News

November 13-14, 2007
Hyatt at Fisherman?s Wharf, San Francisco, CA USA
Voice remains the dominant revenue generator for carriers and operators, yet new services and companies are aggressively competing for market share. Are they a threat to your bottom line, or could they boost your profitability? Wireless Voice 2007 arms you
with the necessary tools to assess the next wave of competition, which threatens to influence your ability to recruit and retain customers. The next generation of voice technologies are coming to market quickly; don't be caught unprepared!

Sipera Systems announces it has secured Series C funding of $10 million. The round was led by Duchossois Technology Partners, and includes a full participation by existing investors Austin Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and STAR Ventures.

More than any other type of application,
VoIP quality of experience demands optimal network performance. NetQoS will address
this topic during a live Q&A Webinar titled Getting a Grip on VoIP, to be held
on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007, at noon EDT. During the free event, a panel of VoIP experts
will discuss the most pressing VoIP monitoring and performance issues across the network,
including:

• How is VoIP different from other applications on the network?
• How can IT professionals measure users' VoIP quality of experience?
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Cybersurf announces their free Home Phone service promotion providing Canadian consumers the opportunity to experience the Company's state-of-the-art VoIP-based phone service for free.

PLAYXPERT announces availability of the PLAYXPERT TeamSpeak Widget. The joint solution will ensure that millions of players worldwide can seamlessly communicate through PLAYXPERT in-game. Players can finally not only get an upper hand on their game with PXP in-game tools, they can also strategize using TeamSpeak for real time voice communication with other players on points of attack, focus fire, team targeting, and much more. The solution will be available for demonstration at the IBM Booth at the Austin Game Developers Conference, September 5-7, 2007.

With today being a rather slow news day because of the upcoming holiday weekend. I thought this little video clip might tide over some of our readers. Star Wars here we come!

There have been some new blogs related to security launched lately that I thought we should mention here for readers to check out.

PeerMe and Droplet Technology announce the launch of a jointly developed multi-party video conferencing service that promises to accelerate the adoption of video as an important mode of communication and interaction in telecommunications and social networking.

Fring has closed a second round of funding that is reportedly in the ballpark of $12 million. This has not yet been confirmed by the company. Globes reported that the funding was led by North Bridge Venture Partners.

FON marked a milestone in the US market several months ago. Its agreement with Time Warner Cable permitting TWC subscribers to share bandwidth created a minor splash in the press and industry. A new insight published by Strategy Analytics, "Google-backed FON Aims to Sign Up One Million Member Hotspots in 2007," examines the deal and its possible implications.

"Since its early days, pay-as-you-go WiFi has been a tenuous business model at best," says Ben Piper, Director of the Strategy Analytics Broadband Network Strategies.