Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Mobile VoIP Solutions Market 2010-2014" report to their offering.

With rapid technological developments in the field of VoIP, global Mobile VoIP Solution providers are moving beyond voice based communication. As a result, some vendors have started deploying visual communication, or video based communication in their service portfolio.

Moreover, the market is also witnessing some degree of consolidation with an emerging trend of acquisitions and mergers of Mobile VoIP vendors to increase their market share, geographical presence and technological and product portfolio.

LiveVox announces the availability of a cloud predictive dialer with virtually unlimited line capacity for telesales call centers. The patented LiveVox platform can scale outbound call processing in real time to maximize agent talk time, while predictive pacing controls abandonment rates.

Unlike managed services or point-solution competitors that limit line capacity, LiveVox is a fully burstable SIP-platform delivered solely from the cloud. This enables multi-site, multi-source workgroup creation on demand and the ability to scale processing as needed to ensure agent productivity. The solution integrates ACD, IVR, call recording and business analytics for seamless call blending and global call routing.

8x8 announces the release of a new mobile app for the Android market that enables 8x8 Virtual Office subscribers to use their Android-powered smartphone as an extension of their business phone service.

Available at no additional cost to 8x8 Virtual Office Unlimited Extension and Virtual Office Pro subscribers, the new 8x8 Virtual Office Mobile Android app and service offers capabilities and features including:

• Unlimited inbound and outbound domestic calling over WiFi or 3G networks
• Elimination of international roaming minutes through the use WiFi hotspots for international calls
• Built-in multitasking support and background operation
• Extension dialing, call transfers and 3-way calling
• Direct dial from call logs, contacts and corporate directory
• Access to Virtual Office voicemail, auto attendant and conference bridge services
• Outbound caller ID displays Virtual Office business phone number rather than user's personal mobile phone number

announces the launch of advertising in Skype software, which will appear in the Home tab of Skype for Windows starting this week. This move represents the first time that advertising will appear in Skype, giving brands a unique opportunity to be part of the Skype experience, which has enabled millions of people around the world to do things together when they’re apart through voice and video calling, instant messaging, conferencing, and more.

Skype has partnered with leading advertising companies: Meebo in the US, Ad2One in the UK, and Ströer Interactive in Germany to sell advertising for Skype in each of their respective markets.

With 145 million average monthly connected users for the fourth quarter of 2010 and 29 million concurrent users at peak times, Skype’s reach and engaged user base makes it an attractive platform for brands to market their products. The first advertisers to sign up with Skype include: Groupon, Nokia, Universal Pictures, and Visa.

VoIP-PAL.com announces the development of integrating the video conferencing feature on forthcoming new PointsPhone Mobile App for the iPhone 4G and Apple's new iPad 2. An upgraded version of PointsPhone's iPhone App is being developed to support video conferencing on the iPhone 4G and the new iPad 2.

The PointsPhone Mobile iPhone App and the new Video Calling feature will soon be available for free downloading on your iPhone at the Apple App Store (search 'pointsphone'). User must register by signing up on www.pointsphone.com.

Acme Packet announces that Aspect has deployed Acme Packet’s Net-Net Session Director enterprise session border controller to enable the SIP trunking connection between Aspect’s Microsoft Lync 2010 UC&C environment and Verizon’s IP Trunking service. The Net-Net SD was recently qualified under Microsoft’s Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program with Microsoft’s Lync 2010 Server and Verizon’s IP Trunking service.

Aspect helps organizations apply Microsoft unified communications and collaboration to enable its customers to achieve optimal results through enhanced business processes across the enterprise and in the contact center. Aspect also leverages Microsoft Lync globally for all of its own voice and voicemail services, audio and web conferencing, instant messaging and presence. Aspect was among the first of Verizon’s and Microsoft’s mutual customers to benefit from effectively employing Microsoft unified communications applications across Verizon’s IP Trunking solution for more cost-effective and high-performance application delivery.

SoTel Systems has introduced their "SoTel Simple" Program to the U.S. Marketplace. The program enables small- and medium-sized businesses to receive new VoIP telephony or Unified Communications platform equipment and business telephones included when they sign a SoTel SIP connection contract. This program offers companies the opportunity to easily upgrade their phone system, while delivering new technology, more robust solutions with industry-leading service at a lower cost than they were previously paying with their prior dial tone service provider.

In order to provide more intuitive and quicker quotes for their end users, SoTel's VARs can utilize a single pricing and quoting tool hosted on SoTel's dealer portal. Additionally, SoTel can also provide their VARs pre-configuration of the telephone system allowing the VARs a simpler method of installing systems for an additional charge.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Enterprise VoIP Equipment Market 2010-2014" report to their offering.

