Ooma announces it is extending its popular 911 Alerts feature to its Basic service customers in the U.S. and Canada. The 911 Alerts feature, which is made possible by the Ooma online platform, provides added peace of mind because it can accelerate critical communications during a home emergency situation.

With the 911 Alerts feature, Ooma subscribers can enter up to three email addresses or mobile phone numbers using the “My Ooma” online control panel. Once the emergency notification group is set up, Ooma will automatically send alert messages to specified recipients whenever 911 is called from the subscriber’s Ooma phone number.

CounterPath announces worldwide availability of Bria Android Tablet Edition, a standards-based softphone that enables enterprises to extend VoIP calling and PBX features to Android tablets, including employee-owned devices.

Bria Android Tablet Edition lets users make and receive high-quality voice calls over a Wi-Fi or a 3G/4G mobile data connection. This improves productivity and responsiveness by minimizing phone tag, and it enables enterprises to minimize their communications spending by offloading calls to Wi-Fi in places such as offices, airports and hotels.

DIGITALK has announced the addition of US Jurisdictional Routing to its SBC VoIP Peering platform, enabling US service providers to apply margin and quality-based routing to domestic as well as international long distance carrier routing.

The routing of long distance calls across the North America Numbering Plan is complicated by the division of number ranges across both geographic and administrative boundaries, as well as their ownership by the different operating companies. Number ownership transfers due to number portability also need to be taken into account. Altogether, the complexity of the numbering structure and routing rules, plus the volume of number ranges to be supported, demand an automated solution for effective US Jurisdictional Routing.

OAISYS announces a new strategic relationship with Sterling Communications. This relationship is designed to bring advanced call recording functionality to customers of its SterlingVOICE VoIP business communications solution. The solution integration provides numerous benefits to customers in critical areas of business concern, including quality assurance and personnel development, risk management and regulatory compliance, dispute resolution and communication archiving, and work productivity enhancement.

Voiceserve announces that the Company's management team will attend the ITW telecom show in Chicago, from May 14-16, 2012.

Voiceserve representatives will be on hand (Exhibit Booth 705) to meet with VoIP service providers and explain the benefits of its latest Mobile Diallers known as Vippie 2, an application which can be installed on most smart phones and tablets. The latest dialler gives a new dimension to communication via 3g and wifi connectivity.

"We are looking forward to returning to the conference - and be able to tell the continuing story of Voipswitch's latest release. ITW is the perfect arena to enhance established relationships and generate new business especially with world renown carriers," said Voiceserve CEO Mr. Michael Bibelman.

Acme Packet announces that WIND Mobile selected the Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director session border controllers to securely connect WIND's VoIP core network with other service providers. The Acme Packet Net-Net Session Director enables a secure, flexible and interoperable SIP interconnect solution for off-net voice traffic, helping reduce costly origination and termination time-division multiplexing fees.

Using SIP interconnect, WIND's calls travel to other service providers over IP, which eliminates costly TDM fees and scales the company's VoIP interconnect relationships. The Acme Packet Net-SAFE's security architecture protects WIND from denial of service attacks and network overloads with access control lists, topology hiding and dynamic rate limiting.

Viber announces the availability of Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta. Attracting more than 69 million registered iPhone and Android users in 17 months and growing by more than 200,000 new users a day, Viber is the fastest-growing mobile VoIP and messaging company.

Both Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Viber for Windows Phone 7 Beta initially offer Viber Messaging, allowing users to exchange text and high-quality photo messages and share locations with other Viber users. Viber seamlessly integrates with the devices’ interface, instantly identifying existing contacts who already have Viber installed so users do not need to go through a “friend request” process. The full release for both platforms, including Viber’s signature HD-quality free voice calling, will be released as soon as it meets Viber’s quality standards.

Sangoma announces the release of its Vega 400 SBC stand-alone Session Border Controller appliance,. The solution is designed to provide seamless connectivity between VoIP networks and SIP Trunking connections, while delivering security and policy enforcement to ensure call quality and reliability.

Located between disparate IP networks or systems, the SBC helps customers contain and control vulnerabilities that can be exploited in SIP-based networks to misappropriate or misuse VoIP resources and systems. The Vega 400 SBC provides encryption of media and signaling, as well as call access control, secure network logon and secure management interfaces. In addition to the security functions, the SBC provides a broad range of intermediation and core VoIP capabilities necessary to ensure proper call handling and call quality.

Swedish mobile VoIP app Freephoo changes name to Plingm and gets a new look. The new name marks the beginning of a broad international launch of the app.

Plingm is a highly rated Swedish mobile VoIP-app that allows users to make free- and low cost telephone calls from mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and iPod Touch. Now, the app changes name, from Freephoo to Plingm.

"Plingm, short for 'Pling them', communicates what we are all about. We believe that people should be able to call loved ones anywhere in the world as often as they, without emptying their bank accounts. The name also highlights the crystal clear sound you get when making a call with Plingm," says co-founder Pandelis Eliopoulos.

Sangoma announces the release of its NetBorder Transcoding Gateway, the latest product in the growing range of gateway appliances to serve enterprises worldwide. This new gateway facilitates the interconnection of VoIP devices and networks with support for transcoding between a wide range of codecs-from low-bandwidth to HD-that are employed throughout the rapidly growing enterprise communications landscape.

The new NetBorder Transcoding Gateway provides bandwidth savings in interoffice VoIP and SIP trunking deployments with support for narrowband G.723.1 and G.729 codecs. Additionally, the appliance enables seamless connections between various SIP implementations such as those using different RTP packet sizes.

AudioCodes announces that two of its executives plan to speak on the Enterprise Connect SIP Trunking Tour, a four-city tour promoting SIP Trunking services, education and technologies. As part of the event series, Alan D. Percy, Senior Director of Marketing for North America and Larry Clarkson, Chief Technology Office for North America will participate in panel discussions, offering real-world customer experiences, best practice advice, and tips when migrating from legacy TDM trunking to SIP Trunking services.

SIP Trunks are becoming more widely available and have tremendous potential—they can reduce enterprise costs for carrier services, as well as getting your enterprise one step closer to supporting true Next-Generation IP Communications. In response to the booming demand for SIP Trunks—and for information about SIP Trunks—Enterprise Connect is launching a four-city “road show” on this vital topic.

Truphone announces it's developing a global roaming application based on RIM's BlackBerry 10 platform. The new application will let BlackBerry 10 users make international calls and send text messages over Wi-Fi or 4G/LTE at rates up to 90 percent cheaper than mobile operator tariffs.

BlackBerry 10's advanced APIs, new programming tools, intuitive programming environment and developer features are enabling Truphone to slash development time and create market-differentiating features. As a result, the new Truphone app will provide a superior user experience, including reliable, high-quality Wi-Fi and 4G/LTE calling and other over-the-top services that take advantage of the BlackBerry 10 platform.

Plingm (currently named Freephoo on Apple's App Store) launches a free mobile VoIP app with SuperHD sound on the Japanese market. With the app, users can make quality voice calls to friends all over the world and cut phone bills substantially.

Plingm is a highly rated Swedish mobile VoIP-app that allows users to make free- and low cost telephone calls from mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and iPod Touch. Unique for Plingm is SuperHD, an outstanding sound quality with a bit rate that is three times higher than other VoIP apps available on the market. The SuperHD sound has a natural sound where all nuances of the voice are captured.