JAJAH launches its new service JAJAH Buttons, customized for eBay. Every JAJAH user can now place a simple and stylish Button into their eBay marketplace, eBay Stores and eBay Motors auction and allow bidders to call them before they buy and pay, whilst keeping contact details completely private. The service connects both parties phone-to-phone and does not require any special hardware or software.

JAJAH adds an unprecedented element to the popular auction site by connecting eBay sellers and their prospective clients phone-to-phone. Unlike other Internet calling solutions, JAJAH Buttons secure the merchants' privacy and require no download, no headset, no broadband and work on every phone.

JAJAH has launched its new service, JAJAH Buttons. Users create a slim and stylish JAJAH Button to place on their websites, email signatures, blogs and social network profiles wherever they travel throughout the web. Initiating a call through a JAJAH Button is as easy as entering your own phone number and clicking "Call." All at absolutely no cost to the caller, JAJAH Buttons link people globally phone-to-phone, without any download, headset or contract.

Jaxtr announces that its registered user base has reached 2,000,000 – up from 1,000,000 just 30 days ago. As a result, jaxtr has taken only a third of the time it took Skype in late 2003 to double its user base from one to two million. Unlike Skype, where phone calls are placed from a computer and require a download, jaxtr allows its users to enjoy the cost savings of VoIP from the convenience of any ordinary mobile or landline phone.

Ixia announces the IxLoad SIP solution, the first VoIP test platform to provide both functional and bulk VoIP testing. Ixia’s VoIP test solution provides an environment of real-world triple-play traffic that accurately models live network environments. Using Ixia’s test platform and the IxLoad SIP 3.40 solution, a single test chassis emulates millions of realistic call scenarios — surpassing the scale of most network appliances.

Challenger Mobile announces enhancements to its platform that help mobile operators, wireless ISPs, and related service providers deliver their own branded Mobile VoIP services to subscribers, while enjoying a fast time-to-market and a low cost of entry.

Challenger's white-label Mobile VoIP platform allows subscribers to place calls from their mobiles over the Internet, using a WiFi, GPRS or 3G connection. In addition to core Internet telephony capabilities, Challenger's platform supports remote mobile handset configuration, call detail record support, and flexible billing system integration. For customers choosing Challenger's optional hosting service, the platform also includes attractive call termination capabilities and rates.

PLAYXPERT announces availability of the PLAYXPERT TeamSpeak Widget. The joint solution will ensure that millions of players worldwide can seamlessly communicate through PLAYXPERT in-game. Players can finally not only get an upper hand on their game with PXP in-game tools, they can also strategize using TeamSpeak for real time voice communication with other players on points of attack, focus fire, team targeting, and much more. The solution will be available for demonstration at the IBM Booth at the Austin Game Developers Conference, September 5-7, 2007.

"We are thrilled to be working with PLAYXPERT. They have incredible technology and great business execution," said Florence Espinoza, Director of Sales for TeamSpeak. "With thousands of online gamers using TeamSpeak VoIP technology at any given time, gamers are going to greatly benefit because of the availability of this new widget. In short, users will be able to use the best VoIP toolset in conjunction with the best in-game community platform."

According to InfoTech's "2007 InfoTrack on Microsoft and Disruptive Convergence program: Enterprise and SMB Strategies for Implementing Microsoft's VoIP Solution," 46 percent of enterprises and small and medium businesses (SMBs) surveyed said they were "extremely likely" or "very likely" to implement Microsoft's voice-related systems, including Live Communications Server, Office Communications Server or its future complete software-based VoIP system.

The report was based on nearly 300 survey responses from InfoTech's research panel of U.S. and international enterprise and SMB decision-makers. Results of the survey also found that:

Edgewater announces the availability of EdgeView Reports, an advanced yet easy-to-use reporting tool that provides valuable VoIP performance information to network planners, operators, product managers, executive management teams and end-users. The EdgeView Reports server works in conjunction with the EdgeView VoIP support System and EdgeMarc Converged Networking Routers to provide unprecedented visibility into the performance of today’s converged networks.

