Internet phone service ITP VoIP is showcasing its fully featured VoIP hosted PBX plans and encouraging small business owners to take advantage of their value and comprehensive functionalities. The digital phone company offers a roster of VoIP business features with every plan.

ITP VoIP’s Call Forwarding feature, for instance, allows the user to have calls from one line forwarded to another, such as a cell phone — a capability ideal for someone who splits his or her business between home and the road.

VoX Communications has signed an agreement with NeoMagic to offer VoX Communications' digital phone and video service.

Pervasip's Chief Information Officer, Mark Richards, noted, "We are very pleased to be working with NeoMagic as they roll out our video product to their customers. NeoMagic is very familiar with the Ojo Vision video phone. NeoMagic was one of the original companies to sign up with Worldgate Communications. Worldgate had initially offered video phone services and the Ojo Vision phone direct to resellers and consumers prior to changing their business model to OEM partners for the phone only. VoX has been very grateful for the leads offered by Worldgate and is looking forward to helping NeoMagic market the incredible Ojo Vision."

TMC named Fonality Heads Up Display Mobile as a 2011 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner. Available on Apple or Android platforms and purpose-built for small- and mid-size businesses, the application delivers cloud-based VoIP, Unified Communications and contact center solutions with a single, secure, user-friendly interface.

“There is nothing like Fonality HUD Mobile on the market,” said Fonality’s Chief Marketing Officer, Wes Durow. “It enables growing businesses to work smarter and faster, anywhere, anytime with advanced Unified Communications and contact center features. We are honored that Fonality HUD Mobile has been recognized with a 2011 TMC Labs Innovation Award.”

ASC will be demonstrating its VoIP recording solution, EVOip, and quality management system, INSPIRATIONpro, at Gitex Technology Week, Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 9-13, 2011, at Germany's national booth.

Gitex connects 3,500 international ICT vendors with 136,000 industry professionals, helping visitors to identify new products, innovative solutions and consumer trends; find ways to give their business an edge within the market; and discover new contacts and sales channels. ASC's solutions, EVOip for VoIP recording, and INSPIRATIONpro for quality management, provide powerful features for businesses with multiple locations and complex infrastructures.

Voip-Pal.Com will be launching a revamped and upgraded VoIP calling service including a new integrated PointsPhone website within the next few weeks. MyPointsPhone website is currently active while the PointsPhone website is currently undergoing testing. The two websites will soon be integrated under the new PointsPhone website.

In associated news, Voip-Pal announces that it has parted ways with its former Chief Technical Officer, Mukesh (Mike) Mohanbhai. In addition, Voip-Pal has severed ties and any association with Computer Works Ltd., 3 G Networks Ltd., SkyperBox Ltd., Mail Rules Ltd. and SasperBox Ltd.

Voice Carrier announced that TMC has named Voice Carrier Office as a recipient of a Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.

Voice Carrier Office, the ideal small/medium business phone system and service, is a complete, cost-effective hosted VoIP PBX system with all the features you would expect from a significantly more costly business service. The Voice Carrier Office's, cloud-based business phone system, requires no on-premise equipment. Users can customize their PBX extension through an easy-to-use Web interface. With powerful features such as multi-phone and extension follow-me, voicemail-to-email and built-in conference bridges, users can manage their business communications from the office, home or even on the road using their cell phone. Learn more about SMB VoIP at http://smb-voip.tmcnet.com/.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Market Opportunity: Free VoIP over Wireless vs. VoLTE" report to their offering.

No cost and low cost VoIP is something that is not on the radar screen for many incumbent mobile networks operators, but it should be. There is downward price pressure on voice services and even basic data service. there is an increasing awareness of Internet Protocol being cheap source of transport, and hence more people becoming aware of VoIP, and therefore Over the Top VoIP alternatives.

Fonality unveils Fonality Heads Up Display Mobile, the first-of-its-kind application purpose-built for small- and mid-size businesses. Through the flexibility of Apple or Android platforms, Fonality HUD Mobile delivers access to cloud-based VoIP, Unified Communications and contact center solutions with a single, secure, user-friendly interface. Based on the award-winning desktop version of Fonality HUD, the new mobile solution delivers the same information and communications-rich experience on-the-go.

