iSkoot has been selected as winner in the category of Mobile Technology for the 2008 MITX Technology Awards. The MITX Technology Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements. Honorees for this year's awards were announced last night in a ceremony at The Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge.

iSkoot is the first and only carrier- and consumer-friendly mobile VoIP solution. iSkoot offers a mobile download for Skype and also powers the Skypephone. Unlike the many operator-unfriendly mobile VoIP solutions in the market, iSkoot's mobile Skype solution leverages the circuit-switched voice networks of mobile operators, rather than the data channel, making it a viable choice for operators worldwide, while also optimizing call quality and connection, making it a consumer-friendly and functioning solution with an amazing quality of service.

Fonality announces that Technology Marketing Corporation named the Fonality application HUD a 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner presented by Unified Communications magazine. HUD (Heads Up Display) extends the enterprise functionality of Fonality’s already low-cost and easy-to-use phone system for small and medium-sized businesses.

The latest version of HUD features Fonality’s unique presence-detection system, dubbed FindMe with Boomerang Mobile Integration. FindMe detects employee keyboard and mouse movements and makes call routing decisions according to where the system detects the individual’s presence. Once calls have arrived to mobile devices, calls can be recorded on the mobile device or even “boomeranged” back to the office switch.

BroadSoft announces that Technology Marketing Corporation's Unified Communications magazine has named BroadSoft's Unified Connector for Salesforce the Product of the Year. The Unified Connector for Salesforce is a Web 2.0 mashup of BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform with the leading web-based customer relationship management application.

The Unified Connector for Salesforce enables enterprise users to use their carrier-grade VoIP calling functionality -- including click-to-dial, call hold and call transfer -- within salesforce.com.

The Unified Connector for Salesforce is a flagship mashup in the BroadSoft Xtended program, a pioneering initiative that brings together the carrier-grade BroadWorks voice applications with leading Web 2.0 solutions. Unified Communications magazine's Product of the Year award is the second honor for BroadSoft's Unified Connector for Salesforce in the last month. VON Magazine awarded the mashup with a Judge's Top 10 Innovator Award in March.

VoIP Supply has won the award for the Best Place to Work in Western New York in the Medium company (51-100 employees) category. VoIP Supply beat out 17 other Medium-sized companies that had been nominated for the award. This was VoIP Supply's second nomination in as many years.

The 76 companies nominated were honored, and winners selected, at a luncheon at the Buffalo Convention Center on Tues., April 8, 2008. Awards were given for the best place to work in the micro, small, medium, large, x-large and jumbo company categories.

"This is a tremendous honor and a testament to the quality of staff employed at VoIP Supply," said Benjamin P. Sayers, President and CEO of VoIP Supply. "Growing at such a rapid pace, constantly adding more people, and implementing change in order to set the pace to stay on top is a challenge. I am proud to be part of an organization that can do it all with a smile and look forward to coming back tomorrow."

Digium the recent receipt of three prestigious industry awards. Acknowledgement of the strength of Digium’s products from TechTarget’s SearchNetworking.com and TMC, which presented Digium with two awards, follows recognition earlier this year from InfoWorld of Asterisk, the open source telephony project created and led by Digium. The company and its founder, Mark Spencer, have also appeared on numerous “company to watch” and “influencer” lists, including 2008 installations from eWeek, Linux Magazine and VoIP-News.

SearchNetworking.com, in its article accompanying the award, notes: “Capturing the silver award in IP telephony systems is Asterisk, the free, open source IP telephony application created by Digium. The application facilitates VoIP in many protocols and interoperates with almost all standards-based telephony equipment, using relatively inexpensive hardware. Asterisk can save an organization significant costs and is at the forefront of open source VoIP development.”

PhoneFusion has been awarded two industry awards as part of CTIA's third annual Emerging Technology Awards. PhoneFusion took first and second place in the Mobile Widget categories at an awards ceremony held on April 2 in Las Vegas. The wireless technologies were judged on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and overall "wow" factor.

The E-Tech awards honor the best products and innovations in a number of categories representing the wireless ecosystem, including mobile consumer electronics, consumer mobile applications, enterprise solutions, network infrastructure, mobile widgets and 4G.

Fonality announced that Technology Marketing Corporation’s Unified Communications magazine has named trixbox Pro with HUD as a recipient of its Product of the Year Award for 2007. trixbox Pro is the business-grade phone system that allows companies with up to 500 employees to make free VoIP calls and features Heads Up Display, Fonality’s market-leading unified communications desktop application that gives employees one-touch control over their phone system and real time visibility and access to the people using it.

