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Patent fight prompts Avistar to slash staff, China plans
Microsoft's patent dispute with Avistar has prompted San Mateo-based UC services company to announce plans to cut its workforce by 25 percent by the end of the first quarter and drop plans to Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: 8X8 Inc. wins video patent
After last year's litigation onslaught patents are the new way to make money in the VoIP world. 8X8 Inc now has 72 voice and video communications patents and was recently awarded it's newest patent Read more...
VoIP Inc. defaults on Verizon $8 million
VoIP Inc. has issued an 8-k SEC advisory admitting it failed to make a Feb. 1 payment to Verizon and that Verizon has declared VoIP Inc. to be in default of an $8 million settlement agreement. VoIP Read more...
Exclusive: VoIP Inc. to take $24 m. hit as it closes network and loses staff
VoIP Inc. has closed down its call termination and network operations laying off 25 engineering staff and has told the SEC it is expecting to have to write off $24 million in
Read more...8X8 gets serious about Mobile VoIP
Most aggressive of last week's CES mobile VoIP announcements was the offer by U.S. provider 8X8 Inc. of a free trial of its new mobile talk application for U.S. consumers. The Packet8 mobile Read more...
Vonage working for image makeover
This year will be the make or break year for pure play VoIP giant Vonage with its viability in the hands of its bankers who have to agree to refinance its significant debt. Vonage handed out most of Read more...
Vonage loses patent appeal
Vonage has lost its patent appeal to Verizon and will pay an additional $37.5 million on top of the $80 million Vonage handed over to the telco giant. Vonage has paid out patent settlements to Read more...
VoIP patent landscape explained
Over at Ike Elliott's Telecosm blog he has put together an excellent summary of the VoIP patent landscape and who owns the estimated 1,000 patents claimed to operate in the VoIP sector. According to Read more...
8X8 gets another patent
8x8, Inc., the originator of the Packet8 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video communication services for business and residential customers, has been issued U.S. Patent No. Read more...