Telefónica has announced the launch of Tu Me, a free application that allows users to communicate and share information through a smartphone. You may say that Telefonica has just launched its own WhatsApp, although with VoIP calls. For now, it is only available to iPhone, but soon to be on Android devices.

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No cell phone calls are allowed on planes, but what if you are using a VOIP service, which is using your flight's wi-fi? That should be fine, right? You might think so, but apparently the answer is still no.

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Cisco to buy Truviso for Real-Time Network Analytics

Cisco Systems is buying privately held Truviso, a move aimed to give businesses greater capabilities in monitoring and analyzing the rapidly growing amount of data traffic that is travelling over their networking infrastructures.

Last May 3, Cisco officials announced their intent on buying Truviso, a 7-year-old corporation that builds software that executives say give customers the ability to analyze network data continuously and in real time. Financial terms of the deal were not announced, and Cisco expects to close the deal by July.

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NetUno, went a step further to make available to the public the most advanced telecommunications technology. This time it's the launch of television in the Internet Protocol IPTV in one of the largest hotels in Latin America, Megapolis Hard Rock, which opened last April 16 in Panama City, Panama.

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Internet telephone calls in the US are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to government regulators this month.

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Telefonica will launch on May 1 its new pricing plan for mobile Internet – reducing its fares from twelve to three charges, which are common to all devices, from smartphones, 'tablets' or USB modems, according to the company.

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netTALK releases low-cost wireless VoIP telephone device

netTALK.com, a telecoms, consumer electronics and cloud technology company, said that the netTALK DUO WiFi, the world's first wireless VoIP telephone device, is now available online at their site and at major retail stores in the U.S.

"With the launch of netTALK DUO WiFi, the company is continuing to be the first-to-market technology innovation leader, as compared to the competition," said Anastasios 'Takis' Kyriakides, President and CEO.

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Researchers responsible for SES Astra Ibérica have met the media recently in Madrid, and presented the results of Satellite Monitor Study conducted jointly with Canal +. Luis Sahún, Head of SES Astra Ibérica has been in charge of presenting the findings, but he just talked about the origin of this study and the status of audiovisual and DTT in Spain.

"We have been working on this project since 1993 in Spain. We are industry leaders in our country but have not been recognized.

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Skype reports from its official company blog that the company has set a new record – 40 million users. This is a record for 40 million users that have used the service at the same time once, something that happens for the first time in its history. The previous figure recorded in March, was 35 million simultaneous users. In short, this growth bodes well for the future.

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The software giant is looking for experts to create a web version of Skype based on HTML 5 and Java. Microsoft has posted a job opening in which asked developers to bring their expertise to the web. The job offer has triggered rumors about Microsoft's intention to create a web version of Skype based on HTML 5 and Java.

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Voip-Pal in final steps to acquiring intellectual property

Voip-Pal.com, an international VoIP telecom company, announced that it is in the final phase of negotiations to acquire intellectual property pertaining to both wholesale and retail VoIP mobile applications. This acquisition will greatly improve shareholder value and add to significant revenue growth for Voip-Pal.com.

The patents are VoIP related for Mobile applications, gateways, billing and much more. All of the patents are currently in use in the highly profitable VoIP services market which is projected to hit US$74.5 billion in 2015.

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Together with Alcatel-Lucent, Vermont Telephone Company (VTel) recently announced plans to expand the availability of high speed broadband services such as Internet TV (IPTV) and video-on-demand to subscribers in its telephone service territory in Southern Vermont.

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Telappliant published findings from a new study which revealed that almost 7 out of 10 businesses in the UK will be using VoIP serrvices by 2013. The survey, which questioned 100 UK businesses from various industries, indicate that 41 percent of UK companies are already actively using VoIP telephony to improve efficiencies within their business, while a further 25 percent have plans to review and implement VoIP within one year. The data also showed that businesses with a workforce of 100 – 500 people are embracing the technology faster than smaller businesses.

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14 million new IPTV subscriptions in China

The number of IPTV users reached 14 million in China last January, according to statistics from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. China began building IPTV infrastructure in 2004, when China Telecom and the Shanghai Media Group put IPTV in commercial operation in Guangdong, Shanghai and other major cities. In the same year, China Netcom also opened IPTV commercial system in Heilongjiang and Liaoning provinces. The Ministry of Industry has said that the number of IPTV users has reached 14 million, and users of mobile TV has reached over 52 million, according to media reports.

