Two years ago, National Commerce Financial turned to Cisco Systems when it wanted to test the waters of Internet telephony. The midsize Memphis, Tenn., bank installed 150 VoIP (voice over Internet ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Cisco ...

Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced a bevy of voice over IP (VOIP) products, continuing the efforts of vendors to get technologies supporting phone services over data networks in shape for more ...

In the new motion picture Skyfall, James Bond uses fewer gadgets than in previous films, but a future 007 might not have to rely upon Q at all, instead taking advantage of ordinary gadgets, according ...

Currently we have an ~8 person office with a basic POTS key phone system. There's about 6 extensions right now. We're looking to move to a VOIP system using the Cisco 7900 series (the boss has decided ...

The hit Mel Brooks film of 1981, History of the World Part 1, contains the wonderful quote from Brooks playing King Louis XVI where he says, “ It's good to be the king!” In the movies, this is true ...

Before Bob Halper, CFO of Janou Pakter, decided to change his company's voice and Internet services, he used to compare his cranky, expensive in-house phone system to the one used by Alexander Graham ...

I manage a small office network (around 10 computers) for a client of mine, and they decided to get a new phone system without realizing it was an IP system. It is a Cisco IP phone system. Previously ...

HackLabs director Chris Gatford has not responded to questions about exactly what type of Cisco VoIP phones and systems will be subject to close examination for security weaknesses. The AusCERT 2011 ...

Let’s say the doors and windows are all closed, all cell phones in the room are on Airplane mode as you and your business partners discuss some super-secret save-the-world formula. But “just because ...