Pulvermedia announced the winners of the inaugural VON Magazine Innovator Awards. Building on the legacy of the Pulver 100, the VON Innovator Awards have evolved to recognize start-ups and publicly-traded companies that represent the future of Internet Communications. Pulvermedia also announced that it is hosting a ceremonial presentation for the winners of the VON Innovator Awards at Spring VON.x on Tuesday, March 18 in San Jose. Outlined here are the winning 65 companies. An additional "Judge's Top-10 Picks" list will be announced live in the VON Theatre on the expo floor.

TalkSwitch is proud to announce that it has been chosen the best VoIP system for small business by the readers of Small Business Computing Magazine, and has been awarded the magazine's 2008 Excellence in Technology Award in the VoIP category.

Unlike most other industry awards, the results of the 2008 Excellence in Technology Awards are based on nominations and votes from the readers. The awards were handed out in 26 different categories. TalkSwitch emerged victorious in the VoIP category over several companies, including Fonality. A complete list of winners from all categories is now available.

JAJAH has been named a VoIP Leader by FierceVoIP, an honor that recognizes the top 10 companies on the cutting-edge of the constantly evolving VoIP industry. Winners are singled out for leading the industry as it explodes beyond service providers and into the fields of enterprise and unified communications.

FierceVoIP is a bi-weekly email newsletter distributed by FierceMarkets that covers news and insights on the emerging VoIP industry. It provides opinion leaders and industry experts an authoritative briefing on the week's top VoIP stories marketplace developments.

"JAJAH is an innovative company restlessly seeking out new products and alliances to build its Voice 2.0 business. Its determination to succeed makes it one of the pure play VoIP companies definitely worth watching," said FierceVoIP editor Tom Burton.

Digium announces that IDG’s InfoWorld has recognized Asterisk 1.4 as a 2008 Technology of the Year. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual awards, presented this year on January 8, identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. Asterisk is the most widely used open source telephony software with more than one million downloads in 2007 and more than 100 million users worldwide.

InfoWorld reports, “a complete IP PBX released as open source under the GNU Public License, Asterisk is built to run on commodity hardware, providing considerable cost savings when compared with commercial alternatives, and it leverages the open source community for additional testing, bug fixes, and feature development.”

Technology Marketing Corporation announces INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine’s 10th Annual Product of the Year Award winners. INTERNET TELEPHONY is the premier publication in the rapidly growing VoIP/IP telephony industry.

INTERNET TELEPHONY recognizes the most innovative products by bestowing this prestigious award to the most deserving companies. The editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY selected the companies which in their view demonstrate the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious Product of the Year award.

I received an email the other day notifying me that VoIP Monitor has been ranked as 1 of 25 top VoIP blogs of 2007 by VoIP-News! Although the list was released last week while I was on vacation, I'd like to thank VoIP-News for honoring us as a influential VoIP blog.

Other bloggers mentioned include:

• Jeff Pulver
• Andy Abramson
• Alec Saunders
• Om Malik
• Garrett Smith
• Luca Filigheddu
• and many more...

I'd like to give a personal mention of Tom Keating's VoIP & Gadgets Blog as well.

Aruba Networks has been named a VoIP Leader by FierceVoIP, an honor that recognizes the top 10 companies on the cutting-edge of the constantly evolving VoIP industry. Winners are singled out for leading the industry as it expands beyond service providers and into the fields of enterprise and unified communications.

FierceVoIP is a bi-weekly email newsletter distributed by FierceMarkets that covers news and insights on the emerging VoIP industry, providing more than 35,000 subscribers a quick, authoritative briefing on the week's top VoIP stories and marketplace developments.

Packet8's Complete Contact Center has received a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. Designed specifically for small to medium sized businesses with call center operations consisting of less than 100 seats, the Packet8 Complete Contact Center is a multimedia distribution and management platform that works with any broadband Internet service and provides enterprise class contact center functionality combined with Virtual Office hosted iPBX calling features and Packet8's cost efficient business VoIP calling plans. Developed in partnership with Contactual, Inc., a global leader in on demand contact center technology solutions, the Packet8 Complete Contact Center lets companies quickly deploy and operate multi-channel contact centers within Packet8's hosted iPBX infrastructure without the time and expense of purchasing, installing and maintaining costly, specialized equipment.