Packet8 expanded the market for its Packet8 Virtual Office hosted iPBX phone service with the introduction of a new, fully integrated hosted call center solution designed specifically for small to medium sized businesses with call center operations consisting of less than 100 seats.

The Packet8 Complete Contact Center is a multimedia distribution and management platform that works with any broadband Internet service and provides enterprise class contact center functionality combined with Virtual Office hosted iPBX calling features and Packet8's cost efficient business VoIP calling plans. Developed in partnership with Contactual the Packet8 Complete Contact Center lets companies quickly deploy and operate multi-channel contact centers within Packet8's hosted iPBX infrastructure without the time and expense of purchasing, installing and maintaining costly, specialized equipment.

deltathree announces that it has launched an upgraded network telephony backend infrastructure to its Open Network Platform offering customers greater flexibility and more innovative features. Developed in-house by deltathree in the span of over two years, the Open Network Platform allows customers of deltathree's newly formed consumer brand joip, as wells as deltathree's Reseller and Hosted Consumer VoIP Solution channels, to experience a broader range of benefits while enhancing customer convenience and growth potential.

fg microtec announces that its VCC (Voice Call Continuity) client, fgVoIP, has been successfully signed for Nokia E-Series mobile phones following the Symbian Signed testing criteria.

This major achievement will enable enterprises, service providers and carriers to commercially deploy advanced VCC services on mobile devices while ensuring the level of quality expected by end users thanks to the Symbian Signed process.

The fgVoIP VCC client solution has been developed based on fg microtec's extensive know-how in VoIP technologies and embedded systems and in close cooperation with Nokia through the Nokia PRO Forum partner program.

Hermon Laboratories announces its new solutions for VoIP and SIP conformance testing. Both solutions are available as optional add-ons to Hermon Labs’ market-proven TCA 8200 Telecom Conformance Analyzer, and the SIP solution is also available as a standalone software application.

The TCA 8200 provides a fast and cost-effective approvals solution for all major access equipment standards around the world. With the addition of the new VoIP and SIP options, the TCA 8200 now offers a complete answer for testing of the full range of telecom wired access equipment: analog PSTN (including telephone acoustic testing); xDSL; E1; T1; ISDN PRI and PRI L2 /3. Applications for the TCA 8200 include pre-compliance, compliance, development and production testing.

NeoPhonetics announces the launch of its Network Assessment Tool. Now, any company considering a data VoIP solution can determine whether their cabling, switching and routers, and network bandwidth are VoIP-compatible in a matter of minutes.

The Network Assessment Tool is an educational tool developed with non-technical users in mind. It is a first step in helping businesses determine whether their networks are ready for data VoIP. By answering a few simple questions online, the tool assesses compatibility requirements such as having:

• 80 kilobits of available bandwidth for every concurrent phone call
• Category 5 cabling or better to every VoIP telephone
• Network switches that are Power Over Ethernet, Virtual Local Area Network and Quality of Service capable and configured

HelloSoft announces the launch of its VoIP technology for WiMAX System-on-Chip designs. HelloSoft is a leading provider of high-performance VoIP technologies for a plethora of client end points including SOHO Gateways, IP Phones, Dual-Mode Phones and VoIP-enabled SoCs.

WiMAX is emerging as the standard that will have one of the greatest impacts on VoIP in the near future. HelloSoft is keeping up the pace by launching its VoIP for WiMAX initiative.

OneSuite introduces a new product OS Hybrid. Borrowing the concept from a hybrid car, the new product allows customers to switch calling methods between traditional PSTN and VoIP, enjoy premium services such as fax to email, or make and receive calls on a PC all under one web-based account.

With the launch of OS Hybrid, OneSuite tackles the challenges faced by most VoIP services and traditional phone cards, crossing the digital divide. Once subscribed to OneSuite, frustrated phone card users who can't access the provider's network during major holidays, can now call out or even receive calls through VoIP using the OneSuite Softphone. Equally, VoIP subscribers who rely on Internet connectivity, electricity, or must be glued to their computers to make calls, can now use the same account to call through PSTN when Internet or PC is not available.