VoxOx announces the release of its first mobile app, VoxOx Call for iPhone. The app leads with VoxOx’s popular Call Connect service, which enables iPhone users to make cheap long-distance calls from anywhere in the world, doing so without relying heavily on a user’s mobile data plan. The app also comes with a number of extras, including 2-way worldwide SMS, inbound faxing, Find Me call forwarding, on-call star commands that allow users to create 20-party conference calls, switch devices mid-call, digitally record calls and more. The mobile app syncs seamlessly with the full-featured VoxOx desktop software, allowing calls, texts, and faxes to be sent and received through the same account. New users can sign up for a free VoxOx account within the mobile app interface, and as part of the sign up process, select a free U.S. phone number (or purchase a low cost Canadian number) – the world’s only phone number enabled with voice, SMS, fax, as well as voicemail transcription, all-in-one.

Iristel and snom announce the snom 3xx and snom 8xx series desktop phones, as well as the snom m9 DECT phone and MeetingPoint conference phone, have passed rigorous interoperability tests, qualifying snom endpoints as preferred devices for operation within the Iristel network.

The combination of snom endpoints, network services and infrastructure products and Iristel’s Hosted PBX (private branch exchange) Solution offers Iristel customers a fully integrated IP telephony solution with HD audio capabilities and VoIP functionality for both large and small business environments, and residential scenarios.

Sipera Systems and voipGATE announces a partnership to better secure enterprise UC and SIP trunks. The partnership enables voipGATE customers to benefit from comprehensive UC security through the Sipera UC-Sec appliances, and the Sipera E-SBC session border controller, the industry's first device for SIP trunk termination to include a unique enterprise VoIP integration module for rapid installation and implementation.

voipGATE's greatest customer advantage is the cost savings from inbound and outbound telephone charges. This translates into immediate savings for businesses. Many voipGATE clients have found cost reductions of 25 percent or substantially higher as a result of using voipGATE as their SIP VoIP provider. Conventional local and international telephone services costs are a sizable percentage of most businesses' current telecom budget. voipGATE SIP Trunking Services are designed to save money while delivering excellent quality.

fring announces the world’s first mobile group video calls for iPhone & Android devices. With fring’s Group Video calling, four fring friends can now share a simultaneous video call, for free, on their mobile phone (on Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G) using fring’s proprietary DVQ technology, that delivers the highest quality video for all four participants.

fring is the 1st company to bring mobile Group Video calling across platforms, for free, so that users can see all their friends at the same time, and on one screen. fring’s service unshackles users from their PCs, and frees them from heavy PC-based Group Video calling fees.

In addition to free Group Video calling, fring enables users to make free 2 way video calls, voice calls and chat with friends on Android, iPhone/iPod touch & Nokia Smartphones.

With the partnership with Internet service provider Supanet, Tpad can now provide business-grade connectivity that will make more efficient use of the an organization's existing PBX Tpad telephone systems. This coming together of sorts represent a marriage of two integral services that the business industry needs most for high quality communication lines within the company and out. As Tpad CEO Tahir Mohsan puts it, "Tpad is committed to providing quality services that aptly meets the needs of the times. We continue to seek towards addressing the needs of our clients and the businesses we cater to, which is why this partnership became possible. We are looking forward to even more innovative solutions in the near future."

Acme Packet announces that Infonetics Research, identified Acme Packet as the leader in the enterprise session border controller market, with 32% market share by revenue in 2010.

Acme Packet doubled its E-SBC business in 2010, increasing its share in a market that grew by 70%, according to Infonetics in its April 18 report, “Enterprise Session Border Controllers, Annual Worldwide and Regional Market Size and Forecasts.” Infonetics projects rapid market growth driven by the adoption of SIP trunking and the interconnection of disparate interactive communications systems to create enterprise-wide networks.

Cellcrypt announces a new secure messaging feature for users of Cellcrypt Mobile for BlackBerry. It brings government-certified end-to-end encryption for messaging, countering interception vulnerabilities of standard SMS and IM and uses 'immediate delivery and delete' instead of a 'store and forward' design which makes exchange of real-time, short-lived messages less vulnerable to compromise.

Cellcrypt's secure messaging brings government-certified cryptographic security to real-time messages, running on off-the-shelf smartphones as part of an easy-to-use downloadable Cellcrypt Mobile application.

