With a PC, an Internet connection, and telephony microphone, MediaRing Talk users can make unlimited global long-distance calls for a $4.95 flat monthly rate (in addition to the Internet service ...

Skype Technologies on Tuesday launched a test version of its Net telephony software for handheld devices. The new application, called PocketSkype, is designed for PDAs (personal digital assistants) ...

An open source model for IP telephony might yield results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons. In theory, an open source IP ...

The GNU free software project has released the first complete version of its platform for telephony services applications, the group announced Tuesday. On the new software platform, called GNU Bayonne ...

Push-to-talk pioneer Motorola is continuing to merge two-way radio and telephony features onto its Wi-Fi networks in a way it says helps connect islands of wireless communications within the ...

During his keynote presentation at VoiceCon Orlando, Bob Picciano, IBM software general manager, said IBM Sametime Unified Telephony will be available sometime in July 2009. Sametime Unified Telephony ...

Three years ago I came to realize that we had a serious need in free software. Although free software had expanded to fill almost every other void in the enterprise infrastructure, we had not ...

Gavin Cowie isn't in the Net phone business, but it didn't take him long to figure out why the technology has never taken off "It's worth it because it's so cheap, but sometimes it sounds like I'm ...

Open-source telephony is a system supporting all types of telephony applications such as PBXes, call centers, interactive voice response systems, chat lines and many other types of voice technologies.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway says it will use Redmond's unified communications software to try to attract the next generation of workers. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats ...

Avaya Inc. today is due to announce an upgrade of its IP telephony software that adds increased security capabilities and will run on a series of new hardware devices and phones that also are being ...

(For those new to the column, Forward Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A forward migration kit is ...