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Vonage names new CEO

Marguerite Reardon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:28:00 GMT

Internet phone company Vonage is turning to a former Cingular Wireless to help guide it forward.

Marc Lefar, CEO of Vonage

(Credit: Vonage)

Vonage announced Wednesday that Marc Lefar, former chief marketing officer at Cingular, will become the Vonage's new CEO. Lefar, 44, will take over the top spot ...

Vonage to get new CEO

Marguerite Reardon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:29:00 GMT

Internet phone company Vonage will name a new chief executive as early as next week, according to a story published in The Wall Street Journal Friday.

The newspaper cited people familiar with the situation. The news comes as Vonage secures funding to buy back some of its debt. On Thursday ...

Ixia kicks off competitive upgrade program

Dong Ngo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:35:00 GMT

Ixia kicked off its "Switch to Ixia campain" by offering trade-in equipment and competitive financing solutions.

(Credit: Ixia)

Ixia, a leading company in IP performance testing, announced a competitive upgrade program today as part of its "Switch to Ixia" campaign.

The program will last through the end of ...

Skype taps former Motorola exec for COO post

Marguerite Reardon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:26:00 GMT

Internet calling provider Skype said Tuesday that it has hired Scott Durchslag, a former Motorola executive, to become its chief operating officer.

Durchslag spent more than five years at Motorola where he was most recently corporate vice president of global product and experience invention for the mobile devices business unit. ...

T-Mobile's home phone service goes nationwide

Marguerite Reardon — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT

T-Mobile USA plans to announce Wednesday that its new @Home voice service will be available nationwide starting July 2.

The cell phone operator has been testing the new Internet telephony service since February in Dallas and Seattle. And now the new service, which is meant to replace traditional home phones, ...

Get to know Skype 4.0 beta

Jessica Dolcourt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:08:00 GMT

It's been a while since a major Skype release, and on Wednesday, the eBay-owned VoIP communication service will issue the first of several planned version 4.0 beta builds for Windows that are anticipated to drop over the next few months.

The biggest changes to come with Skype 4.0 beta (download) ...

Vonage: On the road to recovery?

Marguerite Reardon — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:57:00 GMT

Internet telephony company Vonage is getting back on track with improved quarterly earnings and a deal, announced Thursday, to resell broadband service from Covad, a DSL service provider.

The new service, called Vonage Broadband, will offer speeds of 3 megabits per second to 6 Mbps to residential and small-business customers. ...

AOL opens AIM voice-call interface

Stephen Shankland — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:19:00 GMT

AOL said Tuesday it has opened the interface to AIM Call Out, a move that will let programmers more easily build products that tap into the service for making calls over the Internet to mobile or landline phones

The Open Voice API (application programming interface) is freely available. Building it ...

eBay will consider selling Skype

Jim Kerstetter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Has eBay about had it with Skype?

New eBay CEO John Donahoe told the Financial Times the online auctioneer will consider selling Skype if it can't find a way to make the service better help eBay's e-commerce business.

"What we're testing this year are the synergies," Donahoe ...

Qwest offers buyout to workers

Marguerite Reardon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:37:00 GMT

The sagging phone business has caused Qwest Communications International to offer hundreds of employees a voluntary buyout as the company continues to tighten its belt.

On Tuesday, Qwest, the third-largest phone company in the U.S., said that it would cut "less than 2 percent" of its 36,843 workforce ...