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The Karlsruhe TV portal specialist VideoWeb, in collaboration with Zattoo, recently for the first time allowed a linear live TV service via the Internet to stream directly to your TV. The online TV application now continues to bring more market premieres of the new Teletext and HbbTV which will include RedButton function of the flat screen TV.

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Siemens Enterprise Communications presented the results of its "State of the communications business in 2012," which shows that IP infrastructure can save companies 43% compared to traditional PBX systems.

The study said that during the migration to IP environment, business can reduce risk and protect existing investments. The most common is that companies will use this infrastructure together with PBX systems, as stated 91% of respondents.

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Smartphones make up almost half of all phones, with two makers vying to be number one

Last February of this year, nearly half of U.S. mobile subscribers now own a smartphone, according to a new Nielsen report. That is a 38 percent jump over last February of 2011, when only 36 percent of mobile subscribers owned smartphones.

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Rupert Murdoch's media giant is once more involved into a new hacking scandal, accused of killing rival TV company. This time News Corp is accused of eliminating a rival to its Sky TV empire in the United Kingdom by hacking into its IT systems – with the help of a German hacker and a clandestine website NDS, a secretly News co-owned company.

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A lot of talk has been focused on FreedomPop’s intention to give away loads of data and connect the iPhone to 4G, but it turns out the operator’s plans to launch a “freemium” mobile broadband service this 2012 are much more radical than known.

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Skype co-founder’s FreedomPop to offer free mobile broadband

FreedomPop, which has major involvement from Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans to upheave the wireless industry. Unlike Verizon Wireless, FreedomPop does not make customers pay first for mobile broadband service. Instead, the startup company aims to give away some of its mobile broadband service for free while offering eight different paid add-on mobile services. That strategy makes FreedomPop’s business model similar to cloud-storage company Dropbox, which uses a free model for service.

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A series of job openings in the Apple website show that the iPhone maker seeks to implement various mobile technologies in the next generation of iOS, and some descriptions require a candidate with familiarity of the of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture, which is the basis of LTE voice services.

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, has removed legislation from his executive budget that would have shielded telecommunications companies offering Internet telephony from regulation.
Unions and consumer advocacy groups had opposed the VoIP Bill, which had the support of companies like Verizon and Time Warner Cable that argued the absence of the law laid an uncertain regulatory environment.

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Far from being obsolete, the most popular VoIP tool in the Internet continues to set records. Skype, in the hands of Microsoft, has today brought together 35 million Internet users. This breaks current figures and shows the full potential of VoIP service continues.

Skype announced on their official blog a new record in its service. Specifically, Skype has said that 35 million users worldwide simultaneously used its VoIP system, surpassing one million the highest record achieved so far.

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Telecommunications companies in the EU are often using the practice of "traffic management" to block Voice over IP (VoIP) and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing online activity, EU’s Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) said.

The body said it had set the "common" use of the practices as part of their "preliminary conclusions" in analyzing data on traffic management collected from approximately 400 telecommunications operators in and across the EU. BEREC is composed of representatives from each of the national telecoms regulators in all 27 EU countries, including Ofcom in the UK.

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Cisco reveals third generation of UCS

Cisco Systems is joining other server manufacturers in introducing new Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors in its hardware. But unlike HP, Dell and other makes, Cisco is introducing a whole different system of compute, networking, virtualization and management technology in the third generation of its Unified Computing System (UCS) offering.

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Pay TV giant Foxtel in Australia has proposed terms relating to its proposal of $1.9 billion merger with fellow Austar pay TV, which may result in a number of premium content unlocked for use by competing platforms such as emerging Internet video and businesses FetchTV and Quickflix.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said in a statement issued this week announced it had begun consultation on the compromise proposal offered by Foxtel regarding its proposed acquisition of Austar.

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Avtex, a provider of integrated, interactive solutions, recently announced the completion of the acquisition of VoIP Contact Center and Innovation Division of Sage, a respected technology solutions provider and interactive intelligence reseller based in Chesterfield, Missouri in the U.S. As part of the acquisition agreement, Avtex acquired a portion of the intellectual property of Sage’s technical resources and most of the regional Interactive Intelligence customer base.

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