Raketu releases Raketu Lite, the light version of the company’s VoIP calling desktop application. Raketu Lite can be downloaded directly from www.Raketu.com, was developed specifically for those consumers interested solely in Raketu’s leading edge VoIP calling features, including Global IM/SMS and email capabilities. The new application’s “Slim” interface is Raketu’s Lite version of Raketu’s full-featured LaunchPad Desktop application, which also integrates IPTV streamed video and VOD entertainment content.

Technical Details

Raketu Lite is a downloadable software application for consumer Windows and Vista operating system users, which offers free and extremely low cost VoIP calling from a desktop PC. Available immediately via www.Raketu.com, Raketu Lite supports users with free anytime PC-to-PC calling globally, and for Raketu prepaid customers, 1200 minutes per month of free PC-to-Phone calling or 600 minutes per month free Phone-to-Phone calling to free calling zones in 42 countries that include China, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States/Canada among others.

BroadSoft and C3IP Communications will debut the first-ever "VoIP AddOn" for the ACT! by Sage contact and customer management software application at the ITEXPO held here from Jan. 23 to 25. The VoIP AddOn developed by C3IP seamlessly integrates ACT! with BroadSoft's carrier-grade BroadWorks VoIP application platform. The VoIP AddOn solution enables call management capabilities within ACT! for BroadWorks end-users.

ACT! Add-on solutions extend the functionality of ACT! and are marketed directly to ACT! users. The BroadWorks-based VoIP AddOn is not yet available through ACT! Add-on. ACT! has 2.8 million registered users and an additional 43,000 corporate account customers.

The BroadWorks-based VoIP AddOn for ACT! enables:

PhoneFusion announces an enhanced version of its flagship PhoneFusion One product. By tightly integrating the powerful benefits of a Unified Communications solution with the cost-savings of VoIP technology, PhoneFusion One gives small businesses an easy and affordable way to manage all of their daily communications. For as little as $3.95 a month, small business professionals can get access to the same features and benefits of some of the most advanced enterprise class Unified Communications systems.

With PhoneFusion One, users have one phone number to give to colleagues, family and friends. When this number is dialed, PhoneFusion One then directs the call to the phone or fax as the subscriber chooses. PhoneFusion One delivers standard features one would expect from a traditional phone service, as well as some of the most advanced business functionality available. New features include Control Center from the desktop, a Softphone application that allows the computer to work as a telephone, the ability to record and deliver announcements based on time and a powerful voicemail application that centralizes multiple voicemail boxes and allows people to see a list of their voicemail messages right on their mobile device. With these enhancements and more, PhoneFusion One is poised to deliver the most comprehensive set of business communications features available to small businesses.

Hictu completes integration of Jajah's voice-calling capabilities into their technology platform. Hictu users will be able to use Jajah service from within any micro-post on Hictu, simply by clicking on the green Jajah button embedded in their Hictu profile. Users will also be able to talk from their phone with any other Jajah customer or with any user who has previously registered a phone number in the Jajah section of their Hictu profile.

Developed in Italy and capable of competing over an international Web 2.0 scenario, the Hictu video micro-blogging platform lets users instantly publish text, audio and video messages online and share this content with friends and other Hictu users. Video and audio messages can be recorded directly from within Hictu webpages, turning the service into the "Twitter" for video micro-bloggers. Hictu enables users to update the world with their "real-time" status and activities, while integrating content from leading IM and VoIP services.

Arcosoft announces the update to VONaLink ScreenPop. ScreenPop works with any VoIP phone system based on the open SIP standard, such as Vonage or Asterisk, to prevent the dialing out of any phone number, including long distance and toll calls. Besides providing caller ID features, ScreenPop can reject unwelcome incoming calls based on phone number, name, or partial match.

"One of our ScreenPop customers shared with me how he had some guests stay over at his house, and found some unexpected phone charges on his bill," says Tony Leung, founder of Arcosoft. "He never found out who made those calls, and did not want to inconvenience innocent people with questions." Whether undesired calls are accidentally or intentionally made, ScreenPop restores control to the person paying the bills.

Just a quick heads up to anyone interested in getting a good deal on a Jawbone bluetooth headset. I found this deal on slickdeals.net and currently has under 8 hours left on the sale, so hurry fast if you want to pick one up. Thanks go to RichardV.

Jawbone Bluetooth headset eliminates background noise so your calls are clearer. It's Noise Shield technology uses an advanced, military grade noise canceling system that continuously adapts to the users changing environment to deliver and receive unparalleled audio quality.

