8x8 has agreed to sell 7,142,858 shares of common stock to two institutional investors at a purchase price of $2.10 per share for aggregate proceeds of approximately $15 million before placement fees and other offering expenses. The investors will also receive warrants to purchase 1,785,714 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.00 per share. The warrants contain weighted average anti-dilution provisions. The transaction is expected to close and fund on or about Monday, December 19, 2005.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced that it has been continuing to roll out Enhanced 911 service to large and small cities across the U.S. In just two weeks, Vonage has equipped an additional 140 locally-run emergency call centers, in over 80 counties, with E911 -- a feature that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number.

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.

NexTone Communications, the leader in distributed and intelligent session management solutions for VoIP and other real-time IP services, launched a new key initiative called NexTone University. The purpose of this educational program, geared towards network engineers and architects, is to create a new generation of session-layer networking experts. Real-time IP session management is critical for carriers and enterprises to interconnect VoIP, wireless, and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) networks as the demand for new digital media services increases.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading broadband phone company, and UTStarcom Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today launched the F1000, a portable Wi-Fi handset manufactured by UTStarcom and configured with Vonage's Voice over IP (VoIP) phone service. This product, which will offer mobility across 802.11b networks, is now available at http://www.vonage.com for $129.99 with a $50 instant rebate for a total of $79.99.

Realtimepublishers has announced the creation of the IT industry's first interactive VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) community, sponsored by NetIQ Corporation, a leading provider of integrated systems and security management solutions, including solutions that empower IT organizations with the knowledge and ability to assure VoIP services.

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.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service provider Softroute brings the Internet and traditional phones together with Vbuzzer, an innovative and easy way to communicate. The VoIP service provider turns a PC into a phone with seamless connectivity between PCs and traditional phones.

With Vbuzzer, PC-to-PC calls are free, and PC-to-phone calls are at a fraction of market available rates, more competitive than most VoIP Service Providers, including Skype. Softroute offers Vbuzzer PC-to-phone calls at one cent per minute to the U.S., Canada, China, and some European countries. Unlimited U.S. and Canada calls are $7.99 per month. With an additional $2 per month fee, users can add a real phone number to the Vbuzzer software. These prices include some useful features for free, such as voicemail, customized personal greetings, caller ID, preloaded ring tones, and highly-acclaimed, responsive customer support. The service is offered with no hidden fees like activation, connection, maintenance, and no fixed-term contracts; customers simply pay as they go.

Bandwidth.com, a complete business communications provider offering advanced internet, VoIP, network and wireless services to small and medium sized businesses in all 50 states, announced that CDW Corporation is now offering its customers easy access to Bandwidth.com's call-center customer service, operational support and advanced internet and VoIP services.

"Bandwidth's Channel Partner Program offers technology providers access to our extensive telecom products and resources, offering them a streamlined approach to meeting their customers needs in an effective and efficient manner," said Henry Kaestner, CEO of Bandwidth.com. "Our relationship with CDW is a true win for organizations looking to alleviate the headaches often associated with deploying advanced IP applications."

Telchemy, Incorporated, the global leader in VoIP Fault and Performance Management technology, announced that it has licensed more than 2 million units of VQmon VoIP performance management software. License revenues for VQmon have more than doubled for the first three quarters of 2005, compared to the same period last year, and the Company forecasts this growth rate to continue in 2006. Leading VoIP product manufacturers and test equipment vendors have integrated VQmon into over 50 different product lines -- a wide range of probes, analyzers, IP phones, residential and media gateways, routers and session/border controllers making it the most widely deployed VoIP analysis technology.

BridgePort Networks, a leader in convergence with its MobileVoIP solution offering, announced the availability of the company's SoftMOBILE solution. The solution brings together BridgePort Networks' NomadicONE Network Convergence Gateway (NCG), a standard mobile phone and a soft phone client designed for PCs or laptops to offer a full suite of mobile voice and messaging. Targeted toward the teen, young worker, work-at-home employee and road warrior; this combination enables GSM and CDMA mobile providers to offer converged, single-number service that is consistently delivered to the user interface of choice - mobile phone or PC.

BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, announced that TelCove, a leading provider of business-critical telecommunications services, has selected BroadSoft's VoIP application software as its platform for delivering high-value VoIP services. Deployed in core nodes in Pittsburgh and Atlanta, BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform lets TelCove deliver VoIP services over fiber to medium and large enterprises in 70 metropolitan areas in the eastern United States. TelCove builds and operates its own SONET-based network, providing fiber directly to the customer premises and delivering carrier-class services with 24-hour monitoring and maintenance.

Here is the official press release of the Microsoft and MCI joining to provide Windows Live Messenger with PC-to-Phone calling.

Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. announced a global, multiyear partnership to provide software and services that enable customers to place calls from a personal computer to virtually any phone. The solution, MCI Web Calling for Windows Live Call, will be available through Windows Live Messenger, the upcoming successor to MSN Messenger, which has more than 185 million active accounts around the world. The solution combines Windows Live software, advanced voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capabilities and the strengths of MCI's expansive global network to give consumers an easy-to-use, convenient and cost-effective way to stay connected.