Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "VoIP Sector Analysis Report" report to their offering. Once viewed as a novel, only glibly "game-changing" technology, VoIP has since gone mainstream. Residential and business VoIP subscriptions and product sales are now out-pacing their circuit-switched counterparts by nearly 90% year over year. This trend not only reflects the growing demand for VoIP and VoIP-related services, but also expresses consumer confidence in telephony's newest iteration.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium announce they have teamed up to host two new training courses at Digium|Asterisk World, February 2-4, 2009 in Miami, Florida. Digium|Asterisk World is collocated with TMC’s popular INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2009 (ITEXPO) at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

FreedomVOICE Systems released their FreedomIQ Dialer, a new and improved contact dialing add-in for Microsoft Outlook. This add-in is compatible with their FreedomIQ hosted VoIP PBX and provides users with an easy way to reach contacts without having to dial a phone number.

What differentiates FreedomIQ Dialer from many other contact dialing add-ins is the ability to automatically connect with a wireless headset. Users with such headsets can select the number to dial and immediately hear the outbound call being placed.

Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the new .tel top level domain, announced that a significant number of telecommunications organizations were not only registering their brands for .tel domains but were investigating the .tel as a platform for added-value services themselves.

Numerous operators, including fixed-line, mobile or VoIP companies, including Orange, Vodafone, Hutchison 3G, T-Mobile, Sprint, Virgin Mobile and Skype, have all supported the new communications-focused .tel TLD by securing their brands.

Truphone announces its Truphone Anywhere application for Android-enabled mobile handsets, including the recently released G1 phone. The application is available now as a download on the Android Market in the UK and the US.

To coincide with T-Mobile’s announcement earlier this week of the availability of the G1 mobile phone in March 2009, a German version of Truphone Anywhere for Android is available and will be the first native language multi-communications application in the Android Market in Germany and Austria when it launches at CeBIT 2009.

Truphone Anywhere for Android delivers an all-in-one conversations hub that allows customers to take advantage of Truphone’s low international call rates, in addition to the cost of a local call.

Rack-Soft announces their partnership agreement to distribute 4PSA VoipNow, the Integrated Communications System in Asia-Pacific region. Digital Techniques (Asia) provides a highly refined selection of quality hardware and software products developed and implemented using innovative engineering techniques, primarily based on Open Source. The company is the regional distributor for many other VoIP products.

Edgewater Networks announces the availability of active line VoIP testing for EdgeMarc Network Services Gateways and the EdgeView VoIP Support System. Active line VoIP testing is an integrated on-demand troubleshooting tool offered in the EdgeMarc and EdgeView products that allows Service Providers and Enterprise customers to place test VoIP calls to and from deployed EdgeMarcs without requiring remote assistance from field technicians or end-users.

Westcon Group has signed an agreement with RedSky Technologies to distribute two of its high-performance E911 software solutions. These solutions E911 Manager and E911 Anywhere are both now available through Westcon Group North America. In addition, RedSky is participating in Westcon's ConvergencePoint program.

RedSky's flagship product, E911 Manager, is a high performance enterprise-wide server-based E911 solution that works within Avaya, Cisco and Nortel networking environments. Meanwhile, RedSky's E911 Anywhere Hosted solution, delivers E911 functionality to SMBs through a monthly service plan.

VoSKY announces global channel success with six new distributors and 358 new resellers appointed worldwide in 2008, to help support and carry out plans for growth in order to capitalise on the increasing business demand for its VoSKY Exchange PBX-to- Skype application gateways.

This takes VoSKY's total of worldwide distributors to 16, and its number of VoSKY premier partners to a total of 610 worldwide. This global network of channel partners will play a key role in helping VoSKY to provide superior service and support to the global SMB and enterprise markets.

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i2Telecom announced its mobile phone solution, MyGlobalTalk, has been accepted by Google for inclusion on its Android Marketplace and is now available for G1 Google Phone users have already begun signing up. By downloading the application for MyGlobalTalk from their G1 Google Phone, users can realize significant savings on their international and long-distance calls.

Voxbone introduced its new browser-based configuration tools that give its clients more self-sufficiency, flexibility and control over their use of DID services. These tools allow carriers to make many cost-vs-voice-quality tradeoffs previously made for them. They also enable customers to save money while ensuring call completion through pooled trunking capacity, redundancy and load balancing.

Technology Marketing Corporation announced the winners of 2008 Product of the Year Awards, as selected by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Recipients of the 11th Annual Product of the Year Awards represent the most innovative new products as selected by INTERNET TELEPHONY editors. Launched in 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY is the premier publication covering the IP communications industry.

Ingate extends its firewall certification from ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, to now include its VoIP module. This add-on certification assures users that the product meets ICSA Labs' strict requirements for successfully supporting VoIP traffic, while the firewall blocks VoIP security threats and properly mitigate them.

i2Telecom's MyGlobalTalk has been submitted to Apple for inclusion on its iPhone App Store. MyGlobalTalk is a free downloadable application that will allow iPhone users to place inexpensive phone calls to destinations anywhere in the world for as little as two to three cents per minute via their carriers’ cellular voice networks. This contrasts sharply with the current methods in which users place regular calls via their mobile phone service providers at prices that can easily reach or exceed one dollar per minute when calling locations outside of the United States.