BROWSING: Skype

Birch Communications, IP-based telecommunications and managed services provider, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. CLEC assets of Cordia Communications Corp., My Tel Co Inc., and Northstar Telecom Inc. Read more.Dell announced it has signed a definitive agreement to...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.This week’s article deals with a hot topic – bandwidth buckets, or, as Craig Moffett from Sanford...

About one year following Hewlett-Packard Co. buying out the dwindling Palm, HP is launching the inaugural tablet to use Palm’s webOS operating system scheduled for tomorrow. The TouchPad is similar in design to other tablets, sporting a 9.7-inch screen at the diagonals, equaling the size...

AIC | June 14, 2011 | Press Release Hong Kong, 14 June 2011 -- The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a new industry association founded by eBay, Google, Nokia, Skype and Yahoo! was launched today to promote the understanding and resolution of Internet policy issues in the Asia-Pacific...

Skype Ltd. has teamed up with Comcast Corp. in a move aimed to bring high-definition video calling to the television.A press release today said Comcast customers would soon be able “to experience widescreen HD video calling that is immersive and natural,” from their TV...

Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.'s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash. The deal includes HP's products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP's team that developed the Halo technology in Corvallis,...

Polycom Inc. (PLCM) announced it will acquire Hewlett Packard Co.'s (HPQ) Halo video conferencing company for $89 million in cash. The deal includes HP's products, contracts and employees, but leaves speculation on what will happen to HP's team that developed the Halo technology in Corvallis,...

Intel is considering buying Texas Instruments’ OMAP division according to a highly placed executive at another fabless semiconductor firm.

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Fourth-generation wireless mobile broadband technologies such as Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and Long Term Evolution...

Editor's Note: In this piece by Carlos Urreta, guest columnist and techie from Austin, Texas, Urreta reveals loopholes to securing the cheapest cell phone deal a user is likely to construct (with some loopholes) without losing most major services. I bought my first cellular device...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.If you watched last Thursday’s “American Idol” (James Durban should have won), you probably noticed...

NEW YORK CITY — This city is teaming with startups. Like any good metropolis with considerable talents and clout across entertainment, media, technology, fashion and so much more, the costs of founding a company in New York are often outweighed by the potential return...

On college campuses, the YouTube generation is watching videos online, playing their game systems and using Skype to talk to family and friends back home. At the same time, professors are using online videos and other resources as tools to give students the...

Salesforce.com the enterprise cloud computing company, announced it has completed its acquisition of Radian6, the industry-leading social media monitoring platform used by more than half of FORTUNE 100 companies. Radian6's unique technology captures hundreds of millions of conversations every day across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,...

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) dropped a bombshell by announcing this morning that it will acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Global in a deal will shake up the mobile, video and gaming industries. The $8.5 billion deal, the largest in the history of Microsoft, was announced earlier...

Early this morning Microsoft went official with news that has been rumoured for the last 24 hours - they have saved up their pocket money and are using it to buy Skype, the ubiquitous VoIP service, for a cool $8.5 billion. Other suitors such as Facebook and Google has also been in the mix, but it would seem Microsoft have reached deepest in order to secure the deal.

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Communications service providers, especially wireless network operators, have struggled with poor voice quality for years. Many have...

Starting Monday, May 2, Dallas-based AT&T Inc. will start limiting amounts of Internet data that DSL and U-verse users are allowed before subscribers incur overage fees from the telecommunications company. If users go past 150 GB for DLS customers and 250 GB for U-verse subscribers...

Starting Monday, May 2, Dallas-based AT&T Inc. will start limiting amounts of Internet data that DSL and U-verse users are allowed before subscribers incur overage fees from the telecommunications company. If users go past 150 GB for DLS customers and 250 GB for U-verse subscribers...

Looking to expand its reach beyond traditional wireless voice calls, T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) unveiled its Bobsled service that will allow users to make free calls using a Voice over Internet Protocol application.The service is initially being launched as a Facebook application, which will...

Jews across the globe will be starting the celebration of passover tonight, as they have done for the last couple of thousand years. But why is this year different from other years? Well, it has a really superbly made video telling the entire passover story with a slightly modern mobile twist.

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Mobile World Congress 2011 represented the debut for voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) technology among leading...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With the new year comes the parade of trade shows, including the Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas...

The migration of voice services to data networks is not a new phenomenon in the world of telecommunications, but for the mobile space the move has started to gain steam as carriers continue the roll out of high-speed data networks.According to research from Juniper,...