Digital Voice launches its new Hosted VoIP platform for outdoor events. Digital Voice has entered into a strategic partnership with Red Tech of Glasgow to provide a Hosted Telecommunications platform for any outdoor event requiring Internet and Telecoms services.

Called Events Voice, and based on their successful Digital Voice VoIP Business platform, this new service represents the latest innovation in VoIP Technology and offers their customers a level of efficiency, support and reliability in deploying a function rich business phone system to any green field outdoor event.

Tseyva introduces a new line of products for it's partners to offer a complete range of VoIP based calling services. Existing services offered by Tseyva include PC2Phone, Device2Phone and Calling Card services to which the mVoIP service has been recently added. All these services can be managed via the comprehensive Service Management and Reselling Tool (SMART). These services are currently being offered across 80 countries globally covering over 400 resellers.

Tseyva has seen a steadfast growth and has stepped into to its fourth successful year in the industry where survival has been difficult. One of the resounding reasons behind this is the loyalty and trust of its mature and growing customer base. Tseyva is committed to build on this strength to offer unmatched solutions to address the current needs of its demanding customer base.

3CX and snom have announced that interoperability testing between their products has been completed successfully. This certified interoperability ensures that small and medium businesses have access to a reliable and affordable VoIP solution when using 3CX’s software-based IP PBX for Windows together with snom’s VoIP-based products.

Businesses looking to replace their traditional proprietary hardware PBXs with an easy to install, manage and use VoIP Telephony system can now benefit from the very cost effective combined solution of 3CX Phone System for Windows and snom’s VoIP phones, knowing that it is and fully supported by both vendors. Furthermore, businesses can now easily implement a complete telephone system that helps them give employees mobility, rids them of costly phone tag and reduces administration and training time by IT staff.

iotum announces global availability of its popular FREE Conference Calls application on Facebook under agreements with Internet communications partners Truphone in the U.K., Abbeynet in Italy and MOI Telecom in France.

Iotum CEO Alec Saunders said the global expansion of FREE Conference Calls is in response to demand from users of the application launched on Facebook last September. “Now, thanks to our partnership agreements, anyone can join a FREE Conference Call from anywhere in the world.”

“FREE Conference Calls has many standard features not available from other providers,” he said. “We give our users the ability to provide agendas for their calls; moderators can mute or unmute the calls; record a podcast; schedule calls in advance, or provide reminders. Hosts can also queue participants to speak, and we even provide a live ‘writing wall’ for interactive text chat.”

AT&T announces the availability of AT&T Business in a Box, a service that harnesses the power of Internet Protocol communications to simplify IT operations for smaller and midsize businesses and branch offices of large businesses. The solution brings the advantages of AT&T's long history of innovation in the enterprise business market to the SMB market.

AT&T Business in a Box enables migration from traditional analog to VoIP solutions, reducing operating expenses by integrating voice and data services. It addresses the complexity and interoperability challenges of small and midsize business by delivering a simple converged network endpoint. The service features a device equipped with all necessary data ports and connectors and delivers:

Jaxtr has successfully completed eleven months of beta testing today and released version 1.0 of its service. The centerpiece of the new release is café jaxtr, a place where users socialize around the question: "What do you want to talk about?" With this 1.0 release, the company is also implementing its revenue model via the integration of text and display advertising within café jaxtr.

Jaxtr also announced that it has surpassed the 10 million user mark, solidifying its position as the leader in social communications. Social communications is an emerging market adjacent to social networking; the focus of social communications is to give users unified access to and control over all of their text and voice communications from social networks, blogs and other forms of social media.

AltiGen Communications and VoSKY announce a partnership bringing advanced Skype-based applications and cost savings to AltiGen’s VoIP solutions for call centers. The addition of the VoSKY Exchange VoIP application gateway to AltiGen’s complete line of VoIP Phone Systems will equip call centers with a new remote agent, Web Click2Call, VoIP trunking and global DID functionality utilizing Skype, the world’s largest VoIP network.

VoSKY Exchange is a Skype-certified plug-and-play rackmount appliance that adds enhanced Skype-based VoIP applications as well as Skype trunks to AltiGen’s complete line of VoIP Phone Systems through analog FXS ports, eliminating the need to use PCs or headsets for Skype calls. When deployed as part of an AltiGen call center solution, VoSKY Exchange offers four key enhancements to AltiGen’s robust call routing and management capabilities. These include:

CRM announces the availability of Vonage VOIP services fully integrated in the CRM platform. Vonage integration brings small businesses full integration with Free CRM and CRM ASP licensed products, providing one-click calling and automating phone dialing and outbound sales campaigns with Vonage.

Businesses can realize tremendous cost savings and reduce complexity by taking advantage of Vonage VOIP services integrated within the FreeCRM.com product. FreeCRM.com was the first on-demand CRM product to integrate the Skype calling platform and is now the first to integrate Vonage VOIP services directly within the CRM system.

FreedomVOICE has developed a powerful tool to manage telecommuting with their FreedomIQ VOIP hosted PBX. Telecommuting employees are highly mobile, working from home offices, remote work sites, or while traveling. With FreedomIQ Follow-Me-Live call forwarding, incoming phone calls can reach the employee no matter where they are or what type of phone they are using. Since a VOIP hosted PBX uses the internet to transmit calls, the reach of FreedomIQ is not limited to in-office call transfer like a hardwired PBX.

