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VoIP Supply has supplied a 200+ user SwitchVox phone system to Glimcher Realty Trust. The system, which also features Polycom ip phones, was deployed this month.

Glimcher Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust, is a recognized leader in the ownership, management, acquisition and development of regional and super-regional malls. Glimcher currently owns or manages 28 properties in 14 states. Of the 28 properties, 24 are enclosed regional or super-regional malls, many of which are located in the country's top-growing metropolitan statistical areas.

Siraj Haji, Director of Information Systems at Glimcher, said that their recent move to an innovative new office space was an opportunity to implement the new technology, and that with the new SwitchVox phones system, they "have set the foundation to integrate our data and communication network across all our properties."

Plustek has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit 3.0 Conferencing Engine as the core for its corporate conferencing system Plus@com PC2000. The Plus@com PC2000 combines instant interactive communication functions with live video. Plus@com delivers whole corporate coverage with the flexibility and reliability to support multifunction applications, such as instant messaging, real-time audio-and-video meetings, call transfer, chatting, data sharing and more.

SPIRIT Conferencing Engine is the best choice to build VoIP-based conferencing systems with high voice quality. The technology may be used to arrange conferencing sessions counting dozens to thousands of participants. The engine comprises a set of modules and interfaces meeting development requirements for both rapid integration and flexible control.

BroadSoft will host the third annual invitation-only "Korea VoIP Industry Forum" at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul on May 7. This year's VoIP forum will feature a panel discussion, "Open Access," which covers regulatory issues in Korea and how open access could benefit both customers and telecom companies. The panel will include HJ Kim, managing director of BT Korea.

The Korea VoIP Industry Forum will also cover how service providers can differentiate their residential offerings, and how new unified communications (UC) solutions from companies such as Microsoft might impact business services. Also, a special session will cover how service providers can use Web 2.0 mashups with telephony features to deliver new services to businesses and consumers.

In4S announces that its VoIP gateways for small and medium business, IP-Carrier Gateway and Mobile Gateway are compliant with Avaya Communication Manager. The VoIP gateways help Japanese small and medium businesses access a broader range of SIP VoIP services. Also, the Mobile Gateway enables connectivity between an Avaya IP Communications solution and wireless LAN handsets from KDDI and NTT DoCoMo, expanding the range of handset options for users.

The VoIP gateways now are compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with: Avaya Communication Manager.

SureWest announces the deployment of Alcatel-Lucent's IMS-based VoIP for Consumers solution to support its newly launched SureWest Digital Phone VoIP service in the Northern California region. SureWest Communications provides local telephone, long-distance, Internet, wireless, digital TV and commercial high-speed data services in Northern California and in the metropolitan Kansas City area.

SureWest is migrating its network from a traditional Class 5 switch-based infrastructure to an IP network, including IMS, for advanced services. IMS is an architecture that provides end-users with anytime, anywhere personalized services based on the blending of voice, video and data content. IMS makes blended lifestyle services, such as video, interactive gaming, telephony, Push-to-Talk and messaging available from any device and across all networks.

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JoeDeveloper.NET and BroadSoft launched the first-ever mashup of carrier-grade VoIP features with Facebook. JoeDeveloper.NET's Facebook application, called Click2Message, integrates with BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform. With Click2Message, Facebook users can enable their friends and colleagues to call them via their Facebook profiles with just one click.

The Click2Message application enables click-to-dial calling using any device -- home phone, mobile or office desk phone. Facebook users can add the application to their profile pages, allowing their networks of friends and business connections to call them, without revealing their own phone numbers to the caller. The basic version of the Click2Message application is now available free of charge to any U.S.-based Facebook user.

Vapps updated its Skype Extra, a plug-in that launches the full feature set of its High-Definition Conferencing service from within the globally adopted Skype internet communications application.

Vapps added HD-C to Skype’s Extras Gallery in October 2007, uniquely conferencing together public switched telephone network and Skype users for a value-priced flat monthly fee ranging from $25 for as many as 10 users to $200 for as many as 500. The convenience of Vapps’ Skype plug-in—with 100,000 registered users to date—encourages frequent, ad-hoc use, and along with the flat-rate pricing makes it easier for growing companies with remote teleworkers to manage costs.

