Klausner Technologies has filed a $180m (£97m) lawsuit in the US courts against broadband telephone service provider Vonage, claiming that the Vonage Voice over IP voicemail platform infringes its patent.
There has been a lot of publicity about users taking outsourced operations back in-house, but if you ensure you have the right ingredients for an outsourcing arrangement at the outset there is no reason for the relationship to founder.
Barnsley council is to set up a joint venture company with European IT firm Bull Information Systems to manage the authority’s IT infrastructure and operations and bid for external contracts.
There is a growing body of evidence that voice over IP is starting to gain wider acceptance as a viable enterprise technology, as some of the problems that beset the technology in its early days are overcome.
Google has warned it will start anti-trust suits against any US telecom service providers that do not allow its content to be freely distributed over the internet.