Telcordia sets up lab in Chennai

Telcordia a telecom Giant has set up a new lab in Chennai.Forthem who dont know ..
In the United States, Telcordia's software carries 80 per cent of telephony traffic and handles 100 per cent of the toll-free traffic, as well as 90 per cent of wireless number portability transactions. The company serves more than 800 government and private sector customers in 55 countries.In India Telcordia's clientele' includes Idea,Tata,Reliance and TRAI.
Dan Carroll, CEO of Telcordia said that India is going to be the second largest telecom market in world by 2010.
For details lease visit....
http://www.chennaionline.com/science/Technology/2006/06telcordia.asp

snap 0.7 including ThunderBird support

snap 0.7 has been released and it includes support for ThunderBird.It means you can port your contact list of thunderbird to snap now. Also you will be able to call from webpages directly snap0.7 detects phone numbers on webpages and turns them into clickable links.
For details please visit...
http://www.snapanumber.com/Blog/tabid/59/EntryID/9/Default.aspx

Verizone taking Vonage to court

Verizone files suit against Vonage (Vonage is the secondlargest phone company in US) regarding 7 of its VOIP patents.
Details here...
http://www.voipcentral.org/entry/verizon-take-files-lawsuit-against-vonage-for-voip-patent-infringement/

Skype:1 Hour free international calling(from US only)

Skype is offering USA users 1 Hour free International calling to 30 countries around the world.
These countries include....canada,france, germany,UK etc.The offer is valid till 30th June.
For details please visit....
http://www.amperordirect.com/pc/r-skype-news/z-news-062106a.html

Is Google a threat to VOIP industry?

Is Google a threat to VOIP industry? No!!!!!! i dont claim so. This thought has been expressed in an article by Neale Martin, president and co-founder of Ntelec, an Atlanta-based communications research and consulting company.
Irrespective of what you or I think,the Article makes an interesting reading.
It says that the world is in habit of going to google whenever it needs any information
regarding any field.and Google has a large customer-base,and google can start any
service for free because its revenue comes from advertisers and paid internet searches.
According to the author it makes Google a threat for any market it chooses to enter.
anyways...
You can read the full article here
http://telephonyonline.com/voip/commentary/telecom_google_threat/

Bell Canada, Nortel and NewHeights come together to provide new VOIP experience to
canadian business.

Plz find the details here...


http://www.sipcenter.com/sip.nsf/newsview?open&type=News&docid=WEBB6Q5H66