Voxbone opened its new Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore. At the same time, Voxbone also announced the appointment of Lee Tian Yew as vice president for Asia Pacific to direct its sales, business development and operations in the region. Furthermore, Voxbone said it had received licenses to operate in both Japan and Hong Kong. Voxbone now operates in 44 countries and 5,000 cities globally.

Boingo announces that owners of Wi-Fi enabled Sony Ericsson UIQ 3.0 handsets can now download the Boingo Mobile application to get online worldwide at more than 80,000 Boingo hotspots. Boingo Mobile identifies hotspots that are part of the Boingo Wi-Fi network and automatically authenticates users. Boingo’s network includes more than 500 airports including 85 of the top 100 airports worldwide – as well as hotels, coffee shops, restaurants, cafés and retail locations.

AT&T U-verse Voice in launches in parts of Northeastern Illinois, bringing consumers a next-generation digital voice service delivered over the AT&T U-verse Internet Protocol network. U-verse Voice brings together your AT&T home phone, wireless, broadband and TV services all on one bill with unique features that provide a new level of integration, convenience and control.

Avistar has been granted an additional U.S. patent: 7,421,470, relating to dynamically changeable associations between users and endpoint devices -- such as desktop computers, laptops, PDAs and cell phones. Issued today, September 2, 2008, this latest patent, which joins two other VoIP patents issued during the past two months, expands Avistar's intellectual property coverage in the areas of login-based, real-time VoIP and text-based instant messaging.

3CX announces the release of a totally free new VoIP phone that allows users to make and receive calls from their computer using popular VoIP providers or SIP servers. 3CX VoIP Phone, unlike other free soft phones, has a straight forward, business-style interface and includes important business features such as call transfer.

3CX VoIP Phone has a user-friendly and intuitive interface with dial pad and buttons that make transferring or forwarding calls a breeze. It also allows users to review their history of calls, put calls on hold, to easily accept, reject or ignore calls with a mouse click, and much more.