Voxeo Corporation announces a $9 million minority investment by North Atlantic Capital and the Florida Growth Fund. Voxeo will use the funds to take advantage of rapidly growing opportunities in Unlocked Communications, including VoIP platforms, Interactive Voice Response, text and instant messaging, and unified communications, both by accelerating internal development and through corporate acquisitions. Voxeo has acquired three companies over the last 14 months.

TalkSwitch announces the launch of two IP phones, giving customers more choice, features and functionality. The phones run with TalkSwitch Management Software 6.12, which features a newly engineered line optimization tool and automatic VoIP service provider configuration.

These sophisticated, easy-to-use phones feature crystal-clear sound and exceptional speakerphones. Customers will hear the difference. They have big, bright multicolor programmable appearance keys for one-touch access to lines, extensions, queues, and features.

BroadSoft announces the expansion of its Belfast operations to support the company's growth in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. BroadSoft has worked with large carriers in Europe since 2002, and opened its European Headquarters at Northern Ireland Science Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2006. Due to rapid growth, BroadSoft has more than doubled its space requirement in the past three years. BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform is currently deployed by more than 100 service providers in the European market, including Telefonica, T-Systems, TDC, Slovak Telecom, Belgacom and KPN, and in more IP Multimedia Subsystem networks worldwide than any other application server.

XOP Network announces that San Isabel Telecom is using the XOP Networks' Universal Service Node with simultaneous T1 and SIP connectivity to provide voice mail to both traditional and VoIP customers. San Isabel Telecom is a facilities-based provider of voice and data services in several mountain regions of Colorado. The company was started by Doug Wagner in 1996 to meet the communications needs of the ever-growing Vail Valley. San Isabel also serves the Aspen and Basalt areas.

Zoiper WEB introduces communication functionality to any web application and VoIP-enables any website making Zoiper WEB beneficial for any business environment.

Zoiper WEB requires no desktop client-software installations, which have to be stored and configured – it simply eliminates any complexity by providing instant access to any services and products upon website visit or upon first use of a web application. This results in increase of the sales conversion rates, and drastically reduces website, shopping cart, or web application abandonment.

VoIP-PAL.com announces the expansion of its Product Development Division to fast track the launch of its first reseller program,www.PointsPhone.com. In addition, they will build the reseller websites and back-end for www.loyaltyphone.com and www.rewardsphone.com, all of which will be "powered by VoIP-PAL" and will include VoIP-Pal's new Mobil VoIP service to be offered at launch.

VocalTec disclosed their integrated WiMAX VoIP solution today at the AfricaCom Conference and Exhibition. The companies announced that they will collaborate on the provisioning of WiMAX VoIP solutions to service providers in emerging telecom markets.

The joint offering enables the delivery of both broadband and voice services to remote areas where traditional access is unavailable, assuring interoperability and ease of deployment. It also allows service providers to effectively provide high quality VoIP services to their subscribers at low cost.

VoicePulse announces the immediate availability of phone numbers in the 605 area code for business and residential customers. VoicePulse now offers numbers in 32 rate centers across South Dakota, more than four times as many as well-known competitor, Vonage who currently has availability in just seven rate centers . VoicePulse now offers more coverage in the state of South Dakota than any other pure-play VoIP provider.

Ingate announces that the Ingate SIParator and SIP Trunking software module are compliant with key SIP trunking and IP telephony PBX and Unified Communication solutions from Avaya. The SIParator helps businesses connect IP-PBXs and Unified Communication solutions to Internet telephony service providers' SIP trunk offerings instead of conventional PRI trunks, giving them both lower cost and more features for their telephony connection. The SIParator also makes it possible for home workers and road warriors to use the company PBX and allows Unified Communication to be global, stretching outside the Local Area Networ. The SIParator and Ingate SIP Trunking software module are now compliance tested by Avaya for compatibility with the Avaya Aura Session Manager 1.1 SIP Trunking, Avaya Aura Communication Manager 5.2 and Avaya Aura SES 4.2. This is in addition to Ingate's existing certification with other Avaya IP telephony solutions.

Broadcom is offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free and without any licensing fees. As a direct response to customer demand for advanced, high-quality voice solutions and development tools, Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code as open source software under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Internationally recognized small business author, columnist and speaker Steven Strauss will conduct a free webinar discussing the advantages of VoIP phone service for small business over traditional phone service on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Sponsored by IP communications solution provider 8x8, the webinar is intended to explain, in layman's terms, how VoIP technology works and how it enables companies to operate smarter and more efficiently while simultaneously reducing monthly overhead expenses.

Nimbuzz launches NimbuzzOut, offering great value international calls at the lowest possible rates, to complement its multi award-winning mobile application offering free VoIP calls, SIP calls and social IM aggregation.

NimbuzzOut Credits will be available for purchase, enabling users to save up to 95% on the cost of a traditional international mobile call.

Doddle allows users to make VoIP calls anywhere in the world via Doddle’s web based SIP phone directly from their webpages. With Doddle’s free online phone service, no registration is required and VoIP is as easy as accessing a webpage. Users just begin using.

Doddle’s web based phone allows anyone to add phone capabilities to their web applications, including websites, portals, social networks and blogs such as Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Blogger and more, so that web visitors can make calls directly from the webpage. Twitter tweets can truly make sounds with an instant call link.

Skype has appointed Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg as Chief Technology Strategist, effective immediately. Reporting to Daniel Berg, Skype’s Chief Technology Officer, Rosenberg will be responsible for shaping and driving the company’s technology strategies and overall architecture to continue delivering a best-in-class Skype experience to users around the world.

Technology Marketing Corporation announces that Digium CEO Danny Windham has accepted its invitation to deliver a Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010, taking place January 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, FL.

Mr. Windham’s presentation, which takes place Thursday, January 21st at 9:45AM EST, will address the evolution of Open Source as a mature telephony platform that is experiencing extensive growth in enterprise, government and carrier markets. Open to all ITEXPO attendees, this session will also be a centerpiece of the fourth annual Digium|Asterisk World conference, which is collocated with ITEXPO East 2010.