eBay announced that the investor group led by Silver Lake, which had previously entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Skype from the company, has reached a settlement agreement with Joltid Limited and Joost N.V. that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid and ends all litigation currently pending against the investor group and eBay at the closing of the acquisition.

FreedomVOICE has proposed telecommuting as a viable option to control the spread of the H1N1 virus in the workplace.

Whether we like it or not, the H1N1 virus is among us. While the virus affects our health, it can also affect our business. But smart CEO’s are taking precautions to end the virus’s daily commute.

“If an employee is feeling ill, they should be given the opportunity to work from home if they can still be productive,” said Eric Thomas, CEO of FreedomVOICE systems. “If the entire company is infected with the flu at the same time it could be devastating.”

snom has teamed with ESTOS to ease the deployment of Microsoft TAPI-enabled business applications, like unified communications and CTI solutions. The partnership allows ESTOS’ ECSTA for snom middleware to convert snom’s Computer Telephony Integration interface protocol to the Microsoft TAPI standard. ESTOS ECSTA for snom, when used with ESTOS ProCall solutions, allows both companies to deliver unified communications and CTI functionality to medium-sized businesses and service providers.

Telchemy announces that over 120 equipment manufacturers have successfully integrated Telchemy’s VQmon software into a wide range of products, such as IP phones, VoIP Gateways, Routers, IPTV Set Top Boxes, Residential Gateways, eMTAs, Probes and Analyzers. Over 50 million units of VQmon have been shipped, representing an annual growth rate of over 50%. This number does not include an estimated 200 million additional units shipped by a number of large ISPs who license VQmon on a subscription model basis.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium announce that all exhibit space has sold out at their Digium|Asterisk World 2010 conference, collocated with ITEXPO East 2010, January 20-22, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Digium and TMC officials are in negotiations with Convention Center staff to identify additional space to for exhibiting opportunities at the event.

Telanetix announced the addition of cordless phones to its Digital Phone System suite of services based on the DECT standard. The Digital Phone System, marketed under the AccessLine brand, is available in several configurations and models for either home or small business offices. The system comes bundled with service that includes a complete business phone application suite that is based on the Telanetix nationwide VoIP Network.

InCharge Systems released a hosted reference system of its ACerted Trust solution, available immediately for interoperability testing. The reference system, will be demonstrated Thursday, October 29, 2009 at the Illinois Institute of Technology 5th Annual VoIP Conference and Expo.

ACerted Trust is a solution for assuring the identity of end users and their operators that originate SIP requests for voice, video, presence or messaging communication sessions, based on the Internet Engineering Task Force standard RFC 4474, “Enhancements for Authenticated Identity Management in the Session Initiation Protocol”

With an estimated 57% of adults in the U.S. having broadband access to the home1, the Internet makes it easy to deliver real-time video and web entertainment to enhance people’s lives. Today, people are spending longer periods of time away from loved ones due to work factors and the economic climate forcing Americans to travel less. An all new consumer multimedia phone has hit the market making it easy to see and hear family and friends around the world for free via an existing broadband connection. Using the broadband service provider of your choice and Grandstream’s built-in IPVideoTalk, the GXV3140 desktop IP Multimedia Phone offers, for no additional monthly fee, face-to-face two-way or three-way video calling out of the box.

SonicWALL will be exhibiting at the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco, November 2-5, where the company will be discussing the rising use of VoIP, how to maintain high Quality of Service and low latency for voice traffic in a secure network environment. SonicWALL invites attendees to join them at booth #503 to view product demonstrations, join associated seminars and meet with executives to learn more about the new threats facing companies today and which questions to ask vendors when considering such voice deployments.

As communication companies continue to look for new ways to generate revenue with VoIP applications, keep current customers and lure new ones, Blabbelon enters the market and completely changes the rules of the VoIP game. The first browser-based VoIP chat tool using Skype’s SILK super wideband audio codec, as well as one of the first massively multi-user VoIP services, Blabbelon can handle thousands of simultaneous users at a fraction of the cost per user of other traditional services. Blabbelon provides a platform for a wide variety of users such as: gamers securely competing in team-based quests; businesses running 7,000 person global conference calls; or grandparents taunting grandkids over a game of Facebook Scrabble.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Mobile VoIP - Plenty Of Talking The Talk, But Can It Walk The Walk?" report to their offering. Mobile VoIP is often perceived as a threat to mobile network operators, eating into their voice revenues and reducing them to mere "dumb pipes" It has also been perceived as "the next big thing" for a while now in the mobile market This report will look at the myths and realities of mobile VoIP, the potential and threats of managed VoIP, and draw mobile VoIP penetration forecasts.

Ribbit announces the release of Ribbit Mobile, a cloud-based service that provides a new way to manage calls, messages and phones. Ribbit Mobile's core set of features - including voicemail transcription, smart call routing and Web-based calling - transforms the way people communicate by letting them decide how, when and where they want to stay in touch.

Aruba Networks and snom announce that the wireless snom 820 and 870 VoIP Desktop Phones have been certified interoperable with multi-use Aruba 802.11n wireless LANs. Multi-use networks share wireless infrastructure among different voice, data, and video applications, and are increasingly popular because they eliminate redundancy, enhance user mobility, and significantly lower deployment and operating costs. Cost savings come in part from scaling down -- or rightsizing -- expensive wired Ethernet infrastructure in favor of low-cost, more energy-efficient Wi-Fi networks. Desk phones have traditionally been tethered to wired Ethernet connections, but the new wireless snom phones allow these connections to be rightsized, too.

Esna Technologies has added Skype VoIP/Video support to its market leading unified communication desktop software, UC Link. As part of its ongoing goal for interoperability and Rich communication and collaboration tools, Esnatech has integrated its UC Link desktop software with Skype VoIP and Video services for enhanced real-time communication services. Users of the Esnatech Telephony Office-LinX UC platform will have their live Skype VoIP & Video status tied into existing office infrastructure and applications so other users can see if they are available or not, on their office telephone, or off the network. It will bridge the Skype VoIP/Video world with Enterprise telephony and Groupware status.

Smoothstone announced that its SIP Trunking Service is compliant with key Internet protocol telephony solutions from Avaya. Smoothstone's SIP Trunking service helps businesses maximize IP-PBX functionality by accessing the rich feature set of Smoothstone's VoIP services, delivering reliable, secure and cost-effective connections that provide greater redundancy and higher aggregation of voice traffic (compared to T1/PRI), without costly equipment upgrades. The application now is compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with Avaya Aura(TM) Communication Manager and Avaya Aura SIP Enablement Services.