Technology Marketing Corporation announces the winners of the 2009 4GWE Product of the Year Awards. Recipients of the Annual Product of the Year Awards represent the most innovative new products brought to market in 2009.

Recognizing the most innovative products, 4GWE honors the most deserving companies with this esteemed award. The editors of 4GWE selected the companies that have demonstrated the vision, leadership, and thoroughness associated with the Product of the Year Awards.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Crossfire Media announce the first 4GWE Mobile App of theYear Awards. 4GWE has quickly become the premier resource for current information about the migration to 4G wireless networks.

The 4G network is rapidly approaching and the broadband Internet imperative is being highlighted by today's applications. Some applications make a smartphone act more like a Game Boy, taking advantage of mobility for distribution and commerce. Other applications take advantage of the network operator's ability to offer services or find solutions.

Level 3 has been selected to provide wholesale voice services to Austin, Texas-based iTalk Global Communications. Under the contract, Level 3 will provide iTalk with wholesale voice and local inbound calling services. These services will enable iTalk to expand the area to which it delivers VoIP retail services to U.S. residential and small business customers and to U.S. and foreign telecom carriers and cellular operators.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium announce the schedule for the first 13 speeches in their Presentation theatre within Digium|Asterisk World 2010, taking place January 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida.

Presentations, which are free to all attendees, will take place in the Digium|Asterisk World Pavilion on the ITEXPO exhibit floor. Speakers will demonstrate open source telephony solutions, showcasing opportunities for developers, service providers, and end-users.

Telefónica announces the acquisition of the leading communications innovator JAJAH for the value of $207 million in an all-cash transaction. The agreement is subject to formal clearance by CNC, the Spanish competition authority.

The purchase of JAJAH – based in Silicon Valley, California, and Israel – significantly enriches Telefónica’s capabilities to offer cutting-edge communications services for customers online – whenever, wherever and however they want.

Broadvox is pleased to announce that the Better Business Bureau has awarded Broadvox Accreditation status after determining that the eight BBB standards of business have been met. Broadvox customers are assured that they are being served by an ITSP that upholds the highest measurable standards of quality and business ethics because the BBB gave Broadvox the highest rating possible: an A+!

Talkster announces a holiday-themed promotion in partnership with Rebtel. This partnership lets people around the world make free and ultra low-cost international and long distance calls from their cell phones, landlines, computers or VoIP phones.

Just in time for the holiday season, Talkster is offering the first 10,000 people who sign up at Talkster.com $5 in free calling credit. To participate, visit www.Talkster.com, and sign up before it’s too late. Callers should use the promo code “TALKSTER” to get their $5 in free calling credit.

Netcordia has been awarded a patent for its techniques of finding and diagnosing problems in VoIP networks. As one of many unique network topology discovery and analysis capabilities in Netcordia’s NetMRI software, this capability allows network managers to quickly identify the root cause of VoIP network performance degradation and speed resolution.

The cost saving proposition offered by VoIP technology is the key to the growth of semiconductor opportunities in VoIP applications. The current economic slowdown has softened the demand for VoIP equipment and related semiconductors, making it increasingly important for semiconductor vendors to be able to differentiate their products and remain price competitive.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Global Assessment of Semiconductor Opportunity in VoIP Applications, finds that the market earned revenues of over $522.4 million in 2008, and estimates this to reach $657.3 million in 2012. The end-user segments covered in this research service are carrier infrastructure, enterprise, and consumer.

Held on the 10th December at the Strangers Dining Room of the House of Commons, the award acknowledges Vonage UK as setting the industry standard for VoIP services to the public. This year's award recognises the company's commitment and dedication to industry-leading standards of customer service, value for money and providing a wealth of service features to their clients across the world.

VoX Communications announces the launch of two new international calling plans to its customers who are using its $69.95 a month unlimited voice and data plan over a nationwide GSM network.

VoX mobile VoIP customers can now choose one of two international calling plans for low-cost international calls. The first plan allows customers to call up to 500 minutes a month from a mobile phone to any of 34 countries for only $15, and the second plan is 1,000 minutes to the same countries for only $25. Additionally, VoX is offering VoIP rates for direct dialing to every international destination, and in some instances the rates are 90% less than other mobile carriers.

Now you can also make cheap calls and send text messages all over the world from your iPod Touch! Simply visit get.vopium.com from your iPod or download Vopium to your PC or Mac from iTunes.

Vopium is a free application installed on your iPod Touch (2nd generation) allowing you to turn it into a mobile phone. When your iPod is connected to WiFi, you can make calls and send text messages over the internet using your normal mobile number. You do not pay any charges to your mobile operator. You only pay Vopium's low international call rates. You can obviously also use your iPod to make national calls. Just remember that you need to acquire a Microphone adapter to make calls.

Digium announces Broadvox has achieved interoperability certification with the Digium’s Switchvox SMB business communications system. Broadvox customizes and delivers cost-effective IP communications solutions to SMBs through SIP Trunking and Switchvox offers advanced unified communications capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. Interoperability certification allows resellers to deliver unified communications solutions to SMBs that might not have the budget of large corporations, but want to integrate phones, e-mail, chat, video and the Internet to enable better, more efficient communications.

GUK Communications has launched the new gukPhone V2 Flash client, the new client support Instant Messaging features like user-to-user calls, with the new client, the users can encrypt thier communication by using SSL Technology. The gukPhone account of registered user can use any SIP device and support VPN PPTP to encrypt thier communication on www.gukphone.com

Nimbuzz launches VoIP on Android, complementing its multi award-winning instant messaging and social network aggregation service. The announcement by Nimbuzz represents the culmination of a rapid advance in the development of the Nimbuzz for Android application, launched earlier this year and available free from the Android Marketplace & Nimbuzz.com.

Utilizing Global IP Solutions’ VoiceEngine Mobile, Nimbuzz will now deliver high quality VoIP calls from Nimbuzz on Android, as well as calls over Skype, Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger, providing users with a complete communications and messaging service via the new Nimbuzz application.