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Popular social networking cum dating site Friendster has become the first of the Social Networking hubs to add a VoIP play to their offering by joining in with VoiceGlo’s GloPhone.

In one more step for AT&T’s CallVantage, they have added Circuit City to their list of retailers. The ongoing consumerization of Voice over IP and the making of it a package good is great for the industry. Given AT&T’s marketing clout this has to be a leading move for the company, with more to follow.

Cisco has received their DoD certification. That means their equipment will be part of Command and Control Cisco also landed Bank of America.

BridgePort Networks is expected to announce the closing of Series B financing on Monday of next week if all rings true as they have raised $25 million in new capital. New investors include TD Capital Ventures, which led the round, and BCE Capital (an affiliate of Bell Canada Enterprises), joined existing investors Polaris Venture Partners … Read more

Cisco has taken control of an Aussie VoIP company which it had supplied MPLS enabling hardware and software vendor financing. Cisco has appointed their own receivers to lead collapsed telecommunications company Comindico which owed about $US80 million to Cisco.

In the past I’ve said we’re seeing the day coming of the global carrier for telephony in the branded service offering sense that can be seen as leveraging the capabilities of VoIP for global remote workers of multi-national firms and expats. I feel with the announcement today by AT&T that the day has arrived. While … Read more

With SBC playing the role of integrator and Cisco being the hardware supplier, Ford Motor Company will go VoIP over the next few years. Now, this does not mean that SBC is getting the business to manage and handle the data network. A few years back they struck a deal with Cisco to do just … Read more

Skype will not have a PALM OS client. I don’t know where that idea came from in the first place, for I was at Demo and know that SKYPE would support such a platform but I don’t recall them saying how far along they were. Now the facts seem to be getting clearer. PALM is … Read more

The National Post in Canada has a story about the overall impact of VoIP in Canada. One point they make is that a research company claims VoIP has 15,000 users in Canada. Another is the fear of teh rise of the cable companies as telcos in Canada. Canada is a great market to conduct trials … Read more

San Jose Mercury News uber blogger Dan Gillmor sings the praise of Skype. Some of the comments are hilarious.