Fonality HUD Mobile addresses the unique demands of an expanding mobile workforce. According to an upcoming SMB study on mobility trends by Webtorials, 49.2 percent of SMB employees are mobile at some point during their day, spending approximately four hours working while away from the office. This creates the potential for productivity drain among SMB knowledge workers, who, as concluded in a January 2011 Webtorials study, waste nearly two days per month attempting to contact customers, partners and colleagues or trying to find related information. This gap in efficiency can be bridged with an effective UC solution.

XConnect announces that its new high-definition voice transcoding feature, which enables HD voice traffic to cross the fixed-mobile divide through an IP-peering federation, has been developed in conjunction with AudioCodes.

Now available for members of the XConnect HD Alliance, the new capability draws on the combined strengths of XConnect’s carrier-ENUM registry and multimedia interconnection services and AudioCodes’ Mediant 3000 high-definition transcoder.

In a tested, certified end-to-end solution, XConnect’s interconnection hub detects the need for transcoding, prompting the AudioCodes transcoder to translate between the different codecs used by fixed-line and mobile operators.

XConnect announces a new transcoding technology designed to promote wider adoption and utilization of high-definition voice services. The new feature for members of XConnect’s HD Alliance delivers clearer, higher-quality and more effective voice communications by enabling fixed-line and mobile operators to seamlessly exchange HD voice traffic through an IP-peering federation for the first time.

Infonetics Research released excerpts from its annual EMEA Business VoIP Services Leadership Scorecard, which analyzes and ranks the top service providers in the IP Centrex market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

"In all parts of EMEA, including Africa and the Middle East, we continue to see strong deployments of IP Centrex services. In evaluating the top 10 IP Centrex providers across the region, little has changed in the mix of our list of leaders from 2010. All but three of the providers in our top 10 are incumbent operators, which is reflective of the EMEA landscape, where most providers compete nationally rather than regionally. Mobility continues to be a critical capability as businesses look towards flexibility and integration of services into a single mobile device. Those providers that are focused on FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) capabilities are true stand-outs, notes Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research.

VoIP Supply is happy to announce the addition of new Phoenix Audio VoIP Speakerphones for expanding audio coverage wherever you need it.

Small footprint speakerphones for use with both PC’s and Mac’s from Phoenix Audio provide reliable loudspeaker output for virtually any sized room. Powerful features are not compromised in Phoenix Audio’s lightweight and sleek designs.

Phoenix Audio offers their Duet models for desktop conferencing and the Quattro2 models for conference rooms. All models are standard equipped with a USB interface for connectivity, power source, and VoIP recording and conferencing. Unique ability for daisy chaining units is available for near limitless coverage.

Infonetics Research released its second quarter 2011 (2Q11) Enterprise Unified Communication, VoIP, and TDM Equipment vendor market share report, led by VoIP and IMS analyst Diane Myers.

"The top enterprise telephony vendors remain in a tight battle to gain new customers and hold onto existing ones as enterprises migrate to IP and unified communications solutions. For the third quarter in a row, Avaya came out on top in the overall PBX market, with about a quarter of worldwide revenue in the second quarter of 2011, helped by steady shipments and healthy average selling prices. Cisco maintains its strong second position despite a slight lead in overall line shipments," notes Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Market Opportunity: mVoIP + Social + Presence" report to their offering. There is a unique opportunity, for a period of about three years, for certain so called Over-the-Top VoIP providers to offer social networking driven services that represent a low cost/no cost alternative to incumbent network operator's services.

More specifically, there is an opportunity for certain OTT VoIP providers to stand out from the crowd, gain market share, and attract the attention of acquiring incumbent wireless carriers. Those same mobile network operators need to recognize that a strategy to start with OTT Wireless VoIP is a bridge to "dialable" VoIP via LTE. They also need to recognize that OTT VoIP is also a longer term offering themselves, even in a ubiquitous LTE coverage environment (which will be many years in the making) as roaming partners will not necessarily have their own LTE coverage.

VoX Communications has developed a mobile VoIP App for use on all Android mobile phones. Until recently, VoX had relied on other companies, fring and Nimbuzz, to deliver its mobile VoIP application to an Android device. Now, a consumer can install a VoX app directly on an Android tablet or smart phone in an easy download. VoX is working to automate this download so that it can be purchased anywhere in the world from mobile VoIP app websites.