Features:

• Voice activity sensor identifies and isolates your speech and subtracts the unwanted background noise to allow you to speak normally in any environment
• Allows you to hear your caller better by boosting the frequencies that increase voice intelligibility
• Weighs only 14 grams
• Up to 6 hours talk time and 200 hours standby time Range Up to 33 ft

Includes: Multiple sized ear buds and ear loops for the most comfortable fit, Travel (wall) Charger, User Manual and Manufacture 1 Year Warranty.

IPEVO announces that its Skype and VoIP devices are now available at Fry's Electronics at 34 locations throughout California, Texas, Washington, Oregon, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, and Arizona. Through the agreement, customers are able to purchase a wide range of IPEVO devices at both Fry's web and retail stores nationwide.

Nortel has signed a contract with wireless broadband pioneer Clearwire to deliver a complete carrier VoIP solution to provide a residential VoIP service to Clearwire's U.S. customers. Nortel will also provide services to Clearwire from its Global Services portfolio, including network engineering, multi-vendor network integration, network deployment and support.

Clearwire's Internet Phone Service is currently available in 37 of the company's 46 markets in the U.S. and works with their customers' existing high-speed Internet access to provide unlimited local and long-distance calling from a regular telephone. The Nortel solution will provide end-to-end carrier VoIP infrastructure for Clearwire's Internet Phone Service, while laying the foundation for Clearwire to easily evolve their network to potentially deliver converged fixed and mobile services.

Detroit is the first area in the nation where AT&T U-verse Voice is available. AT&T U-verse Voice is a digital voice service delivered over the AT&T U-verse Internet Protocol network. The company began a controlled launch in late December and has since expanded the service's availability. The service will continue to expand to more local customers and additional markets in 2008.

AT&T U-verse Voice completes the company's IP triple play. With U-verse Voice, U-verse customers receive all the benefits of having advanced video, broadband, voice and wireless services from a single provider, and having their services work together for a new level of integration, functionality and convenience.

DigiLinea announces the availability of DigiTollFree a unique service that allows businesses to receive calls from clients and potential clients worldwide by having a worldwide local toll free number by just cutting and pasting text to their website, email address, or any other web based application. The DigiTollFree service is unique in that it works to and from any telephone in the world and effectively replaces the need to have local toll free or access numbers for sales or operations in each, state, region, or country in which a business operates. DigiTollFree provides businesses one easy to use service where every person in the world with a telephone (whether fixed line, mobile, or VoIP) can reach their business on a toll free basis to purchase their products or services.

Interlink Communication Systems is now a distributor for snom. snom phones will now be available to Interlink’s North American network of Value Added Resellers, Network Service Providers and Systems Integrators.

Interlink will distribute snom’s full line of VoIP telephones including the snom 300 series of IP phones, as well as the new IP DECT phone for VoIP users, the snom m3. The snom m3 provides an optimal VoIP communication system for the home office, SMB or enterprise. snom provides customers with feature-rich business telephones that offer plug-and-play integration into any SIP-based telephony platform.

The Internet Telephony Conference & Expo East 2008 takes place January 23 - 25, 2008 in Miami. Listed below are the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo East 2008 exhibitor profiles.

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JAJAH 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 explodes 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. It provides opinion leaders and industry experts an authoritative briefing on the week's top VoIP stories marketplace developments.

"JAJAH is an innovative company restlessly seeking out new products and alliances to build its Voice 2.0 business. Its determination to succeed makes it one of the pure play VoIP companies definitely worth watching," said FierceVoIP editor Tom Burton.

Sipera VIPER Lab's reveals its Top 5 VoIP Threat Predictions for 2008. As with its "Top 5 VoIP Vulnerabilities in 2007" list, the Sipera VIPER team leveraged its own extensive research and examined reports to determine the VoIP/UC threats with the greatest potential impact in 2008.

Based on industry trends that include major IP telephony vendors offering SIP solutions, enterprises deploying VoIP and unified communications beyond the traditionally secure perimeter, and service providers aggressively embracing fixed mobile convergence, Sipera VIPER Lab's Top 5 VoIP Threat Predictions for 2008 are:

Packet8 videophone and mobile VoIP communication services announce a receipt of a new order from SupportSave Solutions. The order calls for SupportSave to expand its use of 8x8's Packet8 Virtual Office hosted iPBX phone services over the next year, improving the company's in-house telecommunications network.

Under the terms of the order, SupportSave will increase the usage of Packet8's iPBX solution from seventy-five phone lines to more than 150 extensions over the next ninety days. Using Packet8's technology, SupportSave expects to have five hundred to one thousand networked lines in service within the next twelve months.