Verizon Business has been named Global Service Provider of the Year, North America, by Polycom. The award, given in conjunction with the 2010 TEAM Polycom, the company's annual partner conference, recognizes Verizon Business for its outstanding sales performance and excellence in meeting customer solution, service and support needs.

Xorcom announces that VoIPon has signed an agreement to distribute the entire Xorcom product range to qualified resellers. The full Xorcom line broadens VoIPon's reach into the open source SMB hybrid PSTN + VoIP phone system space.

Skype announces that the new Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 series models of 2010 high-definition televisions will feature embedded Skype software allowing Skype users to make video and voice calls through the TVs. Samsung, the global market leader in televisions, will begin shipping TVs with Skype software in the Korean market today, and worldwide in the first half of 2010.

The debut of Samsung’s Skype-enabled televisions reinforces Skype’s commitment to making its video and voice calling capabilities available on a full range of Internet-connected devices, including TVs. Televisions with built-in Skype software were first introduced at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010.

Synergy Research Group announces the publication of Carrier VoIP Q4 2009 and YE 2009 market shares. The worldwide market for Carrier VoIP totaled just over $10 billion for the full year 2009. Year over year, the market fell 18 percent; significantly less than drops measured in other Telecom and IT equipment markets. The biggest drivers for Carrier VoIP traditionally have been migrating aging TDM PSTN switches to VoIP platforms; in the last 24 months further growth has been added with Mobile Operators pursuing the Capex and OpEx advantages of IP as did the Wireline networks before it.

babyTEL and Positron are pleased to announce that SIP Trunking and associated VoIP features will now be supported with Positron Telecom’s SIP-enabled business phone systems.

The two companies recently completed interoperability testing and certified that Positron Telecom’s IP PBX systems work seamlessly with babyTEL’s carrier-grade VoIP service.

GENBAND will acquire substantially all assets of the Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions Business. The acquisition is subject to court and certain regulatory approvals in Canada, the United States and other jurisdictions, as well as other closing conditions.

The acquisition will combine GENBAND’s next-generation media, session and security gateway technologies and Nortel’s softswitch, media gateway and application technologies, offering service providers a best-in-class, end-to-end switching and global services portfolio.

VocalTec announces that one of Russia’s leading tier-1 operators selected VocalTec’s Large-Scale Class-5 solution as its core platform for the delivery of VoIP subscriber services.

The initial order, representing the first stage of the deployment, includes the delivery of VocalTec’s Essentra BAX Large-Scale Class-5 solution supporting over 100,000 subscribers. The system is dimensioned to provide service to a much larger user base in support of the customer’s future expansion plans.

Interact Incorporated are pleased to announce that Broadvox has certified version 6.14 of Interact’s SPOT Media Platform for interoperability with the BroadvoxGO! SIP Trunking product line. The SPOT VoiceXML/CCXML Media Platform completed extensive testing and proved to be successful in all aspects.

Digium has kicked off planning for the seventh annual AstriCon Open Source Telephony Conference and Exhibition. The event will be held just outside Washington, D.C. on October 26-28, 2010, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. Digium is the corporate sponsor and owner of the Asterisk project, the most widely used open source platform for creating custom communication solutions. Speaker topic submissions are open, and the conference organizers are soliciting talk concepts for 2010. Digium invites those who would like to speak at AstriCon to submit information for consideration by May 1, 2010.

Patton is now taking orders for the SmartNode 5200 Enterprise Session Border Router. Providing "any-to-any" protocol mediation for secure connectivity between IP-PBX systems and Internet Telephony Service Provider, the newest SmartNode resolves security and interoperability challenges businesses face when implementing SIP trunking.

The SmartNode ESBR lowers overall equipment costs by including an advanced IP router, QoS, VoIP-VPN security, least-cost call routing and IP-link redundancy—with no added licensing or support fees.

Vopium announces that its Global Mobile VoIP and Messaging Service is now available to partners as a white label solution. Vopium expects to announce the first white label partner shortly.

Vopium provides users with seamless, easy & instant high-quality international mobile communication from any mobile handset or web-browser. Having launched the new Instant Messaging service, both on the web and across all major mobile operating systems, Vopium is convinced that the company now offers the most seamless and coherent mobile B2C VoIP and Messaging Service available in the market.

Interxion has been selected by Nimbuzz to house its mission-critical application infrastructure. With over 20,000 users a day worldwide signing up to use their application, Nimbuzz had an urgent requirement for a best-in-class, highly connected facility which also offered them flexibility, support, and room to grow.

The Nimbuzz servers have already been installed in the recently constructed Interxion AMS5 data centre in Amsterdam. This 7,000 m2 highly secure facility provides 2N UPS redundancy and N+1 backup generators, and gives direct access to 30 carriers and ISPs as well as the AMS-IX and NL-IX Internet Exchanges. While providing high-density power configurations to customers as standard, it also features numerous energy-efficient design and operation measures and runs on a mixture of wind, biomass and hydroelectric-generated energy.

HelloSoft announces the extension of its carrier proven VoIP and Voice Call Continuity solution suite to future 4G-LTEdevices. HelloSoft's VoIP and VCC solution allows seamless handoff of voice calls between VoIP on the 4G LTE network and circuit switched voice systems that run on cellular 2G and 3G networks. Supporting VoIP over LTE (VoLTE) extends HelloSoft's recently released, award winning VoIP and VCC Convergence Client Software platform for Android mobile devices, which also supports handsets running Windows Mobile, Symbian and Linux operating systems.

Junction Networks announces that it supports Extensible Messaging and Presence on any software or phone, enabling OnSIP customers to take advantage of a complete Unified Communications offering, regardless of the device they use to access it.

Vopium has announced a range of new features to its award winning Mobile Application. Now it's possible to make FREE calls to Skype, Gtalk and Vopium users when they are online. Besides chatting with friends on Skype, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, AIM, and ICQ, one can also follow them on Twitter.

The new iPhone and iPod App also includes a number of cool new features. For example it is easier to send text messages and check and transfer balance to other users directly from the iPhone.

Instant Messaging is now available on Android, Blackberry, iPhone & iPod and Windows Mobile and will be released for Symbian and Java in the coming days.