February 15, 2006

By Staff

In the history of great ideas, the Internet will surely rank near the top. In a relatively short time, it has made vast amounts of information searchable, sortable and readily available with a few key strokes.

Much of the Internet's appeal is that no one controls it in the way that, say, a grocery store decides which brands to stock. Within its virtual walls, a start-up such as MySpace or Craigslist can surge to prominence entirely on the power of an idea.

Now, some very old-school companies want to change all that. Using market dominance achieved through the relative scarcity of lines into people's homes, phone companies such as BellSouth, Verizon and AT&T are eyeing a system that would demand that operators of search engines, e-commerce sites and other Web applications pay them fees or be relegated to the slow lane.

February 15, 2006

By Chuck Gilver

HOMESTEAD, Fla. | The father-son racing team of Michael and Marco Andretti, of Bushkill Township, got to play together Tuesday in a major Indy car racing playground.

Michael Andretti's Andretti-Green Racing team brought two cars to Homestead-Miami Speedway for practice and testing in preparation for the IRL IndyCar Series season.

February 15, 2006

By Allan Stein

Town Manager Phillip L. Warren is proposing that town departments be upgraded to Internet voice communication service, a move that could reduce the yearly cost of standard telephone service by nearly half.

The town currently pays about $30,000 a year for municipal phone service with Verizon, Town Accountant Anthony V. Sulmonte said.

Warren said the town could save an estimated $1,000 each month if departments are switched from standard land-line service to state-of-the-art, Internet voice service by companies such as Vonage.

February 12, 2006

By Misty Harris

When it comes to sex, most Canadians are phoning it in. So finds a new survey of more than 1,000 adults across the country, 53 per cent of whom admit to having engaged in intimate phone conversations with a close friend or partner.

According to Decima Research, which conducted the survey for broadband phone company Vonage Canada, sexy phone exchanges are considered an important part of a long-distance relationship by 77 per cent of Canucks. Most steam up the wires with imagination (39 per cent), receptiveness (31 per cent), creativity (30 per cent), vocalization (25 per cent) and, in the case of tactile talkers, hands-free phones (20 per cent).

February 10, 2006

By Daniel Connor

Welcome to today's edition of the Vonage VoIP Forum Digest.

In the news, we'll catch up on Vonage's impressive E911 progress.  Today is Friday, the day for our In The Blogs feature. The bloggers are really busy with posts about Vonage this week. We'll also go over an interesting Vonage VoIP Forum thread with a router question.