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by Stan Beer
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Microsoft intends to have a beta version of a new hypervisor virtualization system before the end of the year in an attempt to bridge the gap between itself and the field in both proprietary and open source markets on the Intel platform. The new hypervisor technology will enable system administrators to run multiple operating systems in virtual machines on a single server.
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by Stuart Corner
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Philip Zimmermann, developer of the pretty good privacy (PGP) encryption algorithm, has released a public beta for Zfone, a new product for encrypting VoIP conversations.
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by Stan Beer
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Having been beaten black and blue by Google for the past five years in the search engine business, Microsoft seems to be setting itself to make the enterprise market its last bastion of resistance. The battle for the consumer market has been well and truly lost, where Microsoft now seems destined to be a bit player. However, the enterprise is a place where the game is somewhat different.
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by Stuart Corner
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Pacific Internet Australia and NEC's Nextep Broadband have formed a partnership to offer business-grade VoIP services.
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by Stuart Corner
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Linksys has launched, in the US, its first two telephone handsets designed for VoIP over WiFi, claiming they will enable users to make low-cost VoIP calls through 802.11g wireless networks.
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by Stuart Corner
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VoIP service provider engin has stitched up a deal with business management software and services provider MYOB under which MYOB will offer engin’s VoIP services to its small to medium business customers.
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by Stuart Corner
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NetComm to buy NZ modem seller, Dynalink
NetComm has extended its relationship with VoIP service provider, MyNetFone into New Zealand where it will offer NetComm VoIP phone adapters and handsets bundled with the MyNetFone VoIP service.
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by Stuart Corner
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See also: New VoIP wholesaler launched
Wholesale 'business grade' VoIP service provider, ISPhone Australasia, has opened an office and added a network PoP in Melbourne.
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by Stuart Corner
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Australia's newest entrant into the increasingly crowded VoIP service market, has announced that its service will be available from June.
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by Stuart Corner
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VoIP service provider, engin, has teamed up with Australian PC manufacturer, Optima Australia to enable a standard analogue phone to be plugged into an Optima PC and used to make VoIP calls over the PC's broadband connection.
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by Stuart Corner
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VoIP service provider, MyNetFone, has revamped its service plans and introduced one with calls to Australian cellphones for 15 cents per minute, a price which the company says is at least five cents cheaper than its nearest rival.
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by Stuart Corner
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Netgear, Cirrus Communications and Broadband Phone have formed a partnership to provide VoIP services to customers in regional areas at what they say will be competitive prices.
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by Stuart Corner
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See also: New VoIP wholesaler launched
Recently established wholesale VoIP service provider, ISPhone has appointed Sydney-based Voice Logic as its 20th reseller.
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by Stuart Corner
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AT&T and Yahoo have launched, in the US, a co-branded version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice to AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet subscribers and all Yahoo! users in AT&T's traditional 13-state local service area.
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by Stuart Corner
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See also: New VoIP player aims to be market leader in 12 months
Recently-launched wholesale VoIP provider, BroadIP, claims to be on target to sign more than 50 resellers this week.
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by Stuart Corner
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Telstra has garnered great publicity from the low-key launch of its first fixed line 'bucket plans' seen as a prelude to the launch of VoIP services, but in reality the offer seems to be more about creating uncertainty in the market.
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by Stan Beer
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Novell: it’s the Linux desktop user stupid – part 1
Maddog says desktop the final frontier for Linux
By Con Zymaris
An expert in deploying open source throughout the enterprise tells us how to wean ourselves off the Microsoft drug forever.
I've been tracking desktop Linux uptake for around a decade. In that time, the platform has moved from an environment suited only to the technorati and those well versed in Unix windowing systems, to something which now has the polish and familiarity for the mainstream.
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by Stuart Corner
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PowerTel has launched a wholesale 'carrier grade' VoIP service to be delivered over its own network of DSLAMs and sold through its channel partners.
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