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Inverclyde Council has invested £3 million in an upgrade to its communications to bring in VoIP and a virtual private network (VPN).

The yearly Charles Regatta in Massachusetts requires a good deal of planning to accommodate the 8,000 participants and 250,000 spectators that flock to the two-day event.

Sports brand Puma has replaced its old telephony systems with a VoIP service in a bid to better integrate with the firm's current IT structure.

A total of 22 per cent of fixed phone lines in France were used for VoIP calls in the second quarter of the year, official figures suggest.

Firms which have invested in IT technologies and are based more online "tend to be better" than manufacturing businesses in terms of risk assessment, according to experts.

The number of people subscribing to broadband has plummeted, according to new figures from market experts.

There has been significant growth in the number of subscribers to mobile wireless broadband, according to the latest statistics.

Businesses adopting VoIP telephony look set to benefit from the growing popularity of the service. According to reports from TMCnet, VoIP service providers are looking to capitalise on businesses' increasing use of the system by offering business solutions, with services specifically designed to meet the requirements of businesses.

Small firms could be losing out on opportunities to grow their business or improve efficiency by not embracing broadband, it has been suggested.