MediaRing Talk is offering an Unlimited Free calling promotion that has added three new destinations – Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. With these three new countries, MediaRing now extends its unlimited free calls to a total of eight key destinations globally.

Sign-up for free for MediaRing’s soft-phone based VoIP service at http://www.mediaringtalk.com and you will be able to place unlimited free calls to:

• Fixed lines to Australia, Taiwan and United Kingdom
• Fixed / Mobile lines to Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and USA.
• MediaRing Unlimited Free calls promotion to these eight destinations will end on April 30th 2007.

Similar to Skype, MediaRing Talk provides an intuitive soft-phone client. MediaRing Talk offers unlimited PC-to-PC calls worldwide along with instant text messaging, voice conferencing, text collaboration, and many more features. As with SkypeOut, MediaRing’s PC-to-Phone service offers highly competitive rates to call landline or mobile phones anywhere in the world.

For additional information, please refer to the Terms & Conditions of the promotion on their website – http://www.mediaringtalk.com/

SIPphone launched its web-based SMS service Gizmo SMS, located at gizmosms.com. Gizmo SMS lets people easily send SMS text messages to mobile phones around the world, from any web browser, for free. No registration or account setup required.

Gizmo SMS now allows users to send SMS messages from any web browser, for free. At gizmosms.com, users enter a mobile number, select the country of the number, type a message, and click send. Gizmo SMS allows users to compose messages using a full size keyboard, instead of a mobile device, making it easier to type long messages. Gizmo SMS now provides one of the easiest and fastest ways to send text messages.

Vocalocity has announced a partnership with VoIPSupply.com. The partnership is designed to showcase Vocalocity's Hosted PBX product. This is the first partnership of its kind for both companies who hope to capitalize on the numerous small and medium size businesses converting toward VoIP.

Vocalocity is confident that if interested buyers have the opportunity to test the service, they will be hooked and ultimately convert into long-term Vocalocity customers. Through this unique offering with VoipSupply.com, interested buyers are offered 500 minutes of VocalocityPBX service with the purchase of one of the recommended IP phones.

David Politis, Vocalocity's Executive Vice President and GM, explains the goals of this partnership. "We hope to give the small business owner a chance to experience the benefits of a full featured Hosted PBX," says Politis. His confidence in the product echoes through his willingness to allow potential customers to test the service with no strings attached.

Camrivox launches Microsoft Office Outlook integration for its Flexor 500 IP phone, a further extension of its Computer Telephony Integration capabilities.

With Camrivox’s Flexor 500 IP Phone, "call business" and "call mobile" buttons are added to Microsoft Outlook contacts, making dialing a contact a single-click task. When an incoming call is received, a pop-up window shows the relevant Outlook contact. The Outlook Journal also records details of all calls.

"The Outlook integration on the Flexor 500 is way ahead of all products in this class, which gives resellers and service providers a great opportunity to bring these advanced capabilities, previously associated only with enterprise-level VoIP installations, to small and medium sized businesses" said David Moorhouse, VP of marketing at Camrivox. "This increases the productivity and efficiency of business users by adding new capabilities and features to the most used business application"

RapidSolution Software unveiles the first release of Scramby, a new add-on for internet telephones. Scramby is a Vocoder add-on for VoIP software telephones like Skype. It allows users to use distortion effects to give their voices another sound or personality, and to add background noises and "fun-sounds" into the audio stream to give their conversations a more personal and entertaining touch.

Players of Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) and Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) usually communicate with each other using headsets and VoIP technology like Teamspeak. With Scramby, players are able to alter their voices to take on the voices of the characters their game figures represent. For example, a World-of-Warcraft or Dungeons & Dragons player could use Scramby's VST effects to become the powerful Ork, the little elf, the evil warlock or the terrifying barbarian warrior. Users can associate Scramby's various functions with keyboard shortcuts as desired to make them quickly and easily accessible during the game.

AGN and Sipera partner to offer secure SIP trunking for AGN's IP telephony deployments. The AGN Sipera partnership represents a powerful new dynamic in VoIP services and will enable AGN to integrate the Sipera IPCS product into its OnDemand SIP offering. The innovative secure SIP trunking solution utilizes next generation Secure Real-Time Protocol and Transport Layer Security, combining SIP trunking and real-time, end-to-end secure communications from service providers to end customers.

The partnership demonstrates Sipera's leadership in VoIP security and further recognizes AGN's reputation as a pioneer in the Internet telephony industry as one of the first VoIP services providers to support and deploy a secure SIP trunking platform.

SunRocket and American Telecom Services launch a fully certified DECT 6.0 cordless multi-handset Internet phone powered by SunRocket. The E6501S DECT phone will be available through nationwide retail channels beginning this month, starting with one of the nation's largest office superstores.

With an integrated router, users no longer require a separate Internet phone adapter, as full VoIP capabilities are already built in. In addition, because the DECT 6.0 phone operates in the 1.9 GHz frequency band, defined by the FCC specifically for cordless phones, the DECT phone avoids interference problems associated with home networks and other wireless devices operating in the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequencies -- such as Wi-Fi, microwave ovens and garage door openers.

It seems as of today VoIPAction.com is up for sale, which isn't a big surprise with all the new VoIP websites popping up. We're not interested in the domain, but I couldn't help wondering what the asking price is and the reasoning for wanting to sell? If anyone knows or has heard anything about what an established VoIP portal website goes for these days I'd be interested in hearing.

