Technologically, when a call is dialed over an Internet connection, the conversation is just a fancy form of computer data that barely resembles a typical phone call. Never mind technology, some ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. IBM and ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Telecommunications regulators worldwide are still wrestling with the tricky problem of how to regulate Internet telephony services, which is leaving voice over IP (VoIP) service providers somewhat in ...

Routing voice over WANs has been touted for nearly 10 years but mainstream businesses have only recently begun to reap the benefits The potential savings from using wide area networks (WANs) for ...

Internet telephony services can “bolt on” to your existing service and provide specific features, such as free or darn cheap long distance calls, call forwarding from desk phone to home phone to cell ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

A couple weeks ago at the WebRTC Paris show, W3C Chairman Dominique Haza l-Massieux talked about how WebRTC is changing the Web. We hear a lot about how WebRTC will change telephony, but we never hear ...

Internet-based telecom technology has come of age and is now providing businesses with quantifiable benefits. Its tax season and the accountants and partners at J.H. Cohn, the 13th biggest accounting ...

If you want to dive into the world of Internet telephony but prefer to use your existing phone—not VoIP software on your Mac —as your primary calling device, you might consider subscribing to an ...

Voice over IP may be attracting customers, but it also attracting lawsuits. The latest involves an Illinois company, Web Telephony, which filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of ...

Comcast Corp. management struck more bullish tones at the largest U.S. cable operator's analyst and investor meeting Tuesday in Philadelphia, predicting that the company will grow annual cable revenue ...