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Ifbyphone acquired Cloudvox in a tie-up of players on the fast-changing Internet voice field. We’ll see more consolidation in the space as voice transitions from traditional networks toward an all-IP universe — and as traditional network operators try to differentiate their offerings. Read More »

A Google executive claims the company is “just scratching the surface” with Google Voice and will move aggressively to expand the offering next year. Which means network operators must ramp up their efforts to make their pipes smarter. Read More »

What Happened in Tech This Week

From funding to acquisitions to new company launches, these posts will bring you up to speed quickly on what happened in the technology sector last week. This is by no means a comprehensive list, just some of the key developments according to our team of writers. Read More »

Telefónica, the parent company of O2, today announced the acquisition of Jajah for €145 million (about $207 million) in an all-cash transaction. The rumors of this deal emerged earlier this month. Read More »

Yesterday, rumors were flying that O2, a division of Telefonica, a large Spanish phone company was buying Israel-based VoIP company, Jajah for about $200 million. My sources say that despite the reports, the deal isn’t done and the price is lower than $200 million previously reported. Read More »

Why O2 Wants to Buy Jajah

O2, a division of Telefonica, a Spanish telecommunications company, is a front-runner to buy Jajah, a 4-year-old VoIP startup. O2 offered $200 million, rumor has it, beating out Microsoft and Cisco. So why does everyone want a piece of the upstart? Read More »

Twitter-focused applications are sprouting up everywhere these days — among them TweetDeck, Twhirl and Kutano — and they’re proving to be popular. Some 27 percent of Twitter users said they primarily access the micromessaging network using such apps, according to an inaugural study released today… Read More »

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Jajah Lets You Make Calls via Twitter

Jajah is privately launching in beta today a voice-over-IP solution that lets people make calls for free via micromessaging site Twitter and other Twitter-related desktop and mobile applications. This is another effort by Jajah to get its VoIP service onto a popular application; last year, the… Read More »

Jaxtr Launches Free Calling Service. Why?

Updated: A few years ago we saw a gaggle of VoIP start-ups pop-up, each claiming to have their unique twist on cheap phone calls. Some offered anonymous calling services as their signature feature. Others labeled themselves as social voice apps. Some of them tried both… Read More »

Why IntelePeer Snagged $18 Million in Funding

IntelePeer, A San Mateo-Calif-based Voice services provider raised $18 million in Series C funding. Vantagepoint Partners led the round along with participation from existing investors. Read More »

Intel’s Remote Wake Gives PCs a Super Poke

It isn’t quite earth-shattering, but Intel is introducing a technology that could make computers more useful. The company has developed ways to power up PCs remotely, allowing people to, say, retrieve files, according to the Wall Street Journal. Intel calls this Remote Wake, and it will… Read More »

Machines Can Ease the Olympics Translation Crunch

The Olympics is a boon to translators. Much of the reporting, interpretation and documentation for the massively international event is handled by humans, but human translators with the right skills can be scarce. “Between some pairs of languages, there are very few people who are experts… Read More »

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