JAJAH's platform has been selected by MOBIVOX to supply call termination and a range of other back-end service management functions. In addition, JAJAH is packaging MOBIVOX's voice-enabling application platform to launch JAJAH Concierge. The new value-added service allows JAJAH customers to use voice commands to make a hands-free JAJAH call or group call, send an SMS message and more. This comes at a time when there is rise in legislation, most recently in California, requiring hands-free phone calls while driving.

VoIP Supply has been named to Everything Channel's CRN Fast Growth 100 List. The CRN Fast Growth 100 list recognizes the fastest growing solutions providers in the industry today based on 2 years' growth of net sales from calendar year 2005 to calendar year 2007 and the ability to deliver multi-vendor IT solutions, cutting-edge technologies, close customer relationships, demonstrate strong sales philosophies and business-oriented IT consulting.

VoIP Supply was ranked #66 based on sales growth of 81.91% and their demonstrated ability to deliver solutions to a wide variety of customer verticals.

Vyke launches FreeTxt, a texting application for Symbian Series60 third edition mobile phones that enables Vyke customers to send and receive free text messages to fellow Vyke users and considerably cheaper SMS than other VoIP suppliers, to non Vyke users. Customers can download the FreeTxt application from Vyke’s website which conveniently integrates with the phone’s existing messaging system, and start texting directly from their handset as they normally would.

Fonality and BroadSoft have certified their products to work together, enabling service providers to market and deploy Fonality to their small and medium-sized business customers with confidence. BroadSoft has completed certification of Fonality trixbox Pro and PBXtra with BroadWorks. BroadSoft has also joined the Fonality Authorized Certified Ecosystem.

BroadWorks offers a range of carrier-grade applications that includes hosted PBX, unified communications, mobile PBX, business trunking, and residential broadband. Fonality products include a family of open-source-based, hybrid-hosted IP PBX offerings tailored for SMBs. By certifying the products together, the companies offer service providers a complete line of hosted and premise-based unified communications offerings for customers of all sizes.

SightSpeed has teamed up with Dell to deliver “Dell Video Chat,” an easy-to-use communications application now being bundled with Dell’s new Studio laptops. Video chat is gaining acceptance as a great way to stay in touch with friends and family across the country or the globe. SightSpeed has been widely recognized by the industry for delivering best-in class video chat capability that works across multiple platforms including Windows, Apple and Linux. The application also includes instant messaging and Internet voice phone capability for a full suite of communications options.

Delivering a simple, easy to use communications experience that is intuitive was a top priority. The application is pre-installed on the systems and is activated with one mouse click. SightSpeed has also made it easy for users to share the application with their friends and family who can simply download the “invitee” client program by visiting http://www.sightspeed.com/dellvideochat.

Buzz Technologies has released independent Web Traffic Data from Truehits. The Data reflects the rapid uptake of the site amongst users in Asia.

Month        Page Views            Thai Users          Sessions
04/2008      226,733(+41.69%)      32,698(+94.77%)     75,238(+128.26%)

05/2008      2,208,797(+874.18%)   351,965(+976.41%)   1,552,147(+1962.98%)

06/2008      10,765,687(+387.40%)  980,096(+178.46%)   4,277,642(+175.60%)

Average daily users is in excess of 150,000

i2Telecom expects revenues from the sale of VOIP products and related services to exceed $5 million in the year ending December 31, 2008, compared with less than $1 million in revenues during 2007.

This anticipated revenue growth will be driven by revenue-sharing and licensing agreements involving the Company’s new MyGlobalTalk technology. In addition, the Company may have the opportunity to realize further profits from the monetization of a portion of its growing intellectual property portfolio. The Company currently has patent applications pending related to over a dozen different additional important VoIP technologies, all of which are deployed today in the Company’s VoIP technology offerings.

Jaduka is reporting over 4 million minutes per month in customer voice traffic. Jaduka provides customers access to a variety of innovative services through its Web Services APIs, including: voice conferencing; web-initiated and privacy-protected phone calling; automated voice alerts and notifications; broadcast messaging; and VoIP-based PC-to-phone services.

