San Francisco (ip-192.com): While Skype is preparing an IPO; Cisco may be interested in buying the company that allows cheap VoIP phone calls before it goes public. The company, founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, is looking to raise about $5 billion through the initial public offering. Skype allows its 560 million [...]
Calls accepted: Google Voice out of beta
June 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google Voice, Google’s free telecommunications service, is now freely available to users in the U.S. Invitations are no longer required. User can choose a phone number and link it to any or all of their existing phones. Incoming calls will then be routing to the phones connected, and users can pick-up the [...]
Google acquirers Gizmo5
November 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): In a bid to beef up its Google Talk offerings, Goggle acquired VoIP startup Gizmo5. The price Google agreed to pay is $30 Million in cash, according to a Techcrunch article. Gizmo5 tries to compete with Skype, but the service is based on open protocols. Gizmo5 may be an almost perfect fit [...]
No VoIP: The AT&T - Apple deal
August 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dallas (ip-192.com): AT&T acknowledged in a letter to the FCC that Apple and AT&T have an agreement to block Voice over IP (VoIP) applications from using AT&T’s network. According to the letter send to the FCC, the agreement covers AT&T’s cellular network, but not AT&T’s wireless service. ZDNet published excerpts from AT&T’s letter to the [...]
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