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Stockpiling Warheads

April 19, 2007

We've now got the spectre of a good old fashioned patent fight on our hands as Andy "Scoop" Abramson publishes the details of a decade old 3COM patent that may read on the current Verizon / Vonage dispute. And that's why patents, kiddies, are so important to startups. As Suzie Dingwall Williams recently wrote, the [...]

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Verizon introduces unlimited messaging

April 16, 2007

Hot on the heals of all the talk over the weekend about how Rational Pricing strategies are keeping cellular costs high in Canada comes this announcement from Verizon — Verizon Wireless Introduces Unlimited Text, Picture, Video And Instant Messaging To Anyone In The U.S. Yup, for a paltry $20 monthly premium, you can send as [...]

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Vonage, down… but not out.

April 3, 2007

So Vonage has dodged the bullet. In what has to be a very bitter pill to swallow, they've cut a deal with VoIP Inc to provide network services. VoIP Inc claims to own all of their own IP, providing Vonage with a way to step around the Verizon injunction. It begs the question, however. How [...]

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Vonage must pay

March 8, 2007

A Virginia jury has just handed Vonage another setback, ruling that it violated several of Verizon's patents. Vonage must $58 million in damages. The ruling is somewhat controversial, in as much as some are questioning the validity of the patents. It's a kick in the teeth for Vonage, already down for the count.

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Pureplay VoIP Measures Up

July 22, 2006

Telephia published the results of a VoIP telephone service survey yesterday.Â The survey polled a sample of the 2.9 million US “pureplay” VoIP telephony households.Â They did not measure PC based usage, like Skype, nor cable usage, butÂ focused solely onÂ service providers like Vonage, AT&TÂ and Sunrocket.Â While excluding Skype and other PC based systems is defensible, [...]

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