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    Skype plans to announce a partnership next week with a security company to help organisations gain control over usage of the net telephony tool at work.

  • 30,000 get naked with iiNet

    Australia's third-largest internet service provider iiNet today said it had signed up more than 30,000 local customers to its naked DSL service and more than 80,000 to its internet telephony offering.

  • Windows update prompts Skype outage

    Skype has come clean on the outage which made its service almost unusable for two days last week, claiming the disruption was the result of a restart which stemmed from a routine Windows update.

  • Skype finds favour with Hyro

    Local digital business services specialist Hyro has revealed it is making extensive use of free Internet telephony software Skype within its business.

  • Pacific backflips on SMB VoIP

    Pacific Internet has started selling a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), going against research the telco recently released showing its small to medium business (SMB) target market was primarily not interested in the technology.

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  • Don't fall prey to VoIP abuse

    As VoIP becomes more prevalent, its popularity will undoubtedly attract some unwanted attention -- spammers and phishers looking for their next scheme. Here is a look at some common forms of VoIP abuse, including VoIP spam and caller ID spoofing, and how you can fight back.

  • Trojan masquerades as Skype update

    Cybercriminals are spreading a malicious Trojan horse under the guise of an update to Skype, e-mail security firm MessageLabs said on Monday.

  • Making the call for VoIP standards

    No killer application has yet been discovered that makes Internet telephony absolutely essential, and the standards leave too many questions unanswered

  • Does Skype make sense for business?

    Skype's CEO plans to make the software an accepted part of corporate communications -- both on the desktop and on smart phones.

  • Skype's VoIP ambitions

    Q&A Niklas Zennstrom may be Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneur.

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  • Skype protocol cracked?

    Chinese engineers have allegedly cracked Skype's Internet telephony protocol, according to a Thursday blog posting.

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