Yankee Group today announced additional results of its 2005 Technologically Advanced Family (TAF) Survey, which reveals crucial consumer voice data and analysis for industry players wishing to capture the buying power of early adopter consumers, as well as mass market, late mass market and laggard market segments.

Koncept International, Inc. a VoIP Solutions Enabler recently announced several significant developments. These new efforts enable Koncept to gain early access to the changing VoIP landscape in China, with the goal of the Koncept InfiNET Platform to become one of few selected 'Internet Communications Engines' for authorized Chinese Content Providers.

Visual Networks, Inc., a leading provider of network and application performance management solutions, announced that it is the exclusive presenting sponsor of the VoIP track at Network World's forthcoming technology tour, "Roadmap '06: What's New, What's Next and What to Buy Now." The series of four one-day events will pinpoint critical issues and arm attendees with the facts, figures and strategies to maximize network performance in 2006. The seminars, targeted toward IT and network executives and managers of technologies such as VoIP, are taking place in Framingham, Massachusetts (November 29), Washington, DC (December 1), Chicago (December 6) and Santa Ana, California (November 8).

Yak Communications Inc., a provider of telecommunications services to residential and business customers, announced today that it has joined forces with Emergent Network Solutions, Inc. and DaVinci Integration Inc. to provide users of its new yakForFree VoIP service (www.yakforfree.com) with an easy means for upgrading to local/long-distance VoIP-to-PSTN services. This sophisticated, prepaid VoIP capability is a standard feature of the new yakForFree virtual videophone service, which debuts today.

The new prepaid yakForFree VoIP capability is provided through a partnership between Emergent and DaVinci, whereby Emergent's innovative open systems platform, ENTICE, enables the feature and DaVinci integrates it. Yak expects that the new yakForFree service represents a "disruptive force" in the VoIP arena, offering the first free member-to-member voice AND video online service and enticing users to move to VoIP as the primary means for communicating with colleagues, friends and family around the world.

iPhone2, Inc., a publicly-traded company which has created proprietary video/voice Internet software called ImagePhone2, announced they have retained an accounting firm to comply with SEC regulations on becoming a fully reporting company.

iPhone2 is an enhanced service provider marketing a unique broadcast quality (30 frames per second) video/voice (Soft-Phone) utilizing MPEG4 technology. The Company's product, called ImagePhone2, is the Next Generation of Internet Video/Voice communications; iPhone2's customers can place unlimited peer-to-peer video/voice calls, as well as originate or receive video/voice calls from anywhere in the world using their desktop or laptop computer and a broadband connection.

A federal appeals court refused to delay new Federal Communications Commissions guidelines forcing VoIP providers to provide their customers with reliable 911 emergency call services. The motion filed two weeks ago by a group of service providers was denied on Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Is your provider one that might affect you by not meeting the deadline?

Craig Spiegelberg of LogiTel speaks on VoIP's future impact on small to medium businesses in 2006. VoIP is more than just good business sense and more than just cheap phone calls. Spiegelberg predicts several hundred thousand businesses will make the switch to VoIP over the next 18 months. Helping to "empower these companies to communicate more efficiently than every before" says Spiegelberg.

Pringo calls itself "The last prepaid calling card you'll ever need!" who is the calling card service of iBasis. Announced new lower rates to card holders to many new South American destinations that comprise of more than 5% of all international calls from the U.S. Pringo is currently offering a sign-up bonus of $5 worth of free calling and can receive additional $5 credits by referring their friends and family to the Pringo services.

Scientific-Atlanta named Consumer Electronic Association's "Innovations 2006 Design and Engineering Honoree" in the CES Innovations 2006 Awards competitions. For the company's new DPC2223 VoIP Cable Modem with Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telephony (DECT), which allows consumers to connect to their VoIP service using cordless handsets in their homes.

European, Middle East, and Africa regions are expected to grow faster than that of it's rivals North America and Asia-Pacific markets. Sonus, who's established an early hold on the market there looks to expand its services further into the European markets. Sonus wants to offer network operators the ability to rapidly launch revenue-generating and enhanced services.

Patton the leader in network access, connectivity and VoIP solutions announces that SmartNode VoIP routers now support triple-play services via IGMP and IP-multicast in SmartWare release 3.20.

Multi-service operators can leverage the new SmartWare features to increase revenues and reduce churn by adding triple-play services to their offerings while preserving their capital investment in Patton customer-premise equipment (CPE). Carrier-providers can download the new SmartWare to their installed CPEs to deliver packet-based video-on-demand, IPTV and streaming triple-play content to a subscriber's set-top box such as Amino Communications' Aminet 110.

Edify Corp., a leading global supplier of voice and speech solutions, today announced the general availability of Edify Voice Interaction Platform, Release 9.5 with enhanced support for hardware- and software-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). This provides organizations with the flexibility to implement the VoIP solution that best fits and supports their needs to maximize their IT investment and reduce operation and maintenance costs.

VoIP can dramatically reduce costs by utilizing vast global IP-based network resources instead of traditional metered telephone environments. Because VoIP technologies also offer new opportunities to integrate voice, data and the web, contact centers can handle both self-service and agent-assisted calls more efficiently and effectively.

"VoIP is being adopted at an increasing rate throughout the enterprise. By using standards-based technologies from companies such as Intel, we're helping enterprises maximize the benefits of this technology," said Mitch Mandich, president and CEO of Edify. "Customers can now easily scale their voice solutions and reap the benefits from open standards -- driving down total cost of ownership and improving their bottom line."

XO Communications, Inc. announced the launch of its industry-leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services bundle, XOptions Flex, in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

XOptions Flex is an integrated VoIP services solution that gives business customers enhanced features, functionality and value for their voice and Internet services, all in one simple package. It is the industry's first VoIP services bundle for businesses that combines unlimited local and long distance calling, dedicated Internet access and web hosting services for a flat monthly price.

Interlink Global Corp., announced that it has executed and begun the implementation of a Memorandum of Understanding with Metrocel, S.A., located in Quito, Ecuador to provide retail broadband and VOIP services throughout the country. The forthcoming contract will be a joint venture between Metrocel and Interlink developing a project to provide broadband and VoIP telephony services to 600 Internet kiosks located around the country. Each kiosk will house 5 telephone lines, and will offer consumers in Ecuador the ability to access broadband and telephone services. The rates that will be charged will be below the rates charged for broadband service, if those services are available at all in certain areas of the country, as well as being far below traditional fixed line and wireless rates charged by the incumbent telephone companies.

SOYO Group Inc., a leading global provider of computer, consumer electronics and broadband telecommunications products, today announced that SOYO's Z-Connect Value Pack (G668B) was named to TechLiving Magazine's "Hot List - 50 Products That Simplify Your Life" for 2005.

TechLiving selects 50 products each year based on ease of use, unique features and affordability. The SOYO Z-Connect Value Pack will be featured in the November/December 2005 issue.

The Z-Connect Value Pack is a hardware/software VoIP phone solution that consists of a pair of SOYO Z-Connect G668 VoIP telephones, which plug directly into a broadband DSL connection or cable modem for instant VoIP capability. No computer is necessary. With SOYO's companion VoIP service, calls are free on the Z-Connect network