TRIBAIR is launching their global network of VOIP hotspots where members turn their personal or business WiFi into hubs for other members to use. When TRIBAIR users make paid long distance calls hotspot owners earn up to 20% of all revenues made over their hub. TRIBAIR aims to create the largest, decentralized VOIP community in the world.

Anyone with a smartphone can download the TRIBAIR application for iPhone, Android or Blackberry and includes a starter credit of 25 cents, which represents 17 minutes of calling to over 50 countries. They can make calls immediately using the application over WiFi or 3G. Members can take advantage of long distance VOIP calls to non members at rates that are 45% cheaper than Skype directly from their smartphones.

Kryptos has launched a new iPhone application named Kryptos available for immediate download on iTunes for only $4.99. Kryptos utilizes 256 bit AES military grade encryption to encrypt voice communications between users while using 1024 bit RSA encryption during the symmetric key exchange.

Kryptos is a Secure Voice Over IP application. The product provides VoIP connectivity for secure calls over several networks including 3G, 4G and WiFi. As the access to cellular phones and mobile devices has evolved so has the propensity for security threats in regards to interception of calls made and received. Most people are not aware of how simple it is for hackers to use readily available tools, devices, etc., to intercept standard cellular calls.

In an economic time defined by minimal job growth and business climate uncertainty, there has been more contraction than expansion in business communications spending. Although that remains a predominant forecast there are specific areas of business spending that will buck that trend. Businesses from the SOHO to the Enterprise are planning on increasing their applications-based VoIP spending by nearly 60% over the next five years, says In-Stat.

CEVA announces that PMC-Sierra has licensed its CEVA-VoP VoIP platform for use in PMC-Sierra's next generation system-on-chip devices for Fiber-To-The-Home applications. CEVA-VoP is a complete hardware and software VoIP solution based on the CEVA-TeakLite-II DSP, designed to be deployed in integrated networking and VoP SoCs.

VoIP-PAL.com announces the addition of two new Payment Platforms for the end-users on their retail website www.pointsphone.com.

"We are preparing the Company for the anticipated influx of new subscribers at the start of the 2011 new year," states Dennis Chang, President. "The only Pay Platform we used in the past was PayPal. By adding Moneybookers and Google Checkout, the end user now has alternative ways to sign up to our service. Testing on major infrastructure upgrades is currently being completed and the addition of these two new pay platforms is just one phase of our upgrade."

Telcentris announces the immediate availability of its white label solution— an end-to-end managed wholesale VoIP enablement platform that offers customers a complete suite of services and robust back-end infrastructure. The white label solution is designed to provide interconnects, ILECs, CLECs, ITSPs, and entrepreneurs a plug-and-play environment that enables them to set up a VoIP company in a matter of weeks with little upfront investment. In addition to offering the platform directly for private labeling, Telcentris is one of few companies to provide this type of turnkey white label VoIP solution to indirect sales channels through its Channel Partner Program.

Alteva announces the addition of Local Anywhere to its extensive line of hosted services. Local Anywhere assigns multiple DIDs to one VoIP desk phone. Setting up this solution through a hosted phone service provider, such as Alteva, allows the company to have an inbound notification that alerts employees as to which DID -- or phone number -- the call is coming in through, allowing the user to personalize their response. Outbound caller IDs are associated with the appropriate phone number to reflect that person or company name, making it less likely for call recipients to ignore calls. This unique solution will appeal to several types of companies, to which the nature of their businesses requires this type of solution, not typically available in a hosted VoIP solution.

Mobile VoIP service provider Vyke Communications announces the launch of Vyke Reseller, its new web-based management tool. Vyke Reseller enables resellers to purchase Vyke credit and move funds online to cash customers; create Vyke top up vouchers at denominations to suit their cash customers; promote Vyke online and benefit from customer registration rebates; and access real-time reporting on credit movements, purchase history and rebates.

Vyke said that resellers receive a bonus rate of 20% every time they top up their online Vyke Reseller account. An introductory rebate rate of 10% on all top ups made by affiliated customers, for the customers lifetime as a Vyke user, will also be available for Vyke Reseller accounts created before 28 February 2011.

3CX is pleased to announce service pack 5 for version 9. This update is mainly a bug fixing update and the last one for 2010. This service pack is available for download from the 3CX Winforms Management console / Service pack updates and will upgrade your 3CXPhone System V9 to build 15536. The update takes between 5-10 minutes once downloaded depending on the machine spec of your 3CX Phone System server. Update is 20Mb in size.

Dialogic and babyTEL announce the successful completion of interoperability testing between Dialogic Brooktrout SR140 Fax Software and babyTEL's open Internet Fax over IP SIP Trunking service. The two companies can now provide for reliable fax transmission over the Internet on SIP trunks by supplying enterprises and hosted service providers with end-to-end support for the T.38 FoIP protocol.

Enterprise fax server customers are rapidly moving to FoIP technology to leverage investments in converged voice and data networks as well as centralized applications and services. At the same time, SIP trunking is fast being adopted for VoIP services. With Dialogic and babyTEL's successful interoperability, enterprises can use Brooktrout SR140 Fax Software with babyTel's SIP Trunking service to extend the efficiency of FoIP technology beyond the enterprise border and to the fax transmission itself.

AMI-Partners forecasts growth in the VoIP market among small and medium businesses. Over 30% of small businesses (SBs, 1 – 99 employees) and 50% of medium businesses (MBs, 100-999 employees) say that VoIP will become critical to their business operations.

SMB decision-makers see benefit from VoIP in improved staff productivity, streamlined dispersed communications, and lower costs. “The last several years of recession caused many SMBs to put new technology purchases on hold,” according to Karen Nielsen, Senior Consultant with AMI. “Moving into 2011, cost savings, as well as the advanced features available with IP, will impel more and more SMBs to IP architecture implementation.”

Broadvox announces that its Broadvox GO! SIP Trunking has completed compliance testing through Avaya's DevConnect Program. This compliance designation assures customers that they can enjoy cost-effective PSTN communications, migrating in stages from TDM or through a complete switch to VoIP with Broadvox GO! SIP Trunking and the Avaya Aura Communication Manager 6.0 and Avaya Aura Session Border Controller 6.0.

Following the recent launch of fgVOIP, a true Wi-FI SIP VoIP client for BlackBerry OS 4.6 and OS 5.0 devices, fg microtec has announced that its VoIP app shop is now open, providing both BlackBerry and Nokia VoIP apps at https://shop.fgmicrotec.com/

fg's IP PBX Mobile Client is a feature rich soft phone application for mobile phones. It can be registered to any IP/SIP capable PBX using a Wi-Fi connection in the office, campus, home, hotel rooms or public hot-spots.

TelcoBridges and Xener Systems announce the successful completion of interoperability testing between TelcoBridges’ Tmedia family of VoIP gateways and Xener Systems’ family of Class 4 and Class 5 softswitch solutions. As a result of this certified compatibility, service providers that choose TelcoBridges’ VoIP gateways and Xener Systems’ softswitches can be sure that they will achieve optimum compatibility and performance with carrier-grade reliability.

The webinars from 911 Enable's recently concluded E911 Solutions for VoIP and UC Deployments webinar series are now available for download "on-demand." They cover how IP telephony impacts E911, and provide in-depth information about how 911 Enable's products and services integrate with today's leading IP-PBX vendors. To learn more, download the webinar PowerPoint presentations or recordings here.