A recent software upgrade that can turn most Cisco access routers into IP PBXs could provide users with a simple path to follow for converging voice and data networks, and at the same time is causing ...

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 ...

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. Merrill ...

Cisco Systems is warning Cisco Unified IP Phone users that the system contains a vulnerability that opens them up to potential eavesdropping. The networking giant issued a security advisory this week, ...

Researchers have found vulnerabilities in Cisco VoIP telephones, recently demonstrating how they can insert malicious code into a Cisco VoIP phone (any of the 14 Cisco Unified IP Phone models) and ...

Cisco and Nokia announced new dual-mode smart phones that can operate on a Cisco enterprise VoIP infrastructure and a public GSM network. The dual-mode Nokia E61i and E65 smart phones contain both 802 ...

PhD student Ang Cui and computer science professor Salvatore Stolfo at the Columbia University Engineering school found that the entire range of 14 Unified IP Phone models from Cisco can be easily ...

A researcher has demonstrated how Cisco Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones can be hijacked and turned into listening devices. At the Amphion Forum this month, Columbia University grad student Ang Cui ...

Some organizations consider taking the plunge off PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that’s nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south ...