ORLANDO — A ruling last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that requires the use of bar codes on drugs in hospitals may also help spur the use of IP-based wireless phones by health care ...

ALLENTOWN, Penn.–Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B) announced a new chip set that leverages its expertise in two leading technologies to enable low-cost, mobile phone calls over the Internet. Agere's ...

Amcom announced this week an update to their Amcom Mobile Connect software, which now supports Cisco wireless IP phones and Cius tablets in addition to BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android smartphones. The ...

The combination of wireless LANs and IP-based telephony has forever changed the definition of mobile phones and how they’re used in the enterprise. Today, a wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone ...

Several readers wrote me in response to last week’s article about Nortel’s efforts to send voice over wireless LANs. In particular, they pointed out that the place where WLAN phones might be most ...

Cisco Systems unleashed a low-priced voice over Internet Protocol phone on Monday, hoping to counter its reputation as the most expensive alternative for companies choosing Net telephony. The 7902G, ...

Last issue, we printed results of a CT Labs (www.ct-labs.com) test of Cisco-compatible IP phones. But we didn't have the space to go into detail about the phones themselves. Herewith, some further ...

The product rollout includes the latest version of the vendor's Communication Manager, new media gateways and servers, and new IP and wireless IP phones. Communication Manager 2.0 adds support for the ...

Cisco Systems unleashed a low-priced voice over Internet Protocol phone on Monday, hoping to counter its reputation as the most expensive alternative for companies choosing Net telephony. The 7902G, ...

Office phones have come a long way in a relatively short period of time. And with the introduction of Internet Protocol phones, new features make those devices more akin to computers than simple phone ...

Fixed-mobile convergence, or FMC, has been much hyped, but has been slow to roll out because of carrier foot-dragging and cautious customers, industry watchers say. Fixed-mobile convergence — the ...