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NEC has warned businesses that telephony spam levels are about to soar.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A consumer poll on Friday exposed the worst kept secret in the business world: Internet companies are becoming more important to people than firms that operate in the real world.

LONDON (Reuters) - Two Scandinavian entrepreneurs behind free online Skype telephone calls on Tuesday launched a new global broadband television service.

Security vendors are talking up the potential for attacks on IP telephony systems, reckoned to be the next major market for security defences.

Nokia has updated its popular internet tablet PC with a range of improvements, including the ability to make Skype calls.

Fond of calling their smartphones ‘multimedia computers’ instead of mere cell phones, Nokia are still the market leader despite competitors’ success with slim flip phone and candy car models. Now Nokia is striking back with thinner new models that take the fight back to the competition to try and ensure that Nokia continues to rule the roost.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The founders of Skype, an online telephone business sold last year to eBay Inc. for $2.6 billion, are testing a broadband television service for computer screens, the founders' spokesman said on Monday.

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome the iPhone from... er... Linksys. Yes, the iPhone has indeed been launched today, as forecast, but it's not the device so many people were expecting. Instead, it's Linksys' new brand name for its range of VoIP handsets.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet telephone service Skype said on Wednesday that it would charge customers $29.95 a year for unlimited calling in the United States and Canada, a service it had offered free since May.