Jajah has been selected by Yahoo! as its outsource partner for its premium voice service. Calls made by the nearly 97 million worldwide users of Yahoo! Messenger will now be routed over the Jajah network. In addition to telephony infrastructure, Jajah will provide payment processing and customer care services.

This partnership leverages Jajah’s open VoIP communications platform to support the existing Yahoo! Messenger voice offering. Through this collaboration, Jajah provides Yahoo! Messenger users with an instant Internet telephony network, merging the best of traditional and IP telephony.

As a result of its unique investment strategy, QINO Flagship AG is the only publicly-listed stock that allows participation in Jajah.

Yahoo! Messenger and Linksys, announced the availability of a new dual-mode cordless phone. The Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (CIT310) gives consumers the flexibility to make and take low-cost Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice(a) as well as place and receive phone calls using their traditional landline/PSTN connection.

The dual-mode cordless phone provides Yahoo! Messenger users with a convenient and fun alternative to make free Internet-based calls to friends and family on their Yahoo! Messenger Contact List. People subscribing to Yahoo! Phone Out can use the cordless phone to make an Internet-based call to any traditional or mobile phone at very low rates. With the use of the USB base station, the phone gives people the freedom to take their Yahoo! Messenger with Voice calls away from the PC and into other rooms, just as they do with mobile or cordless phones. People have the flexibility to instantly switch over from VoIP to a traditional landline phone service with the touch of a button.

EQO Communications, a leading developer of platforms for mobilizing online social networks, VoIP and instant messaging services, announced the immediate availability a new version of EQO Mobile, extending the most popular instant messenger services - including AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Instant Messenger and Skype - to mobile phones. With EQO, users can access all of their IM services from their phone and exchange free text and picture messages with other EQO users. Supported on more than 300 mobile handset models, the latest version of EQO Mobile is an easily installed Java mobile application that downloads over the wireless data network.

Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs, the threat research division of IM and greynet security leader FaceTime Communications, have discovered a new threat targeting Yahoo! Messenger users, known as the w32.KMeth worm. The new threat sends users to a Web site serving a barrage of Google AdSense advertisements related to mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Because of its relation to toxic tort litigation, the cost-per-click for the keyword "mesothelioma" is one of the highest in the online advertising pay-per-click market, making it a prime target for financially-motivated malware writers. Systems are set up by these cyber-rogues to funnel traffic through illicit means, generating clicks on high-paying keywords to produce higher returns on established advertising commissions.

Vapps is extending its free conference calling platform to Yahoo! Messenger with Voice's 80 million users worldwide*, the global infrastructure supplier of VoIP conference calling solutions announced today.

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice users will now be able to engage in free conference calling with their friends and family through ConFreeCall, provided by Vapps. The announcement further demonstrates Vapps' ability to enable large scale social networking portals to offer premium conference calling services to their users, increasing the value of their service offering.

iBasis, Inc., the global VoIP company, and Yahoo! Inc, a leading global Internet company, announced that iBasis is providing international call termination for the Yahoo! Messenger with Voice service. iBasis is among the suite of providers delivering high-quality termination services for calls from the U.S. to international markets. The interconnection with iBasis enables Yahoo! Messenger with Voice to offer its customers high quality PC-to-Phone calling over iBasis' global VoIP network at very competitive rates.

Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Communications, Inc., announced an agreement with Yahoo! to extend VoIP calling capabilities to Siemens' Gigaset Cordless Telephones. The relationship between Siemens and Yahoo! Messenger with Voice will enable consumers to enjoy voice-enhanced services not only at a PC, but from anywhere within the home.