Research and Markets has announced the addition of VoIPocalypse Now - How Google, Skype, and Yahoo! Will Change Fixed Telcos Models to their offering.

Why is Portal VoIP so dangerous? VoIP has been nothing short of a nightmare for fixed operators. Faced with the onerous choice of losing PSTN revenues to third-party VoIP services, or losing revenues to in-house VoIP, telcos can do little to stem the accelerated decline of voice revenues in an inevitable zero sum game.

Vistula Communications Services Inc announced that ITC, a fast-growing, leading telecommunications carrier and business Internet Service Provider in Argentina, signed a five year contract to distribute Vistula's V-Cube VoIP platform in Argentina. This would be the second V-Cube to be installed and launched in Argentina by Vistula Communications Services.

Broadband phone service comparison site VoipReview.org has launched an online search tool to help callers find the best international rate plans for the countries they call most. International callers can visit www.VoipReview.org to find, compare and purchase Internet phone service from more than 120 providers based on country, monthly cost, cost per minute, features and user ratings.

After over a year of providing high quality internet phone service in over 2,200 markets throughout the US, ViaTalk is proud to introduce its new late night menu, available for a limited time between the hours of 1am and 2am EST, at ViaTalk.Com.

You are the parent of a student in a foreign exchange program, and haven’t heard from her in three weeks. When you finally do reach her, she tells you its too expensive for her to call from the cell phone you gave her before she left. You look at her cell phone bill and realize she’s right.

pulvermedia announced that the 10th annual Fall VON Conference & Expo will take place on Sept. 11-14, at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC). This year, pulvermedia's flagship event will host a record number of attendees, exhibitors and speakers throughout the four-day event.

Pyramid Research will be hosting a Webinar titled, VoIPocalypse Now: The Impact of Skype, Google, Yahoo! on Telcos Business Models, on August 29th at 11 a.m. EST. Pyramid Research's Senior Analyst Nick Holland will moderate the event, which will examine the evolution of Portal VoIP and its effect on fixed and mobile operator revenues.

Brix Networks:

-- One Out Of Five Calls Found To Be Unacceptable According To Data From Brix Networks' TestYourVoIP.com Voice Quality Testing Portal

-- TestYourVoIP.com Also Now Available As Google Desktop Gadget

TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, announced that its security experts will be speaking and delivering training at the Black Hat USA 2006 Conference. Known for providing new and exclusive research from the top technologists in the world, this conference continues to achieve the mission of mixing the best minds of the computer underground with the world's leading security professionals. The conference will take place at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Briefings will occur on August 2 and 3 whereas training sessions begin July 29 and end on August 1.

Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, announced that according to a report entitled, "VoIP Minutes and Subscribers: 1Q06 Update," issued by iLocus, 32% of all long distance IP-based voice traffic is carried over Sonus Networks' IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-ready networks. In the second quarter of 2006, Sonus solutions drove nearly 61 billion minutes of IP voice traffic. In the month of June alone, Sonus-based networks carried 22 billion minutes of IP voice traffic, representing a nearly 70% increase compared to June 2005. The dramatic growth in traffic is attributable to a combination of factors including a number of new Sonus customers bringing their networks live, as well as the decision by major incumbent network operators to migrate more of their traffic from their traditional network infrastructures onto their Sonus-based network.

Allworx, the Small Business VoIP Company, announced the general availability of Allworx Call Assistant, a PC-based answering solution that brings the power of enterprise-class attendant consoles to small businesses. Designed to work in combination with any Allworx VoIP phone using either the Allworx 6x or 10x system, Call Assistant makes it easy for operators or receptionists to monitor the state of every line in the system - including remote phones - and efficiently dispatch calls by answering, transferring, parking or sending calls to voicemail.

Consumers are being alerted to a new form of phishing known as vishing. Malicious attempts by cybercrooks to obtain other people's personal information have moved from bulk e-mail spam to voip internet phone calls. Although Secure Computing Corporation warned of this exploit over a year ago, the scam has only recently been implemented.

Sokol & Associates, a provider of Asterisk based products and services, and Digium, the creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, will be hosting the 2006 Fall AstriCon conference from October 24-27, 2006 at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas. AstriCon, the official conference of Asterisk, the industry's first open source PBX, includes a series of tutorials, a trade show, a user conference and a developer summit.

EdenTree Technologies, innovator of lab management and test automation solutions, announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's TMC Labs division named EdenTree Lab Manager as a 2006 Innovation Award winner from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

Cedar Point Communications, Inc., the leader in packet-based voice switching technologies for the cable telecommunications industry, announced that it will demonstrate campus and institutional applications of its SAFARI C(Cubed) Multimedia Switching System at the ACUTA conference for communications technology professionals in higher education July 23-27 in San Diego.