Mark Bruk, a frequent business traveler, always packs a Plantronic headset with an ear bud and microphone so he can plug into any computer and make phone calls on the cheap. Once he finds an Internet ...

Internet telephony is on the rise and moving away from its geeky roots. Even Tesco is selling an Internet phone that costs around £10 and plugs into your computer's USB slot. It uses Tesco's ...

United Online (ticker: UNTD) CEO Mark Goldston describes his company's new PC-client-based voice-over-IP (VoIP) product on his Q3 conference call. There are two noteworthy features of the product.

March 7, 2008 As the rapid growth of VoIP communications continues (Skype for example, had 276 million user accounts at the end of 2007 and almost 8 million people are shown as online as this article ...

Voice over IP (VoIP) security is a challenge for IT staff because IP telephony (IPT) brings with it not only the security problems of data networks but also new threats specific to VoIP. In this ...

You probably already know VoIP stands for voice over Internet protocol. But what is “Internet protocol”? The term represents a large technology made up of many standards, rules and methods to send ...

Once upon a time, a long, long while ago (about 1996/97) in a faraway place (SF's Dogpatch neighborhood), a man came by a new office I was opening up and dropped off a computer. But not just any ...

A group of privacy advocates and technology companies on Tuesday filed court papers to challenge a ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), saying it overstepped its authority by ...

Researchers have found vulnerabilities in Cisco VoIP telephones, recently demonstrating how they can insert malicious code into a Cisco VoIP phone (any of the 14 Cisco Unified IP Phone models) and ...

Testing your VoIP security system against all the threats that exist on the network can be a full time job. This guide documents how a VoIP system can be tested and suggest some of the available tools ...