ABP announces the seventh annual IP Sizzles Conference for technology resellers and integrators in telephony, data networking and IP video surveillance. The show will highlight innovative and profitable solutions resellers are selling in the IP technology and IP communications space. Leading themes are Unified Communications, IP Surveillance and IP Video applications for SMB. IP Sizzles will focus on key business aspects and sales process improvements for resellers to be more successful in today's challenging economic and competitive environment.

Truphone announces the availability of its application that offers thousands of Apple iPad customers the ability to make voice calls. The company's award-winning VoIP application turns the tablet-sized device into a mobile phone that offers free or low-cost international calls, as well as advanced Instant Messaging features that integrate a user's contacts from across multiple IM networks.

Truphone was the first to officially launch a mobile VoIP calling application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, and the company continues to lead the way with the launch of Truphone for iPad.

ClearOne announces new pricing, giving its VoIP conference phones identical pricing to its analog PSTN conference phones. Effective March 27, 2010, the pricing for the ClearOne MAX IP, ClearOne's award winning SIP conference phone is now $499, identical to ClearOne's MAX EX. For larger conference rooms, ClearOne's unique daisy-chaining MAXAttach IP is now priced at $799, identical to the ClearOne MAXAttach EX. ClearOne continues to offer the best value in VoIP audio conferencing today.

VoicePulse announces the immediate availability of phone numbers in Minnesota’s 218, 320, 612, 651 and 763 area codes. VoicePulse’s residential and business plans cover 47 calling areas, giving Minnesota’s citizens a new option in local and long distance phone service.

VoicePulse Broadband Phone service plans include over 20 features such as:

• Telemarketer Blocking, Virtual Numbers, Anonymous Call Rejection, Call Transfer and Call Hunt
• YouMail, the premier voicemail provider
• Local Number Portability

The SIP School has joined the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association in the UK. The SIP School with its SIP training and SSCA program has become the world leader in SIP education with endorsements and partnerships with the likes of the TIA, Bisci, Mitel, Panasonic, Audiocodes, Avaya’s DevConnect Community, Telematrix, AudioCodes, Ingate and many more.

The ITSPA was formed in March 2004 as a trade association to represent UK-based network operators, service providers and other businesses involved with the supply of VoIP services to business and residential consumers within the United Kingdom and across the European Union.

Infonetics Research recently published 3 voice over IP and unified communications reports:

• Communication Expenditures and IP PBX Vendor Ratings: North American Enterprise Survey
• VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers, a market size, share, and forecast report tracking business and residential/SOHO (small office/home office) VoIP services
• Enterprise Unified Communication, VoIP, and TDM Equipment, a quarterly market size, share, and forecast report, fourth quarter (4Q09) edition