Telecommuting helps recruit and retain valuable workers. According to a survey conducted by LifeCare, one of the largest privately owned employee benefits organizations in the U.S., flexible work arrangements mattered more to personnel than health care. Robert Half International asked CFOs what incentive was the most effective in attracting top accounting candidates. Telecommuting was listed as the top incentive by a surprising 33% of respondents.

VocalTec announces that over 50 telecom service providers and partners have deployed VocalTec’s Essentra VoIP solutions on the IBM System x server platform.

VocalTec serves a wide range of customers including fixed and wireless service providers, providers of ILD/NLD services, wholesalers, competitive carriers and providers of residential/enterprise telephony services. Customers that adopted VocalTec’s Essentra solution in the past 24 months include Nauka Svyaz, a universal Telecom Carrier providing telephony and data communications in Russia; Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia San Marino; Lukoil Inform, the IT company of Lukoil Perm; Alink Telecom, a telecom operator in the Ivory Coast; Mobifon-2000, a licensed service provider offering ILD/NLD services in Russia; Switchward & Trosmann AG, a Swiss carrier offering wholesale ILD and peering services; and many others.

PhoneFusion announces an enhanced version of its flagship PhoneFusion One product. By tightly integrating the powerful benefits of a Unified Communications solution with the cost-savings of VoIP technology, PhoneFusion One gives small businesses an easy and affordable way to manage all of their daily communications. For as little as $3.95 a month, small business professionals can get access to the same features and benefits of some of the most advanced enterprise class Unified Communications systems.

With PhoneFusion One, users have one phone number to give to colleagues, family and friends. When this number is dialed, PhoneFusion One then directs the call to the phone or fax as the subscriber chooses. PhoneFusion One delivers standard features one would expect from a traditional phone service, as well as some of the most advanced business functionality available. New features include Control Center from the desktop, a Softphone application that allows the computer to work as a telephone, the ability to record and deliver announcements based on time and a powerful voicemail application that centralizes multiple voicemail boxes and allows people to see a list of their voicemail messages right on their mobile device. With these enhancements and more, PhoneFusion One is poised to deliver the most comprehensive set of business communications features available to small businesses.

Broadcom announces that Teledex has selected its VoIP technology for three of Teledex's latest state-of-the-art IP phones. Advanced Broadcom VoIP processors and flexible development software enables Teledex to deliver a unique line of SIP and hybrid (analog/SIP) phones that provide hotel guests with exceptional voice quality and rich multimedia features.

The Teledex phones that integrate Broadcom's VoIP technology include the Teledex Hybrid HD6200 series and the Teledex SIP LD4200 series. Both series of Teledex IP phones leverage Broadcom's advanced BCM1103 VoIP processor that combines superior voice services with rich, graphical content to meet the specific needs of today's hotel environment. By enabling advanced communications features over the hotel's existing IP network, Teledex's VoIP phones leverage common browser-based technologies that enable content and applications development in an open, collaborative environment.

Raketu debutes its VoIP calling web application optimized for the BlackBerry. The new web-based application allows business users of the BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry 8800 Series, and BlackBerry Pearl to make international calls totally free or at Raketu’s ultra-low cost VoIP calling rates. Additionally, business users can send SMS Text Messages globally, and send email all from within the Raketu BlackBerry Application.

Raketu’s BlackBerry Application Features

Raketu’s new BlackBerry Application is entirely web-based and does not require consumers to download any software. BlackBerry users can sign up and access the service via their BlackBerry web browser at http://BlackBerry.raketu.com. Using Raketu’s BlackBerry application, users can call Internationally for free or at Raketu’s ultra-low cost VoIP calling rates. Raketu users who sign up and make a payment of $9.95, $24.95 or $49.95 to their Raketu account are eligible for up to 600 free calling minutes per month towards BlackBerry initiated phone-to-phone calls.

CallWave partners with JAJAH to deliver advanced global Internet telephony solutions for mobile professionals, entrepreneurs and small businesses. The two companies will jointly develop and market Internet telephony applications and services that will make global communications easier for people and businesses to communicate and collaborate. Initially, the services will enable both global outbound and inbound call capability as well as message management from one place serving as the unified communications solution for the mobile professional.

CallWave has pioneered the development of many Voice 2.0 technologies including the worlds first speech based, voice to text "summarization" application for mobile users. By leveraging its CLEC, CallWave has the unique infrastructure and experience to deliver traditional telephony services layered with Internet applications creating seamless interoperability between the mobile, PC and landline phone.

Setting up a Call Shop has never been easier. By implementing BlasterPhone Call Shop solution Cyber Café and Phone Booths owners benefit from best quality of calls, advanced management tools, great bonuses and the most competitive international rates.

Entrepreneurs with Internet access can now quickly and easily set up a Call Shop at any location worldwide, essentially becoming telephone operators enabling people to make high quality VoIP phone calls across the globe for previously unimaginable low prices. Call Shops can provide very competitive rates to any traveler and migrant worker without a phone.