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What will the company that brought you the legendary Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and Call of Duty franchises have on tap for E3 this year? More from each, of course. And a few surprises as well. In a press release earlier this week, Activision outline all the titles it will have on display at this year’s E3, including: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2 DJ Hero Guitar Hero 5 Blur Tony Hawk: RIDE Marvel(TM): Ultimate Alliance 2… Read More

VoIP provider Vonage has announced Vonage Pro, a new service that enables customers to use their home telephone number when making calls using any high-speed Internet connection when they're away from home. So, Vongae Pro customers can place a VoIP call anywhere they have sufficient Internet connectivity, and call recipients will see the call come through just as if it had been placed from the Vonage customer's home… Read More

You can bet that the people at Activision, the people who publish the first-person shooter game Call of Duty 4, arerubbing their hands with glee. A map extension pack they produced for the game Call of Duty 4 has been downloaded over a million times in just nine days through the Xbox Live service. That’s a record for the Xbox Live… Read More

Glu Mobile announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with game publisher Activision to bring the Call of Duty video game franchise to mobile phones. The Call of Duty first-person combat franchise is based around World War II European theatre scenarios; in various editions of the game, players take on the roles of a member of The Big Red One infantry division, a gunner on a B-17 bomber, soldiers in the Normandy Breakout… Read More

If you've been honing your skills on first-person shooters and strategy games, waiting for your one big break when you just know you'll be able to make it big…Activision, Best Buy, and Spike TV want to hear from you. The three companies have announced an online casting call for Game Head: Call of Duty 3 Challenge where 16 participants will get a chance to compete against each other in Activision's forthcoming World… Read More

Mac gamers now have another reason to spend more time at the screen: Aspyr has shipped Activision's Call of Duty 2 for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macintosh systems. Call of Duty 2 is an in-the-action shooter game based in World War II and places players in the role of typical soldiers in the conflicts most epic European theater battles. Call of Duty 2 adds more tanks, troops, onscreen explosions, and a much wider scope with… Read More

Actiontec Electronics was on hand at CES in Las Vegas in early January showing off their new VoSky Call Center, a device designed to bring mobility to users of the Skype VoIP service. The VoSky Call Center is available now for $69.95. The VoSky Call Center plugs into a USB port on any Internet connected computer and also a stationary or cell phone with which it will be used. Users can then use that phone to call a phone number to which… Read More

Tekkeon, a maker of mobile electronic products accessories, yesterday announced the pending availability of a new Bluetooth headset. The ezTalker digital ET3000 is priced at $119.95.   TheezTalker digital, said Tekkeon, uses Bluetooth standard v1.2 to get a cleaner sound when talking with people on a mobile phone. The overthe ear design features a 64 x 48 OLED which provides an incoming caller's number as well as a list of the last 15… Read More

Video game publisher Activision today said they had begun shipping Call of Duty 2, the sequel to the run away WII game Call of Duty. Developed by Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 2 is priced at $49.99 and rated T for Teen. It is available for the PC now, with an Xbox 360 version expected Nov. 15. Call of Duty 2, Activision said, is powered by a new Infinity Ward gaming engine. It is set across three Allied campaigns: Russian, British and… Read More

Call of Duty: United Offensive allows gamers to experience more of WWII's most legendary conflicts through the eyes of Allied soldiers fighting for the liberation of Europe through 13 intense new single player missions. Featuring three all-new campaigns, the game lets players join the U.S. 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge, the British campaign as an airman shooting down German ME-109s from a B-17 bomber, and the Russian… Read More

Vonage today announced the activation of 200,000 total lines on its network, doubling its subscriber-base in less than six months since reaching the 100,000 line mark.     “Again, Vonage has set the benchmark, proving its value proposition to a marketplace starved for full-featured, cost-effective alternatives to the incumbent local exchange carriers,” said Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage Holdings… Read More

Quote from the article at HardOCP: “Last up was Call of Duty. We had some issues with this game, the same as many users have had with their desktop ATI cards. With a quick driver reinstall we were up and running with playable Call of Duty at 1024×768. This game did get a bit intense for the card, but it still allowed solidly playable first person gameplay. We should have backed down to 8006×00 and pushed up the… Read More

Vonage, the leading provider of broadband telephony, today announced the completion of more than 100 million calls over its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network. In less than four months, Vonage has doubled the amount of calls over its SIP-basednetwork.   Vonage's total calls have escalated, as more residences and small businesses are selecting Vonage as their preferred method to communicate. In addition to increasing its… Read More

With the addition of more than 2,000 lines to its network every week, Vonage's active line base has reached 50,000, further defining it as the leader in the broadband Internet telephony industry.Vonage's call volume has recently hit 60 million completed calls across its SIP network and continues to grow at an exponential rate. This represents over half of all broadband telephone lines andcalling activity nationwide, according to a… Read More

Containing  four Ethernet ports, the integrated switch/phone is built using Linux as its operating system and supports  SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), an emerging call control standard,making it compatible with the company's previous MX 1200 IP-PBX as well as systems from other vendors that support open standards. With the integrated switch, the phone is also simple to deploy because solution providers can utilize the… Read More