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Skype’s Uphill Battle to Win North America

Despite Skype now being well into its second year as a U.S.-based company, it has yet to capture the...

Skype as Your Office Phone System?

After Eric Taylor tried Skype at home for a few months, he decided it was good enough to use...

Mobile Messaging: Part III – The Mob-E-Mail Battleground

For all the media attention it gets, especially in the business press, e-mail remains a tiny part of the...

FoIP (Fraud over IP)

Alarm bells should be going off at VoIP providers everywhere after the recent case in which a fraudulent VoIP...

Mobile Messaging: Part II – The MMS Conundrum

For mobile carriers, it sounded like a can't-miss proposition. Flood the market with inexpensive, heavily subsidized camera phones, launch...

Mobile Messaging: Part I – Voice Makes Room For Text, MMS

It's an odd characteristic of the mobile landscape that devices and networks originally designed for voice are increasingly being...