Vonage announces that New Enterprise Associates, the original venture capital investor in Vonage, has distributed 9.3 million shares of Vonage common stock to the limited partners of its funds. NEA remains a major Vonage shareholder and following the distribution retains two-thirds of its original holdings, representing 8 percent of Vonage's outstanding stock.

Commenting on the announcement, Vonage's CEO, Marc Lefar said, "Stock distributions are a standard mechanism to distribute gains to limited partners. NEA has been a loyal, long-term investor over the past eight years and we value their continued support. We are pleased that NEA remains a substantial shareholder while providing its limited partners liquidity as provided for under the terms of its partnership agreements. With this distribution, Vonage's common stock will have greater public float, providing additional access to institutional investors."

Mirial is glad to announce that Mirial ClearSea can be seamlessly used also on iPad 2, taking full advantage of the new front facing camera with the possibility of switching between cameras even during the video call.

ClearSea is the first professional video conferencing solution providing a software client for iOS devices, enabling organization to connect any Pc, Mac, Android or iOS device and any standards-based H.323/SIP equipment. It allows to integrate traditional room based video communication systems or to deploy a new HD desktop and mobile solution without the need to invest in expensive infrastructure.

Grandstream Networks announces that the GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone was named the winner in the "Best Voice CPE" category at the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association awards ceremony, held this week at the BT Tower in London. The 2011 ITSPA Awards, now in their third year, celebrates excellence across the VoIP and Unified Communications industry and is open to providers of hardware and software service in both residential and business sectors.

An independent judging panel evaluated the GXV3140 against strict criteria including reliability, user friendliness, design, diversity and innovation.

Airband reported a doubling of its Channel Program voice sales during the past six months due to customers’ preference for hosted voice solutions over traditional on-premise phone systems.

Airband is one of the few service providers that can deliver hosted VoIP services with an integrated local loop, Internet access and business continuity solutions over two independent networks, wired and wireless. Businesses that choose Airband’s hosted VoIP service benefit from added functionality and flexibility, and a lower total cost of ownership because Airband eliminates the capital expense and complexity of managing an on-site phone system by hosting and managing the service on its VoIP switching platform.

GENBAND announces that the SIP Business Trunking softswitch solution offered on its market-leading GENBAND C20 Converged Softswitch has achieved interoperability qualification with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Additionally, GENBAND announced that its C20 softswitch is an integral component of the Swisscom SIP Trunking Solution which was recently certified for use with the Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider, announced last month that Microsoft certification of its VoIP Gate service enables the Company to offer its corporate customers a complete IP-based communications solution that is both innovative and reliable.

Telcentris announces the commercial availability of WL2 and WL3, two new offerings that expand the company’s white label portfolio from a single, entrance-level package to a three-solution suite. Telcentris’ white label portfolio leverages the company’s end-to-end managed wholesale VoIP enablement platform, and now, with the addition of these new solutions, provides customers unprecedented control over their private-labeled telecommunications offerings. Addressing a number of customer requests, the full suite caters to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from resellers, MLMs and entrepreneurs interested in entering the VoIP market; to interconnects, MSOs, MSPs, ITSPs and traditional phone companies (ILECs, CLECs, IXCs) seeking to add VoIP to their business services. In addition, Telcentris is providing its white label solutions through its Channel Partner Program, making the company among the first to offer a comprehensive white label VoIP portfolio to channel partners.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global - VoIP - Overview & Insights" report to their offering.

Improved technology solutions have led to a robust VoIP market in recent years and this growth continues despite the economic downturn, due primarily to the fact that VoIP offers a cheaper alternative. While security and reliability concerns still need to be resolved; consumers and business are turning to VoIP in an effort to save costs. Japan, China and the USA continue to be some of the worlds hottest markets for IP telephony. Over the last couple years, Europe has also become a prime innovator in VoIP services, whether stand-alone, bundled as a triple play offer, or through fixed-mobile convergence packages.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Worldwide IP Phone Market: Wired, DECT, and Wi-Fi" report to their offering.

IP phone sales have recovered from the deep recession in 2009 and are poised for growth. Within the business market, wired IP phones remain the standard and will continue to dominate the enterprise IP phone market throughout the forecast period. However, Wi-Fi and IP DECT phones continue to grow.

This report includes vendor market shares for 2009 vs. 2010 and forecasts through 2015 for wired, DECT, Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi/cellular IP phones sold to consumers and businesses.