Fonality announced its one billionth contact center phone call. This milestone reflects more than 4,800 deployments as the adoption of Fonality’s cloud-based contact center solutions continue to change how fast-growing businesses deliver exceptional customer support. Deployed across a variety of industries, Fonality’s cloud-based model provides businesses from ten to 250 agents with the same full-featured services of traditional on-premise IP systems without costly hardware, infrastructure or lengthy implementation cycles.

Junction Networks announces a new service, getonsip.com, with the sole mission of providing free SIP addresses to the world. With a getonsip.com address, users can communicate with anyone on the Internet via the open protocol SIP.

The team at Junction Networks hopes to encourage more people to “get on SIP” with getonsip.com. By simply filling out a few fields, visitors can get a SIP address in the form of name@getonsip.com for free. They can then register a SIP device or softphone with the credentials sent to them via email. That’s all users need to start making and receiving free calls to and from friends, family, and colleagues who are also using SIP.

Calysto Communications announces that Broadvox has selected Calysto to assist in public relations and social media marketing strategies, in order to leverage the expansion of Broadvox and its collaboration and communications solutions.

Calysto is managing a comprehensive public relations program for Broadvox, including messaging; the development of press releases and other written materials; speakers’ bureau; and media, analyst and blogger relations. Calysto will also strategize on the company’s social media activities, including creating a full-scale LinkedIn presence for Broadvox.

4PSA announces the availability of an all new licensing program for its award-winning Unified Communications solution, VoipNow Professional. The brand new Academic Licensing plan was designed to help educational institutions replace their legacy communication methods with Unified Communications.

All types of cultural and educational organizations such as schools, universities, museums, libraries etc. can increase their efficiency and enhance their communication processes with VoipNow. "Unified Communications plays an essential role within the academic environment because it lowers the organization investments while saving time and effort. Regardless of how large the institution is, the benefits are the same for both tens of users and thousands of them," said Elena Carstoiu, 4PSA's VP of Sales and Marketing.

Research and Markets announces the addition of the "VoIP in CEE Opportunities and Forecast, 2010 - 2015" report to their offering.

The telecoms infrastructure in the Central and Eastern Europe region has undergone massive transformation over the past decade. Service providers, keen on taking advantage of the region's growing wealth and openness to the outside world, have invested significant resources in the deployment of modern telecoms networks. The transformation, coupled with increasing levels of disposable income, is resulting in the growing demand for more advanced telecoms services, including broadband.

TMC has named Virtual PBX’s Open VoIP Peering as a recipient of its 2010 Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award.

The pioneer of the hosted PBX market, Virtual PBX became the first company to allow customers to have choice when it comes to using VoIP – known as Open VoIP Peering. Virtual PBX Open VoIP Peering provides businesses with greater flexibility to mix-and-match a VoIP network with any SIP-compliant phone.

F-ROUTE recently released the latest update to their SIP VoIP Softphone for the iPhone. SessionTalk 3.1 features now include Dual Line, Call Waiting, Call conferencing as well as Transfer and Attended Transfer. This adds to an already impressive list of features including iOS4 Multitasking and Background support, Incoming call Push Notifications, Native contacts integration and a highly intuitive iPhone like user interface.

SessionTalk enables businesses as well as the mobile worker to use their iPhone as an IP-PBX extension, allowing them to access the same phone services and features as if they were in the office. The application can help boost worker productivity in a number of ways and show a fast return on investment. For example, a product development expert working from home or from a remote site would be able to join in a phone conference with managers at headquarters and collaborate on a new product design.

3CX announces that all customers will be able to benefit from quality, low cost, business calls after the interoperability testing with OpenIP had proven successful. This interoperability between 3CX and Paris based VoIP service provider, OpenIP, allows the customers who use the 3CX VoIP PBX for Windows to benefit from the OpenIP high quality internet telephony services for voice calls as an integrated solution.

3CX and VoIP service provider, OpenIP, will provide fully integrated VoIP solutions for SMB’s in Paris, France. The OpenIP SIP Trunk configuration has been fully integrated into the latest version of 3CX’s software, allowing the company to become a 3CX Supported SIP Trunk provider. As a multitude of businesses throughout France already take advantage of the 3CX VoIP PBX for Windows, they now have the added value of OpenIP being onside to provide high quality internet telephony services for voice calls as an integrated solution.