Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced the availability of Virtual Numbers with area codes from Austria, France, Ireland, Italy and Spain. European friends, family and business associates residing and working within these nations can now call U.S.-based Vonage customers for the price of a local call.

Venali, Inc. announced the launch of their Branded Internet Fax Service that makes it easy for VoIP and Telecom providers to offer fax services to their clients while increasing their recurring revenues and profits. The company announced that VoIP provider Kancharla will be the first branding partner to profit from the new service.

Today's world is becoming more and more mobile -- from mobile phones and laptop computers to mobile mp3 players and even VoIP telephones. So what better way to learn about the mobility of IP telephony and IP 911 calling than on a podcast that you can listen to anywhere, anytime? In its @:tech -- Issues in Technology podcast, IP Telephony and 911 Emergency Service Issues, IP911 Resource discusses the problems faced when dialing 911 from an IP-enabled telephone.

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

XOptions Flex is an integrated VoIP services solution designed for small and medium-sized businesses, combining voice and Internet services in one simple package. XOptions Flex offers unlimited local and long distance calling, dedicated Internet access and web hosting services all for a flat monthly price. Customers benefit from significant savings, the convenience of using one provider and receiving one monthly invoice for their business communications services. To date, more than 2,500 businesses in over 50 metropolitan markets nationwide have deployed XOptions Flex.

CTIA WIRELESS 2006, the premiere event for everything wireless, will feature the latest technologies and solutions making today's mobile enterprise more streamlined and simplified. Smartphones, VoIP, RFID, WiMax and WiFi are enabling the mobile workforce to remotely track email, billing, product fulfillment, shipping, inventory and more. At this year's CTIA WIRELESS event, attendees will learn about the latest enterprise applications and technologies that are taking off. Companies showcasing enterprise solutions at CTIA WIRELESS 2006 include Hewlett Packard, Kodak, Cisco Systems, NAVTEQ, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Symbian, Texas Instruments, Siemens, Openwave, Kyocera and Bitstream, among others.

SPIRIT DSP, provider of award-winning embedded voice & communication software products, announced that PalTalk , one of the Internet's leading providers of voice and video chat services, has chosen SPIRIT voice software product to enhance the Paltalk user voice experience. Paltalk is one of the world's most popular voice & video communication services in the world, featuring more than 37 million registered users in over 140 countries carrying in excess of 8 billion voice minutes per year.

"Through SPIRIT's partnership with Paltalk, the clear voice from SPIRIT for multi-point conferencing will now serve additional millions of people worldwide "- said Andrew Sviridenko, SPIRIT's founder and chairman.

Rategate.com, a phone rate comparison website for the U.S., was launched by Rategate LLC on December 29, 2005. Rategate.com will provide visitors with unique comparison tools to lower their telephone bill through the use of cheap 10-10 dialaround providers.

"Most people are paying way too much for their telecommunication services, especially phone bills. They are often twice as much as they should be," says Mike Harris, Rategate.com's CEO. "We created Rategate.com so that people can lower their phone bill by comparing different providers with our unique tools."

Imagine being able to make phone calls just at the click of a button from an Internet browser.

That's the simplicity VoIPSter is bringing to Internet calling with the release of the Zoep Firefox extension, making the world's leading open source Internet browser a true telephony endpoint.

With the Zoep Firefox plug-in users can make free telephone calls and chat directly after installing the Firefox pro-extension from http://www.zoep.com/firefox.

VoIPSter has announced the formation of The OpenZoep Foundation and the premier release of the OpenZoep communications engine.

OpenZoep will enable the proliferation and rapid development of standards based telephony application throughout the world as VoIP grows and continues to take hold with users and service providers.

"Building VoIP clients using OpenZoep is very straightforward," said Dirk Griffioen, VoIPSter's Senior VOIP Engineer. "The OpenZoep API offers simple methods to communicate with the OpenZoep client-side VoIP engine and server-side web services."

AT&T Inc. and Avaya Inc., a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, announced a global strategic alliance to help businesses and government agencies manage through one of the most significant technology evolutions they face - the migration to voice over IP/IP telephony.

The alliance leverages AT&T's industry-leading global IP network, network design and management expertise with Avaya's enterprise IP communications technology to deliver end-to-end managed solutions from the wide area network to the IP phone on the desktop. The solutions provide comprehensive migration to IP telephony and the associated local area network (LAN) and wireless LAN infrastructure.

Net2Phone a pioneer and innovator in the field of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), announced that it has secured its 31st patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent titled "System and Method for Managing a Flow of Network Status Messages at a Network Operations Console" was issued on December 27, 2005.

Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of service provider voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, announced that Intrado Inc., a global provider of integrated data and telecommunications solutions, has tapped Sonus to provide key elements of its IMS-ready architecture to support Intrado's nationwide expansion of its VoIP E9-1-1 solution, V9-1-1 Services.

Ranch Networks today introduced the RN series of appliances which are the first to integrate security and bandwidth control for VoIP applications. The company's IP telephony network appliances secure, manage and scale VoIP traffic beyond existing firewall technologies. Ranch Networks' appliances separate voice, video, and data traffic into multiple secure zones without having to reconfigure IP addresses. Several patent-pending technologies, allow service providers to deliver VoIP services to enterprises without affecting existing data networks.

Newrise Corporation announces the release of its (888)IZA-BIZA (492-2492) toll-free eBay auction status service. It allows both eBay buyers and sellers to track their auction status from anywhere, wherever there is telephone or cell phone access. They simply dial the number, enter in their eBay auction ID, and receive the status of their auction, including number of bids, highest bid and remaining duration. "We're a company dedicated to innovation. We always try to find easier and more efficient methods for conducting business. In today's work-anywhere and extensive travel environment, people need tools for their mobile lifestyle," said Bill Robbins, CEO.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., announced it will stream Dave Navarro's Indie 103.1 FM radio show directly from its web site, http://www.vonage.com. Navarro will be hosting the radio show from the Premiere Lounge at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 23 and 24, 3:00 - 5:00 MST. Those interested in accessing the live streaming audio feed can click on the graphic on home page of Vonage.com or can dial 1-700-367-1031 to listen to the programming.