Globe7 Inc and Lycos Inc USA signed a three-year non-exclusive agreement, whereas key Lycos features, IE: Lycos search exclusive to the Lycos/Globe7 commitment in United States. As part of the integration and agreement, Globe7 is powering the private labeled Lycos phone with Voice, Real time Video, IM, and IPTV with Video on Demand.

Globe7, continuing its global expansion, now covers 187 countries across 7 continents (including Antarctica). Globe7 Internet2 Soft phone technology, conceptualized with IPTV, surpassed 3 Million downloads with 2 million downloads in the previous month alone. A subsequent geographic analysis revealed the following countries had the most major downloads: USA, China, UK, Morocco, Brazil, Egypt, Turkey, Vietnam, Poland, India and France.

Lycos, Inc., a leading media destination for creators and consumers of quality content, announced the launch of Lycos Phone, the internet's first-ever VoIP softphone application to combine robust entertainment features, powered by Globe7.

Located at http://www.lycos.globe7.com/, Lycos now offers a free downloadable white label VoIP platform, in partnership with Globe7, fulfilling users' communication and entertainment needs by converting their laptops and desktops into second phones. With Lycos Phone, users can make free calls from PC to PC. They can also make free PC to PC video calls and receive unlimited free incoming calls from any landline or mobile phone, from around the world. Users also receive 100 free minutes of PC to landline and PC to mobile phone calls, and can earn additional free minutes through various promotional offers with Lycos Phone.

EQO Communications, a market-leading mobile presence technology provider, announced immediate availability of Mobile Instant Messaging for Skype, as part of EQO's innovative Mobile Internet Phone Service for Skype product. The software is available for free as a Beta product to consumers via the EQO (pronounced "echo") web site (http://www.eqo.com) and supports more than 40 different phone handset models from vendors including Nokia, Motorola and Sony-Ericsson.

PeerMe Inc., a peer-to-peer voice communication technology company and Hola! Media Group, LLC, a leading independent bi- lingual publisher, announced the availability of PeerMe's free voice and instant messaging technology, which will be immediately available through the Hola! bi-lingual portals (http://www.Hola-Connect.us).

BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, announced enhanced capabilities to its BroadWorks Assistant-Enterprise Toolbar, a carrier-class desktop communications product for everyday users of Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer. The new BroadWorks Assistant-Enterprise 13.0 allows users to easily access advanced call control features within the Microsoft mail and browser programs, affording service providers additional tools to offer their customers.

Trolltech, a leading provider of technologies that make advanced software faster to build and easier to use, announced that its Qtopia software for Linux-based embedded products is the application development platform for Leadtek's award winning IP broadband videophone, XTP 8830. Leadtek Research Inc. is an industry leader in video and IP technologies.

SightSpeed, the award-winning provider of free and premium Internet video and voice communications services (VVoIP and VoIP), announced the release of SightSpeed 4.5 for the new Apple Intel platform.

The new Universal Binary version of SightSpeed 4.5 is fully compatible with Apple's newest line of Macintosh computers based upon the recently introduced line of Intel processors. By taking advantage of the added processing power and faster processing speeds of the new Macs, SightSpeed is able improve upon its already best in class video communications performance.

Atreus Systems, the premier supplier of provisioning software for IMS, VoIP and advanced IP service bundles, announced that Proxy Magazine has named Atreus to its list of the Top 10 OSS vendors to watch in 2006. Proxy Magazine's 'Top 10' features the companies that are best positioned to be IP communications innovators in 2006. The award honors Atreus as the IP service provisioning solution of choice for carriers worldwide and recognizes Atreus' continued leadership in helping large and emerging providers solve the critical service delivery challenges in deploying rich IMS-based applications within core communications networks.

RTX America, a world leader in wireless product development, announced a free USB DUALphone firmware update. The USB DUALphone can now check Skype voicemail, receive incoming chat alerts and perform other Skype functions, all from the DUALphone's sleek, cordless handset. The update adds to a long list of existing features, such as wideband audio and Skype online presence.

Wengo published a Firefox extension for its Wengophone. It comes in Mac, Linux and Windows versions and is available for download at http://www.wengo.com/.

The Wengophone is a software tool from Wengo that allows you to communicate free of charge on the Internet -- using Voice, SMS, Instant messaging and Video.

This extension, which is fully integrated in the Firefox Web browser, features the key functionalities of the Wengophone -- telephone and chat -- and also enables click-to-dial, a technique that lets you use Wengo to call any of your contacts, or any number on a web page, by launching a conversation with a single click.

Southern California Telecom Company, FreeCalls365.com is shaking up the growing VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) industry.

While major companies, like Vonage, are spending millions promoting their alternative telephone service for $30-$40 per month, FreeCalls365.com is supported only by advertisers on its system.

Their users make high quality, unlimited calls -- including long distance -- to anyone, any phone, anywhere, and anytime. The key factor is that current technology provides for a clear, high-quality audio with undetectable white noise or interference. The signal is clear.

Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband gateways and service-delivery software, introduced the latest version of its award-winning Timbuktu Pro software for both Macintosh and Windows, which enables users to remotely view and interact with individual desktops through any Internet connection. Released today, Timbuktu Pro 8.6 integrates with Skype, the peer-to-peer Internet telephony application. Additionally, the new Macintosh version of Timbuktu Pro can now be run on the new Intel-based Macintosh computers.

BroadSoft, the leading provider of VoIP application software, and Vonair, a carrier-class multimedia communications software company, announced that they have entered into a joint venture to develop, market and distribute a VoIP client management solution. The collaboration, called Netria, will focus on resolving client management challenges such as integration, deployment and management of SIP-based customer premises equipment (CPE) for service providers globally. Additionally, BroadSoft has entered into a reseller agreement with Netria, whereby BroadSoft will resell products developed by Netria.

iSkoot, a mobile Internet phone company, introduced the iSkoot Mobile Network, a gateway that connects cellular voice and PC-to-PC networks. iSkoot Mobile Network allows consumers to place and receive Internet calls with their mobile phones without the need for PCs, special hardware, custom phones or Wi-Fi hot spots.

While the initial offering is for Cingular customers, and supports Skype Software only, iSkoot plans to expand the reach of Skype service to a wider selection of carriers and Internet phone services, such as Google Talk and other PC calling platforms. To take advantage of the iSkoot Mobile Network, Cingular users need only to download a small piece of software to their mobile phones. The Beta version of the iSkootMobile phone application for Skype Software is now available for free at http://www.iskoot.com and go.iskoot.com. Beta users who download the small client software will receive free unlimited use for the term of the beta.

SIPphone Inc, developers of the popular VOIP software Gizmo Project have secured $6.0 million in funding to expand their SIP standard service to non-PC devices such as adapters, routers, WiFi handsets and dual mode mobile phones.

"The release of Gizmo Project has driven over 400,000 registered users to our PC-based service, but our goals go beyond free calls between PCs," says SIPphone CEO, Michael Robertson. "We want to seamlessly link the internet and the traditional calling world of landlines and mobile phones and that's becoming possible as low cost SIP-based devices such as dual-mode mobile phones and WiFi phones become a reality."