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  • Hosted IP telephony maturing for mainstream enterprise adoption

    IP telephony adoption has progressed slowly for more than a decade, but with hosted voice vendors now offering modular consumption models and shifting away from simply viewing hosted voice as a way to sell broader unified communications (UC) solutions, organizations can now pursue IP telephony services as a highly scalable stand-alone service.

  • New Mac Trojan hints at ties to high-priced commercial hacking toolkit

    French security firm Intego discovered a new Mac Trojan horse this week that is being used to target specific individuals.

  • Europe's supply of IPv4 addresses nearing depletion

    The European Internet registry -- RIPE NCC -- is expected to exhaust its supply of IPv4 addresses as early as next week, putting more pressure on U.S.-based multinational corporations to deploy the replacement technology known as IPv6.

  • The 5 hottest IT jobs right now

    If you're an IT professional with experience building mobile or Cloud applications, it's a good time to be job hunting. That's because the number of job openings in these areas is up dramatically from last summer.

  • Why CIOs find business case for UC difficult: IDC

    Building a strong business case for unified communications (UC) can be difficult for CIOs and IT leaders, according to IDC Australia.

  • Alcatel-Lucent announces loss, plans to cut 5,000 jobs

    French telecom equipment company Alcatel-Lucent plans to cut 5,000 jobs after reporting a net loss of €254 million (US$308 million) in the second quarter, it said on Thursday. A performance program announced by the company will also involve exiting or restructuring markets, and managing its patent portfolio as an independent profit center.

  • Microsoft mum on whether it can tap Skype phone calls

    Microsoft may or may not have the ability to tap Skype phone calls, but the company just won't say, and it's not clear why.

  • AT&T posts revenue and income gains on mobile growth

    More mobile customers and increasing mobile data use pushed AT&T's revenue up slightly in the second quarter of 2012 and helped drive an 8.7 percent increase in net income.

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    Tas government taps MyNetFone for VoIP

    Voice over IP provider MyNetFone has won a contract worth up to $20 million dollars to provide VoIP services to the Tasmanian government. The contract has an initial term of three years but may have extensions of up to 10 years, and may be worth up to $20 million. MyNetFone has a ready for service date of 1 January 2013 for the agreement.

  • NTP announces patent settlements with 13 tech firms

    Patent holding firm NTP, which won a US$612.5 million patent settlement from Research In Motion in 2006, has reached a possibly unprecedented agreement with 13 other technology vendors, including Apple, Google, Microsoft and AT&T, the company announced Monday.

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