Speakeasy launched its new Integrated Voice business trunks service for small businesses. Integrating voice and data on a single T1 connection, Speakeasy business trunks provide cost savings and increased bandwidth for companies with a traditional PBX. The basic business trunk service includes a T1 connection plus four business voice lines at a promotional price of $379 per month, allowing businesses to customize the service to meet their unique needs by adding additional lines, long distance, and IP features as necessary.

TMC and Digium announce the educational program for Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place February 2-4, 2009 in Miami. The event is collocated with TMC’s ITEXPO East 2009. TMC and Digium also announced that although the conference content and exhibiting opportunities are more than 90 percent complete, additional opportunities remain for interested Digium partners.

Grandstream announces the GXV3005, a new addition to the popular GXV3000 IP video product line. The GXV3005 features the same design and all of the functionality as the GXV3000; however it comes with the advanced versatility of an FXO PSTN line port, which enables customers to receive both video telephony service over an IP network and their home land-line. VoIP resellers will benefit by distributing the enhanced capabilities and flexibility that the GXV3005 brings to the growing IP videophone market.

snom and Camrivox are now offering the snom Flexor CTI software for Microsoft Outlook as a free download. snom Flexor CTI enables users of snom's 3xx series and snom 820 VoIP telephones to integrate their telephony, simply and conveniently, with Outlook. All the advantages of integration, such as click-to-dial, contact screen pop-ups and call logs, are now available to users completely free and without any time limit. Once the snom Flexor CTI software is downloaded onto a user's desktop it automatically integrates the snom telephone with Microsoft Outlook. snom Flexor CTI software requires no additional servers or external IT support making it an ideal solution for small to medium sized businesses to manage high call rates and increase productivity.

XConnect has entered an exclusive agreement with Korea Internet Neutral Exchange to launch a Korean peering federation for IP communications. The new joint venture will provide advanced VoIP and NGN peering capabilities to Korea’s IP communications providers, including mobile, fixed-line, and Web-based service providers and ITSPs. The agreement will also enable inter-federation peering with other initiatives around the globe, such as those formed through XConnect’s Global Alliance and DirectRoute services. Peering will enable Korean operators to exchange calls via IP interconnection, which increases call quality and reduces unnecessary transit costs. Peering also enables these operators to securely offer services that the PSTN cannot carry, such as video and high-definition voice, across network boundaries.

Sky|Wi Telecommunications has chosen to deploy multiple Taqua 7000 Switching Systems to provide high-quality VoIP call termination in Mexico for carriers in the United States and abroad. The cost effective and robust VoIP capabilities with the T7000 allows Sky|Wi Telecommunications to provide better rates to carrier customers while leveraging the reliability inherent with the T7000’s blade-based carrier class architecture.

FacetCorp announces a number of important new features in FacetPhone. With the release of FacetPhone V5, a complete conference bridging capability has been added. Version 5 also includes support for most SIP trunking and VoIP services, as well as support for the popular Cisco 7940 IP phone. FacetPhone V5 now includes comprehensive call detail records in the standard MySQL format along with a MySQL database implementation, provides enhanced management for multi-location environments, and adds multi-zone paging to IP phones, as well as other significant IVR enhancements.

VoicePulse announces the immediate availability of phone numbers in the 208 area code. VoicePulse now offers numbers in 37 rate centers across Idaho, compared to other services that offers as little as six cities. VoicePulse now has greater coverage in the state of Idaho than any other pure-play VoIP provider.

Covad has certified IP PBXs from TalkSwitch, Grandstream, Vertical and Epygi for its new Covad Integrated Access service.

IP PBXs certified by Covad include:

• TalkSwitch IP PBX equipped for VoIP (models 244/248vs, 284/288vs, 484/488vs and 844/848vs)
• Grandstream GXE502X ALL-IN-ONE IPPBX
• Vertical Xcelerator IP
• Epygi Quadro 2x and Quadro 4x IP PBX

Mobivox has been enhanced with the addition of French and Spanish language capabilities that carriers, other service providers and online communities can offer their customers immediately.

The patent-pending Mobivox|PL platform now interacts with names and spoken commands in French and Spanish, particularly the idiomatic Spanish spoken widely in Latin America. The platform soon will support the Spanish spoken in Spain, and the company plans to add a Portuguese-language capability early next year

The FBI has identified a new technique used to conduct vishing attacks where hackers exploit a known security vulnerability in Asterisk software. Asterisk is free and widely used software developed to integrate PBX systems with VoIP digital Internet voice calling services; however, early versions of the Asterisk software are known to have a vulnerability. The vulnerability can be exploited by cyber criminals to use the system as an auto dialer, generating thousands of vishing telephone calls to consumers within one hour.

snom continues to aggressively expand its global sales channel by signing a major agreement with Tek-Mart, one of the largest technology distributors in Mexico. snom’s new 820 and 3xx series desktop SIP phones and its award-winning mobile snom m3 IP DECT phone are now available to Tek-Mart’s reseller network of Value-Added Resellers, Network Service Providers and Systems Integrators.

IPEVO announced its FR-33.1 USB Internet Handset has been certified for use with the Avaya IP Softphone 6.0. Business professionals that use the popular Avaya Softphone system can now experience the design and sound quality of IPEVO's best selling Internet handset. The FR-33.1 supports one-touch function keys for call transfer, call holding and conference calls, as well as contact and call history menu navigation. Users can activate the Avaya IP Softphone 6.0 application, as well as dial numbers and answer calls directly from the handset.

Vitelity Communications haslaunched a new Colocation and Hosting service designed specifically for VoIP service providers and businesses using VoIP. The current lineup for their hosting services will include a choice of Dell PowerEdge servers with options for CPU, memory, storage, and RAID. In addition, Vitelity will pre-configure and optimize each server with either: Asterisk, Trixbox, PBX in a Flash, or a base operating system such as Windows or Linux. Customers can also ship their pre-configured PBX, switch, or gateway to Vitelity for Colocation in their soon to be completed 10,000 square-foot state-of-the-art data center in Denver, CO.

i2Telecom's MyGlobalTalk was included in a special report highlighting the advantages of VoIP that was distributed in USA Today, the largest circulation daily newspaper in the nation, on Friday, December 5, 2008. The extensive review of the overall benefits of VoIP, including the specific benefits of VoIP for long distance and mobile calling purposes, was included in issues of the paper distributed in five major metropolitan cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Baltimore/Washington and Chicago. The insert was available in over 750,000 papers, which have a pass-along readership of approximately 1.8 million readers, and was designed to provide business-oriented readers with a broader understanding of VoIP and the current and future applications for the technology.