Versadial Solutions announce the release of SIP trunk capabilities for its VS Logger call recording system. Call data can now be captured directly from the SIP trunk, including start/stop times, caller ID or dialed number and other details.

The Versadial recording solutions are designed to help companies in a variety of industries, including public safety and 911 emergency response, financial services, contact centers, health care, legal services, and all types of small and medium sized businesses. Compatible with business communications system providers, including Avaya, Cisco, NEC, Alcatel, Nortel, Panasonic, Siemens, Mitel, ShoreTel and Toshiba. VS Logger and Adutante applications can help companies to improve risk mitigation, quality assurance, customer retention, dispute resolution, regulatory compliance requirements and other critical business concerns.

4PSA announces the release of VoipNow Cloud Instance, a fully-featured and flexible turn-key solution that bundles high-performance infrastructure with the company's award-winning VoipNow Unified Communications Platform.

VoipNow Cloud Instance is intended for service providers that choose to deploy Unified Communications and want to base their offering on services highly flexible from a financial and operational perspective. Compared to other UC cloud offerings on the market, this solution comes with many advantages due to the tight integration between hardware and software resources. From a customer's perspective, the main benefit is that the instance is private; it is not shared with any other entity. This means that the service provider has full access to all system parameters, down to the low-level settings.

Vocalocity announces a more comprehensive reseller program for solution providers and channel partners. The program was designed to enable partners to grow their consultative business and build new revenue opportunities. A new integration toolkit gives developers and resellers an easy way to customizing applications they can monetize.

Vocalocity is turning to solution providers and partners -- the trusted advisors to thousands of small businesses -- to help their customers get the most out of current and future enhancements in cloud based communications services.

has surpassed 10 million users worldwide. This profitable start-up has had a record breaking twelve months and increased revenues by more than 120% to $40 million in 2010. Rebtel’s figures show it is currently growing five times faster than Skype and plans to continue this trend by almost doubling its revenue to $75 million by the end of 2011 with a current run-rate of $55 million.

Rebtel has made significant strides since its inception in 2006 with over 1 billion minutes of international calls logged and a total of 200 million calls connected. The company attributes its success to its commitment to the customer and its dedication to innovation. Ten new hires were recently made in the research and engineering team to strengthen Rebtel’s mobile application credentials and deliver free and cheap international calls through iPhone, Blackberry and Android applications.

Voip-Pal.Com announces the development of its PointsPhone Mobile App for Windows Phone 7. Voip-Pal will integrate its enhanced Voice Mail system to the new Windows App.

The PointsPhone Mobile Windows App will soon be available for free downloading on your Smartphone's Windows Phone App Store (search 'pointsphone'). User must register by signing up on www.pointsphone.com.

PointsPhone Platinum Suite, targeted specifically to the Android market, is now available on www.pointsphone.com. The Platinum Suite will include a One Year subscription of an Antivirus Program bundled with substantial domestic and international airtime minutes, PointPhone's Android App and a free US DID(virtual) number. PointsPhone Android App is immediately available for free downloading on your Android at the Android Market App Store (search 'pointsphone').

IntelePeer announces its SIP Trunking services have been qualified for interoperability with Microsoft Lync 2010. Formerly known as Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2, Lync is the next generation of Microsoft's Unified Communications services with feature-rich multimodal communications capabilities.

The qualification allows IntelePeer, a Microsoft partner, to provide a turnkey SIP Trunking solution for enterprises using Microsoft Lync by delivering a seamless connection to any Lync or OCS deployment federated via IntelePeer's global SuperRegistry directory as well as to any Public Switched Telephone Network communications device reached through IntelePeer's Peering Grid services. IntelePeer's services, available through the company's channel partners, are interoperable with any Lync deployment and are consistent and supportable in accordance with Microsoft's rigorous standards.

Broadcore is on track to double its installed base to 20,000 hosted user accounts in 2011. The projected growth is attributed in part to the enterprise segment’s increased willingness to adopt hosted cloud services over premises-based systems. By selecting to deploy a Hosted VoIP solution, enterprises will increase reliability and lower total cost of communications services while allowing their freed IT resources to focus on core competency projects.

Broadcore has already been awarded enterprise contracts in the first quarter of 2011 including one of the largest hosted VoIP contracts in the K-12 education sector with over 4,000 hosted user accounts.