Bell Labs grapples with VoIP, open-source
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The R&D unit is working on using open-source components without compromising on carrier-grade capability to cut the cost of developing telecommunications systems.
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IBM has handed over speech technology to two open-source groups to boost development of speech-recognition applications, which proponents say will eventually become common in customer-service call centers, automobiles and elsewhere.
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Wi-Fi, GPS on board CEs on Video OpenMoko's open source phone software is on its way, and now there's a handset to go with it, ready for budding coders to begin creating apps for the platform.â¦
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A few big brains in Palo Alto want to ease the corporate stranglehold on mobile communication. By Robert Strohmeyer from Wired magazine.
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Ziff Davis - The emergence of stacks of open-source infrastructure software will spawn new opportunities for companies to enter and succeed in the open-source space, according to a panel of experts at the Harvard Business School's annual Cyberposium conference.
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Two startups, and not the better-known Skype, are making a splash with mobile voice-over-IP capabilities.
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VoIP, or voice traffic over the  Internet, is headed for Mexico offering an opportunity for  upstart telecommunications companies but a headache for  traditional companies, who see pressure on their earnings as  the cost of long distance calls decline.
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Meta Group senior analyst David Willis said that he doesn&#39;t expect the Baby Bells to bow down just yet. &quot;I don&#39;t think VoIP is going to remain entirely unregulated over the next several years,&quot; Willis said.
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The largest Voice-over-IP business deployment revealed to date presents new opportunities for both the bank that&#39;s using it and the services provider that&#39;s implementing it.
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T-Mobile is testing a service that combines VoIP and cellular access in hopes of catching up with its competitors.
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Ribbit, a startup telecommunications company, is trying to take on the big telcos by offering something they can't: a telephone network that's easy for developers to use in creating a variety of devices and applications.
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The carrier recruits Intel, Cisco Systems and other major players to create VoIP phone gear and applications.
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Jaxtr is the latest in a new crop of VoIP start-ups that is attracting venture capital.
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NEW YORK - Traditional phone systems may be going the way of the Pony Express. Voice-over-Internet Protocol, technology that allows users to make and receive phone calls using the Internet, is giving the old circuit-switched system a run for its money.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A Silicon Valley startup wants to shake up the telecommunications industry with a $399 gizmo that provides free, unlimited domestic phone calls for homes with broadband Internet service.
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Internet and mobile test and measurement company Keynote Systems says that VoIP services outperform landline phone systems in call quality, although the technology still has some ground to make up in other areas such as audio delay.
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A recent survey of 201 telecom decision managers working in government indicates that while there's quite a bit of interest in communications systems that unify voice, video and data over the Net, budgets and security constraints are likely to make that a very slow process.