Call handling over the Internet has just been made a lot easier with the latest Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Headset HBH-608. Compatible with the Sony VAIO BX series, Sony's line of VAIO Professional notebooks announced yesterday, the HBH-608 offers a solution that frees your hands while taking phone calls.

Damovo, a global communications solutions and services provider, in partnership with Network Equipment Technologies, Inc., a global provider of communication appliances, announce the launching of N.E.T.'s SHOUT VoIP migration appliance (VMA) in Brazil. The solutions offered by the SHOUT VMA enable companies to migrate their legacy networks to VoIP environments.

Microsoft Corp. announced it has acquired Teleo Inc., a provider of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software and services that enable the placement of phone calls from PCs to traditional phones and that deliver this technology in unique ways through a variety of software and Web applications. Microsoft expects to combine the technology and expertise of Teleo with the existing VoIP investments of MSN to further develop products and services that connect consumers to the people and information that most matter to them. Financial details were not disclosed.

Y-Tel International, Inc. and SmartZone USA, Inc., announced that SmartZone USA has selected Y-Tel as its preferred provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions. This exclusive agreement between the two companies will begin with the deployment in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands over the Smart Communications Wireless Broadband Network.

UTC Associates, a leading systems and network integrator to VoIP based service providers, and BroadSoft Inc., announced a partnership that will assist service providers with key challenges they face in a successful launch of new services. Under terms of the agreement, UTC Associates becomes an integrator for the BroadSoft suite of products, including hosted PBX, IP Centrex, IP Trunking, Mobile PBX, residential broadband voice and collaborative conferencing.

With an average of 500 new members per month since its launch in April, eDatingPlanet.com is rapidly becoming one of the most popular meeting places for singles on the Web. Now the site is offering free InPhonex VoIP long-distance service to its members.

SecureLogix Corporation, a leading enterprise telephony security and management company, announced the availability of version 5.0.1 of its award-winning ETM (Enterprise Telephony Management) System at VoiceCon Fall 2005 today. Version 5.0.1 of industry's leading voice firewall and management platform adds H.323 protocol support to complement its existing support for SIP, T1-CAS, ISDN-PRI, and Analog telephony traffic.

Adiance Technologies became one of the latest Indian firm to launch VoIP service early last month, Mr. Kushal Sanghvi, Director, Adiance Technologies quoted that “Adiance Technologies had entered into VoIP research a couple of months back . Adiance has now entered into the market by offering complete N2N solutions.”

VoiceCon, produced by MediaLive International, Inc., today announced that it has been named a recipient of Tradeshow Week's Fastest 50 award, which goes to the fifty fastest-growing events in the North America trade show industry, based on percentage growth and net square footage of growth between 2002 and 2004. Combined with the recent announcement that the VoiceCon Fall exhibition floor has completely sold out, this recognition reaffirms VoiceCon's position as the premier event for voice, IP Telephony and convergence technologies, products, systems and services.

Y-Tel International, Inc. announced, it now has the ability to offer cell phone customers VoIP rates for international calls worldwide. In the current world, cell phone customers pay a premium when making international calls. Regardless of whom you are calling, i.e. the office, home, or simply calling back an instant message sender, if the party is located in another country and you are calling on a cell phone, it costs you a small fortune. But now you will soon be able to make that same call using Y-Tel's CellNet product and pay only a fraction of the cost.

Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, and Kineto Wireless, the key innovator and leading global supplier of UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) technology, today announced an agreement to address the area of convergence between fixed and mobile networks and services in selected key customer cases. In addition, the companies are currently engaged in UMA trials with major operators and will continue to collaborate on future network trials.

8x8 announced it has added the Packet8 Virtual Attendant service to its line of small business VoIP-hosted telecommunications solutions.

SecureLogix Corporation announced today that its Chief Technology Officer, Mark Collier, will lead a presentation entitled "Cutting-Edge Issues in VoIP Security" during the VoiceCon Fall 2005 conference and exhibition. The presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, August 31, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. The conference will run from August 29 to September 1 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California.

LiveOffice Corp. today announced upcoming plans to integrate its IMConferencing. web conferencing system with Google Talk.

IMConferencing's latest interoperability capability will allow Google Talk users to instantly connect to IMConferencing's powerful web, audio and video conferencing platform, making it easy for users to launch full-featured online meetings and collaboration sessions to one or several participants. Only the host of the IMConferencing session needs to be a registered user, which gives participants even quicker access to the collaboration session because they do not have to pre-register with IMConferencing in order to use the service.

8x8 announced it has appointed TMONE, a VOIP customer acquisition firm based in Iowa City, IA, to provide inbound and outbound telesales services for its Packet8 residential and business internet phone service offerings.