Ribbit announced that nearly 2,000 developers have registered to get access to the Ribbit development platform -- more than triple the number (652) of developers that the company had on Monday, when the company launched. Ribbit has also experienced a great surge of interest from investors, partners, customers, and prospective employees.

At the core of Ribbit's technology offering is a sophisticated, open platform that enables developers to bridge the worlds of traditional telephony and the Web. The Ribbit SmartSwitch evolved from a Lucent-tested CLASS 5 softswitch and open Flash/Flex-based API enables non-telephony developers to quickly build innovative, rich voice applications and integrate them into Web sites, communities and applications.

Talkster is delivering an early holiday gift to iPhone users: simplified group conference calling all over the globe for the cost of a single local call.

Although the intuitive iPhone comes with a simple method for adding additional people into an existing conversation, the process becomes tedious and complex when adding a third, fourth or fifth caller to the conference. With the Talkster service, iPhone users simply go to http://i.talkster.com to set up their group call. They enter the names and phone numbers of the people they want to call and click invite. Talkster generates a local phone number for each of t he call participants and distributes the new number via text message. This one-tim

Aruba Networks has been named a VoIP Leader by FierceVoIP, an honor that recognizes the top 10 companies on the cutting-edge of the constantly evolving VoIP industry. Winners are singled out for leading the industry as it expands beyond service providers and into the fields of enterprise and unified communications.

FierceVoIP is a bi-weekly email newsletter distributed by FierceMarkets that covers news and insights on the emerging VoIP industry, providing more than 35,000 subscribers a quick, authoritative briefing on the week's top VoIP stories and marketplace developments.

Rebtel announces low cost and free international calling to and from China. Starting Friday, December 21, residents of Shanghai can use their mobile phones to call any phone, anywhere in the world for just pennies per minute, and make free calls to friends, family, and work colleagues in 39 countries.

More than 18 million people live in Shanghai. And that doesn't include the city's 6 million migrant workers, making Shanghai one of the most populous cities in the world.

VoIP News has just cited Ifbyphone's Phone-Me-Now product as one of the "Top 25 VoIP Innovations of 2007,". Ifbyphone is a voice infrastructure and applications development company providing enterprise class voice services to Small and Medium sized Businesses and Phone-Me-Now, is the world's first zero configuration click to call application.

This patent pending solution can be integrated in less then 60 seconds into any website, email or hyperlinked document and requires no experience to configure. It's literally the Internet's first instant voice mash up tool. "While many companies provide click to call services, we were troubled by how complex they are to use. Users had to cut and paste HTML or javascript; The zero configuration Phone-Me-Now service is literally the Holy Grail of web to telephone integration and ease of use," says Shapiro.

Javvin Technologies has just published the VOIP Technology Quick Guide. Designed for networking and telecom engineers, IT admins and communication technology educators and students, this VOIP technology quick guide covers all related technologies: the VOIP Protocols, the network architecture based on all major signaling technologies: SIP, H.323 and xGCP, VOIP transport and QoS technologies, and video and audio codecs. A comprehensive VOIP Glossary is also included for quick reference.

Zoom announces Skype certification for Zoom's innovative Model 5900 Phone Adaptor for Skype. The Model 5900 allows someone to use any phone, even a cordless phone, for Skype calls; and even allows cell phone users to remotely access their Skype service to make international calls. This can save hundreds of dollars per month for mobile phone users who make international calls.

Skype is a popular phone service all over the world, with over 200 million registered users and rapid growth. Skype certification is achieved after Skype's rigorous testing and review of a product's features, performance, instructions, and packaging.

Most people use Skype by plugging a headset into their Windows PC and running Skype application software, which can be downloaded free. Skype reduces the cost of phone calls, and also provides extra features such as video calling and "presence," where an on-screen list shows whether friends and business contacts are ready to receive a Skype call.

Digium hits the one millionth download of Asterisk in 2007, capping off a record year for the leading open source telephony company. Digium, which will complete its 24th consecutive quarter of growth and profitability this year, created headlines with new executive appointments, industry awards, strategic partnerships and acquisitions aimed at further advancing the company’s presence in the small-to-medium-sized VoIP market.

Open source Asterisk continues to revolutionize the VoIP market by giving companies a cheaper and more flexible alternative to proprietary solutions. The 2007 introduction of Digium’s Asterisk Appliance based on Embedded Asterisk Business Edition successfully combined the cost savings and flexibility of open source with the rapid installation, high reliability and ease of use of a business appliance. PC Magazine called the Asterisk Appliance “astonishingly compact” and packed with “high-end features.”

NextAlarm.com announces that support for ten-digit Contact ID reporting has been added to its VoIPAlarm 2 IP alarm signal transmission platform. The addition greatly increases the viability of VoIPAlarm 2 as an alternative to existing IP-compatible alarm dialers, especially for alarm installers whose central stations require ten-digit account numbers.

VoIPAlarm requires the addition of a competitively priced VoIPAlarm adapter, which is connected to the alarm main control panel using its existing phone wiring. VoIPAlarm charges a flat monthly fee for unlimited retransmission of alarm signals to the central station of the alarm installer's choice.

Packet8 and MobileMax have successfully launched a user-friendly mobile calling service that offers a simple, affordable and high quality digital voice solution to overseas calling.

The new service, called "Packet8 MobileTalk" , is based on MobileMax Residential Edition software for carriers and service providers. MobileMax’s solution utilizes a downloadable software application that can reside on any smart phone to automatically route international calls from the mobile phone through the Packet8 digital VoIP network. This will enable cell phone users to significantly reduce their international phone bills while maintaining high international voice quality and the ability to enjoy the convenience and flexibility of mobile calling.