Neowin News Feed for: Vonage

Ericsson announces successful $6.2 billion acquisition of Vonage

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:16:01 +0000

Ericsson has decided to buy the cloud-based communications provider Vonage. Ericsson expects the deal to close in the first half of 2022 and will pay $6.2 billion as part of the deal. Read more...

Vonage planning to launch Windows Phone app

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:40:37 +0000

The popular VoIP service Vonage has indicated it plans to launch a Windows Phone app sometime in the near future, to join its previously launched iOS and Android apps. Read more...

Review: Vonage Mobile for Android

John Callaham — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:03:00 +0000

The recently released Vonage Mobile app is a solid way to make free calls from your Android smartphone with other Vonage customers and even offers a ton of free call time to anywhere in the US. Read more...

New Vonage mobile app takes on Skype

John Callaham — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:22 +0000

The broadband-based phone company Vonage has just released its first mobile app for iOS and Android devices, claiming that its international phone rates are 30 percent less than Skype. Read more...

Neowin Giveaway: iPad 2 + Vonage 'Time to Call' credits - Winner Announced

Brad Sams — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:29:48 +0000

Neowin is teaming up with Vonage to give away a brand new iPad 2 and calling credits for Vonage's new 'Time to Call' app. This isn't your base iPad either, its a 32GB beauty that needs a new home. Read more...

AT&T, Vonage offer free international calls and texts to Japan

Matthew Jones — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:18:01 +0000

As Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster continues to unfold, telco AT&T and VoIP provider Vonage have moved to offer free calls and texts to US customers trying to get in touch with friends and family... Read more...

Vonage Finally in the Legal Clear

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:38:37 +0000

In a settlement that marks the end of Internet phone company Vonage's legal troubles for the time being, the company announced in a press release yesterday that it had agreed in principle to end the... Read more...

Vonage Settles AT&T Suit

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:57:40 +0000

Internet phone-company Vonage has settled the last of its patent disputes which have drained much-needed money from the company. In a press release yesterday, Vonage stated simply: "Vonage and AT&T have entered into a definitive... Read more...

Nortel files patent lawsuit in the U.S. against Vonage

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:28:56 +0000

Nortel Networks Corp., the Canadian maker of telecom equipment, filed a lawsuit on Friday against Vonage - claiming that it violated nine patents related to Internet phone services and related features such as 911 and... Read more...

Vonage Settles Verizon Patent Suit

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:03:29 +0000

With the recent security issues and patent infringement suit with AT&T, internet phone company Vonage needs all the good news it can get. The company announced today that it has settled a patent lawsuit brought... Read more...

Vonage Users Vulnerable to Exploits

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:05:23 +0000

According to a report released today by VoIP security firm Sipera Systems, Internet phone service company Vonage may be vulnerable to attacks by hackers through a variety of different means including eavesdropping, spam, spoofing and... Read more...

Vonage Hit With AT&T Lawsuit

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:10:25 +0000

Just when beleaguered internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. seemed to be off the hook, having resolved the nasty little tiff with Sprint several weeks earlier for a cool $80 million, disaster (probably too melodramatic... Read more...

Vonage Settles Sprint Nextel Patent Suit

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:39:11 +0000

It seems like just a few weeks ago when some were predicting the demise of Vonage after an unfriendly verdict awarding Sprint $69.5 million in damages along with a percentage of Vonage's future revenue. Today,... Read more...

Vonage Ordered to Pay $69.5M to Sprint

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:05:33 +0000

Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. may be in big trouble after being ordered in federal court Tuesday to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for infringing on six telecommunications patents owned by Sprint... Read more...

Vonage works around Verizon patents

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:22:36 +0000

Vonage is still smarting from that legal tete-a-tete with Verizon, but after throwing together a trio of patent workarounds, it's confident that a full recovery is on the way. Today, during an earnings call with... Read more...

Vonage may have alternative to disputed patents

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:39:01 +0000

Vonage said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service, after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones. "We will begin rolling these workarounds out shortly,... Read more...

Vonage files to vacate patent ruling

Tue, 01 May 2007 22:06:03 +0000

Internet based phone company Vonage has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. to vacate and remand a U.S. District Court's judgement and injunction against it in a patent dispute with Verizon. In... Read more...

Sprint rumored to be considering Vonage purchase

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:31:13 +0000

At the same time that VoIP provider Vonage attempts to reorganize and cut costs during the company's darkest hour, rumors are beginning to fly that an acquisition may be imminent, and at the top of... Read more...

Vonage admits it has no workaround

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:14:22 +0000

Vonage has acknowledged it has no workaround for technology that was found to infringe Verizon Communications patents and does not know if one is feasible. Vonage has said it was developing workarounds, or other ways... Read more...

Judge puts halt on new Vonage customers

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:06:31 +0000

A federal judge has ordered Vonage not to accept any new customers while it continues to infringe on Verizon Communications patents covering some aspects of Internet phone calls. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton said it... Read more...

Vonage Awarded Two-Week Sigh of Relief

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:13:43 +0000

U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton has slapped Internet telephone provider Vonage with a permanent injunction against using Verizon technology in its VoIP service, but delayed the actual enforcement of the injunction for two weeks. Holmdel,... Read more...

Verizon ruling could be hard on Vonage

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:48:46 +0000

On Thursday a jury decided that Vonage infringed on three of Verizon's patents regarding commercial VoIP services technology and ordered Vonage to pay $58 million in damages and a 5.5% royalty rate on future sales.... Read more...

Vonage experiencing problems

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:14:41 +0000

Vonage users are experiencing no dialtone or only outgoing call availability. The network availability numbers, which handle calls when the Vonage device is unavaible, are not working either. Voice mail, simul-ring and call forwarding... Read more...

Vonage sued for voicemail patent infringement

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:36:25 +0000

The technology used by Vonage Holdings to deliver voicemail service to its 1.6 million VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony customers infringes another company's patent, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Klausner Technologies has... Read more...

Vonage releases Wi-Fi VOIP phone

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:39:09 +0000

After teasing us with pictures andbrief descriptions earlier this year, Vonage has released its Wi-FiVOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) phone. Looking much like a cell phone, theUTStarcom F1000 Wi-Fi phone is a pocket sized VOIP... Read more...