Jaduka's API's and software development kit are optimized to leverage the platform capabilities of NetworkIP, its parent company. NetworkIP's carrier-grade telecommunications and services platform currently supports 865 million unique user accounts, and each day processes 700,000 API transactions and 1.5 million database queries

Fonality announces that the first quarter of 2008 marked its fifteenth consecutive quarter of high growth, and that the company has doubled in size each year since its founding in 2004. Key to the company’s success is a reinvention of the architecture and delivery of the modern day business phone system. Today, 5,000 commercial customers worldwide depend on Fonality’s PBXtra and trixbox Pro products for affordable, VoIP-powered unified communications. In addition, Fonality’s open source project, trixbox CE, has achieved three million downloads and is now the number one open source telephony project in the world.

The Telecom Broker specializes in assisting medium sized businesses to determine VoIP migration paths and best value from among the many players in the VoIP marketplace. After careful section, the firm has chosen Smoothstone IP Communications as one of its main players in the fully managed PBX marketplace.

Especially attractive was Smoothstone's next generation, nationwide private IP network and fully managed PBX offerings combined with their use of CISCO customer equipment, including a full line of IP handsets and edge devices. Smoothstone also offers managed Wide Area Network data services including Internet access.

HelloSoft announces its VoIP technology is ready for Passive Optical Network. The PON, which can carry all three types of traffic natively in packet form over a single fiber connection from the central office to the customer premises, is a perfect platform for launching packet-based VoIP service. VoPON is based on the universal standards-based SIP signaling protocol. It is the only protocol that can scale for multimedia services and future integration with IMS wireless networks. Carriers that deploy HelloSoft VoIP therefore gain a range of options for leveraging their investment and generating new revenue streams. HelloSoft is keeping up the pace by launching its VoIP for PON initiative.

AltiGen Communications has entered into a master distribution agreement with Boport Tele-Communication BV, a leading distributor of communications products and services in the Benelux countries -- Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Boport will offer AltiGen's complete line of VoIP business phone systems, including branch office, enterprise and call center solutions, to its own reseller channel via sub-distributors for telecommunications and IT. In addition, Boport will offer its channel partners specialized sales, marketing and technical training in order to quickly ramp-up and support new AltiGen resellers.

Switched on firms are saving themselves thousands of pounds a year by using the latest technology to cut the cost of everything from utility bills to telephone calls.

And as well as saving money, many of the recent new technologies developed for the business community can also help reduce energy consumption according to Jim Venables, Managing Director of leading online office broker, officebroker.com which works with 97% of the UK’s serviced office space providers and landlords.

Some of the recent technologies now being employed by the business community include:

The Show Me State must allow VoIP technology to develop and flourish throughout the state without regulatory interference, said the Institute for Policy Innovation in testimony to the Missouri legislature today.

VoIP is a compelling application which will encourage economic advancement, job creation and income growth as it is a "better, cheaper, and faster" vehicle for voice communications.

"These sorts of technology innovations are the prime drivers of economic growth because they increase productivity of businesses and enterprises large and small," said IPI President Tom Giovanetti.

Missouri must resist the urge to regulate. The Missouri Public Utilities Commission is showing a strong inclination toward regulation of the VoIP market, and throughout the recent report from the VoIP Task Force, the Commission expresses distrust in markets and competition.

As vendors and service providers worldwide look to maximise revenues, the lack of common remote management capability across all access technologies is a major stumbling block as they look to lower management complexities, minimise truck rolls and introduce new revenue generating services.

The DSL Forum has taken steps to resolve this problem with the approval of Technical Report 142 “Framework for TR-069 enabled PON and fibre related devices”. Developed by the Forum’s DSLHome Technical Working Group, TR-142 defines how Auto-Configuration Servers in the network can remotely configure, troubleshoot and manage a Passive Optical Network optical network termination with layer 3 capabilities using the Forum’s existing CPE LAN management protocol, TR-069.