Microsoft Corp. Press Release

Today, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., and Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft’s unified communications software, taking the first step toward streamlining workplace communications and helping reduce the cost of the average corporate voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) system by half.

“In the next decade, sweeping technology innovations driven by the power of software will transform communications,” Gates said. “Working with partners, we’re making rapid advances that will enable fundamental advances in the way people communicate and collaborate at work.” (more…)

Sagem-Interstar Inc. Press Release

Sagem-Interstar Inc. (SAFRAN Group), the global leader in boardless IP fax software for VoIP networks since 2002, will be demonstrating its new XTrax fax workflow solution at the upcoming Cisco IP Telecommunications Users Group (CIPTUG) event, being held October 29 to November 1, 2007. Deployed with its market-leading XMediusFAX T.38 boardless FoIP server, Sagem-Interstar’s XTrax (Release 5.5) solution enables organizations of all sizes to better manage and track their fax workflow to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and facilitate compliance with regulations (i.e. HIPAA, SOX) governing the security, accountability and confidentiality of their information flow.

The CIPTUG 2007 Annual Conference, held at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, is an annual event which focuses solely on Cisco IP Communications products and targets the CIPTUG user community, Cisco customers and partners. (Sagem-Interstar: Booth 430) (more…)

TransCore Press Release

TransCore announces the integration of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) into the company’s U.S. version of 3sixty™ Freight Match, an internet-based logistics service that facilitates matching shipper’s freight to available trucks.

One of the early promises of voice over IP technology was the potential to incorporate communications right within business applications, simplifying the user experience and removing steps that create drag, distractions, or errors. For the competitive commercial trucking market, where margins are tight, 30 seconds can make the difference securing a good paying load from a reliable broker or shipper. VoIP is also appealing because it is priced more economically than traditional phone services and can reduce a trucking company’s long-distance phone bill since all calls are free within the 1click2call network. (more…)

Key ASIC Press Release

Key ASIC, a leading fabless design service provider of ASIC and System-on-Chip (SoC) products and an ARM® Partner; has completed the implementation of an ARM926-EJ-S™ processor optimized for operation at 350Mhz in 130nm CMOS process. Key ASIC has completed the design and hardened the ARM926EJ-S processor with 16K of I and D cache implemented on Silterra’s CL130G, 130nm CMOS process.

“We have designed this optimized ARM926EJ-S processor with the specific intent of targeting consumer markets requiring CPU intensive functions such as single processor-based VOIP applications”, said Wei-Kong Chia, CTO of Key ASIC, Inc. (more…)

CyberData Corporation Press Release

CyberData Corporation today announced the release of its new VoIP Intercom. The Intercom is a SIP-enabled two-way communications device that easily connects into existing local area networks. It operates as a door entry phone with access control capabilities, or as an emergency phone with mass notification capabilities. The VoIP Intercom is capable of two-way communication with a dedicated extension, and one way-communication with a paging zone or call-all. A DTMF operated relay can activate a door opener or other auxiliary controls.

“The VoIP Intercom allows for a cost effective access control or emergency notification, utilizing existing local area networks,” said Phillip Lembo, President of CyberData Corporation, “while saving installers and end users time and resources due to its ease of installation.” (more…)

SPIRIT DSP Press Release

SPIRIT DSP, the world’s leading provider of embedded voice and video software products, announced today the availability of TeamSpirit® Voice&Video Engine PC Version 3.0 for telecommunications, cable and broadband service providers worldwide. The TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine PC 3.0 delivers the highest quality voice and video over IP (V2oIP) networks to a broad range of PC-based communication applications. The new version of the engine lets broadband operators and service providers quickly offer their subscribers an easy PC-download to enable a rich and smooth voice and video experience, with unprecedented quality.

The VoIP market continues at an aggressive pace. In Europe and N. America, branded VoIP represents more than 50 percent of all VoIP calls on broadband networks, according a recent analysis by broadband management company Sandvine Inc. And according to ABI Research, there were more than 37 million VoIP subscribers worldwide last year, and the firm predicts that number will increase more than seven fold by 2012. (more…)

Empirix® Inc. Press Release

Empirix® Inc., which helps organizations adopt complex communications solutions with confidence, announced today the availability of its Hammer G5 test platform, the most comprehensive single-box solution for testing Voice over IP (VoIP) among other real-time applications in its class. The Hammer G5 offers an integrated package for pure feature and load testing, in addition to more sophisticated scenarios of functional-load testing. These capabilities are in particular demand from the world’s leading network infrastructure suppliers, Cable/PacketCable labs, and Voice over “X” application test labs for fixed and mobile operators. The first unveiling of Hammer G5 will be at Fall VON Boston from Empirix booth #955.

Since 1992, the Hammer product line has been focused on the end-to-end user experience, with a particular emphasis on voice applications. Empirix’s Hammer started with the earliest forms of computer telephony — testing packages for Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) — and then was able to adapt to the industry’s technological advances over the years in order to stay competitive. This includes the next wave of basic Voice over IP (VoIP), the expansion into the broader set of Next Generation Network (NGN) requirements for signaling, media and quality assessments, and the latest extensions of voice over anything with IMS. (more…)

AccessKey IP Inc.

AccessKey IP, Inc. announced this morning that its Consumer Electronics Subsidiary, TeknoCreations, has completed its newest consumer electronics product, the Wireless Visual Remote™, for worldwide users of Apple’s iPod™ digital media player. The Wireless Visual Remote™ product enables iPod™ users to operate and control all sound menu selections, music, volume, etc., without having to remove your iPod and look at the display. The wireless control unit for the iPod is a high tech wristwatch with a dot-matrix backlit display. Your songs, time, menus show up on the display of your Visual Remote watchface. With no messy connecting wires, you control your iPod wirelessly. Your iPod can now stay in its case, pocket, or purse and you have full single-handed control. You can be hiking or exercising or going through the shopping mall and be in full visual control of your iPod. The Wireless Visual Remote™ works with all iPods that have the data connector and are 3rd generation or above.

HelloSoft, Inc. Press Release

HelloSoft, Inc., a leading supplier of VoIP technologies for the converged market, announced today that they will be showcasing its award winning VoIP/IMS/VCC technologies October 24th from 8am to 4pm in the Napa Room at Palace Hotel in San Francisco just a short walk from the Moscone Center South Hall where CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2007 will be held.

While at CTIA you can take a short walk to experience HelloSoft’s exciting VoIP and Wireless technologies and you can learn what it takes to get your mobile device to be the hottest product in today’s mobile market. HelloSoft has a suite of highly optimized, world-class, power-efficient technologies to take your fixed-mobile convergence devices to the new era of converged communications. Come and see the future of carrier-grade commercially deployed VoIP that powers Skype, HTC, Accton, WNC, BenQ, Cellon and more. (more…)

SK Telink Press Release

SK Telink, an international telecommunications carrier in South Korea and a subsidiary of SK Telecom, today announced at the BroadSoft Connections 2007 Executive Users Conference that it will work with five major cable providers in South Korea to bring VoIP services to residential consumers, small businesses and home offices using BroadSoft’s BroadWorks® application platform.

SK Telink’s new offering integrates VoIP with customers’ set-top television cable boxes. The BroadWorks-based services work through customers’ cable boxes to display caller ID, a phone directory and other phone services on the TV, while customers watch television programs. These calling features can be controlled with the TV remote control. Residential customers can get premium services such as call pick-up, call transfer and shared-call appearance to use among family members. (more…)