The battle over Internet sales taxes, simmering for more than a decade, is boiling over.
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The L Series laptops are tailored for an excellent voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) experience.
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Today he's excited about voice-over internet protocol (VoIP), also known as web phone service.
Its Voice over Internet service goes for 30% to 40% less than traditional phone rates.
Those who want privacy are fighting over Internet user identities, cookies, e-mail addresses, databases, and spam.
He's the second city employee to lose his job over Internet use in the past year.
The recent Senate hearing addressed claims that Google uses monopoly power over Internet search to disadvantage its competitors.
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But, as this legislation and Microsoft's chatroom U-turn both show, the battle over internet security is far from finished.
"There are already several companies using the name iPhone for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) products, " said Apple spokesman Alan Hely.
Those who want fame are fighting over Internet domain names, such as infoworld.com, out of which e-mail and Web addresses are made.
However, he said Oftel had no regulatory authority over internet service providers.
It also marks the first time a U.S. wireless operator is actively promoting a Voice Over Internet protocol (VoIP) application to its subscribers.
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But voice-over-Internet Protocol services are starting to catch on as consumers get used to the idea of making phone calls over the Internet.
Security professionals at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas spent Wednesday outlining the exploitable vulnerabilities in voice over Internet protocol technology, or VoIP.
The news that CIBC Oppenheimer Internet analyst Henry Blodget is taking over Internet research at Merrill Lynch, the nation's largest brokerage firm, is important.
Broadsoft ( BSFT, 39) of Gaithersburg, Md. makes software that enables telecommunications companies to deliver voice and multimedia services over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
But there are many options for placing voice calls over the Internet (Skype, Google Voice, Vonage and more) using voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) technology.
But here's the other element in the battle over Internet regulation.
Interaction via instant messages, text, voice over Internet, video conference, etc.
Those looking to save more than a few pennies can make the jump to voice over Internet Protocol technology, offered by carriers such as Skype and Vonage.
As concern over Internet advertising and data collection grows, privacy advocates and the Internet advertising industry have been sharpening their legal knives for more than a year.
Hold the phone: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers are worried that the U.S Federal Communications Commission might be about to saddle them with some potentially damaging regulation.
Live radio has some inherent advantages over internet music-streaming services.
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.
Deutsche Telekom, which offers pay-TV over internet connections, said this spring that it planned to sign up 2.5m-3m paying customers by the end of 2012 (it now has 900, 000).
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Silent Phone deploys the ZRTP peer-to-peer encryption protocol which is recognized as the leading standard for secure end-to-end communication in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone call.
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If left unattended to, Web censorship could end up costing Google and other Internet companies a bucket of cash if they have to comply with foreign governments' whims over Internet content.
Yet, the battle over Internet sales taxes drags on.
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Voice-over-Internet apps like Skype allow users to make voice calls over the Internet while instant-message apps from WhatsApp to Kik let people exchange text and photos without being charged for a text message.
Only if Google is using its roughly 65% control over Internet searches to drive competitors out of other markets and deprive consumers of a choice there, will the government have a legitimate case.
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