The smallest mobile-phone operator in the UK, 3, is to heavily promote IP telephony and instant messaging on its network, its chief executive has said. Speaking at a mobile-broadband roundtable on ...

Skype, despite built-in advertising and no privacy guarantees is still a very popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) client. Indeed, Microsoft is replacing Windows Live ...

AOL LLC and Yahoo Inc. separately today made changes to the Internet telephony features within their instant message services. The moves signal that both Internet companies believe that providing ...

(Editor’s note: Larry Golob is senior director of business development for Global IP Solutions, a technology creator of real-time voice and video over IP.) When Voice over IP first began to get a ...

Today a few highlights on announcements coming in from this week’s IT Expo being held in Miami, Fla. with news from Digium (with Switchvox SMB 4.0), VoIP Logic (with some now mobile applications), and ...

The best VoIP services offer easy-to-use and affordable VoIP services for small business owners. The best VoIP companies will guide small business owners through the process of owning and using a VoIP ...

Google has launched an instant-messaging program that allows text chat and computer-to-computer voice connections, a move that highlights the search giant's increasing competition with Yahoo, ...

When a business considers switching from a legacy phone system to a cloud-native communications platform, it does so on the basis of what it can do for the bottom line -- and for good reason. Cost has ...

The Yahoo offering, to be available in 180 countries, will link with existing Yahoo e-mail and instant messaging features, and that appears to be what will distinguish the service from many of its ...

Vendors at this week’s VoiceCon Spring 2007 conference say they want to extend the reach of corporate VoIP technology to mobile users, while making VoIP a more integral part of other corporate ...

XMPP, or extensible messaging and presence protocol, is an XML-based protocol for passing instant messaging and presence information among servers. The protocol is under the Jabber Software Foundation ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday took the first step toward requiring voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) providers to comply with law enforcement wiretapping requests.