Digium announces the immediate availability of Switchvox Free Edition. The new product includes the telephony features of the widely used Switchvox SOHO edition and can be downloaded and installed in minutes on existing hardware. The release underscores Digium’s commitment to delivering full-featured telephony systems at low price points to allow organizations around the world to benefit from the Asterisk open source movement and flexibility of VoIP.

EQO Communications releases a native Windows Mobile beta version of its mobile VoIP, text and IM application. EQO is a free mobile application that lets users call anywhere in the world for rates as low as 2.3 cents USD/minute and also features inexpensive international text messages and free access to popular instant messaging services, including MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber. By developing a Windows Mobile native version of EQO, Windows Mobile smartphone users can enjoy a faster and more responsive mobile VoIP experience.

Global IP Solutions releases its VoIP softphone, REX, a comprehensive communication tool which provides new features such as multi-party instant messaging, advanced presence capabilities, voicemail and a comprehensible user interface.

The REX softphone possesses all the features of an IP-PBX telephone, while delivering additional benefits of mobility, flexibility, presence and IM; essential communication features in today's business environment. Current customers will be able to upgrade their existing softphone to this latest version. In addition, REX can be rebranded and re-skinned to reflect the customers' existing offerings.

For more information and a demonstration of REX visit GIPS booth 808 at the Fall VON tradeshow in Boston October 30 - 31st.

8x8, originator of the Packet8 VoIP and video communication services for business and residential customers announce that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,289,491 for an arrangement and method of Internet telephony. The patent issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on October 30, 2007.

The invention covered by the patent relates generally to an arrangement which includes a telephone and an interface unit which interfaces the telephone to both a standard switched telephone communications network and an Internet communications network.

Since its establishment in 1987, 8x8 has been awarded seventy (70) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications and storage technologies.

Wired magazine tested and compared eight VoIP services for their Winter 2008 Test issue, Lingo emerged as “Editors’ Pick” for its cost, features and quality. Lingo was tested and compared with Packet8, AT&T, Comcast, SIPphone, Skype, Verizon, and Vonage – and beat them all.

“We are delighted to be chosen as 'Editors’ Pick' among VoIP service providers by a respected magazine such as Wired,” said Srinath Narayan, Vice President of Consumer Markets for Lingo. “Their selection of Lingo validates what we always knew we offered – a product with a wide range of features, high quality, and a very attractive price.”

Reignmaker Communications says customers will have clear calling when using its newly launched SIP Trunking services. And they are backing up their claim with a 60-day no-risk guarantee -- the industry's strongest satisfaction guarantee. Reignmaker Communications has partnered with Edgewater Networks, utilizing the company's EdgeView VoIP Support System and EdgeMarc network appliances as mandatory components to Reignmaker Communications SIP Trunking.

Voxalot announces the commercial launch of VoxConnect, a Web Services API for Web site operators, widget creators and application developers who wish to easily embed new Voice 2.0 calling features into their online services and applications. The API gives enterprises use of all of the Voxalot core telephony functions that are currently available to consumers. It requires very little knowledge of telephony for developers, and no special telecom equipment for end-users.

By leveraging Voxalot's advanced telephony functions within their online applications, site operators can customize and monetize different telephony applications for their members. Examples of such applications are limited only by developers' own inventiveness, and include anonymous calling for dating and social networking sites, click-to-call yellow-page directories, voicemail, as well as user-configured find-me/follow-me settings, which direct calls to reach members wherever they are.

AT&T expands the availability of AT&T Voice Over IP Connect Service (AVOICS). AVOICS is the flagship wholesale VoIP offer for U.S. service providers that want IP-based connectivity to AT&T's global IP network for long distance call termination. For more than 10 years, AT&T has provided wholesale VoIP solutions, which address the U.S. domestic and international termination needs of service providers with a variety of connectivity options.

AVOICS provides unbranded and unbundled transport over the AT&T network, as well as termination of international and U.S. domestic traffic. Customers connect to the service via AT&T's Managed Internet Service/Multiprotocol Label Switching-Private Network Transport service, which provides class-of-service voice quality, key security elements and advanced network reliability. AVOICS is highly scalable and accepts U.S.-originated domestic outbound (1+) calls and international outbound (011+) calls by using SIP signaling.

Tpad has launched a new softphone service that lets all first time users make their first call to landlines and mobiles for free. The popular VoIP provider has launched the new softphone in order to compete with other internet telephony companies such as Skype. To take advantage of the free call, users have to create a free Tpad account and download the free Tpad Softphone or use any VoIP Device (ATA / IP Phone / WiFi Mobile).

Chris Morris, General Manager for Tpad, said: "We have been listening to the feedback from our customers and as a result we have redesigned both our website and Softphone. The Tpad website is now easier to navigate and our new softphone is even simpler to use to make low cost international calls"

Morris continued: "In celebration of this achievement we are going to add 20 cents (USD) to all first time users' accounts for a limited period. For example, this will let them make a free 20 minute call to any normal phone or mobile in the US using Tpad's ultra low call rates. Of course calls between Tpad users are 100% free all the time"

deltathree will be offering Canadian inbound phone numbers, otherwise known as direct inward dialing (DID) numbers, to its reseller, service provider and direct-to-consumer clients. deltathree's ability to provide 9-1-1 services in Canada was made possible by its long-standing partnership with Intrado, the core provider of North America's 9-1-1 emergency communications network. Per the regulations of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, all VoIP subscribers in the country with the ability to make and receive calls must be equipped with 9-1-1 service. Therefore, with this new 9-1-1 capability deltathree is able to expand its inbound calling offers to include Canada.