VoIP remains a hot topic in the IP communications world, but it’s definitely evolving. The following is my most recent article for a column that I write for TMCnet , and it’s a year-end review on VoIP as well as my outlook for how it’s changing for 2009.

It seems highly likely to me that at some point in the future we’ll all look back and say that 2008 was the year that the VoIP industry finally died. With all due respect to my very good friends Jon Arnold , and Andy Abramson , it’s about time .

BroadSoft, a provider of VoIP applications to telecom service providers, this week said it acquired competitor Sylantro Systems for an undisclosed sum.

With a global recession potentially looming, software development managers are being asked to slash resource budgets in 2009 while maintaining schedules. When you need to deliver more features with fewer coding resources, there is only one answer: hybrid development. Hybrid software development involves the combination of internally developed code with external code from vendors, partners, and, …

Mattress retailer, Select Comfort, has abandoned its SAP implementation mid-stream, raising serious questions about the company’s present and historical IT strategy. Select Comfort has not blamed SAP or any other third-party vendor for its problems. by Michael Krigsman

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — European government bonds declined as advances in stock markets and yields near record lows sapped investor demand for the relative safety of fixed-income assets.

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — European government bonds declined as gains in stock markets and yields near record lows sapped investor demand for the relative safety of fixed-income assets.

Seventy-six years after the invention of the modern sprinkler helped revolutionize farming, lasers may revolutionize it again.

The discovery of a major DNS flaw in mid-2008 landed the technology in many headlines, but with economic concerns weighing on many in IT, industry watchers worry that revamping systems and security around domain name servers could be put on hold in 2009.

Cabinet NG (CNG), the preeminent automated document management and workflow solution for small enterprises, today announced that it has been selected as a “Best Channel Vendor 2009″ in the ECM and Data Capture Software categories by Business Solutions Magazine. The award is the result of an online survey of Business Solutions’ Value Added Resellers (VARs) subscribers conducted during September …