Google has acquired the flagship software product of video-conferencing start-up Marratech, leading many to believe that conferencing software may become the next addition to Google's growing office suite.
Skype is shaking off its consumer shackles and finding favour with enterprises, with almost one-third of its customers using its telephony software for business.
A US court has thrown out a US$4.1 billion lawsuit that was levelled against Skype.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday in the US that it has formed a strategic partnership with Nortel Networks to develop and market unified-communications products.
As cable and phone companies jostle to sell voice, video and data bundles over broadband connections, tools are needed to get those services running as quickly as possible.
Software-based phones are coming to the fore as big changes come to the way people make calls.
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Though Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.
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