Eqo Communications launches a new service helping expand the Skype presence and phone capabilities to mobile phones. Installing this software on cellular phones and PCs allows users to make Internet phone calls similar to how PC-based users do.

Signate, a leading global provider of VoIP telephone solutions based on industry standard hardware and open source software, announced the general availability of the Signate Telephony Stack, a complete software infrastructure for 32-bit IP telephony applications on a single CD. Signate's installer loads all the software and creates a ready to configure VoIP telephony server in about fifteen minutes.

"Signate's Telephony Stack is the same software foundation that Signate uses for its telephony installations around the world," said Paul Mahler, Signate's CTO and author of VoIP Telephony with Asterisk. "Signate downloads it from community sources semi-annually, or as major enhancements are released, and tests it to ensure that the entire stack operates as expected. We make bug fixes when called for and return them to the appropriate project," he said.

Colin Meunier from Victoria, Canada, President and founder of the http://www.WhoisColinMeunier.com has been using the HotConference software (http://www.HotConferenceMovie.com) to train and mentor his clients and marketing students from all over the world.

According to Colin Meunier, there is an estimated 25 million american people who run a home based business today, and ever 11 seconds someone starts a new home based business. Colin says is that VOIP is the communication wave of the future that is going to really help these new business owners take their business to the global market place. We are now living in the days that online business people can communicate in online conference rooms without ever having to pay long distance on their telephone.

Wizzard Software is pleased to announce that WizzTones is now available to everyone via internet download. WizzTones is a new, easy-to-use software application that works in conjunction with Skype, the leader in free VoIP solutions. WizzTones provides Skype users a simple and convenient way to create, manage and use multiple ring-tones for a compelling, personalized online telephone experience.

WizzTones allows Skype users to assign every individual on their Skype contacts list a distinct ring-tone, provide people with the freedom to walk away from their computers and still be able to distinguish who is calling. "We give people the ability to use more then one ring-tone, this makes ring-tones useful as well as colorful," says Andy Apter, Research Analyst for Wizzard Software. "The ring-tone market for cell phones generated $4.0 billion worldwide and it is estimated that in the U.S. alone, cell phone ring tone revenue should pass the $1.0 billion mark in 2007. Our research indicates that the VoIP market for ring-tones should grow substantially in the next several years as well."

SPIRIT DSP, provider of award-winning embedded voice & communication software products, announced that PalTalk , one of the Internet's leading providers of voice and video chat services, has chosen SPIRIT voice software product to enhance the Paltalk user voice experience. Paltalk is one of the world's most popular voice & video communication services in the world, featuring more than 37 million registered users in over 140 countries carrying in excess of 8 billion voice minutes per year.

"Through SPIRIT's partnership with Paltalk, the clear voice from SPIRIT for multi-point conferencing will now serve additional millions of people worldwide "- said Andrew Sviridenko, SPIRIT's founder and chairman.

Imagine being able to make phone calls just at the click of a button from an Internet browser.

That's the simplicity VoIPSter is bringing to Internet calling with the release of the Zoep Firefox extension, making the world's leading open source Internet browser a true telephony endpoint.

With the Zoep Firefox plug-in users can make free telephone calls and chat directly after installing the Firefox pro-extension from http://www.zoep.com/firefox.

VoIPSter has announced the formation of The OpenZoep Foundation and the premier release of the OpenZoep communications engine.

OpenZoep will enable the proliferation and rapid development of standards based telephony application throughout the world as VoIP grows and continues to take hold with users and service providers.

"Building VoIP clients using OpenZoep is very straightforward," said Dirk Griffioen, VoIPSter's Senior VOIP Engineer. "The OpenZoep API offers simple methods to communicate with the OpenZoep client-side VoIP engine and server-side web services."

Net2Phone a pioneer and innovator in the field of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), announced that it has secured its 31st patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent titled "System and Method for Managing a Flow of Network Status Messages at a Network Operations Console" was issued on December 27, 2005.

Xelor Software announced that Steven Guthrie, vice president of marketing, will speak at Internet Telephony Conference and Expo East 2006, held between Jan. 24 and 27 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on using service quality management to ensure the reliability, performance and quality of enterprise IP telephony (IPT) and Voice over IP (VoIP) systems.

"Enterprises are still experiencing a large gap between the theoretical capabilities of their IP telephony systems and the actual quality of service that their employees and customers are receiving," said Guthrie. "Despite the increasing popularity of IPT, we've found that many enterprises are still experiencing quality issues caused by packet loss, delay, jitter, latency, and the competition for bandwidth between data and realtime applications."

8x8, Inc., the Packet8 broadband VoIP and videophone communications service provider and CounterPath Solutions, Inc. unveiled 8x8's latest VoIP service, Packet8 Softalk, a co-branded, video-enabled SIP softphone for use with the Packet8 residential, video and Virtual Office Internet phone services.

Developed using CounterPath's software development kit (SDK), Softalk enables subscribers to make and receive voice and video phone calls directly on their personal computers without the need for a regular analog phone. All that is required is a desktop or laptop personal computer running Microsoft Windows with built-in or external speakers and microphones or a computer headset.

Calypso Wireless, Inc., a leader in advanced wireless telecommunications technology announced that it has received a purchase order for 1.05 Million euros from Inversiones CCS SA, for the delivery of the Calypso - Sleipner CoMob End User license software. The software run on the Calypso C1250i Dual Mode WiFi-GSM-GPRS VoIP cellular phone, which runs on Intel PXA series application processor and Microsoft WinCE 5.0 operating system.

Teen pop singer launches own VOIP phone service. Kandice Melonakos, a 17 year old singer/songwriter is releasing her own branded version of VOIP called KanTalk! right along with her debut single. Her target is obvious - the MySpace generation that lives on the net and listens to music.

There’s Skype for shopping on E-Bay. There’s MSN, Yahoo, and AOL VOIP for voice chatting. Yet, even with 11,000 or more VOIP providers, there is still room for a new kid on the block. And technically speaking, a kid she still is. Kandice Melonakos, a 17 year old singer/songwriter/ventriloquist, is releasing her own branded version of VOIP called KanTalk! right along with her first single. Her target is obvious - connecting with people who listen to and make music.

Yak Communications Inc., a provider of telecommunications services to residential and business customers, announced the launch of a Macintosh OS X download for its yakForFree Virtual VideoPhone software (www.yakforfree.com). By downloading the free Virtual VideoPhone, which takes less than a minute, users can make free member-to-member voice and video calls over the Internet using a high-speed connection.

Wizzard Software is excited to announce plans to launch WizzTones, a new and easy-to-use software product that is enabled for Skype, the forerunner in free VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solutions. WizzTones will provide Skype users a simple and convenient way to create, manage and use multiple ringtones for a compelling, personalized communication experience. WizzTones will be available for download in January of 2006.

Gizmo Project, free voice communication software for your computer, announces 1 cent per minute calling to U.S. phones effective immediately.

This marks the lowest per minute rate for calling U.S. phone numbers. This new rate makes calling the U.S. twice as affordable as compared to Skype and Yahoo.