Skype today announced four WiFi phones that will let Skype users make free Skype calls using any WiFi network. The phones will be preloaded with Skype software and will let consumers make free calls to traditional landlines and lowcost calls to mobile phones.
 
The phones will all be available this

Nortel and Microsoft Corp. have announced a new partnership to sell new combined technologies to facilitate email instant messaging telephone calls and more via the Internet.
 
Their alliance will "accelerate the availability of unified communications" Nortel the Canadian telecom equipment giant said in a statement Tuesday.

Further the two technology

U.S. phone company AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday it began marketing its AT&T Homezone a longawaited service that combines highspeed Internet and satellite television in one settop box.
 
Homezone which offers digital video recording movies on demand photo and musicsharing and Webbased remote access is initially available in Ohio and

Hackers have borrowed the same opensource development techniques used to build Firefox Apache and Linux as they collaborate on malware projects a security company's researchers claimed Monday.
 
The McAfee Avert Labs researchers who contributed to the debut issue of the company's "Sage" security journal laid out their case in several

Foundry Networks on July will try to raise the bar on voiceoverIPready network switches when it debuts its third generation of chassis switches built for VOIP and wireless traffic.
 
Foundry is claiming the highest Power over Ethernet density in its new FastIron SX and FastIron SX

Anyone with a blog or Web site can attest to the fact that spam has increasingly become the bane of the blogosphere and search engines. As a result researchers at Microsoft Labs have developed a tool to seek out and stymie the efforts of the spammers.

The tool dubbed Strider Search Defender designed

In a breakthrough that could someday supercharge the creation of new mobile devices a Motorolaspinoff company has announced a new kind of magnetic memory chip.

Earlier this month previously unknown chip maker Freescale announced the commercial availability of the megabit magnetoresistive RAM chip or MRAM which features the best qualities of current memory

Yahoo's Trip Planner which launched in beta phase nine months ago and now highlights more than member trip plans on an interactive world map is among more than a dozen new offerings from websites trying to attract travelers and advertisers by harnessing a collective consciousness. Some come from established players Google's CoOp

FeedBurner.com which syndicates Web postings for publishers said it has acquired blog analytics company BlogBeat.net for undisclosed terms.

FeedBurner manages managing headline syndication services and operates a growing Web site advertising network. The deal will allow the company to provide publishers with tools to better understand what headline feeds blog site visitors

IBM is making a full Notes client available for Linux a bit earlier than expected.

While IBM has long been an ardent Linux proponent and promised full support for Macintosh Linux and Windows clients in its next release codenamed Project Hannover the company has accelerated the Linux piece. A Notes client for Red