Raketu announces the release of Raketu Mobile Video Calling. With Raketu's new mobile video calling, mobile users on WiFi or data services will now be able to make video calls completely free. Mobile users will also be able to make voice to voice calls, mobile to mobile or mobile to desktop, over WiFi or data, completely free. Mobile and desktop users can also take advantage of Raketu's low dialout calling rates at up to 65% lower than Skype's. Raketu provides the most flexibility of calling with computer to computer, computer to phone, and phone to phone calls. Raketu users can even make calls directly from any browser without a download. And it's available using Raketu's calling plans or at Raketu's ultra-low rates -- all from any device, anywhere in the world, mobile or desktop/laptop.

Digium releases the TCE400B PCI Express card for use with voice applications based on the open source Asterisk telephony platform. The new card provides hardware-based voice compression and decompression (codec) capabilities to shift transcoding from software to hardware. Using the TCE400B in place of a software-only solution places fewer demands on servers and frees up Asterisk to more efficiently process calls and to provide functionality for phone systems such as call recording, conference calling and interactive voice response.

ManageEngine announces an update to its VoIP quality monitoring solution, VQManager, focused on meeting the management requirements of VoIP service providers. The latest release, VQManager 6.2, greatly improves on the application's existing VoIP packet processing capability, making it possible to support larger VoIP environments, monitoring up to 1000 simultaneous VoIP calls. And because larger environments are apt to have multiple operating systems, the new VQManager is designed to perform equally well on different versions and flavors of Windows and Linux operating systems.

IPtimize has acquired the assets and operating network of National Telecom & Broadband Services, a Florida corporation including Teliphonex, their business-class VoIP hosted PBX solution. Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, the commercial VoIP business assets acquired by IPtimize serve small business and enterprise customers in multiple metropolitan areas including West Palm Beach, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, Florida. The acquisition adds approximately 1,000 customer lines served by IPtimize and adds both expanded geographic reach and an established commercial customer base to the growing VoIP business at IPtimize.

Truphone has added 11 additional Nokia handsets to the list of devices compatible with Truphone and whose owners can now ring up big savings by taking advantage of Truphone’s broad range of calling plans and services. With the addition of the 11 new handsets, Truphone is now compatible on 26 Nokia devices. Of those, software for 14 of the Truphone-compatible devices can now be downloaded from Nokia’s new Ovi store, with the software for 11 of the remaining 12 new devices to be added to the Ovi store soon.

DynaSis announces its new partnership with IP phone system provider Fonality to offer small to medium sized businesses access to affordable Atlanta VoIP solutions comparable to large business phone systems. The barrier to entry for VoIP in Atlanta for most small to midsized businesses has long been the cost involved with installing and maintaining a full scale VoIP solution that can provide the sound quality and features enterprise solutions offer. Enterprise solutions are often costly to maintain because they require a skilled IT professional for minor issues such as simple additions or deletions of extensions, and most of the cost savings realized from long distance savings are eaten up by maintenance and initial installation costs.

JAJAH has connected one billion calls since it launched its platform. The company, which began as a web-activated-telephony service, has evolved to become the world's leading communications platform, partnering with telecommunications and technology companies such as Intel, Microsoft and Yahoo!

Voxbone has been chosen by Nimbuzz to provide local access numbers. Nimbuzz is using Voxbone to enable its users to make voice calls – without benefit of 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity – to their contacts on any of all popular IM and VoIP services, including Gizmo5 and Skype.

FreedomVOICE announces the launch of the brand new FreedomIQ Hosted VoIP Blog. The blog will act as a resource for the VoIP industry. FreedomVOICE feels that the FreedomIQ Hosted VoIP PBX is the perfect product to be represented by a blog. Blogs are a tool for free expression, and this is something the company values as an integral part of their corporate culture.

XConnect has received a 2009 Innovation Award from Global Telecoms Business magazine. The award was presented to XConnect and the Korea Internet Neutral eXchange in the IP Services Innovation category, for creating a national Korean NGN/VoIP-peering federation, which was announced in December and began operating in March.

IPEVO announces that 18 USO centers across the Pacific Region will deploy its S0-10 Skype Desktop Phone and S0-20 Wi-Fi Phone for Skype devices. Using Skype and the IPEVO phones, more than 890,000 troops and their families that use the centers each year will now have a free communications link back home, without the need for a computer to make calls.

Technology Marketing Corporation named TCS' VoIP Verify 9-1-1 Service as recipient of a 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award. VoIP Verify 9-1-1 provides a comprehensive and responsive public safety solution to ensure that customers using digital VoIP telephones are E9-1-1 compatible.

MediaRing is helping families stay connected by now offering free PC-to-phone calls to the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UK with no sign up fees, monthly contracts, or purchase required. Users can call any regular landline or mobile phone number in the United States, Canada, China, Hong Kong & Singapore or any landline in Australia, Taiwan or the UK. With MediaRing Talk's innovative VoIP technology, MediaRing also provides free unlimited PC-to-PC calls anywhere in the world and extremely competitive PC-to-Phone calling rates to over 220 global destinations, including 1.7 US cents per minute to India.

Taridium announces the immediate availability of the ipbx iPhone interface for its award-winning enterprise PBX solution. With the ipbx mobile interface your employees always stay ahead of the game. Visual voicemail allows them to listen to their office voicemail directly from their iPhone, check their recent calls, call users back as if they were at their desk and even host telephone conferences. This does not only save money, but also allows access to the Taridium unified voicemail system, where a single mailbox serves VoIP phones, mobile phones and any other phone that supports conditional call diversion.

Hughes Network Systems announces that its European operating entity, Hughes Europe, has completed the roll-out of a high-quality HN System solution for Telefonica Espana to deliver satellite-based VoIP rural telecommunications services. The implementation had to meet the very tight compliance deadlines imposed by the Spanish authorities, which Hughes successfully met.