Raketu announces
the release of Raketu Mobile Video Calling. With Raketu's new mobile video calling,
mobile users on WiFi or data services will now be able to make video calls completely
free. Mobile users will also be able to make voice to voice calls, mobile to mobile
or mobile to desktop, over WiFi or data, completely free. Mobile and desktop users
can also take advantage of Raketu's low dialout calling rates at up to 65% lower than
Skype's. Raketu provides the most flexibility of calling with computer to computer,
computer to phone, and phone to phone calls. Raketu users can even make calls directly
from any browser without a download.

Digium releasesthe TCE400B PCI Express card for use with voice applications based on the open sourceAsterisk telephony platform. The new card provides hardware-based voice compressionand decompression (codec) capabilities to shift transcoding from software to hardware.Using the TCE400B in place of a software-only solution places fewer demands on serversand frees up Asterisk to more efficiently process calls and to provide functionalityfor phone systems such as call recording, conference calling and interactive voiceresponse.

ManageEngine announcesan update to its VoIP quality monitoring solution, VQManager, focused on meeting themanagement requirements of VoIP service providers. The latest release, VQManager 6.2,greatly improves on the application's existing VoIP packet processing capability,making it possible to support larger VoIP environments, monitoring up to 1000 simultaneousVoIP calls. And because larger environments are apt to have multiple operating systems,the new VQManager is designed to perform equally well on different versions and flavorsof Windows and Linux operating systems.

IPtimize hasacquired the assets and operating network of National Telecom & Broadband Services,a Florida corporation including Teliphonex, their business-class VoIP hosted PBX solution.Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, the commercial VoIP business assets acquired byIPtimize serve small business and enterprise customers in multiple metropolitan areasincluding West Palm Beach, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, Florida. The acquisition addsapproximately 1,000 customer lines served by IPtimize and adds both expanded geographicreach and an established commercial customer base to the growing VoIP business atIPtimize.

Truphone has
added 11 additional Nokia handsets to the list of devices compatible with Truphone
and whose owners can now ring up big savings by taking advantage of Truphone’s broad
range of calling plans and services. With the addition of the 11 new handsets, Truphone
is now compatible on 26 Nokia devices. Of those, software for 14 of the Truphone-compatible
devices can now be downloaded from Nokia’s new Ovi store, with the software for 11
of the remaining 12 new devices to be added to the Ovi store soon.

DynaSis announces
its new partnership with IP phone system provider Fonality to
offer small to medium sized businesses access to affordable Atlanta VoIP solutions
comparable to large business phone systems. The barrier to entry for VoIP in Atlanta
for most small to midsized businesses has long been the cost involved with installing
and maintaining a full scale VoIP solution that can provide the sound quality and
features enterprise solutions offer.

JAJAH has
connected one billion calls since it launched its platform. The company, which began
as a web-activated-telephony service, has evolved to become the world's leading communications
platform, partnering with telecommunications and technology companies such as Intel,
Microsoft and Yahoo!

The billionth call

The historic billionth call on the JAJAH platform was made by Ila Vasudev Zeff, a
29-year-old resident of San Francisco, CA. Mrs Zeff made the call on Yahoo! Voice.
She was calling her mother in India, who she calls at least weekly since moving to
the United States from India.

Voxbone has
been chosen by Nimbuzz to provide
local access numbers. Nimbuzz is using Voxbone to enable its users to make voice calls
– without benefit of 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity – to their contacts on any of all popular
IM and VoIP services, including Gizmo5 and Skype.

FreedomVOICE
announces the launch of the brand new FreedomIQ
Hosted VoIP Blog. The blog will act as a resource for the VoIP industry. FreedomVOICE
feels that the FreedomIQ Hosted VoIP PBX is the perfect product to be represented
by a blog. Blogs are a tool for free expression, and this is something the company
values as an integral part of their corporate culture.

Proving to be very knowledgeable in their online efforts, FreedomVOICE has also connected
with their customers though LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

XConnect has
received a 2009 Innovation Award from Global Telecoms Business magazine. The award
was presented to XConnect and the Korea Internet Neutral eXchange in the IP Services
Innovation category, for creating a national Korean NGN/VoIP-peering federation, which
was announced in December and began operating in March.

The Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards are designed to honor innovative projects
involving telecoms operators and service providers around the world, in association
with their vendors and suppliers.

The 2009 awards were presented at a dinner ceremony June 16 in London, attended by
about 350 industry leaders from around the world.