Digium has extended the value of its Switchvox Unified Communications solution for small to mid-sized businesses by adding free support for Android devices. The Switchvox Mobile application now integrates Digium's Switchvox SMB communications solution with Android as well as iPhone and BlackBerry devices at no extra cost to customers. With the Switchvox Mobile app, Switchvox SMB customers can:

• make, receive, transfer and record calls as if they were calling from the office extension
• check their call history
• view and change call rules, such as routing and forwarding
• change their out-of-office greeting
• access the company directory and return calls via email
• use the Switchvox app from their Android-based tablet to perform tasks such as returning voice messages using email.

Fonality has partnered with John Wiley & Sons, the publisher of the For Dummies book series, to develop Cloud VoIP For Dummies, Fonality Special Edition. Available August 9, the eBook details how cloud computing is changing the way communications technology such as VoIP and Unified Communications is utilized.

Spanning the evolution of VoIP and UC to the emergence of cloud computing, Cloud VoIP For Dummies dissects the technology in an easy-to-use format. The book also describes how Fonality is at the forefront of interface and application development that uses the cloud to deliver Fortune 500 communications capabilities at a fraction of the cost. Each chapter includes a variety of practical tips, as well as technical insight to bring unprecedented clarity to the topic.

VoIP Supply is pleased to announce a refreshed Grandstream Networks product line and the addition of a brand new category, Grandstream IP Surveillance.

Making customer research easier by revamping and reorganizing Grandstream products with newly segmented Grandstream Video Phones and Grandstream IP PBX appliance categories, VoIP Supply has also added the Grandstream IP Surveillance line featuring IP cameras for network-based surveillance.

Just like Grandstream’s VoIP devices, Grandstream IP Surveillance products offer the same broad interoperability, enhanced features, and flexibility at price-performance competitiveness allowing easy entry into IP network-based security systems.

Telchemy announces SQlive for Android, an agent for mobile handsets that measures the user perceived quality of standards based VoIP and Videoconferencing services and DVQattest for Android, an active test agent for mobile handsets. Both SQlive and DVQattest report MOS scores and a wide range of diagnostic data, giving service providers near real time visibility of service quality.

SQlive measures the user Quality of Experience of live VoIP and Videoconferencing services running over the 3G/4G data connection of mobile handsets. SQlive uses Telchemy’s VQmon advanced performance measurement algorithms to calculate MOS scores; VQmon computes estimated Video and Audio MOS from key parameters such as the codec type, bandwidth, packet loss, loss distribution, jitter, delay and elements of content, using an advanced perceptual algorithm that models the impact of time varying quality on subjective opinion. SQlive uses a small fraction of the available processing power and memory of a typical smartphone and is able to run non-intrusively, monitoring the performance of any IP/UDP/RTP based voice, audio or video streams running to or from mobile applications installed on the handset.

LiveVox announced the launch of its channel partner program. This program will enable telecom agents, network consultants and other referral partners to increase revenue and maximize their value to call center clients through their relationship with LiveVox.

LiveVox utilizes a fully burstable, multi-carrier IP/MPLS network to deliver multi-tenant cloud contact center applications such as ACD, dialer, IVR, recording and campaign management.

Brekeke has confirmed interoperability between the Tainet Venus 2908/16/24/32 (FXO/FXS) Gateway and Brekeke’s telephony platform products, including Brekeke SIP Server and Brekeke PBX. TAINET is a global leader in Network Multi-Access solutions, whose VoIP Gateway has been widely deployed on over three million lines by IP telephony service providers, enterprises and government networks worldwide. This new interoperability with Tainet VoIP SIP Gateway allows service providers to take advantage of the VoIP security feature as well as the convenient remote management features.

Voxbone is expanding efforts to help service providers and enterprises in North America extend the reach of their international networking capabilities rapidly and cost-effectively.

Voxbone said it is bolstering its presence in North America with the addition of Hugh Goldstein, an experienced expert in the VoIP and telecommunications services industry, as Vice President for Business Development for North America.

The only operator of its kind with self-owned licenses and number ranges, Voxbone has experienced rapid growth since 2005. It already serves more than 300 service providers in the United States, and its global network footprint includes PoPs in Los Angeles and New York.

Since the introduction of for iPhone with video calling on New Year's Eve 2010, we've seen growing demand for a Skype app for the iPad.

The wait is over, as today we launched Skype for iPad now available for download in the iTunes App Store.

Skype for iPad is beautifully designed and optimized for the iPad. It offers the best of both worlds for users who want a larger Skype experience, on-the-go. The large iPad screen is perfect for bringing Skype video calls to life, in either landscape or portrait view, and because it is on the iPad, Skype video calls can be made at the beach, in a car or even lying on a couch.

TransferTo and PortaOne announce the successful completion of interoperability testing between PortaOne's PortaBilling platform and the TransferTo service. Now, service providers using PortaBilling can offer their end-customers the powerful ability to top-up the prepaid phones of friends and relatives back home, enabling them to tap into a market currently responsible for $380 billion in asset transfers globally each year.

CloudTC announces the interoperability of the CloudTC Glass 1000 with BroadSoft's BroadWorks voice application server.

BroadSoft is the leading global provider of software that enables mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to deliver real-time communications over their IP networks. The firm's BroadWorks platform delivers a broad range of unified communications services including video, voice, hosted call center, conferencing, messaging and mobility, for businesses and consumers worldwide.

VoIP Innovations announced the expansion of its VoIP termination footprint and service offering for SIP providers. VoIP Innovations has been at the forefront of VoIP expansion and innovation for nearly a decade. It is the underlying carrier for several hundred Hosted PBX, Calling Card Providers, Carriers and Resellers offering VoIP service.

VoIP Innovations has a business model that is uniquely different than those of traditional carriers. VoIP Innovations offers their own termination routes as well as routes from dozens of the top US and Canadian termination carriers. In addition to aggregation benefit, VoIP Innovations large traffic volume, allows them to provides a more competitive pricing model than most clients would get direct from those carriers.