Barablu announces that its software is now fully compatible with Nokia's N95 smart phone. Barablu users can now use the N95 to call the mobiles and landlines of other online users anywhere in the world for free, as well as chat with them and receive video calls also for free. Barablu has been developing a free communications world and millions of consumers have since downloaded Barablu's free software driven by sheer economic sense. By installing Barablu on any suitable mobile device, consumers can use the company's peer-to-peer technology to call other online users from any hotspot anywhere in the world for as long as they like for free.

TeleCommunication announces a multi-year contract agreement under which TCS will provide Hosted Mobile Positioning Center and Hosted Position Determining Entity services for E9-1-1 to MetroPCS customers in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia. The two companies have maintained a strategic partnership since 2001.

Key to this agreement is the proven E9-1-1 technology solutions that TCS offers. TCS has provided its integrated MPC and HPDE solution longer than any other E9-1-1 vendor in the industry. Further, TCS has the only E9-1-1 TL9000 certified Network Operations Center, emphasizing its commitment to customer satisfaction, continuous improvement and performance accountability. Today, TCS provides E9-1-1 service to more than 100 million subscribers in the United States for more than 35 wireless carriers and handles more than 110,000 life saving calls daily.

AT&T announces a new VoIP service contract with Bulkmatic Transport Co., a leader in dry bulk cargo shipping and distribution. Addressing bandwidth issues and network reliability, AT&T's network solution will support traffic for more than 30 domestic locations on a consolidated, integrated platform.

Under the terms of the three-year contract, AT&T — Bulkmatic Transport Co.'s primary voice and network provider — will deploy its Private Network Transport, a fully managed network solution that runs on Multiprotocol Label Switching technology. AT&T's PNT offers any-to-any connectivity, providing secure access from Bulkmatic Transport Co.'s many locations. Additionally, the PNT solution's expanded bandwidth will enhance the stability and convenience of VoIP applications across the platform. VoIP technology provides flexibility to AT&T's customers, allowing greater convergence of data and voice applications on a single network structure.

Voxbone has been tapped by Truphone to provide the access numbers for the mobile VoIP company’s new “Truphone Anywhere” service. “Truphone Anywhere” is the latest addition to Truphone’s mobile VoIP handset software. It will work like an all-knowing, international calling card – without the card. When the Truphone-running phone is dialed and senses the presence of a WiFi network, it will convey the caller’s voice as data via the Internet.

Global IP Solutions announces that Juphoon has selected GIPS VoiceEngine IP Phone for its new VoIP Phone Reference Design. Juphoon, headquartered in China, develops and provides software, industrial protocols and services to the global multimedia communications sector.

VoiceEngine IP Phone is an extension of the GIPS VoiceEngine family. Building on the success of VoiceEngine, GIPS has created a solution that meets the highest voice processing requirements of today's hardware devices. VoiceEngine IP Phone is designed to deliver the highest quality and ease of integration in CPU based IP phones.

Telanetix has signed an agreement with the nation's largest sales lead capture provider. The new customer provides an innovative service that allows their clients to capture vital intelligence about prospects and customers. Telanetix is to provide their VoIP business solution for the organization's contact center. The agreement has a two-year term, with an estimated value of approximately $4,000,000.

The Sales Lead Information Management Industry is growing rapidly as businesses focus on optimizing the performance of all their advertising investments and generating increased sales. This industry's business solutions identify every lead their clients generate and track the online or traditional advertisement that produced it. They are designed to help their customers know exactly which marketing investments are generating responses, including tracking the online keyword buys that are generating offline phone responses

Truphone has enhanced its service to enable customers make mobile calls across the internet even when they're on the move and thus not connected to the internet. The announcement of Truphone Anywhere is a boost to mobile phone users desperate to circumvent the high cost of calling abroad when they're out and about. Truphone Anywhere benefits customers while they are in ordinary mobile reception by automatically sending the long-distance part of their call over the internet, significantly reducing the total cost of the call.

ACN has launched its VoIP Phone Service with Video Phone in Puerto Rico, marking the company’s expansion into the Latin America market. VoIP phone service is the newest advancement in telecommunication tools. It uses the customer’s broadband computer connection to channel telephone calls. ACN Digital Phone Service utilizes VoIP technology and saves customers money with free calls to the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada for a low monthly rate. Each customer has their own phone number, which can be the same one they’ve already got if they switch to ACN Digital Phone Service.

