Nevada Federal Court Judge, Kent Dawson, recently issued a landmark order allowing Chanel to seize domain names it believe to be counterfeiting its products and transfer them to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge’s order also states, “all Internet search engines” and “all social media websites” explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google to [...]

WorkSpace Communications, a leading cloud provider of UC solutions and AltiGen Communications, Inc., the leading provider of integrated Microsoft-based Unified Communications solutions, recently announced a partnership to deliver a robust hosted, software-as-a service (SaaS)-based contact center solution for Microsoft Lync. The hosted contact center solution will be able to be integrated and deployed with both [...]

While I don’t believe anybody would argue the benefit of a personal navigation device which is able to show traffic jams in near real time as Erik Brenneis, Head of M2M, Vodafone Group also sees as an “enormous potential of M2M services which become even more attractive when delivered wirelessly.” Do the advantages of what [...]

Patent wars have taken over the Internet lately, with Google’s Android OS and Apple’s iPhone at the heat of the battle. The latest dispute involves Google’s Android partner, HTC, and Google’s nemesis, Apple. If you’ve kept an eye on the war between HTC and Apple lately, you should know that the dispute began as early [...]

Over the weekend, thousands of customers lined up outside of RadioShack, Best Buy, and the likes to get their hands on the HP TouchPad for a reduced price as low as $99. Hewlett-Packard slashed its tablet prices to $99 (16GB version) and $149 (32GB). Although the TouchPad was no iPad-killer, its new price tag was [...]

What started as a peaceful protest in London after a resident’s fatal shooting on August 4th turned into a full-on, multi-day riot all across the city and its surrounding areas in the United Kingdom. Reports have shown that rioters used Blackberries and social media to organize the gatherings. Because Blackberry Messenger (BBM) is free, private, [...]

AT&T has announced that they will be changing how customers check their voicemail. Recent reports revealed that the company’s current policies made messages more vulnerable to hackers than on other cell phone carriers. Until now, AT&T has never required users to add password protection to their voicemails. Although, users could choose to have the option [...]

There is only so much doom and gloom a guy can take, thank god it’s Summer and there are enough diversions to keep our minds off the economy. Actually, signs are finally pointing to a bottoming out of the depression and that signals better times ahead . . . we hope! The question is, how long can some of the Telecom Industry’s most vulnerable companies hold out? The vuntures are waiting to pick the carcass clean, that you can be sure of. While April was filled with drama, May was all about price cuts, innovation, and sexspionage. Carriers are lowering prices and improving offerings, the FCC is tightening rules, and customers are just trying to find a way to pay the bills.

For years, the IT EXPO has been the essential trade show for cutting edge IP telecommunications, and is the longest running trade show in its category.  It is the show where many important partnerships are struck and where you go to find solutions to modern telephony problems.  However, until now, it hasn’t been a great [...]

The telecommunications industry has long been considered recession proof. After all, everyone needs to communicate, right? But lately many companies have become debt heavy due to extensive network build outs for enormously burgeoning bandwidth demands, hardware and technology costs involved in transitioning service to VoIP and lost revenue due to a volatile consumer market attracted [...]