Imagine our shock to discover that VoIP provider Vonage has turned to comment spamming. Oh, they will probably deny it, but what else can you call it when their Online Marketing Manager, Costas Kariolis, shows up at an article about Skype on the Internet Patrol, and posts a comment about the Vonage offerings, with an SEO-formatted link back to the Vonage site? and also posts the exact same comment to articles about Skype on other sites?
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Imagine our shock to discover that VoIP provider Vonage has turned to comment spamming. Oh, they will probably deny it, but what else can you call it when their Online Marketing Manager, Costas Kariolis, shows up at an article about Skype on the Internet Patrol, and posts a comment about the Vonage offerings, with an SEO-formatted link back to the Vonage site? and also posts the exact same comment to articles about Skype on other sites? The FBI is warning of an increase in what have come to be known as "vishing attacks" - where scammers call someone on the telephone, but make the call using VoIP, which not only is much more difficult to trace, but allows the scammer to spoof the phone number from which they are calling (making the number which shows up on the caller I.D. appear to be from someone else). A new Skype worm, known alternately as Ramex, Pykspa, or Skipi (technical names w32/Ramex.A, W32.Pykspa.D, and W32/Skipi.A, respectively), is threatening all Skype users who are running Windows. The worm replicates itself by sending a Skype instant message from the infected user's machine to everybody in the user's Skype address book. If you were affected by last week's Skype outage, you'll be happy to know that Skype has spontaneously offered seven free extra days Skype usage to make up for the Skype problems that their users were experiencing. This bonus applies to all Skype Pro, Skype Unlimited, SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail users who were affected by the Skype outage. Right now, using the free Skype download of either their Skype for PCs or Skype for Mac, you can use your computer to make unlimited calls to any phone in the U.S. or Canada, using the Skype phone service (the Skype Internet phone system), for only $29.95 a year. Unlimited! So if you have been wondering "what is Skype", this is the perfect time to find out, because this is the most fantastic of Skype deals! With the announcement of Yahoo Voice Phone Out and Yahoo Voice Phone In, Yahoo has launched their VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services. Skype uses your computer's resources to handle Skype traffic which has absolutely nothing to do with you, and it's all completely legal because you agreed to it. Tufone and MobileLime allow you to make international VoIP calls from your cell phone, and to use your cellular phone in place of your credit card or debit card. Rumours abound that Yahoo is about to roll out its own VoIP service. And soon. The most recent rumours started when Piper Jaffray analyst Safa Rashtchy said that in his estimation Yahoo was set to roll out a VoIP service within ... Yep, now Aunty has pretty much heard of everything. VoIP provider Vonage is inviting you participate in a "Pimp that Phone" (i.e. mod that telephone) event. Watch four contestants pimp out their ordinary landline (but Vonage-adapted) telephones in an ... Cisco Systems is reporting that there have been several security flaws found in their CallManager VoIP system, the most serious being with their Aupair.exe component. The flaws, which cause vulnerabilities in CallManager in its default settings, can allow someone to eavesdrop on ... Pretty soon you will be able to use a standard cordless house phone with Vonage in your home! Vonage has entered a partnership with Uniden to adapt one of Uniden's cordless phones, the UIP1869V, to plug directly into an Internet connection, to ... Commercial Trials Set for Dallas, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle San Jose, Calif and Atlanta (June 6, 2005) — Covad and EarthLink, the nation’s next generation Internet Service Provider, today announced a new Voice over IP (VoIP) joint market trial that will give ... MCLEAN, Va., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lingo, the U.S. Internet phone service provider, today became the first VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider to offer unlimited phone calling to Mexico. The new Lingo "Unlimited Mexico" VoIP plan provides ... VoIP is the new VoIP! Spontania is Video4Skype! "What's that Aunty?" you ask. "Have you had too many add-shots in your Starbucks today?" Nope! Video over IP is the new "VoIP"! Where VoIP has always stood for Voice over IP (Internet ... RUSTON and GRAMBLING, La., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Heralding in a new era in multi-city Wi-Fi Internet access, Ruston and Grambling Louisiana, announced the operations of the nation's first rural multi-city Wi-Fi broadband network. Other cities have announced intent to build similar networks or have announced partial ... Leading Industry Thought Leader Urges FCC to Ensure America's Role as the World Leader in Innovation, Communications and the Internet MELVILLE, New York, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The following quotes may ... ATLANTA, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following statement is in response to today's vote by the Federal Communications Commission requiring Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to support E-911 services, and is attributable to Dave Baker, EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), vice president of law and public policy. ... In the next installment of "As the VoIP Turns", sources are saying that the FCC is about to announce a requirement that all VoIP services offer basic 911, or "e911" services out of the box by a date certain. According to LightReading.com, "Sources who ... Vonage(R) Rolls Out Free Calling to Puerto Rico EDISON, N.J., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, the leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced it is expanding its calling packages to include all calls to Puerto Rico. All Vonage customers, regardless of calling plan, can now ... [Courtesy of Guest Author Craig Hughes] Security guru Bruce Schneier writes on SPIT today in his security blog. A mighty neat trick to write on a liquid you say? Well, different semantics for "on" and "SPIT" than you might expect, unless you're ... As many of Aunty's readers know, the State of Texas sued Vonage recently for, they claimed, failing to provide adequate instructions for signing up for 911 emergency telephone services. Hogwash! Now the State of Connecticut is pulling the same thing, suing Vonage ... CNet news is reporting that SBC's VoIP service, which is being rolled out at present time, will be one of the first, if not the first, to come tapped into a coherent 911 service. This is because SBC, of which the ... America Online (AOL) has announced that its new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol telephony) service is online and available to AOL customers in 40 cities. Called the "AOL Internet Phone Service", the new VoIP offering is available to AOL customers in Atlanta, ... Despite the FCC ruling that ISPs may not block VoIP, some ISPs are continuing to block VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services which do not originate with them. According to reports, ClearWire, a Washington state ISP, is now blocking Vonage, basing ... The State of Texas has sued VoIP provider Vonage for weaknesses in the VOIP 911 system. Note that the issue is not with Vonage itself, but with how 911 calls are handled (or not) by VoIP systems generally. The Texas Attorney ... If you've been following the VoIP wars at all, you know that the latest craze is for ISPs and other providers to block the VoIP data of their competitors. They may do this because they themselves are offering VoIP services, or plan ... VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) provider Vonage says that despite the FCC giving the smackdown to an ISP for blocking 3rd party VoIP services, Vonage's VoIP calls are being blocked again, by both a cable operator, and a wireless broadband operator, although Vonage ... Voipullar? What is that? Well, take VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and combine it with a handheld Internet-able device such as a PDA or a smart phone, and what do you get? What some people are now referring to ... The FCC has spanked an ISP for blocking VOIP calls so that the ISP's subscribers were SOL. Addressing the SNAFU, the FCC indicated that an ISP blocking its users from accessing VOIP services is FUBAR. (How's that for MAU? ... As we alluded to last month, new forms of Internet communications beget new forms of spam, and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is no exception to the rule. Where it had already been predicted that VoIP spam, affectionaly referred to as "SPIT" (SPam over ... A U.S. Federal Court has ruled this week that the State of Minnesota (and by extension all states) cannot regulate Internet telephone usage, known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), in the same way that the states presently regulate traditional phone lines and ... First it was spam - the junk email we all know and love to hate. Then it was spim, which is spam sent by instant messenger (hence the "i m"). Move over boys, and meet "spit". Spit is spam sent to a Voice Over IP (VoIP) ... |
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