PacStar has entered into an agreement with General Dynamics C4 Systems to resell the Sectera vIPer Universal Secure phone. The vIPer is a secure, end-to-end VoIP and PSTN phone system that will replace Secure Telephone Unit and Secure Terminal Equipment units currently in use by the Department of Defense, the military and its allies.

Incorporating the latest in secure desktop technology, the Sectera vIPer phone eliminates the need for multiple desktop phones. The vIPer phone is currently compatible with VoIP networks implemented using Cisco SCCP (Skinny Call Control Protocol). Built to provide seamless communications with legacy secure phones, the secure vIPer phone is software programmable with extensive memory to easily accommodate future upgrades and functionality. Without impacting user-entered information stored in your phone's memory (e.g., speed dial numbers), the vIPer phone can be easily upgraded for PSTN networks and SIP VoIP networks.

The Green Power Internet Café Union has agreed with Buzz Technologies to 'hardwire' all of their PC homepages to the Chinese Language Version of www.12buzz.com. They will also begin testing the BuzzTel VoIP platform.

Green Power Internet Café Union consists of over 10,000 PCs in 50 plus Internet Café locations, bringing the total number of PCs dedicated to Buzz in China to 40,000. Internet cafe PCs' market size in China is between 6 million and 10 million units, and these PCs are upgraded every 18 months. Buzz is aiming to capture the majority of these PCs through working with the various Internet Café Unions and rolling out VoIP, ISP and regional IT services across the country in an effort to catch the 2 market leaders in China, Google and Baidu.

Appia Communications is making available a white paper on VoIP Security.

“VoIP security is not yet a major problem, but if the history of the Internet is any guide, it will be,” said Victor von Schlegell, Appia’s president and the paper’s author.

“The purpose of the white paper is to provide a brief, high-level and non-technical overview of the challenges of VoIP security. Our goal is to inform owners and managers so that they can ensure that their organizations are prepared when VoIP security becomes an issue,” continued von Schlegell.

JAJAH announces its integration with MobileTribe, a service-based application that gives people access to their online social networks at any time from their mobile phone. In addition to aggregating multiple social communities such as Yahoo!, MySpace and Facebook on mobile devices, MobileTribe revolutionizes the user experience by providing rich content and value added services such as messaging, alerts, Yahoo! email -- and now JAJAH phone calls -- all from your cell phone.

Integrating JAJAH's voice service into the MobileTribe application enriches real-time communications between friends in social communities and makes them reachable anywhere in the world, without having to pay additional roaming charges. Users simply select their friends' picture to make the JAJAH call.

AT&T announces that, in the next month, the company will deploy High Speed Uplink Packet Access technology in the six remaining markets across AT&T's entire 3G (third-generation) wireless broadband network. When done, AT&T will have completed its deployment of HSUPA technology, which complements existing HSDPA technology, making AT&T the only U.S. carrier to have fully deployed HSPA technology in its 3G network.

Today the superfast AT&T 3G network is available in more than 275 markets. By year-end, the AT&T 3G network will be available in nearly 350 markets

JAJAH has integrated its Internet telephony technology into the Chumby Network via the JAJAH Widget. Now chumby users who are also JAJAH customers can initiate free or low-cost phone calls on home phones and cell phones using JAJAH's global calling services. More than 10 million people have already signed up for a free and easy to use JAJAH account, which does not require any download, headset or contract.

Chumby is a compact, LCD touch screen device that connects via a wireless Internet connection to give people a fun, hassle-free way to enjoy what they want most out of the Internet. Always on, the chumby offers the latest news, weather and entertainment as well as the ability to share photos, widgets, e-cards and more. Chumby users will now be able to place local or global JAJAH calls on home and cell phones.

The Telecom Broker specializes in assisting medium sized businesses to determine VoIP migration paths and best value from among the many players in the VoIP marketplace. After careful section, the firm has chosen Smoothstone IP Communications as one of its main players in the fully managed PBX marketplace.

Especially attractive was Smoothstone's next generation, nationwide private IP network and fully managed PBX offerings combined with their use of CISCO customer equipment, including a full line of IP handsets and edge devices. Smoothstone also offers managed Wide Area Network data services including Internet access.