A BellSouth representative did not return calls for comment. In an earlier interview, Randy Sanders, BellSouth's director of regulatory affairs, said the company had been conducting a trial of such services with Vonage but wouldn't comment further. A Vonage representative confirmed the service trials but did not provide any more details. Meanwhile, the two companies have been engaged in a public spat. BellSouth, Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications are quietly pushing a proposal that could create hang-ups for up-and-coming Internet telephone rivals.

The most popular way to get high-speed Web services in the United States is through cable lines, Most cable companies, including Cox Communications, already sell VoIP plans to millions of customers, Internet phone upstart Vonage is helping the company launch a new service that uses high-speed Web connections to make phone calls, The two companies, science doesn't care funny quote iphone case although publicly at odds over regulatory issues, recently launched , Under the plan, BellSouth is reselling Vonage's unlimited dialing plans, It's the first sign of a larger set of services to come, according to a source familiar with the launch..

Internet, or voice over IP (VoIP), telephone services allow people to make phones calls that travel over the Internet rather than solely across wires owned by long-distance phone companies. Such calls can be made from telephone systems that tap into the Internet and from PCs. The cost of making such calls are about 30 percent less than those of basic long-distance service because the calls bypass the phone companies' lines. As a result, many large corporations and tech-savvy consumers are using VoIP to make long-distance calls.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Chipmaking giant Intel has been working on its own dual-band Wi-Fi chips to add to Centrino, which combines Pentium-M microprocessors (previously known as Banias), a chipset (code-named Odem) and 802.11b or dual-band 802.11b and 802.11a Wi-Fi chips, The company will eventually add its own Wi-Fi chips to Centrino, but it has experienced an engineering delay, In the interim, Intel is using Philips' Wi-Fi chips science doesn't care funny quote iphone case in place of its own, Intel's engineering delay may be helping Atheros, as manufacturers turn to the company for Wi-Fi chips, Sources say Intel will subsidize the Wi-Fi chips bundled in Centrino to gain market share..

Other major manufacturers have signed on to release notebooks with Atheros chips later this year, said Redelfs. He added that the company has received as many orders for its multimode chips in the last two weeks as it received in all of the fourth quarter last year. So far, IBM, Toshiba and NEC have prepared only one laptop model using the Atheros chip--but more are expected. Redelfs added that notebook makers are especially interested in multimode chips because they essentially kill multiple birds with one stone. There are products in the market based on three 802.11 specifications--802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. Each has its own advantages and industry support, making it difficult for manufacturers to totally ignore any one specification. 802.11b was the first specification to be introduced and to gain broad support from manufacturers and consumers. The 802.11a standard offers faster network speeds than 802.11b, but is incompatible with 802.11b. Meanwhile, 802.11g is compatible with 802.11b, and has faster network speeds, but may not support as many access points to networks in crowded environments as the 802.11a standard can.