Voxbone announces that its international, geographically-independent number service, iNum, now supports HD voice. iNum adds a missing piece -- a uniform identifier -- to enable HD calling. As long as both endpoints are HD-enabled, calls to iNum numbers will convey a sound quality that far surpasses traditional circuit-switched telephony.

snom has teamed with Phybridge, this technology partnership gives businesses the ability to take advantage of the productivity enhancing features of IP telephony with minimal capital investment. Together, the two companies have conducted rigorous testing and evaluation that demonstrates full interoperability between snom’s suite of IP business phones and the Phybridge UniPhyer, an IP PBX and IP end-point enabler. The plug-and-play nature of UniPhyer allows a business to deploy a state of the art VoIP system while still retaining their legacy analog phone infrastructure - driving down the cost and risk for businesses to migrate to an end-to-end IP-based solution.

The SIP Forum proudly announces that membership in the association continues to be strong across all categories, including dues paying, corporate Full Membership; Academic Institutions; and individual, “Participant” membership. Currently, the SIP Forum has 48 Full Member companies, five Academic Members, and more than 6,500 individual members from around the world.

Companies that have joined the SIP Forum as Full Members since the association last reported membership details include Bell Canada; 8x8, Inc.; Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation; Cedar Point Communications; Comcast Cable; Cox Communications; Genband, Inc; NET; Nortel; PAETEC; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; ShoreTel Inc.; and XO Communications.

VoIP Supply announces their selection to Inc. Magazine’s 28th annual list of America’s fastest growing private companies based on revenue growth of 55.7% from 2005 to 2008. The selection marks the third year in a row that VoIP Supply has appeared on this prestigious list.

“It’s always an incredible honor to be named to a list that contains the best and brightest companies in America,” stated Benjamin P. Sayers CEO of VoIP Supply, LLC. “This year’s selection is especially gratifying given the economic turmoil everyone experienced during 2008. The fact that VoIP Supply was once again named the Inc. 5000 with these factors in play is a testament to the hard work, dedication and team effort put forth each day by the entire VoIP Supply staff. I could not be more proud of everyone who has played a part in our continued success.”

snom and Technology Alignment announce the full integration of the entire product line of telephones on its VoIPTelCaster PBX ranging from the VTC 50 to the VTC 1000. After testing and deploying the phones internally, the company has selected snom phones as the premier line of its telephony offering. snom's green VoIP phone portfolio, noted for being the lowest power consumption telephones in the market today, makes snom the perfect match for the VTC green series aimed at the SOHO and SMB markets.

BroadSoft announces its involvement in the industry's first smartphone to smartphone VoIP call by mobile communications provider TerreStar Networks. On July 20, TerreStar announced the completion of an end-to-end VoIP call over TerreStar-1, the world's largest, most advanced commercial communications satellite. BroadSoft's VoIP application platform, BroadWorks, was used to route the call over TerreStar's all-IP core network.

8x8 announces it has completed its move to expanded corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley, enabling it to better accommodate a workforce that has increased steadily over the past 12 months. The 52,000 square foot facility houses roughly 230 employees and includes executive and administrative offices, sales and customer support call centers, a state of the art 24/7 Network Operations Center, product warehousing and shipping facilities and a hands-on training center. The company employs a direct sales team to consult with prospective small business customers about the advantages of its VoIP hosted PBX phone service, currently in use by over 17,000 companies. This segment of 8x8's workforce has grown more than 50% since June 2008 and will continue to be an area of expansion for the company in the months and years to come.

Nimbuzz announces the launch of its multi community mobile social messenger application for Android handsets. Unique for Android users, Nimbuzz introduces a revolutionary buddy list layout, Skype IM, a time-sensitive user interface, home-screen notifications, auto-reconnect, clickable URLs, and local social network support to make Nimbuzz the most sophisticated IM application for Android handsets.

IPtimize will deploy a second application server from BroadSoft enabling it to expand its suite of advanced multimedia IP applications to its commercial and residential cable system customers. IPtimize has built its multimedia IP services around BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform. As suburban and rural cable systems seek to offer business services, IPtimize's scalable and efficient platform continues to attract commercial and residential customers, regardless of market size. The additional capacity allows new IPZI customers that have recently been added through acquisitions to migrate to the newly expanded platform.

IPvaani announces that it is launching free video phone service called "IPdarshan" to its subscribers. IPvaani introduced the video phone service as an addition to its free VoIP phone service. Using IPdarshan video phone service, subscribers can make and receive unlimited FREE video phone calls across the globe. IPdarshan video phone service delivers high-quality, full-motion video and audio over any broadband Internet connection.

Voxeo announces that the Tropo.com cloud telephony service source code will be made available to developers for free under open-source licenses. The new Tropo source release demonstrates that cloud computing vendors can subscribe fully to open-source ideals, and avoid the proprietary lock-in typically found in cloud services. Tropo is the first of several new open-source projects from Voxeo Labs, the innovation and open-source focused organization announced by Voxeo yesterday at OSCON.

SoliCall announces that InterMedia Marketing Solutions will be implementing SoliCall's PBXMate across its call center. SoliCall's PBXMate provides InterMedia Marketing Solutions with SoliCall unique features for audio improvement with high performance & robust quality that is suitable for any VoIP environment. InterMedia Marketing Solutions has hundreds of agents in its Asterisk PBX call centers.

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JAJAH has connected one billion calls since it launched its platform. The company, which began as a web-activated-telephony service, has evolved to become the world's leading communications platform, partnering with telecommunications and technology companies such as Intel, Microsoft and Yahoo!

ooVoo releases its newest version of its video chat service for Mac users. ooVoo 2.1 for Mac now includes features from its PC version creating the most robust, multi-point cross platform video conferencing service available and continues to raise the standards for online video communication. Features in ooVoo Mac 2.1 include the popular Web Call link to video call friends who haven't downloaded ooVoo. Friends simply click on a link to join the call in their web browser. ooVoo Mac users can also now embed video chat rooms in their blogs or web sites and offer their site visitors video conversations anytime. Other additions to ooVoo 2.1 for Mac include a sidebar view mode to allow desktop viewing of documents while on a call.