Digium has signed a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation to distribute its Switchvox business phone systems and telephony cards to resellers in the U.S. and Canada. SYNNEX is a distributor that supplies more than 15,000 resellers in North America. Digium will work with SYNNEX’ dedicated telephony group to provide unified communications solutions to resellers that service the small-to-medium sized business.

Xorcom announces that VoIPon has signed an agreement to distribute the entire Xorcom product range to qualified resellers. The full Xorcom line broadens VoIPon's reach into the open source SMB hybrid PSTN + VoIP phone system space.

Synergy Research Group announces the publication of Carrier VoIP Q4 2009 and YE 2009 market shares. The worldwide market for Carrier VoIP totaled just over $10 billion for the full year 2009. Year over year, the market fell 18 percent; significantly less than drops measured in other Telecom and IT equipment markets. The biggest drivers for Carrier VoIP traditionally have been migrating aging TDM PSTN switches to VoIP platforms; in the last 24 months further growth has been added with Mobile Operators pursuing the Capex and OpEx advantages of IP as did the Wireline networks before it.

Interxion has been selected by Nimbuzz to house its mission-critical application infrastructure. With over 20,000 users a day worldwide signing up to use their application, Nimbuzz had an urgent requirement for a best-in-class, highly connected facility which also offered them flexibility, support, and room to grow.

The Nimbuzz servers have already been installed in the recently constructed Interxion AMS5 data centre in Amsterdam. This 7,000 m2 highly secure facility provides 2N UPS redundancy and N+1 backup generators, and gives direct access to 30 carriers and ISPs as well as the AMS-IX and NL-IX Internet Exchanges. While providing high-density power configurations to customers as standard, it also features numerous energy-efficient design and operation measures and runs on a mixture of wind, biomass and hydroelectric-generated energy.

Vopium has announced a range of new features to its award winning Mobile Application. Now it's possible to make FREE calls to Skype, Gtalk and Vopium users when they are online. Besides chatting with friends on Skype, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, AIM, and ICQ, one can also follow them on Twitter.

The new iPhone and iPod App also includes a number of cool new features. For example it is easier to send text messages and check and transfer balance to other users directly from the iPhone.

Instant Messaging is now available on Android, Blackberry, iPhone & iPod and Windows Mobile and will be released for Symbian and Java in the coming days.

Voxbone has begun supporting SMS to its iNum numbers – phone numbers with the "area code for Earth." With this addition, Voxbone's carrier and enterprise customers can offer their subscribers one global number that can receive SMS messages at competitive rates.

The move marks a breakthrough in iNum usage, as wireless subscribers from a growing number of prominent carriers – including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange, Virgin, and Boost Mobile – now are able to text these numbers. The service is already available in the United Kingdom, France and the United States, at prices ranging from 10 to 20 pence per message in the U.K., for example. Voxbone will be adding reachability from more wireless carriers in more countries in the coming weeks.

Less than one year since its May 2009 release, more than one million PROGNOSIS VoIP Monitor licenses have been issued to Avaya customers worldwide as more Avaya users, regardless of company size, recognise the value of monitoring voice quality in their VoIP environments. Flexible license choices and a dedicated PROGNOSIS VoIP Monitor product website have helped smaller organisations and those transitioning to IP telephony to download their entitlement license, as well as enabling access to trial licenses for larger organisations wanting complete insight and visibility across all their PBXs and telephony devices.

VoicePulse announces the integration of YouMail, the premier mobile consumer voicemail service with VoicePulse residential calling plans. Residential users now have the option of converting their VoicePulse voicemail to YouMail services. Customers can take advantage of YouMail’s enhanced voicemail feature set while still enjoying VoicePulse premiere residential calling services.

VoIPon Solutions announces that in response to the recent strategic partnership agreement between 3CX and Beronet, it will be offering special bundle pricing on 3CX IP PBX software for Windows 3CX Phone System, and Beronet’s Berofix VoIP Gateways to its customers worldwide.

VoIPon to Offer Special Bundle Pricing on 3CX BerofixThe 3CX BeroNet Berofix bundles are structured to suit the needs of reseller and system integrator customers who service end customers with varying business needs—from the small office/home office installation to the enterprise. These highly scalable and reliable products deliver an extensive feature set at a low cost to the consumer.

Nimbuzz has surpassed 1 million downloads on Ovi Store by Nokia and has been downloaded in more than 180 countries. Nimbuzz’ free to download, free to use application, launched in May 2008, enables millions of users worldwide to enjoy free calls and instant messaging with friends across their own network and favourite online social communities (Skype, Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Google Talk (Orkut), ICQ, MySpace, Gadu Gadu and others).

XConnect announces robust 2009 growth figures, demonstrating the effects of rapid global adoption of VoIP. The company also said it has launched a new London point of presence to support growing demand for cross-network interconnection of IP communications services and augment its European capacity.

XConnect revenue nearly doubled, rising 96 percent, from 2008 to 2009. Bolstering that increase were 81-percent growth in IP traffic, a 107-percent rise in routing queries to its carrier ENUM registries, and addition of 63 new service-provider customers.

3CX announces a strategic technology partnership that pairs 3CX’s software-based IP-PBX with Berofix VoIP gateways.

The partnership ensures that both companies will commit to do ongoing interoperability testing, ensuring that customers can buy best of breed VoIP software and hardware, yet still be assured of an end to end solution supported by both vendors.

Tpad announces the addition of Google Checkout to their roster of online payment options for their consumer services division. Tpad is dedicated to providing their customers in 28 countries with low-cost, superior service call packages, and the addition of this payment option further enhances the convenience of purchasing their VOIP call credits online.

Google Checkout has become a strong contender in online payment processors, allowing secure transactions for consumers integrated with fraud protection. The benefits for Tpad and its customers are numerous, starting with an increased level of security - via this partnership with Google Checkout they can purchase the services they need at each billing period without entering their information each time.

voxclever highlights the significant differences between consumer and business-grade VoIP and the benefits it can bring to small businesses across the UK.

VoIP services can be divided into two clear categories, consumer VoIP i.e. Skype and VoIP for business i.e. Verizon. Whilst consumer VoIP services have helped to drive the overall uptake of VoIP over the past few years, these particular services are not always best suited for the business environment.

Virtual PBX introduces international numbers in more than 45 countries and more than 1,500 cities abroad. Small, growing and established businesses have taken advantage of the cost-effectiveness of Virtual PBX’s hosted PBX services for more than a decade. Now, with international numbers, these companies can add local phone numbers in cities abroad, creating a stronger regional presence and allowing inbound calls to be connected at significantly lower rates.