obvious reason that played an equally critical role in Google’s success: [...]

We already knew that AT&T had a deal in place with Napster for the company’s mobile music service. Now the companies are adding some promotional details of the plan. AT&T’s broadband and wireless customers can access Napster for free for a year when they agree to one of the various service plans — which aren’t [...]

Is AT&T’s decision to block some of its customers’ wireless calls a violation of the so-called net neutrality principles? If it is, the FCC isn’t saying so yet, at least not publicly. While both sides of the “free-calling” debate expect the commission to weigh in at some point, neither has filed a formal statement there, [...]