Another web development that looks set to have a good year is internet telephony.
Ooma now brings to the home the data redundancy sophistication normally found in industrial-grade Internet telephony products.
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It's only the latest effort by Microsoft to improve its hold on the ballooning Internet telephony market.
Last month, in a further blaze of publicity, Qwest launched the world's first uncompressed Internet telephony service.
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With new Internet telephony technology from Ericsson in place, Fisher claims that line is now clear as a bell.
Google engineers have also been spotted attending a number of Internet telephony-centric conferences.
These pirates--be they Internet telephony privateers or wireless buccaneers--are skilled with a cutlass.
In general, the disclosures of so many VoIP exploits seems somewhat after-the-fact: Internet telephony has existed since the early '90s.
Ms Prestage had been talking to Mr McGuigan on an internet telephony service just an hour before he was killed.
Vonage Holdings may be putting its patent disputes behind it, but the Internet telephony company is now faced with a credit-crunch crisis.
The Internet telephony and video communications provider is currently based in Luxembourg.
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It's important to note that these vulnerabilities are only potential ones and that Internet telephony is largely a safe and secure method of communication.
Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell was a strong supporter of Internet telephony and presided over a number of rulings that kept a hands-off attitude.
Free Internet telephony, advanced wireless data networks and video-over-broadband are already gaining traction and proving how disruptive and powerful a telecom technology can be.
When completed, the wireless network will be used for everything from public safety applications to providing a pervasive network for Internet telephony and Wi-Fi cell phones.
And while many mobile services don't come with international calling, using the Skype service you can make international calls without paying hefty long distance fees, although there will be Internet telephony charges.
But observers have been expecting the company to go public this year, and there will likely be strong demand for its stock, as Vonage is the most prominent of the pure-play Internet telephony startups.
In a series of presentations, they demonstrated ways in which cybercriminals can eavesdrop on VoIP calls, steal data from Internet telephony devices, intercept credit card numbers from VoIP connections and shut connections down altogether.
Communication has moved from the telephone landline to the mobile phone to Internet telephony with Skype to now apps like GroupMe with mobile communications services which do not rely on a PC or telephone number.
But the market did make a few accurate predictions about technology trends: it concluded that products based on ultrawideband technology would not be commercially available by July 2004, and correctly forecast the take-up rate for internet telephony.
The rivalry between the two Internet telephony services ratcheted up last week when Google announced it was expanding Google Voice to more (38) languages and countries (150) and reducing the fees it charges for international calls.
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In telecoms, for instance, private-equity firms are mostly trying to buy established firms often former national monopolists that, while they might be threatened by internet telephony, have strong cash flow, physical assets and plenty of scope to improve the quality of management.
Like the rest of the mobile phone industry, Deutsche Telekom has been hit hard by the growing popularity of internet telephony, as peddled by eBay's (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) Skype, which has seen customers moving away from conventional technology.
The Consumer segment offers wire line services such as internet, telephony and television, and retail and wholesale wireless services.
MediaRing.com (which is into Internet protocol telephony) is selling slightly above its IPO price, mostly because of a 35% surge last week on rumors of a takeover or strategic partnership.
The other is the spread of the internet and mobile telephony that have transformed society.
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Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) is about to throw its considerable weight behind internet-based telephony.
Prices are coming under even more pressure as internet-based telephony takes off.
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