Skype announces unlimited* calling to over a third of the world’s population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal the first time Skype has offered a single, monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries.

The new subscriptions have no long-term contract. You can make calls whenever you want – at any time of the day, on any day of the week. From today, you can choose from three types of subscription – from unlimited calls to landlines in the country of your choice through to landlines in 34 destination countries worldwide.

309 million people all over the world use Skype in all sorts of ways – whether it’s a weekly video call with a sister in Paris or sending an instant message to a college friend in Tokyo or calling a business contact overseas.

VoIP-PAL recently announced support for Talk for the Cure and chose the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund Inc. as the first recipient. The second choice is Juvenile Diabetes Research; we are proud to give our customers the opportunity to choose one of the recipients and hope to raise a significant amount of money for both charities from the sale of MagicJack as follows: Four dollars from each MagicJack sold only through VoIP-PAL.com's websites will be donated to one of these charities.

Clarification Notice:

Only MagicJack purchases through VoIP-PAL's websites http://www.voip-pal.com and http://www.pinkmagicjack.com are eligible for the charities donations and the Incentive programs.

BroadSoft announces that Technology Marketing Corporation's Unified Communications magazine has named BroadSoft's Unified Connector for Salesforce the Product of the Year. The Unified Connector for Salesforce is a Web 2.0 mashup of BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform with the leading web-based customer relationship management application.

The Unified Connector for Salesforce enables enterprise users to use their carrier-grade VoIP calling functionality -- including click-to-dial, call hold and call transfer -- within salesforce.com.

The Unified Connector for Salesforce is a flagship mashup in the BroadSoft Xtended program, a pioneering initiative that brings together the carrier-grade BroadWorks voice applications with leading Web 2.0 solutions. Unified Communications magazine's Product of the Year award is the second honor for BroadSoft's Unified Connector for Salesforce in the last month. VON Magazine awarded the mashup with a Judge's Top 10 Innovator Award in March.

i2Telecom releases its Beta Version 2.0 of its MyGlobalTalk service. MyGlobalTalk is a new and advanced mobile VoIP application that targets the wireless handset market. MyGlobalTalk places Internet telephony in the hands of every cellular phone user, independent of wireless carrier technology, handset manufacturer, or the type of wireless carrier voice/data plan involved. The objective is to enable mobile users to access low-cost Internet telephony communications in a completely "untethered" manner via their MyGlobalTalk enabled cellular phones. Once MyGlobalTalk software is installed on cellular handsets, users are able to call any telephone in the world directly from their cellular phones, using VoIP technology, at a fraction of normal long-distance rates. In addition, MyGlobalTalk is fully functional without local access to the Internet or proximity to an Internet "hotspot." Users also need not wait for the availability of dual-mode WiFi phones, because MyGlobalTalk provides the benefits of a dual-mode phone at a fraction of the cost using the customer's existing mobile handset.

Sigma Systems IP service fulfillment solution has surpassed managing over 100 million bundled IP services for communications service providers globally. The company's award-winning advanced IP service fulfillment solutions, which enable efficient delivery of new services such as VoIP, IPTV, mobile and broadband data services over any network technology to any device, continue to drive Sigma's success in well over 50 deployments worldwide.

Sigma's customers include some of the largest service providers in the world, with more than 50 successful installations in North America, EMEA, CALA and AsiaPac. In addition, Sigma boasts the most widely deployed residential VoIP service management solution, with over six million lines of voice telephony deployed worldwide

VoIP Supply has won the award for the Best Place to Work in Western New York in the Medium company (51-100 employees) category. VoIP Supply beat out 17 other Medium-sized companies that had been nominated for the award. This was VoIP Supply's second nomination in as many years.

The 76 companies nominated were honored, and winners selected, at a luncheon at the Buffalo Convention Center on Tues., April 8, 2008. Awards were given for the best place to work in the micro, small, medium, large, x-large and jumbo company categories.

"This is a tremendous honor and a testament to the quality of staff employed at VoIP Supply," said Benjamin P. Sayers, President and CEO of VoIP Supply. "Growing at such a rapid pace, constantly adding more people, and implementing change in order to set the pace to stay on top is a challenge. I am proud to be part of an organization that can do it all with a smile and look forward to coming back tomorrow."