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Encryption guru signs exclusive with gateway vendor
The innovative ZRTP Voice-over-IP encryption scheme invented by privacy guru Phil Zimmermann is to be used exclusively in the gateway products of only one company, UM Labs, the latter has announced.
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Skype urges PBX interoperability
Skype has used its Interop keynote slot to call for traditional PBX vendors to make their gear more interoperable, despite itself having faced criticism over the closed nature of its own software.
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Microsoft slams conventional telephony
Microsoft has attacked the desk phone and traditional telephony vendors in general as a hindrance to cost savings during a keynote speech at VoiceCon Orlando.
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Open source PBXs make market inroads
Companies are turning to open-source PBXs as the economy worsens according to one research company. The Eastern Management Group claimed that open-source PBX account for nearly a fifth of the North American market - although a rival company has dismissed the claims as 'headline-grabbing.'
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Company's unified comms server ready for tight market
Avaya is planning a core server with which customers and independent software vendors can easily build presence, voice and other communications modes into business applications.
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IBM and Siemens to unify comms
IBM plans to embed unified communications features from Siemens' upcoming OpenScape software into its Sametime instant messaging software.
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Shell goes with Microsoft beta for global VoIP
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is planning a global VOIP rollout with tens of thousands of IP phones - based on a Microsoft product that has only just arrived in beta.
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Aruba upgrades products for 'VoFi'
Aruba will support voice-quality links on office WLANs, disputing competitors' claims that the job needs a whole new architecture.
