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Rebtel With a Cause: Free Calling on the BlackBerry

in Mobile on January 14, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Mobile Internet telephony firm Rebtel said on Friday that it is bringing its free international calling service to the BlackBerry. The service, which allows free international calls among more than 50 countries by routing the calls over the Internet, has been available for Android since last March. Rebtel also said it plans to add the free calling feature to the iPhone this spring.

“We are committed to bringing innovation into the oligopolistic marketplace to make international calls either free or super-cheap for our customers,” Rebtel CEO Andreas Bernstrom said in a statement. Rebtel’s app automatically notices when an international call is being made and routes the call over its VoIP service, as opposed to making a cellphone call.

Juniper's Kevin Johnson Talks about Network Overload, the iPad and More!

in News on April 9, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

When he was president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services division, Kevin Johnson thought of all kinds of ways to load the Internet up to the gills. Now, as CEO of networking giant Juniper Networks, Johnson spends his time trying to figure out how to stop the Web’s runaway growth, especially with the surge of video and mobile broadband use, from grinding it to a halt. So with the debut last week of the Apple iPad, a device heralding an era of even heavier media consumption by consumers and businesses, BoomTown thought Johnson would be a good person to reflect on this key trend.

HP to Acquire 3Com in Dig at Cisco

in News on November 11, 2009 at 1:29 pm PT

Another big acquisition for Silicon Valley. Hewlett-Packard said Thursday said it would acquire networking gear outfit 3Com for $2.7 billion, or $7.90 a share. The acquisition, which has been approved by both companies’ boards, will bolster HP’s Ethernet switching offerings and, thanks to 3Com’s routing business, intensify competition with rival Cisco.
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HP Buys 3Com

in News on November 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT