Skype Details the Great 2010 Outage
On Wednesday, December 22, a cluster of support servers responsible for offline instant messaging became overloaded. As a result of this overload, some Skype customers received delayed responses from the overloaded servers. More...
Skype Says Bug in Older Software Caused Outage
Skype offered a detailed explanation Wednesday for the "critical failure" that prevented millions of Skye users worldwide from placing or receiving calls last week. More...
Skype Explains Outage In-Depth
Six days afterwards an extended outage left its network inaccessible to many users for near 24 hours, Skype CIO Lars Rabbe has published a post-mortem write-up of the situation. More...
FiberLight Launches Metro Ethernet Channel on TMCnet
(Norwalk, Conn. – Nov. 28, 2010) Research Marketing Corporation today announced that the Metro Ethernet Channel, sponsored by FiberLight, has been launched as the newest addition to the TMCnet channel program. More...
Global MobileTech to Audiocast 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Global MobileTech, Inc. , a diversified renewable energy, mobile communications and advertising company, today announced plans to audiocast its 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. More...
Skype Set To Launch Video Calls For iPhone At CES 2011
Popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service Skype is expected to bring its video calling capabilities to Apple's iPhone device to take on its FaceTime video calling service. More...
Will it Ever be Ready for Tablets?
The buzz word in computing in 2010 has been tablet, as popularised by Apple’s iPad. This year we’ve seen tablets go on sale using Google’s Android operating system and Windows 7 and we’ve seen both RIM and HP announce specialised tablet operating systems for their own devices. More...
The 25 Most Important Tech Moments of 2000
I'm talking about wireless in the general sense, as in not needing wires. Whether it's Wi-Fi or mobile broadband or Bluetooth or the emerging 60GHz frequency stuff, wireless technologies is already shaping up to be to the then decade what wide broadband availability was to the previous one. More...
Eleven Suppliers Take Part in CableLabs® Interop on HD Voice
Eleven industry suppliers took part in a recent interoperability testing event at CableLabs® that focused on progress being made around wideband High-Definition Voice. More...
25 Historic Technology Predictions
It's the end of the year and you won't be able to escape a wave of innovation predictions for straightway year. Most of them seem to fairly reasonable, nevertheless they aren't quite as aggressive and entertaining anymore as they were in the past. More...