Fonality is now providing the market leading HUD 3.0 unified communications software to the trixbox Community Edition platform. The new HUD 3.0 will provide trixbox CE users with presence management and detection in a single interface for all types of office communications, including SMS, instant message, landline calling, mobile calling, chat, voicemail, email, conferencing, recording, and barging.

SoliCall has released two new features added to its unique personalized noise reduction technology: Acoustic Echo Cancellation and Call Monitoring. The AEC well aligns with SoliCall’s strategy to improve voice quality from both ends of the call - in this case, by reducing both the outgoing and incoming echo.

In addition to improving the quality, the PBXMate – the company’s commercial solution for VoIP/IP PBX systems – can now write statistics of the call. These statistics include information regarding the quality of the call - e.g. jitter, noise level and delay. By using SoliCall’s PBXMate you can hence not just improve the voice quality but also monitor the calls. The PBXMate works out-of-the-box with any SIP PBX, including Asterisk, Nortel, CISCO etc.

XConnect and Acme Packet successful test new methods that assist in the prevention of Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT), also known as voice spam. Unlike email spam, SPIT is still relatively uncommon and was somewhat obscure prior to the recent significant worldwide growth of VoIP communications. Now that VoIP has become more ubiquitous, the disruptive and intrusive nature of unwanted calls, coupled with the difficulty in detecting SPIT, has made this up-and-coming threat hard to ignore. Consequently, industry bodies such as the Internet Engineering Task Force have recently begun placing increased focus on developing approaches to dealing with SPIT.

If you are excited about the future of voice in IP based communications, the Sylantro Global Summit is the place to be October 13th through the 15th. With the backdrop of the luxurious Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, we are once again bringing together the industry’s best and the brightest for two days of high energy interaction, discussion, and networking. We have a stellar line up of industry visionaries, leaders, and practitioners talking about everything from SIP Trunking to Mobility, Web 2.0 to Unified Communications and Software as a Service.

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SecureLogix is releasing a suite of custom VoIP security assessment tools, which are now available for free download from the company’s website. These tools can be used to assess susceptibility to a wide variety of SIP threats, including Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Man-in-the-Middle attacks, eavesdropping, audio insertion and deletion, and even call teardown.

TMC announces the winners of its prestigious “Best of Show” award at the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2008. The event concludes today at the LA Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

The awards recognize innovative technology and creative product feature sets. Forward-looking products that will serve as a base upon which to build future developments in our industry were also awarded. Each winner displayed and demonstrated its product on the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO exhibit floor. Awards were determined by a panel of judges who visited with exhibitors, viewed product demos, and interviewed company staff.

BroadSoft announces the winners of its BroadSoft Xtended Voice Mashup Contest. Winning entries include applications for disaster dispatching, accounts receivable and an Adobe Air development mashup.

The Xtended Voice Mashup Contest challenged Web 2.0 and telecom developers to combine BroadWorks VoIP features with other Web-based services including customer relationship management tools, business collaboration and social networking sites. Telephony applications such as SMS, voicemail, fax and mobile clients also qualified for submission.

Read on to find out the Mashup winners and their applications.

iCore Networks is proud to announce the upcoming Second Annual CXO Summit on VoIP. Entitled The Future of Voice over IP: What's Coming and How it Will Affect Your Business, the Summit will bring together over 100 leading technology experts and the region's foremost business leaders. With the rapid evolution of VoIP technology and its explosive growth, this event is set to play a key role in setting the footprint for the converging dynamic between the enterprise sector and its increasingly expanding communications needs. The event will be held on October 1st in downtown Washington, DC.

Fonality upgraded its unified communications platform HUD. HUD ties presence management and detection into a single interface to be used by employees for all types of office communications, including SMS, instant message, landline calling, mobile calling, chat, voicemail, email, conferencing, recording and barging. It gives companies with five to 500 employees a secure and affordable system that meets the demand on today’s businesses to support remote and home-based workers, and save workers time by tying together the many communications channels that have become a routine part of workplace communications.

Digium announces that Camrivox has joined the Digium Technology Partnership Program. This partnership will deliver a true desktop CTI solution to the world’s leading open source telephony ecosystem.

The Camrivox Flexor CTI Software family of products is designed to offer a simple, cost-effective and scalable solution to small and medium-sized businesses by unifying on-demand CRM (Customer Relationship Management) applications with IP PBX telephony and VoIP handsets. With the forthcoming release of Flexor Connect for Asterisk, Camrivox introduces an extra dimension to the Asterisk community and delivers tangible benefits to businesses intent on maximizing their customer interaction.

Microsoft to offer Packet8 VoIP phone service for Microsoft's Response Point small business phone system. Bryan Martin, 8x8 Chairman & CEO, and Xuedong Huang, General Manager for Response Point at Microsoft told members of the press at the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo West 2008 in Los Angeles that too many small businesses are frustrated with their existing phone systems and that solutions like the Packet8/Response Point offering enable companies to quickly and inexpensively deploy a complete, full featured IP telephony system within their existing network infrastructure.

PhoneFusion will have the latest version of its flagship product, PhoneFusion One on display at TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2008, September 16-18, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. The company will be exhibiting at booth #244.

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held September 16-18, 2008, is the world's largest and best-attended IP Communications trade show. At the 2007 west coast event last September, the show drew over 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Communications products and services. The show in September will be the 18th INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and TMC projects total attendance to once again exceed 7,000.

PAETEC announced a major expansion of the company’s wholesale VoIP Origination product. The company has increased VoIP Origination geographic coverage by more than 100 percent and now can provide the service in more than 3,300 rate centers nationwide.

The company’s VoIP Origination service allows VoIP service providers to quickly enter new markets by providing local telephone numbers to clients at their home, business or a remote location. In addition, IP-based enterprises such as call centers and conferencing providers can use VoIP Origination to assign local telephone numbers to their clients. This gives providers a cost-efficient method to establish a local presence.

As Hurricane Ike pummeled the Texas coast on Saturday, magicJack’s YMax Voice Network stayed 100% operational. YMax Voice is one of the newest U.S. phone networks utilizing the latest technology and the Internet. By using the Internet’s robust and overlapping networks, there is less chance of catastrophic failure.

“If you have access to the Internet, you should expect 100% coverage on our network,” said YMax founder and magicJack inventor Daniel Borislow. “As a resident of South Florida, I am no stranger to hurricanes and the massive destruction they leave behind. In preparing for future hurricanes and other types of natural disasters, or just telephone company outages and spotty cell phone coverage in your house, everyone should consider using magicJack as an inexpensive back-up to their existing landline and mobile phone service.”

Technology Marketing Corporation announced that Fred Zimmerman, Director, CPE VoIP Solutions with Texas Instruments’ Communications Infrastructure & Voice Business, has agreed to deliver a keynote address at the 5th annual Communications Developer Conference, to be held from September 16-18, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Zimmerman’s address, which is open to all registered attendees, will take place Wednesday September 17, 2008 at 11:30am (PDT). Registration for the conference is now open at www.commdeveloper.com.