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CHICAGO — What was open-source IP PBX leader Digium doing here at the NXTcomm show, traditionally the haunt of the biggest of big telecom players? Besides attracting a fair share of traffic to its small, out-of-the way booth, founder and CTO Mark Spencer spent some time… Read More »

CHICAGO — Sure, telecom is back from the dead. But for how long? That was the unanswered question floating around the opening day of the telecom industry’s big trade show here Tuesday, as exuberance over record revenues and booming bandwidth demand was tempered by the harsh realities… Read More »

The battle over the valuable 700 MHz wireless spectrum takes an important step forward Wednesday, the day that public comments are due on the FCC’s latest proposal for rules governing the forthcoming airwaves auction. And while an interesting proposal from Google — for ongoing Adsense-like auctions… Read More »

After spending hard time covering last year’s net neutrality battles, it’s easy to get used to hearing telephone companies saying up is really down, and black is really white. That’s why we’re not going to even nibble at the pitch Qwest’s PR representatives sent our way… Read More »

Is having someone else to play against is what draws you to online gaming? What if you don’t have an XBox? Then, you are part of the target audience online gaming startup Power Challenge that just raised an $8 million from Silicon Valley VC firm Benchmark… Read More »

You can’t buy them yet, but if you are an enterprise IT exec who is kicking the tires on IP telephony offerings you might at least want to take a gander at the wide range of Microsoft-centric IP voice devices — phones, headsets, videocam monitors —… Read More »

NEWS ANALYSIS: Showing perhaps that they learned the lessons of last year’s net neutrality battles, the Iowa telcos and their Internet-based ‘free-calling‘ partners have formed their own ‘grassroots‘ coalition, complete with its own blog-like website to battle what they call “myths” being spread by big telcos,… Read More »

Gaboogie, the Conference that Calls You

While they can’t eliminate the actual conference calls themselves, the founders of a new service called Gaboogie want to help reduce the administrative headaches of setting up and conducting conference calls, starting with a feature that calls the participants directly. If Gaboogie’s web-based setup delivers as promised… Read More »

FCC Chairman Martin to Telcos: No Blocking Iowa Calls

BREAKING: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday that the commission told large telcos to stop blocking calls into numbers for the Iowa-based free calling operations, threatening punitive actions if the carriers didn’t comply. While the immediate FCC pressure was a victory for the Iowa telcos and Internet… Read More »

Kevin Martin visits the Googleplex

It’s an unconfirmed rumor (but we have it on very good sources) that FCC chairman Kevin Martin was in Mountain View Wednesday, touring the Googleplex and no doubt chowing down on the famous free food. Makes sense, since Martin is scheduled to speak in Silicon Valley… Read More »

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