Toshiba's Telecommunication Systems Division announces the availability of its new IP5000-series IP telephones, bringing a new modern design, backlit displays and built-in Gigabit Ethernet switch that supports high-speed network connections directly to the desktop, providing exceptional performance and sound quality. Now available, the IP5000-series telephones are compatible with the Toshiba Strata CIX family of IP business communications systems.

Features of Toshiba’s new IP5000 telephones include:

• New Design — Sleek, low profile design (less than one inch thick) with stylish tilt stand offering eight adjustable positions and integrated headset interface provide an ergonomic and elegant desktop device. The telephones have a modern look with a black body, dark grey keys and a silver tilt stand.
• Ease of Use — Large, easy-to-read backlit LCD screen makes it easier for users to see, access and use the telephone’s sophisticated features.
• High Performance and Sound Quality — Built-in dual Gigabit Ethernet ports support high-speed network connections directly to the desktop, providing enhanced VoIP performance and sound quality. This is a standard feature on all the IP5000 models.
• Mobility — Toshiba’s IP5000 telephones can be moved around the office or taken home for use virtually anywhere there is Internet access.
• Remote Use — When used remotely, Toshiba’s IP5000 telephones deliver all the features as if they were being used at the office, including both incoming and outgoing Caller ID, direct extension calling and more.
• No compromises – Toshiba’s IP5000 telephones include all the features and functionality of Toshiba’s digital telephones, enabling users to have the best of traditional telephone features in an IP telephone.

Emergency CallWorx will publicly demonstrate its products for the first time at the National Emergency Number Association Annual 9-1-1 Conference in Tampa, Florida from June 7-12, 2008. This event will be the first public appearance of Emergency CallWorx.

Emergency CallWorx was created to solve the multi-decade challenges associated with truly integrating the call-taking portion of E9-1-1 with the Computer Aided Dispatching process that many Public Safety Answering Point and Dispatch centers use today. The majority of agencies cannot produce a report that accurately tracks an emergency call from receipt to conclusion of a dispatched incident. While legacy vendors are scrambling to add Next Generation 9-1-1 and VoIP base functionality, Emergency CallWorx started with those building blocks, focusing on the valuable benefits that go beyond mere compliance. Emergency CallWorx applications enable more efficient call-taking and dispatch operations, comply with FCC mandates for wireless E9-1-1 calls, accommodate non-traditional communications and resolve aging legacy support issues most agencies face today.

VoSKY has added Noanet Distribuciones as a distributor for its award-winning line of VoSKY Exchange PBX-to-Skype application gateways. Under the terms of the agreement, Noanet will market and sell the full VoSKY Exchange product line through its network of approximately 200 Value Added Resellers throughout Spain, Portugal, and France.

VoSKY Exchange gateways seamlessly connect a company's IP or TDM PBX to Skype, the world's largest VoIP community, without any modifications to the existing telephony infrastructure, desk phones, and user PCs. As a result, Noanet resellers can meet the growing demand for Skype in the business environment and offer low-cost, easily deployable, value-added VoIP solutions.

I'd like to take this opportunity to invite our readers and potential VoIP employers to check out our new VoIP Jobs listing. We recently switched from using Careerbuilder to Job-a-matic. With Job-a-matic, our listings are displayed across the Simply Hired network, which means they'll be seen at sites like Simply Hired, LinkedIn, and MySpace.

So get started today and checkout our current VoIP Jobs and VoIP employers looking to hire can post a job for only $50 for 30 days!

A brief update on two new versions of the fring clients for Nokia Symbian & Windows Mobile released:

First, fring for Symbian (version 3.35): with the huge support of the fring community, this version is all about addressing bugs, improving stability & enhancing sound quality. Also in this version we have enabled file transfer with Yahoo and Skype buddies. See more in our blog.

Second, we are very happy to deliver a new version (3.24) for Windows Mobile devices. This version added auto-roaming between 3G and WiFi , the option to manually manage your WLAN settings in fring, support fringME widget and also this version is multilingual in 8 languages (including English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, simplified Chinese, Italian and Russian) more info in our blog.

Paradial and VIVOphone announce that VIVOphone has enhanced their VoIP service with Paradial's RealTunnel firewall and NAT traversal solution. RealTunnel, which supports ICE, STUN, TURN and SSL tunnelling techniques, enables VIVOphone to deliver VoIP services that otherwise is prevented from working due to firewalls, NATs and web proxies.

"VIVOphone's decision to partner with Paradial demonstrates how high quality service providers can improve service quality and reliability without end users or IT managers having to jeopardize security by modifying firewalls that otherwise interfere with VoIP traffic.", said Ingvar Aaberg, Paradial CEO. "This agreement also extends our presence in North, Central and South America".

Digium and Fanstel announce a partnership that will help ensure interoperability between Fanstel telephones and Digium products. Fanstel SIP telephones are now “Digium|Asterisk Certified,” allowing companies that want the flexibility and cost-savings of a VoIP platform based on Asterisk Business Edition to benefit from full-featured Fanstel telephones.

Digium is the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, the open source voice communications software deployed by more than 4 million servers worldwide to manage VoIP calls for businesses and individuals. More resellers, telecom professionals and software developers choose Digium's products than those of any other open source telephony company because only Digium delivers the technical superiority, security and flexibility associated with Asterisk. Asterisk powers Digium’s family of software and hardware appliances, including AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox.