Popular social communities are adopting VoIP telephony to better serve users with new instant communication features based on the latest VoIP technologies. With services such as free worldwide calling, conference calling, instant messaging (IM), online presence display and more, users are now interacting in real-time with friends rather than by posting static text replies. Today LiveJournal, one of the web's leading online communities hosting over 10 million users, became the first major social network to roll out integrated voice and instant messaging software for their users, SIPphone Inc. announced. The new software is available as a free download at www.livejournal.com/chat/download.

Raketu, the global internet communications, information and entertainment company, announces their 2 new global promotions:

- "Try Dialout For Free" promotion which allows users to try RakOut (Raketu’s dialout service) to call locations in more than 40 countries* for free and,

- Free unlimited calling to locations in more than 40 countries* around the world to pre-paid RakOut customers.

Earlier this year, Skype announced free calling to North America. Now, Raketu makes it easy for anyone with an internet connection to have free calling worldwide including North America.

deltathree, a leading provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hosted communications, announces that its Consumer Group, iConnectHere, has unveiled the World Plan, a new calling service bringing users around the world enhanced quality of service, extremely low by-the-minute rates and reduced monthly fees.

iConnectHere launched the World Plan to offer a VoIP consumer solution with an advanced feature set designed specifically for international end users who require the highest quality of service and lower international rates. The World Plan includes a free phone adapter shipped anywhere worldwide, an option to choose a telephone number from 12 different countries and low international calling rates, all starting at just $6.99 per month.

Atreus Systems, the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles, announced that Bitflow VoIP Inc., has selected Atreus' IP Service Provisioning Software to speed the deployment of its wireless and residential VoIP service offering.

"As we continue to expand our customer base nationally and internationally we'll require scalable and cost-effective solutions that will help us successfully deliver and manage wireless and VoIP offerings," said Alexandre Sennett, CEO, Bitflow VoIP. "Atreus provided us with an extensible provisioning solution for BroadSoft, which will help us meet the growing demand for our service offerings by streamlining operations and business processes while providing self-management capabilities to our customers."

iOpus, a provider of cost effective, cutting edge technology utilities that are both powerful and easy to use, announced this week that the iOpus Private Internet Gateway (iPig) will be available as a free beta product to consumers or end users worldwide, beginning today at Digital Life 2006. iPig is downloadable from the company’s website at http://www.iopus.com/ipig/download.

Eyeball Networks Inc., a pioneer and world leader in VoIP, video telephony, and instant messaging software, announced Eyeball Any-FirewallT Engine, a comprehensive, standards-based NAT traversal Software Development Kit (SDK) for guaranteed VoIP call completion across NATs, firewalls, and Web proxies. VoIP service providers, application developers, and device makers can now deliver instant, seamless, and guaranteed connections between subscribers while benefiting from peer-to-peer (P2P) media delivery, low latency, and carrier-grade scalability.

Estacado Systems, a provider of real-time communication software products and services, announced a freely available version of its SIPWright Proxy Server. This release, Version 2.0, leverages a highly customizable message-processing framework to provide a general purpose SIP server that is easy to install, manage, and use. The server can provide SIP proxy, registrar, and redirect services.

"This proxy incorporates the most robust and standards-compliant SIP implementation available today," said Ajay Deo, CEO of Estacado Systems. "This free release gives educational institutions, carrier test labs, and enterprise IT departments a solid, easy-to-use building block for their networks."

Woize International Ltd. the digital communications provider, takes on challenging the Skype alike providers and announces plans to launch a Woize BETA client for Mac OS X in Q4.

Management believes that the launch of a Woize client for Mac OS challenges Skype and other similar Peer to Peer providers from a technical standpoint, since it will be fully SIP based and thereby give users the opportunity to interconnect with other SIP and P2P users worldwide.

In addition, management believes that the planned Woize client for Mac OS poses a threat as it, as all other Woize clients, will be free of charge. Woize users will be able to call outside the Woize community with no hidden start-up fees for In- or Out phone calls. A free phone number will be included in the Woize package and becomes available when signing up. And the same goes for voice mail, no extra monthly charges, it will be included and ready to use!

Raketu, the global internet communications, information and entertainment company, reached a major milestone when it passed 100,000 downloads. Raketu achieved this milestone within the first four weeks of its initial release. Raketu makes it easy for anyone with an internet connection to have free worldwide communications. Raketu is now being used in over 150 countries around the world.

Works Out Software, Inc. announced the availability of a new version of its flagship product, CallButler, that integrates with the Skype internet telephone service.

The CallButler for Skype solutions offer the more than 130 million Skype users the ability to seamlessly integrate advanced calling features with their Skype accounts. These features include integrated voicemail with unlimited storage, custom greetings, text-to-speech, auto-attendant, interactive voice response (IVR), dial-by-name directory, music on-hold (MOH), database/web service integration, and integration with Microsoft Outlook.

M5T, the leading provider of software solutions for secure real-time multimedia communications over IP, announced that M5T and Global IP Sound (GIPS) has teamed up to leverage their industry expertise to develop a comprehensive and portable Secure VoIP SIP Client Software Development Kit.

Busta, the Internet "mobile phone" has already attracted Skype users in over 50 countries since it’s launch 20 days ago primarily because of portability and it's "no network compromise" technology. PageFlakes and WebWag become the latest additions to the Busta "gadgets". BustaMe! tags deliver free calls and voice mail into MySpace and Linked In and Busta Up! enables easy upload of contacts from Outlook.

ChatStat.com enters territory closely guarded by LivePerson, WebTrends, and Trillian. ChatStat offers free 2-way live chat with your website visitors, free MovingGraph website statistics, and free instant messaging protocol support for AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, GoogleTalk, Skype, and Skype Voice Over IP.

ChatStat also breaks new ground by being the first Live Chat software that can use the Skype VOIP protocol to "call back" customers. When a visitor clicks on the "Call Me Back" button and enters their phone number, it causes ChatStat to open Skype and connect the call using VOIP (Voice over IP). Now your customers can ask for a call back from you, instead of waiting on hold!

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Ubiquity Software announced it has been awarded a three-year contract with Inuk Networks to provide the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform as part of a forthcoming service targeted at the UK-based academic research, education and consumer markets. The service will include broadband Internet access, IPTV and VoIP. Through a single connection, students will be able to receive mainstream and premium television content, as well as low-cost telephony to keep in touch with fellow students, university staff and the world at large at very competitive, low cost rates.