Ooma offers free long distance forever; VoIP, wireless LAN network skills in demand

Convergence & VoIP News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's Convergence & VoIP News Alert, 07/23/07 Ooma offers free long distance forever, 07/20/07: VoIP start-up Ooma will offer free long-distance service in the United States for customers of its VoIP conversion appliance. The company competes against traditional carriers and VoIP providers such as Vonage. How to reduce hidden costs and find secret savings in a VoIP rollout, 07/19/07: One of the key issues in implementing VoIP is cost. Savings exist, but so do additional costs, effectively negating any net savings for the first 12 to 18 months. VoIP, wireless LAN network skills in demand, 07/18/07: Forrester Research expects to see more network analysts, network and database administrators, and computer research scientists in 2008, as the number of computer programmers and operators continues to decline. Optimize Your WAN: Network World Shows You How In this Executive Guide learn how optimization can supercharge your WAN. Click Here VoIP woes: Losing service without warning, 07/19/07: On Monday evening, my wife reached me on my mobile phone. She was spending a long weekend with her family in Maine. "I've called our home phone several times," she said. "And I keep getting a busy signal." That night, I didn't think twice about the phone problem. We have been VoIP customers for more than a year, and flaky service has been standard operating procedure. I reset my VoIP converter box and crossed my fingers. Jajah drops call rates, targets Indian diaspora, 07/19/07: Jajah, a VoIP service provider, has cut calling rates between India, North America and the U.K. Hype Wars: iPhone vs. Harry Potter, 07/20/07: Jason and Keith discuss the return of ransomware, whether Harry gets hyped more than the iPhone, and the demise of a VoIP provider not called Vonage.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. 11 corporate anthems to die for 2. 12 IT skills that employers can't say no to 3. Hogwarts IT director quits 4. iPhones flood WLAN at Duke University 5. Duke's iPhone mystery reportedly resolved 6. Readers speculate on Duke's iPhone problem 7. Unmanned aircraft crush worldwide enemies 8. Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC fines 9. Brazilian plane crash to push malware 10. Microsoft 'silently' restores root certificates MOST E-MAILED STORY: Hogwarts IT director quits

Contact the author: Senior Editor Tim Greene covers VoIP carrier issues for Network World. This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007