Australia's largest business trade show will play host to a number of internationally acclaimed business leaders in 2007. CeBIT Australia, to be held in Sydney's Darling Harbour from May 1-3, will feature keynotes and speakers from some of the worlds leading minds:

• Google, USA: Dave Girouard, Vice President & General Manager of Enterprise,
• Mozilla Corporation USA: Ms. Mitchell Baker; President
• IBM Corporation, USA: Mary Ann Fisher, Linux Program Executive, Public Sector,
• Sun Microsystems, USA: Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer
• Digium, USA: Mark Spencer, Chairman & CTO
• Salesforce.com, USA, Jim Steele , Worldwide President
• From Germany: Christian Wullf Minister-President of Lower Saxony
• From Sweden: Professor Hans Rosling , Professor of International Health;
• From Israel: Dr Isaac Shariv , former CEO, Yeda Research and Development Co.

Citel launches the Portico Telephone VoIP Adapter, enabling enterprises to quickly and affordably convert existing PBX phones into IP phones over existing wiring infrastructure. The Portico platform delivers the features and functionality of VoIP without the costs associated with typical “rip and replace” VoIP migration solutions, such as network upgrades, new handsets, and retraining.

Citel’s Portico TVA connects legacy PBX handsets to a premise-based IP PBX or Hosted IP service provider network and dramatically reduces the expenditure and disruption usually associated with IP telephony migration. High-value VoIP features and services pass through Portico TVA directly to existing PBX handsets over existing wiring, transforming them into new IP phones. With Portico, enterprises avoid the expense of a LAN assessment, LAN upgrade, and new IP handsets. A laptop or desktop web browser is used for enhanced VoIP features such as click to call, simultaneous ringing, and Microsoft Outlook integration.

Panasonic announces the availability of the Panasonic Wi-Fi phone for use with Skype, the world's fastest-growing Internet communications offering.

The KX-WP1050, an easy to install and use Wi-Fi Panasonic product, is one in a series of planned products that are Skype Certified. This new device uses Wi-Fi access to allow Skype users to make and receive free Skype-to-Skype calls, make inexpensive SkypeOut calls to landlines and mobiles worldwide, and receive SkypeIn calls from landlines and mobiles. With the included Wi-Fi base unit, the solution is simple to plug in and use, without using a PC.

"With the growing popularity of Skype and the mass availability of broadband in homes, offices and hotels, the KX-WP1050 will be a powerful communications tool for anyone who wants to take advantage of easily accessible and either free or inexpensive Internet calling," said Mike Timar, national marketing manager, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. "This exciting product will enable greater flexibility in communications for both home and business users."

Fusion will showcase its Efonica VoIP products and services at this year's CeBIT from March 15th - 21st in Hannover, Germany.

CeBIT is the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. Fusion will be demonstrating its full suite of Efonica VoIP services, including retail and corporate focused VoIP solutions to CeBIT's key target groups representing the industry, wholesale and retail sectors, banks, and government agencies.

"Fusion is excited to bring its revolutionary Efonica VoIP products and services to CeBIT this year. We believe the visibility and business possibilities presented at CeBIT represent significant opportunities for Fusion to build our network of partners and broaden our retail distribution network for Efonica's premium VoIP products," said Matthew Rosen, President and CEO of Fusion.

Plantronics put the pedal to the metal with the launch of the Sound Coach, a 44-foot long mobile marketing unit designed to educate and train Plantronics' valued channel partners and end-users on the benefits of wireless headset solutions in the office, at home and on the go.

The Plantronics "Sound Innovation Experience" tour includes:

• self-guided iPod audio tours that highlight Plantronics' legacy of sound innovation, headset technology fundamentals and emerging trends driving headset usage for both businesses and consumers,
• product demonstrations that feature Plantronics' newest corded and wireless solutions for use with office, home and mobile phones, and for popular applications such as, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Unified Communications and PC and console gaming,
• an immersive presentation focused on current headset market opportunities with tips on identifying the ideal Plantronics headset, and
• a brief Q&A session with a Plantronics specialist to receive a certificate of completion confirming their education on Plantronics' award-winning offerings.

The Plantronics Sound Coach's first stop is at the VoiceCon Spring tradeshow, March 5-8, 2007 in Orlando, Florida. The Sound Coach will then visit numerous cities in Florida before driving across the U.S.

DigiLinea and SunRocket will utilize the DigiLinea Latin American VoIP Network to provide high quality, low cost direct call termination to locations throughout Latin America.

By working with DigiLinea, leading service providers have access to the DigiLinea Latin American VoIP Network, providing a turnkey suite for addressing the needs of the US Hispanic market. Once interconnected with the DigiLinea Latin American VoIP Network, service providers can quickly and efficiently launch customized VoIP offerings, and at the same time, dramatically lower termination costs on calls to Latin America while increasing service provider revenue and profits per line.

Sonim and KPN have launched the first standard’s based Push-To-Talk system. Effective today, KPN’s enterprise customers will have access to Sonim’s XP1 “tough phone” mobile telephones as Walkie-Talkies.

Sonim hopes to help wireless operators around the world replicate Nextel’s success in the United States by bringing a comprehensive, OMA standards-based Push-To-Talk system to operators and enterprises in Europe. This open approach to integrated mobile VoIP services utilizing IMS is being embraced by companies and operators across Europe, most notably with KPN, Telefonica Móviles and Dialect, a large value added reseller in Sweden.

"With Sonim’s XP1 handset and robust push-to-talk service, we anticipate a strong launch today, offering businesses an affordable group communications system that supports a uniform standard across different mobile telephones. From KPN’s point of view, Sonim is the ideal partner when it comes to supplying these services to our customers,” explains Eelco Blok, a member of the Board of Management of KPN. “Sonim offers a unique combination of Push to Talk applications and equipment, which means that we are able to offer the best and most comprehensive communications solution that is currently available on the market.”