On Wednesday, Microsoft announced plans to acquire media-streams.com, a privately held Swiss software developer, which makes communications applications based on Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.

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On Wednesday, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced plans to acquire media-streams.com, a privately held Swiss software developer, which makes communications applications based on Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.

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It uses the Simple Object Access Protocol, a protocol for a common XML (Extensible Markup Language) messaging format for Internet applications.

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Applications, for instance, could be utilized to deliver calls on LTE, much the way Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) apps like fring and Jajah operate on 3G networks today.

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