Nimbuzz announces the launch of its new app for BlackBerry smartphones, that runs as a native application enabling users to connect with each other via their favourite social networks.

Just one of a number of industry ‘firsts’ contained in the new release, native functionality allows Nimbuzz to run constantly in the background, have alert notifications ‘pushed’ to the home screen and integrate notifications with sound profiles, ensuring users never miss another message.

Digium has added an Affiliate partnership level to the company’s Authorized Reseller Partner Program. This new Affiliate level provides an entry-level tier for resellers who are interested in selling Digium Unified Communications and IP Telephony solutions, without a required minimum annual revenue commitment.

Free conference calling services, adult chat lines and other "traffic pumping" services are often reached through the telephone exchanges of very small, rural operators. In a legal but questionable arbitrage scheme, these calling services choose these rural exchanges precisely for their high termination charges -- the fees that sending carriers pay them to complete (terminate) the calls. Charging as much as twenty times the typical domestic termination rate, the rural telco then splits the profits with the service. While carriers have responded by blocking calls to those numbers, Junction Networks has taken another tack, announcing that it will begin charging a higher fee for outbound calls to those exchanges.

BroadSoft announces the expansion of its Belfast operations to support the company's growth in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. BroadSoft has worked with large carriers in Europe since 2002, and opened its European Headquarters at Northern Ireland Science Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2006. Due to rapid growth, BroadSoft has more than doubled its space requirement in the past three years. BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform is currently deployed by more than 100 service providers in the European market, including Telefonica, T-Systems, TDC, Slovak Telecom, Belgacom and KPN, and in more IP Multimedia Subsystem networks worldwide than any other application server.

FreedomVOICE has proposed telecommuting as a viable option to control the spread of the H1N1 virus in the workplace.

Whether we like it or not, the H1N1 virus is among us. While the virus affects our health, it can also affect our business. But smart CEO’s are taking precautions to end the virus’s daily commute.

“If an employee is feeling ill, they should be given the opportunity to work from home if they can still be productive,” said Eric Thomas, CEO of FreedomVOICE systems. “If the entire company is infected with the flu at the same time it could be devastating.”

TANDBERG and BroadSoft announced at the BroadSoft Connections 2009 Users' Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., that the companies have extended their joint solution capabilities through additional TANDBERG product interoperability and applications. Now, it is even easier for service providers to deliver integrated video and voice solutions to businesses of any size through a Software as a Service model.

Mindspeed announces that the company’s Comcerto 100 customer premises equipment processor is the core enabling technology behind the Ooma Telo. A key feature of the Ooma Telo is DECT 6.0 technology which, unlike previous 2.4 GHz cordless protocols, will deliver improved call quality, while making future Ooma Telo handsets virtually immune to household interference from wireless networks and other sources. Mindspeed’s Comcerto 100 processor further enhances Ooma’s Telo DECT 6.0 voice quality through the use of innovative advanced echo-cancellation techniques.

VoIP Logic announces its launch of BroadSoft BroadWorks VoIP application platform as a managed service as well as BroadWorks-integrated Cortex OSS for provisioning and billing. BroadWorks will complement and ultimately replace VoIP Logic’s Sylantro Synergy platform. It will provide telephony features, messaging and SIP Trunking commonly sold in Class 5 enterprise hosted PBX and consumer VoIP service offerings. VoIP Logic anticipates that this offering will provide real value for carriers and service providers that are looking for improved visibility, flexibility, cost control and scalability in running their Class 5 operations.

snom has teamed with CudaTel to deliver an affordable, reliable and easy to deploy end-to-end VoIP communications solution to the SMB and enterprise markets. The pairing enables businesses to use snom’s portfolio of Linux-based SIP VoIP phones with CudaTel’s recently launched CudaTel Communication Server offering, an IP PBX and communications appliance that delivers dozens of new features and functions managed via a Web-based user interface. CudaTel’s platform is based on FreeSWITCH, a free open source software communications platform for voice and chat-driven products released under the MPL free software license.

DIDX announces its partnership with VOIP Today Magazine to promote the best IP communications content possible together. VOIP Today released its first issue on October 1, 2009 with the latest news and views about VoIP, Asterisk PBX, IP PBX, converged networks, hosted PBX, and other business telephony solutions. DIDX members offer solutions among all of these topics.

snom is the first company to enable the auto configuration of VoIP terminals using the TR-069 standard. TR-069 has been developed by the International Broadband Forum to enable various devices to contact auto-configuration servers in order to automatically obtain the latest updates and security settings.

TynTec announces a deal with low-cost international VoIP provider Callforeign to provide Internet-to-mobile SMS delivery. Callforeign, which provides users with VoIP services aimed at reducing the cost of international phone calls, will use TynTec to deliver SMS sent either from the web or from a specialized mobile application.

CompareBusinessProducts.com performs regular surveys of business product buyers, particularly in the telephony space and the latest survey of 500 real purchasers who were all in the process of decision making shows emphatically that buyers are considering VoIP solutions for their telephony needs above all other possibilities.

JAJAH announces the beta-launch of its Twitter calling solution, JAJAH@call. Qualified JAJAH users with a Twitter account can now make phone calls via Twitter free of charge. @calls are made without revealing your number and without needing to know the number of the person you wish to call -- all you need is their Twitter username.

Tpad have announced that their Pipecall VoIP service is to close within the next 30 days due to difficulties in maintaining acceptable levels of reliability and have left customers in an awkward position of having to do the administration work themselves if they want to keep their current number.

Tpad, who take pride in their simple, yet effective VoIP and telephony solutions have put together a VoIP offering to allow their customers to seamlessly transfer to a new provider without any difficulties or lengthy paperwork to complete.