Decrease in long distance call costs and improved communication access have been encouraging growth of the enterprise VoIP Equipment market. This improved flexibility has been instrumental in integration of different business processes leading to increased enterprise efficiency.

The enterprise VoIP equipment market is also witnessing consolidation with an emerging trend of acquisitions and mergers of enterprise VoIP Equipment vendors to increase their market share, geographical presence and technological and product portfolio. The overall enterprise VoIP equipment market is expected to grow.

Flint Telecom has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire 100% of a turnkey VoIP company providing services to Small and Medium Enterprises in the United States. Following successful completion of the necessary due diligence, which is already underway, the transaction is expected to close within the next 60 days.

Completion of the acquisition will bring immediate and profitable annual revenues to the group in excess of $2 million; the target company is currently growing at over 50% per year. When consolidated with other pending acquisitions in the VoIP market, the operating costs will be reduced due to shared common services and network cost reductions, so generating more positive income from the existing revenue streams.

Digium is adding a new listing category to AsteriskExchange dedicated to custom applications for Switchvox, the company’s line of VoIP business phone systems. Switchvox provides an easy way to create custom applications that integrate the communications system with business processes to improve productivity. Individuals and companies who are already developing for Switchvox are encouraged to promote and potentially sell their applications in this new category on AsteriskExchange. To jump-start the development and promotion of the Switchvox Solutions category and the AsteriskExchange, the standard fees are being waived for all Asterisk and Switchvox-related listings.

announces a strategic partnership with Citrix Systems. The partnership will enable Skype to introduce new, easy-to-use, Web and audio conferencing capabilities enabled with GoToMeeting technology from Citrix. It will help expand Skype's business offerings by providing powerful collaboration features for businesses of all sizes to set up and hold meetings. Based on Citrix's successful GoToMeeting product, Skype's new Web conferencing and audio features are expected to become available towards the end of the year.

3CX has implemented the 3CX Phone System in the offices of gas turbine specialist, Agilis. Up until recently, Agilis relied on an outdated Toshiba CTX-IP system. Although being IP based, the Toshiba PBX was proprietary, non-industry compliant and technically obsolete, as well as not incorporating any Unified Communications features. It was cumbersome and was expensive to expand and administer.

Agilis was happy to turn to the Windows-based 3CX Phone System, as it knew it could serve the needs of the various office locations, was cost effective and a simple to operate PBX. The Unified Communications features within the 3CX Phone System would assist in the increase in productivity levels throughout the entire company. As Agilis make use of remote workers, this key support staff would always need to be accessible, with the new phone system being able to deliver remote access to any location and also all other Agilis office locations that are spread in two countries.

D2 Technologies has acquired Webia Technologies through an all-stock transaction. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with development centers in Taiwan and Shanghai, China, Webia was one of the first software vendors to introduce set-top box media player platforms based on Google’s Android OS. Webia also unveiled the world’s first Android TV solution at Broadband Taiwan 2010.

Through this acquisition, D2 deepens its industry-leading expertise in embedded multimedia communications applications. Its mCUE converged communications client already offers OEMs and ODMs an advanced platform for Android OS-based devices such as tablets, IP media phones, connected TVs and mobile handsets, delivering the media-rich features and the popular social networking communications services such as Skype, GoogleTalk and Yahoo! Messenger that consumers demand. Through the acquisition of Webia, D2’s mCUE is now even more ideally designed for connected TVs and set-top boxes.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "North American VoIP Solutions Market 2010-2014" report to their offering.

The North American VoIP solutions market is a highly fragmented market with few large players and many small players. The most common enterprise VoIP solution continues to be IP PBX systems. Overall, the demand for VoIP solutions in North America market is high. Factors like cost reduction and flexibility are responsible for a greater acceptance of the device by the end users. The solutions market is expected to grow.

It seems like just yesterday that we brought to your sofa with Skype-enabled HDTVs from Panasonic and Samsung. Just over a year later, we already have more ways for you to make video calls with the click of your remote control and at a great price point.

Today, Panasonic announced its expanded VIERA Cast Blu-ray disc player lineup, including the ability to make video and voice calls supported by the FREETALK Conference Camera.

Here's how it works: To access Skype through the Blu-ray Disc player, you simply click the devoted Skype button on your remote control. You can also take advantage of other Skype features including:

• Standby Mode, which allows users to personalize ring tones;
• Answering Message, which allows users to create a personalized message when away; and
• SD Voice Mail, which automatically records messages left onto an SD card.